a cook and a farmer i will be

Spent the day setting up the roof deck w/a bunch of herbs/plants—couple of peach trees, an orange tree among them. Party on Thursday, then again on Sunday—guess who’s catering? But really, it’s fun. I’ve withdrawn all of $35 for the past three days here, and most of that is in the pantry in the form of olive oil, veggies, etc. Wish it was more summery in the market, but I’m not complaining about the citrus—we’ve got all the oranges we can eat around here: orange juice, several oranges a day, some bloods, etc. The people are friendly enough, but it reminds me of Peru, namely, in the way the locals bother you to buy, come in, where are you from, espanol?, hotel? hotel?, taxi?, etc etc etc. There are definitely different prices for locals and then for travelers who have their wits about them, and then of course the tourists (multiply local prices by 10). Nice that EB’s made some friends w/the locals (she has one in her room right now), as we get the inside deals, and save our cash for more fun projects…