When we arrived we found that Frank needed to go take care of a silo bag that the farm had sold. This meant that we got to help Greg finish setting up his research project. We planted the remaining trees, replanted the outside row, and replaced the row that had accidently been skipped yesterday. Then we laid out protective stakes to keep the birds and rabbits from destroying the saplings. 
After the project reached the point that we had done all we could to help we went to the administration building to talk to the director about the agsci program at Dookie farms. There are currently only full time students on the farm so we were very interested to see how they were learning. From what we could gather the majority of their education is independent with lectures that come up once a week and web cast lectures. We also found out that almost everyone who works on campus has their own personal farm in addition to Dookie. After we finished our chat, we met back up with Frank and he took us to see what he had been working on all morning.
The silo bags seem to be a huge pain. The Cockatoos keep poking holes in them, this allows the grain to spill out and also rot in the bag because of the moisture that is able to get in. 
So Frank has sold some of the grain from the bag and is storing the rest in a silo that the farm recently acquired. We took a trip up to Mt. Major where we were able to look over the farm and the nearby town of Dookie. 
You would think that I would be tired of nature but it was beautiful. For our last activity we went back to the orchard and picked another arms full of apples. We said goodbye to Frank and Paul and headed back to Melbourne.
On the car ride back I worked on the Wiki that we need to create by next Friday. I have done all of it that is solely my responsibility. The rest we need to work on together and are planning to concur on Monday. After a car ride, a tram ride, 2 train rides and another tram ride I made it home. First I showered really well. Then I started with the apples. I felt a little like applejack. I made apple cider so that I could make apple butter and then I also made an apple crisp. 
Ah that was my day....Except for Katie. She was quite the piece of work tonight. She keeps telling me that I need to get a life. Sigh I have a life! For real! I feel like I'm beating my head against a brick wall! Haha and she's making me watch a motivational video because
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