Enormous open sores from popped blisters on the backs of my heels prevent me from entering the rice fields to weed, for fear of something worse than just infection. Other aches and pains prevent me from moving around too much. But I had a great 11 hour hike with a friend the past two days. The second day was only 3.5 hours, but we started at 3 am, so most of it was in the dark on treacherously slippery 10 inch wide trails with cliffs on one side.
To top it off, I was sick, and unable to eat much the first 11-hour day. Not so good for the energy. I have no photos because I was too busy trying to keep up with Ryan, but here is a Google Earth screen shot.
When I got home I found four of the chickens had escaped. Luckily they came running to greet me so I was able to easily catch all but one little one who is much faster than the adults. Eventually though, I found her hiding in a corner and was able to grab her. This was one of our four new ukkoke (Slikies). They are really cute now, but I wonder about when they grow up...
Unlike our current hens, they will not lay an egg a day, but one egg costs around four-hundred yen, so it will be a nice gift for the neighbors. There are some specialty bakeries in Japan that only use Silkie eggs, so it will aslo be fun for Tomoe to experiment with her cooking.
Finally, at night Tomoe, Mona, and I de-kerneled all the corn Tomoe had harvested because we cant fit all the full cobs in the freezer. As hard as we tried to keep her from "helping", we still found kernels in her poop this morning. (sorry, no photo)