Well, the oft spoken of day when we would have a team of wwoofers working away came true today.
Justin and Tim were an amazing help clearing weeds and sheet mulching the bank. Of course we ran out of paper around midday and had to make a run to town to get more paper. There were some dudes there from the Recycling Co but they were happy to let us take what we wanted and even helped us load it all in the truck!
We would have finished the whole bank for sure if it hadn't been for the water heater going on the blink. I ended up spending most of the mid afternoon taking it apart and cleaning out a blocked nozzle - don't know if I damaged it in the process of removing the tube to clean it, but after we cleaned it out and reassembled it it was still not working. Of course, with all the rain the phone wouldn't work, so getting on line was a trip and when we did there was nothing about how to service it anyway. Called Chris Baz and he explained the principles of a thermocouple. Armed with this information and Tim's mechanical aptitude we managed to have hot showers. And we got a lot of mulching done too. And had an awesome lunch with food off the land (including some monstera deliciosa)and those yummy maca nuts. Yay!