Thursday at The Seed

Thursday at The Seed

I can't believe our last day at The Seed is tomorrow!

It turned out to be quite misty today.  Not really rain, but like being in a cloud without the cold and the visibility issues.  We had a goal for the day.  It was to plant another garden, this time on the new Oasis church property.  So Gary, Dan and I set out in the mist, hoping it would clear up for us.  

Dan had plotted the corner pegs for the garden out earlier that year, when he had covered the ground with 'God's blanket' or mulch, but they had been taken.  So we started from scratch.  We laid out the 6 x 6 meter perimeter and then went down each row hoeing out each little planting station.  The difference in the soil under the blanket Dan had put down earlier versus the ground that had been left open was striking.  There was nice moist, dark soil under there!  We finished all 99 stations and were just starting to scoop some compost in each one when started to really rain, so we had to pack it in.  We were pretty wet but luckily I had a change of cloths with me, sadly the boys did not.  

Today was the day we were buying pizza for the staff for lunch so Stu and Gary went to pick up the pizza's while Scott showed us his art.  Scott is the finance officer here, and he was also our guide on the safari trip.  His art is amazing.  He does a lot of portraits and he can capture the character of a person so well.  It's an amazing mix of talents he has!

After lunch we went back out to the garden to finish up.  We had Adam and Jeremy with us now and their job was to gather bags and bags of mulch to cover the garden once we finished planting.  The adults finished up by scooping compost, then a small amount of organic fertilizer in each planting station.  Then covered that with soil leaving it 5cm from the top.  Then planting 3 seeds in each station and backfilling everything until the garden was smooth and level again.  Then we went down to the trees where the boys were to help gather all the decomposing leaves to use for ground cover.  There were some crazy bugs in there, but luckily no snakes.  I don't think I could have handled snakes!  We did have to fight off cows though.  Once the garden was covered, we were finished and we headed back to The Seed.

The rest of the team had been shopping for the supplies to make 150 goodie bags for the kids big Christmas party coming up in early December.  And they had finished putting them all together and they looked great!  

We came home for much needed showers and some supper.  Then we went out to find a local open air market that happens on Thursdays.  The weather was pretty bad so there weren't many good vendors out.  But we decided to go 10 pin bowling and it was a blast.  We did the kids plus Jeff and Stu versus the rest of the adults and of course the adults won.  Jody had a most impressive finish, she need 29 to make 100 and she finished the last frame with 2 sticks and she got 9 pins on her last ball giving her the 100 she was aiming for!  We have a bowling queen in the making!

I'm noticing now that I don't hear the surf as much as before.  It was deafening before, and even when we were at the game reserve there was a lot of noise in the night.  I think I will be happy to get home to some quite.  I will definitely miss my mornings on the beach though.  Everyone should have the privilege of starting the day that way for a few days of their life.

Some interesting differences in language:  bandages are plasters, and lights at intersections are called robots.

Have a great day! 
Shalina