Morphine and Fan Fan
Starting to plant
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Morphine, Rose, Tish and Fan Fan
Hi All,
Last night at 7pm I was firmly under the impression I would be digging out around the valve at the bottom of the rainwater tank this morning so that it could be repaired today. However I received my orders to lead a garlic planting expedition to a property at Highcroft about 8km up the road. The party to plant consisted of Morphine and Fan Fan from Taiwan, Rose from Hawaii and myself. We arrived at Barry and Tish's property at about 9:40 and rolled and removed carpet and some of the larger weeds in the planting area. Barry fired up the rotary hoe and after a couple of passes invited me to drive. A new experience as i had not operated one before. There was an intial hiccup when the forward drive belt slipped off. In the processs of fixing this another problem arose because the unit was tipped on its side. Oil in the cylinder which meant we couldn't turn the engine over. Out came the spark plug and a few pulls ejected the oil. The engine started and after a few minutes the smoke screen cleared. The rest of the ploughing completed without incident and it was onto making the beds and planting the garlic corms. How many did we plant? good question I reckon about 3 - 5 thousand. It was a good day away from the Resort and we all had a few laughs while doing the work.
We are going to be short on labour tomorrow. The boss is away, 3 helpers have the day off. Not really poor scheduling as 2 were supposed to be off today but were diverted to the garlic. Looks like I will be going to Hobart tomorrow to pick up 3 arrivals and doing the shopping at Sorell. We also have 5 rooms to clean tomorrow but with only 1 arrival tomorrow night it won't matter if they don't all get done. We were going to have a day off Friday but will reschedule that to next week as the new people will need to be supervised/trained on Friday. It's all go. Just as well this is the quiet time of the year!
I noticed we have been loaned a motorised walk behind slasher so that might be a bit of fun to drive in the next few days.
Todays pictures are from phone cam as I forgot to take my camera.
Night Folks
Simon
P.S. Almost forgot today's hilarious moment illustrating the perils of language.
Barry asked the group, "Do you want a hot drink?" Morphine replied something I couldn't quite understand so I clarified by saying tea or coffee, which the helpers declined. After some more conversation Morphine said he thought Barry asked "Do you want to go to a gay bar" Whereupon we all fell about laughing. You had to be there!
This was followed at lunch by Fan Fan asking the difference between borrow and use which was duly explained. She was trying to understand someone asking if they could borrow your toilet. More discussion and I volunteered they should say "hey mate where's your dunny?" Morph looked up puzzled and said "donny?" More explanations!
The Taiwanese have a great sense of humour and Morph and Fan Fan are quite hilarious with the quips they come out with. Fan Fan tonight pointed to my stomach and said "3 months?" and before I could answer said "If it is a girl will you call it Fan Fan?"
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