I cannot believe an entire week has gone by since our last visit to West Oakland. I feel like just yesterday I was standing in the bed of a pickup truck filled with sod and garbage. Anyways, today we spent our 8 hours at the first site we went to - Union Plaza. Our work entailed more aphid and powdery mildew removal, weeding!!!, raking up leaves, mulching tomato beds, and sifting compost (to separate the usable compost from stuff that needs to decompose more, and from usable mulch/straw/wood chips). Aliza and I spent most of our time in the compost sifting: dirtying our fingernails, touching gross stuff REALLY GROSS STUFF! and then forgetting and touching our hair, crushing avocado pits (they turn an awesome red as they rot), propping up and peeing behind buckets and wheelbarrows, sharing our brains, laughing, and of course shoveling, sifting, and mulching. Mulching is such a good word.
Luckily, yesterday's drenched weather did not repeat itself and the bike rides there and back were pretty enjoyable. Also, a few evenings ago I felt like going for an after-dinner bike ride - maybe cuz it was our first night off in a while - and my friend Jonno said he'd come along. So that was nice and we biked north a bit and rode along the bay, enjoying the beauty of the heavy fog on the Berkeley hills, and just the scenery in general and the end-of-day-ness. At one point we were riding along this long pier (pretending not to have read the "no biking here or whatever" sign) and I swear I would not have been surprised if the Pirates of the Caribbean ship had appeared with that creepy girl singing in the front.
Oh, and also, our supervisor/city slickers apprentice told us her top three rules: kill slugs, kill snails, share snacks.
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