Harvest Time!

This weekend I was lucky enough to harvest some rice at Tsurubara Farm in Oonomachi, when I saw lucky I mean, I got to work in my free time! However I had a good time, stop reading if you’re not interested in how the harvest process works. Here is how we did it.
We started of by gathering the courage to start, I think this is a very important part of the harvest process and is not to be underestimated. After gathering enough courage and taking pictures of the rice field we started off. You got the rice with a sickle, one that looks like the one on the soviet flag. You don’t really cut the rice as much as you slice it off. Which I guess is the same thing, as soon as you get the hang of you’ll be going through the rice field pretty quick. Don’t be fooled though, it isn’t light work at all, it was really quite hot that day and working in the sun really tires you out.
After cutting about half the field, it was time for a very nice barbecue, with fresh vegetables practically straight off the field (no rice, we left that in the field). After the barbecue we went back to the field and gathered some bamboo, to make a structure to dry the rice. But before you can hang the rice to dry, you must first bind it together, which is just not a very fun thing to do… It takes forever and feels like your making no progress at all, when you see you ARE making progress and are nearly done, it’s just the greatest feeling. After we were done with the entire thing, we had a quick bite to eat and went off to an onsen. This Onsen is based on the same mountain as where I saw the monkeys the other day, but due to it being pitched black dark, I didn’t see any monkeys which didn’t ruin my night to be honest, because it was a nice onsen, kind off small but the company and atmosphere was good. Plus the onsen was extremely hot.
After melting in the onsen for an hour or so we headed off to find something to eat, and found out the place we were headed for was closed, so went for some Korean food, which I must say was really good and really spicy. But I like my food a bit spicy. So after being returned home by Tsurubarasan (つるぽん) It was a good day which I had good feeling about.
Thursday I have to do a survey on a bus, I hope I can make out what people are saying and manage to my job! Saturday I am moving house, to the city. Looking forward to watching all my shows again, living in the city and living closer to work so I don’t feel so damn tired every time I get home!

Music: Black Milk
Mood: Nervous

PS. No more pictures (by me) until I get proper editing software, so that will be Saturday!