Today I woke up at 7 a.m with the morning chorus and recorded a couple of minutes of it. After going to sleep early last night before 11 p.m now I found my rhythm.
The day before I woke up at 7 a.m with the body clock but I was completely shattered. The transition is now complete and today I felt good.
Brunch before Siesta
I went early to the Village to get large amounts of flour, because I will have to bake and sell bread for an income. A friend that told me about a place where they sell sacks of flour including whole grain instead of the supermarket. It turns out that they only sell big bag of white flour, or loose weight of whole grain flour for one Euro a kilo.
Walking back with this was a killer
An older woman was in front of me as I got to the shop, and as I said hello and she started shaking her head and turned away. She must have thought how much of a horrible person I was not believing the properganda lies and not wearing gloves and mask ðŸ˜
She then pointed to a sign saying theres a rule that you must wear a mask in the shop. I waited for her to come out because I guess she was worried about social distancing as well, and when I went in the shop the woman behind the counter wasn't even wearing a mask. People are so brainwashed and take every sign they read so seriously that they become the people police.
I haven't looked in a shop but I guess I can sell a loaf of bread between 2.50€ and 4.50€ - cheapest being white bread and most expensive being organic whole grain with seeds.
I got back around 10am and started to make rows in the new grow space that was rotated the other day, and shortly after I started, the neighbour asked if I could go do some paid work digging rows in her garden because the guy who was going to do it has Sciatica. Bonus!
Within no time I got paid exactly the money I spent on the flour, which means (in my world) that I got the flour for free!
The Fresh Bread Hustle.
it's not like I'm opening a bakery but if I was to I would have to call it pan-demic (pan means bread in Spanish) I don't know if I would get any customers though.
I've been practicing a lot to bake bread since arriving but I hadn't really done it before that often in the past. The last time I was here in the area I was surviving on chapatis but hadn't had an oven to bake in to try bread. The children of are eating a lot of bread and so do I, so I've had no problems in finding people to try the bread and its not been too bad.
I have been mixing grated potato in the dough to make it more filling and the last two I added some carrots as well. There was a bag of dumpstered poppy seeds and I added some of them into the last one also which gave it a nice touch.
I need to get another bread tin or two. Last night there was a dough for one and a half loaves of bread and so I made a, well not really sure what it's called, I took the bread though as it was out of the bowl and put it straight in the oven. It was a huge round loaf I guess you would say and it was good.
I will very soon in the next week manifest a fully working gas oven, and by writing this the ball is set in motion. There is one to use but it would be easier to have one separate. I think the best way would be to firstly ask people if they buy bread and then to offer them set they pay something like 7 euros a week to then be delivered one loaf every 3 days, and make it like a subscription. Or how did the Milkman used to work I forget? Pay at the end of the week maybe, that could also work and to keep tabs on who had what.
Now, Its Siesta time!
It feels great to be tierd enough at 2pm to be able to take a nap, and then wake up and do some more. Theres still another hour of paid work still for later but I refuse to work at the warmest part of the day 😂