Wednesday was a good day. All morning we worked on the institutional model I explained yesterday. Organizing and preparing, we needed to get ready to play in the big leagues and have people take us seriously. I sent a whole bunch of e-mails, to step our game up and get some support from professors. We all picked topics and worked through to the afternoon. Our project advisor Mark Orrs came by around noon with pizza for all of the groups he oversees. We got to chat with them and hear about their projects. After lunch we split up, Alec and I to Rathbone and Tori and Ben to the garden. At Rathbone, we didn't find Joe or Kristin who we were looking for, but we did find food waste. We are supposed to be taking food waste from there and incorporating it into our pile. Unfortunately, the food waste that was there had too much plastic in it for us to take. Screening out plastics would be one of the hardest things we had to do, and weren't ready to tackle that.
Not sure what the plastic was from, but filtering it out is a necessity or we won't be able to use any of the food waste. At the garden, Ben and Tori were setting up the generator to power the hose so we could soak our pile, but they hadn't quite figured it out by the time we got there. I got it started no problem and we were watering away. After Alec forgot the food waste we did have at Mountain Top and running back for it, we got to turning the pile. It. was. HOT. Sweating and turning and bugs and hoses, it was summer in a garden alright. We tried to finish as quickly as possible, and at 10:20am the next day blogging, I can still smell the dirt and decaying food waste.
Today, Thursday June 19th, IS ALEC'S BIRTHDAY!! happy birthday ring leader. You always keep me motivated. Thursday is also a SUSAN day. So we get to play with robots and eat cupcakes all day YAY.
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