And I mean that in the literal sense.
Hullo all - its February now, can you believe that!? The speed of time regularly messes with my head like that. February means the students are all moving back and my piece and quiet is disappearing rapidly. Which is a shame really. But until I can afford another house, student neighbours will continue to be a fact of life.
Did get some peace on the field trip though. I think I briefly mentioned it last time as some kind of justification for potential lack of stitching. Which was a fairly accurate prediction. I got a few more stitches into Sleepy Hollow.
Few being the opprative word. I also restarted New World Map by Bucilla.
This pattern is the reason I don't buy kits any more. I bought it off trade me, completely new and unopened. But it was not only missing two colours of thread but I would have been severely short on at least eight others - we're talking about running out before being half way through type of short. I tried contacting Bucilla but they didn't want to know anything about it so I had a tantrum and threw it in the ufo basket. Thought I'd restart it now that ie had time to calm down, plus it's fairly easy to follow for my post work weekday brain.
And that's it. Like I said. Not a lot of progress at all. The field trip was totally worth it though. Even if it did mean no break from my loud boisterous work mates for 48 hours (I love them really)
The bakery that I work at has very strong locavor ethics. We take pride in being able to trace out raw products to the source and that's what the trip was about.
We started here.
It's a farm just outside of Fairlee. It grows this stuff.
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| Biscuit wheat |
In multiple varieties.
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| Rye, biscuit and hard wheats |
60% of the flour we use comes from these exact grains of wheat from this exact farm. The other 40% comes from a farm half an hour up the road. We then followed these grains the following day to the mill and watched them being made into the flour. But unfortunately I forgot to take my camera with me that time.
We also toured another bakery and and got the chance to pick some of these guys...
Again the berry farm is a supplier that we use. Finally we stopped off at the pig farm where all out pork product comes from and we were lucky enough to arrive at the right time to see this
These piglets had only been born an hour or so before we got there - the last one was born while we watched. It was amazing to see, even if it was in the back of everyone's minds that in 5 months time we will be serving these cuties as bacon, ham and pulled pork.
It was the size of the adults that stunned me.
This lady was nearly shoulder hight on me - and I'm 5 foot 6!
And so now after all that sun and farm air I am definatly ready to stay inside for the upcoming long weekend. Very definatly sunburnt and my nose is starting to peel.
Reading wise it's been a far better month. My total completions for the last 31 days is sitting at 15 books, and while eight of them were comics, I'm still beyond happy with over 2700 pages behind me going into the rest of the year. I have also almost finished book 16 - The Mark of Athena, the third book in the Heroes of Olympus series by Rick Riordan. Which I think I will return to now. While the last few weeks have been u seasonable cold, this week has been the opposite. High temperatures well and truly making up for lost time. Bakery work when it's in the mid 30s is not particularly pleasant, but there is now a drafty cool breeze waiting for me to lie in it.
Till next time.
