The Work

First of all I owe all of you readers an apology. I forgot to post a cooking tip from Anne last post so I will do two in this one.  Anne Cooking Tip #2: Parsely goes well in everything.

 This is Becca and I's first day off since we got here. Anne brought us down to the beach shack to have a relaxing (and cold) day off. Since It is a day off all I can think about is work, that's how things work isn't it. On a blog that Becca and I read about being a good workawayer it said that you should expect to get in shape. Exciting news! We get to shed a few pounds! If only we knew how it was we would be shedding those pounds.  Losing weight is never an easy task and usually you have to sacrifice alcohol, or cake, or chocolate or something. Well as you know we have been eating like king and queen here so what did we sacrifice? We sacrificed our ability to get out of bed without groaning. Muscles that we hardly used in America are being so incredibly worked out but not because we want to. 

Suddenly our shoulder muscles are defined my forearms and hands have become hardened and our thighs are never resting. To understand why you have to journey into the nature of our landscape and the work we do in it. Anne's paddock is on a hill. Somehow we are always moving things from the top of the hill to the bottom of the hill. This is because it is the worst job and we are low men on the totem pole.  

When we are expanding her driveway and I had finished pickaxing there is  a large pile of clay that must go down the hill Becca Bill and I fill two wheelbarrows and venture down the hill. Or when a new rhubbarb bed needs planting it means compost must be brought down the hill, or new plants, or something.

 If you want your arms to be worked out go dig a hole for a new fruit tree. Need to get rid of that five pounds of stomach flab? Why don't you bend down and pick up that wheelbarrow and then do a slow controlled trip down the hill. Oh and for thighs of steel just walk up and down the paddock a couple hundred times a week. 

Anne's Cooking Tip #3: Reuse, Recycle, Doggy Bowl. I will explain with an example. Cook chicken breasts for dinner. Use bones in soup for lunch. And whatever is still leftover put in Bonny's doggy bowl.