Lots of Projects

 

Keli and Miloo

We just bought a new saddle (our first, we've been borrowing up to now,) so we will be doing more riding.

A little of this and that just to keep the rhythm of blogging.

The last two days we have been juggling all the projects here and we flow from overwhelm to solidarity many times each day. Yesterday I made feta cheese using the cheese kit for the first time.  It’s a little rubbery but tastes good.  Not sure if it should age in the fridge or out.  We’ll see soon enough. Today we decided to change our routine a little to wake up and get out to work a little sooner to catch the cool part of the day for work, and do our stretching etc. a little later. This means waking up at 5:30 AM.

This morning I made a box out of scraps to plant lettuce. Jim built a ladder of bamboo, wood and wire so he and Sergio can take look at the roof to see what’s going on with the leaks.   Later we go to the little village to see our friend Willie and take a swim in his lovely swimming hole.

Last night the pigs which are roaming around kept us up eating our compost and the little nuts from the palm next to our room.  They are really noisy, snuffling and slurping and gulping. We finally talked to Deanae about what to about them.  They belong to someone else but live on our farm.  Maybe they feel safer here.  I kind of like the fact that they are happy and roaming rather than stuck in a box like many others around here but it’s a bummer when anything you put in the ground resembling food can be eaten by the two parents and the four little piglets who look for food. They are growing visibly each day.

The weather has been beautiful here. Some rain, lots of sun, we haven’t needed to sleep with the mosquito net.  The breeze up at the studio and new house is like natural AC.