Though there was no food distribution, I helped lay out the skeleton frame for the new cleaning and distribution area. The food delivery is still twice a week, but this year the total membership including workers expanded to 150 participants, so each day 75 people will be picking up food over a 3 hour period (4-7 pm). Erin had purchased a used greenhouse frame and a used vinyl billboard for the covering.
When I initially arrived, the farm was empty. It was a strange feeling much like when I was a child used to visit my elementary school during the summer and enjoy the silence. There were two roosters roaming around, a red and a white rooster, occasionally sending out a cockle-doodle-doo. As I explored the new tool stations, the white rooster was following me around and oddly enough started to peck at my feet. What a ornery bird, I thought. And though I am writing about it here -- I am glad I was alone because he started to scare me. So I made some distance from him pretty fast but he continued to follow me. I decide to charge him in order to scare him. He wasn't scared at all; in fact, he started to approach me with his head lifted up and jerking around. I quickly thought about how Golaith must have felt when David started to charge at him. So I needed a new strategy ... so I just kicked him. That settled him down a bit.
