Grasssssing weekend

This is an essay that Ben wrote as part of his homework this week. It's rough, but you be the judges -- can he deliver the story or what!!

So just because some of you can't read hebrew script yet, i will tell about this weekend in english :)
you can also browse through all the photos online, here



This is a look at the avocado grove, taken a few months ago. I was lucky enough to find this photo on my laptop, since as you will soon see, the place looks rather different now...


The mission: paint the floor green before May 4th.
The means: sod.
The power: 4 dedicated people.
The plan: plant the sod in lines spaced ~1/2 meter from each other; add manure, water and sunshine; wait and hope that it grows.

After debating for a while, we decided to start at the end of the land, and progress towards the house.

The sod (שטיחי דשא) arrived in pieces of 1x1/2m. Ron and Ben were assigned the job of cutting it to stripes - three equally wide stripes per sod. Sometimes the stripes even had the same width...

In this picture, you can see ron cutting a piece of grass.

The next stage, is digging shallow ditches to plant the grass in. We kinda did everything simultaneously, each one taking a different job. We operated like a well-oiled machine.


These are Ben digging, Odi spreading manure on the ground, and Keren laying down a piece of grass.
And where is Dalia? -- she is at the studio, working hard for the exhibition next weekend! the four of us were too muddy to work the camera, so she had to take a break from her work and come take some pictures. Thanks!! where did she find the time to make dinner, i don't know. Ben would like to say that the peanut butter cake with chocolate frosting was awesome!

We started on Friday, pretty close to sun set, and soon enough the rain started pouring in buckets from the sky. We decided to break for the night from the rain, and resume the work the next day. Plus, Dalia's exquisite dinner awaited us... (yummmm... we had stuffed chicken with rice and other good things)
Everybody was wet to the bone, from sweat and rain, and covered with mud. Our shoes weighed a ton, and we all were a few inches taller because of all the mud stuck to the bottoms of our shoes. Well, Ben was a little shorter because he was permanently bent over in sod-planting position.
But that wasn't the end of the work day. Ben's shower ended in a bad way: water started gushing out of the drain, on the floor, flooding everything. We hurried up with extra towles and buckets, trying to beat the water that was pouring out... I started dumping buckets of cloudy water from the floor into the toilet bowl, and suddenly, more water and shredded orange toilet paper spurted out, like a colorful little bathroom fountain. Oddi commanded -- "quickly, press the thing" - he meant the plastic cover on top of the drain hole, which I could not see. The only "thing" I could see that was pressable, was... the toilet flusher thing!!! You can imagine what happened when I pressed it... more water rivered out of the drain, with which we had to deal. We laughed about it a lot later on. Wish we had pictures. Maybe this one will give you a general idea.

The next day, to charge up before work started again, we had a nutritious breakfast, consisting of a mountain of pancakes, drowned with syrup, chocolate, peanut butter, and other good stuff. Dalia only allowed herself a tiny little bit. I will let the pictures tell the story :) just click on this one.


You wouldn't believe it, but after we finished with the grass we had energy for more cooking - this time, halloween cookies. Which one do you like the best? If you look closely, maybe you can find Ron's brown coiled snake. Really, it kind of looks like something one of the dinosaurs he made left behind after dinner. We don't know who ended up eating that one, but they must have a strong stomach.