Tuesday, 14 June 2011

camera and C.R.A.F.T day

My camera is unfortunately broken...I turned it on the other day and it won't focus to take a picture. The lense zooms in and out a bit and then it says to turn it off and on again. I've had it for five years!! It's so out of date (according to technology) I hope I can fix it. I don't want a new one.

The other day we visited another farm to learn about tractors. Part of the program I'm in C.R.A.F.T (which stands for some ridiculous long name I don't remember) is that each of the farmers in your quadrant host a day of learning on their farm and everyone visits. The one my farmers are connected with unfortunately aren't doing anything so we joined with another. I saw how hay used to be cut (with a 1950's ish tractor and attachments) and then I got to rake the hay with a tractor attachment. It was a pretty good day, I learned some new things. The most fascinating thing I saw was on any tractor or tractor attachment there is an oil valve thing. So instead of taking your machine apart to oil and grease it you can just squeeze some oil into the little valve and it oils that whole mechanical part. I was also able to talk to the other interns about agricultural courses and I found out there's lots of opportunities to get onto farms and rent land from farmers for really cheap prices. It was a good experience!

2 comments:

  1. That sounds great Maddie! Except of course for your camera breaking!! And I was really enjoying looking at your farm photos!

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  2. They're far more interesting than long winded paragraphs lol It's coming to a nice time of year with beautiful sunsets too! All the plants are coming up in little rows. I'm going to try and send it off to Sony and get it fixed..only their page is glitched right now

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