The weekly log, v. 2: Wednesday

Up & at'em at 5:15! Yes ma'am, I was. We started work at 6:00 a.m. I was eager to do some planting, but instead, Kathleen & I dug potatoes... for six hours. And it wasn't bad really. Our speed apparently impressed our farm manager, Katherine (this does not happen. ever.), so it worked out well. And then lunch at 12:15! When I had planned to bottle kombucha... and it didn't happen then, but I ate loads of vegetables and some salmon, and my body said, "Thank you."

At 2:15 we started again in the greenhouse, processing more onions. This time I had a buddy, Kathleen again. I think we processed 7 1/2 pallets of yellow onions. We were set to get off work at 5:00 in order to make it to Waterpenny Farms for a potluck, but our small crew decided to stay back since we had to get to bed early. But instead of ending work at 5, we kept on until 6:45 in order to get all the tomatoes picked before the rain. Apparently the tomatoes will crack or get otherwise funky if you leave them out while it's raining. They were tasty.

With work finished, I skedaddled to the wash house to take a shower. I was so excited! My first shower since Saturday, and I'm pretty happy about it. I got my kombucha bottled, all 8 bottles of it, and will start another batch brewing before bed. Unfortunately, I cracked my beautiful & incredibly useful 3-gallon pickle jar, so for now I only have a small 1-gallon operation. I'm brewing quick & potent batches, though, by putting all 2+ kombucha mothers into the one jar. I tasted the newest batch, and it definitely seems more alcoholic. The previous batch even carbonated a little! I really want to get a huge jar so I can do the large batches again, but for now I'm too stubborn to pay $26 for an empty 5-gallon glass jar at the local hardware store.