Firsts

During our two and a half months at the Ranch we have picked up some new life skills and first-time experiences. Here’s a list of “firsts”…

Making kimchi (Mia & Chris)

Making BBQ sauce (Mia)

Harvesting bananas (Mia & Chris)

Harvesting oranges with a baseball mitt  (Mia & Chris)

Harvesting  yucca (Mia)

Pasteurizing milk  (Mia & Chris)

Cutting a papaya  (Mia & Chris)

Cutting someone’s hair  (Mia & Chris)

Cutting someone’s hair into a mullet (Mia)
Growing a mustache (Chris)

Cutting a glass bottle to make a cup  (Mia & Chris)

Drinking freshly squeezed cane juice (Mia)

Playing horseshoes (Mia)

Sharpening a chisel (Mia & Chris)

Riding in a pickup truck with 23 other people (Mia & Chris)

Baking bread and bagels in a cob oven  (Mia & Chris)

Using Google SketchUp (Mia)

Watching army ants kill a scorpion  (Mia & Chris)

Watching the slaughter and butcher of a pig  (Mia & Chris)

Seeing a tarantula in the wild  (Mia & Chris)

Riding a horse across a river (Mia)

Pooping into a biodigester toilet  (Mia & Chris)
Cooking with biodigester gas (Mia & Chris)

Successfully hitchhiking (Mia)

Boiling bagels before they are baked

River crossing by horse

A bushel of bananas

Oxen grinding sugar cane stalks to extract the juice

Preparing to skin the pig

The Devine Barber Shop

A batch of kimchi ready to begin the fermentation process