June 8th 2018 - Friday evening in St Just at Bosavern Community Farm listening to 96.5 FM

https://tunein.com/radio/West-Cornwalls-Coast-FM-965-s230699/

7:30 PM  West Cornwall Radio Station.   Farm work is done.  Been working 10 hours cooking and managing the shop.  The young volunteers are all out at the pub in the town of St, Just.  I'm in bed.  It's broad daily light but I don't have the energy to walk uphill to town and don't like walking downhill in the dark on winding narrow roads with no sidewalks or street lights.  So I made a huge Pyrex of rice pudding and the rice didn't fully cook after hours in the oven.  But I covered it boiling hot and put on top of stove to see if it would steam itself.  I may go downstairs and have a look.

Otta came back and saw it and put it back on the stove with 2 more qts. of milk.  Now it's done.  I used the wrong kind of rice and tried to convert starch with milk, according to him.  Now it tastes good but there is SO MUCH of it.  lol

Everyone is getting ready to eat supper at 7:15 PM and then going out, and I'm in bed resting my back from a long 10 hour day working the shop and cooking for the farm. 

  I used the zucchini that were no longer good for the organic shop and made a casserole, salad, potato salad, fruit bowl, sliced bread.

I love it that young people come in to buy black kale,  turnips, tree spinach, cucumbers, salads,  we sell out fast.

time for this ol' girl to get some rest.

Friday, June 8 2018 - A sunny, nice day. 59 degrees at 7 AM going up to 63.

Yesterday, Hugh mowed a large open field we have to walk along many times a day.  We only had a path along it and tall grasses grew here.  Now it is getting ready to be a campsite area,  as a way to generate a little income for the community farm.

I have shop duty from 9 AM until 6 PM.  with a 1 hour break for lunch.  Then I am off until Monday.  This was not the 5 hour volunteering I thought it would be.  I have pushed myself to the limits and have had quite an experience of what it is like working on a 36 acre farm and while in almost constant pain.  It will be good to work the store, today, and not put as much exertion on muscles that have been sleeping since last October 27th when I had surgery & a head injury while at Good Samaritan Hospital.