So didn't type anything last night - went right to sleep. Let's see... where did I leave off?
After writing on the computer a bit, I headed off to bed in the bender. I found that that while there is a mattress in the bender, the mattress is on a slope - multiple times I had to wiggle my way back up the bed. I was quite cold for the early part of the night, and used all the blankets that were avaliable. Once morning arrived, however, sun was shining on the bender, which heated like a greenhouse. Thus by 9:53am or so, it was quite warm inside the bender, and I relatively hurriedly headed on out (as did Edelweiss). I hadn't slept amazingly, but I had slept quite long. Edelweiss apparently had it worse, and was quite tired throughout the day.
We got up, and got changed into new clothes, and then headed over to the house. The front door was locked, but the back door was open. We creeped in, and I had a breakfast of Edelweiss's very old half-sandwich, a banana, and a pickled gherkin. A gherkin is a type of small animal, humanoid in shape, but very small. Some sort of thing the Irish fey are based off of? My knowledge of folklore leads me to something like a Redcap, which is downright disturbing. But it tasted mostly like pickle-juice, which was quite tasty.
The day was Sunday, which is an off-day, WWOOFing-wise. We loafed around and wandered the premises in the morning. Edelweiss took me around the premises and showed me all the various types of herbs and weeds. I think most of it went over my head, but I now remember the nettles and the spearmint plants. In the morning I also rolled up the barbed wire laying around near the tents, because the previous night I took a piss and worried that I was going to run into the stuff. My work-gloves and boots served me well against the rusty barbed wire, and that went well. Kinda fun, even. I also started clearing up the rusty metal remains of some corrugated roofing from an abandoned home repair project that got abandoned, but got tired of that and hung out with Edelweiss as she read my book.
We then ate lunch, which consisted of some sort of garlic-and-herbs cream cheese on toast, another banana, an orange, and a gherkin and a half (we have lots of the little things).
We then went over with Eileen and helped put up the second bender. The frame was all together, thanks to some French WWOOFers a while back, but it didn't have good enough covering. We worked mostly on the coverings, adjusting the assorted parts-of-tents that covered it, and adding new things. Lots of tying or untying of ropes. French WWOOFers did not leave friendly and untieable knots, unfortunately, and it had only had gotten worse over time.
After several hours of working on that, the midges started coming out, and Eileen sent us away to be in her house. Edelweiss and I rested on couch and read this book that detailed (with beautiful pictures) all these straw-bale-built houses. Eventually Eileen finished (she was working inside the bender, where she had shelter), and then she came home and made dinner. Dinner was rice and a semi-spicy stir-fry. Edelweiss didn't like the spiciness - on my end of things, I just diluted it lots with rice. Apparently Eileen had not been informed about Edelweiss (and me, to a lesser degree) not liking spicy foods. I can't be sure, but I think I ate another gherkin afterwards.
After dinner we finished the book, and then decided that since last night we had sleeping problems, that we should head to bed earlier. Thus we both headed to bed shortly after 9pm, and I did not write that day.
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