Grass Cutting

I thought I was going to have a chance to rest today, but that thought was out the door at 8:30 am this morning when Ikeno-san came over and asked if I wanted to weed eat the grass away from the ditches and fields, he said that it paid 1000 Yen per hour (about $10), so why not! Up I got and had a quick breakfast before he picked me up at 9:00 am. We rode down to the fields near Kitayama-sans house and loaded up the weed eaters and headed for the fields.

Now the weedeaters that I am used to are the kind with the plastic string, nothing doing here.... Theses weedeaters were the industrial kind with a large circular spinning blade on the end. So there I was strapped to this medieval gas powered instrument of death, ready to chop any weed that got in my way. It was hard work, and we did it for about 2 hours, and then quit. Ikeno-san said that if I wanted to do it more, I could do it by myself after lunch, so I decided I could use the money and went back at 2:30 pm and worked until 5:30 pm, so a total of 5 hours for $50 and small animals that died count = 1 snake. (I accidentally killed him while weed eating, Ikeno-san was glad, but he was non-poisonous so I felt a little bad)

Another day that went by where I didn't have a chance to work my own garden, maybe I can do it tomorrow, but who knows what surprises await me in the morning. Dinner was good, we ate natto and rice, pickled vegetables, cream stew, soup, rice and some awesome salmon that Masani-san gave us. I was tired after all of the work and went to bed at 10:30 pm


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Low - 54