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DG: And you stayed there for...

BU: Two weeks.

DG: And you told me some stories about learning about farming.

BU: Yeah, yeah. I learned how to, how to collect eggs. They had 30,000 eggs, the chickens laying eggs. So first thing in the morning at four o'clock in the morning we went around collecting eggs, and then, and then we had a few minutes before breakfast so, therefore, I learned how to cut asparagus. I never knew that asparagus popped out of the ground like that. And then, and then one of my other jobs I did first thing before I even went out to pick eggs is because my partner, my partner, collecting eggs, too. So he said he can collect eggs while you go and milk goats. I had three goats to milk.

DG: First time you'd ever done that.

BU: Huh?

DG: First time you'd ever done anything like that.

BU: First time. In fact, I didn't know, I didn't know that the chicken laid eggs standing up because I put my hand in there, and I got egg in my palm of my hand.

DG: And then you had to kill some chickens.

BU: Huh?

DG: You had to kill some chickens.

BU: No, I didn't. We never had to kill any chickens, but I ate a lot of chickens because two more mouths to feed, chickens are easy to feed.

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