who said i wasn't going to practice my spanish in new zealand? that's lotsa lettuce in the ground, and boy is there! yesterday i planted oodles of lettuce starts in an area that i dug up a few days ago, all while listening to my itouch tunes (what am i straight out of an apple/mac commercial). of course, since i was rockin out i decided i'd sing to the chickens for a while to both my entertainment...and probably theirs as well. i'm sure they totally enjoyed my out of tune renditions of billy joel. the funny thing is, that night Georgia (the youngest of our small farm clan) noticed that the baby chicks had finally hatched! interesting indeed. and not to be terribly standard in my response, but damn those little chicks are cute!
yesterday, went for a forever run through the hills, flippin fantastic. in 90 minutes i did not see a single human being on the dirt roads i was runnin, unless you count from afar sittin atop a tractor. however that is not to say i was alone. plenty of overgrown sheep in need of a good shearing kept me company. my current location is not terrribly mountainous at all, but the rolling hills (mini mountains perhaps) are spring green right now, spotted with trees in the gulleys (and some planted in rows as windbreaks). i hate to keep using the word idyllic (since variety is the spice of life ya know) but honestly that is the word best suiting or my surroundings. i tried to swing yesterday only to find that my ass is too big...damn, double damn :) luckily my feet aren't as overgrown as my middle and i can easily stand of the swing and frolick; gotta say it's just not quite the same!
in other news, road a bike into the town where michelle teaches to see my first naitivity play...performed by 3 and 4 year olds nonetheless! freakin hysterical, the group songs with overly dramatic out of sync hand motions were my favorite! especially during "we wish you a merry christmas" all the kids would thrust a hand out in an offerring gesture, but it looked more to me like they were doing the 'heil Hitler!' motion and i just thought that was good old fashioned irony for the jew at the christmas play, like they were ordering me to have a merry christmas in a passive aggressive 'wishing' manner ;) but the kids were flipping ADOREABLE, as were the costumes that michelle worked quite hard on!
spent last night learning a bit about natural health food creations and will definitely try some of these once home. one that michelle uses is called kefir. it combines whole milk with kefir grains to create a super yogurt basically with loads of acidophylus (or however you spell it) and also uber amounts of acetic, lactic, and glucuronic acid (an important one produced by your liver to detoxify you from life:) it tastes like a slightly sour yogurt and provides your body with tons of good bacteria, just like yogurt but less processed and times 15 on the goodness for you scale, plus quite easy to make.
also of interest, kombucha, kamboocha? which has become popular in the US in little overpriced bottles...but hell, it's supposed to cure cancer right? anyhow i've learned to make that and now understand why it's so expensive...b/c it takes like 8 days of sitting in the dark and the secret is in the kamboocha mushroom that has to sit nicely on top to act as the catalyst for the fermentation process! but i must say it tastes yummy and also acts as a grand detoxifying agent.
alright, the rain looks a bit on the lighter side. i'm off to dethistle and chop wood...and probably i'll sing to the chooks as well ;)
yesterday, went for a forever run through the hills, flippin fantastic. in 90 minutes i did not see a single human being on the dirt roads i was runnin, unless you count from afar sittin atop a tractor. however that is not to say i was alone. plenty of overgrown sheep in need of a good shearing kept me company. my current location is not terrribly mountainous at all, but the rolling hills (mini mountains perhaps) are spring green right now, spotted with trees in the gulleys (and some planted in rows as windbreaks). i hate to keep using the word idyllic (since variety is the spice of life ya know) but honestly that is the word best suiting or my surroundings. i tried to swing yesterday only to find that my ass is too big...damn, double damn :) luckily my feet aren't as overgrown as my middle and i can easily stand of the swing and frolick; gotta say it's just not quite the same!
in other news, road a bike into the town where michelle teaches to see my first naitivity play...performed by 3 and 4 year olds nonetheless! freakin hysterical, the group songs with overly dramatic out of sync hand motions were my favorite! especially during "we wish you a merry christmas" all the kids would thrust a hand out in an offerring gesture, but it looked more to me like they were doing the 'heil Hitler!' motion and i just thought that was good old fashioned irony for the jew at the christmas play, like they were ordering me to have a merry christmas in a passive aggressive 'wishing' manner ;) but the kids were flipping ADOREABLE, as were the costumes that michelle worked quite hard on!
spent last night learning a bit about natural health food creations and will definitely try some of these once home. one that michelle uses is called kefir. it combines whole milk with kefir grains to create a super yogurt basically with loads of acidophylus (or however you spell it) and also uber amounts of acetic, lactic, and glucuronic acid (an important one produced by your liver to detoxify you from life:) it tastes like a slightly sour yogurt and provides your body with tons of good bacteria, just like yogurt but less processed and times 15 on the goodness for you scale, plus quite easy to make.
also of interest, kombucha, kamboocha? which has become popular in the US in little overpriced bottles...but hell, it's supposed to cure cancer right? anyhow i've learned to make that and now understand why it's so expensive...b/c it takes like 8 days of sitting in the dark and the secret is in the kamboocha mushroom that has to sit nicely on top to act as the catalyst for the fermentation process! but i must say it tastes yummy and also acts as a grand detoxifying agent.
alright, the rain looks a bit on the lighter side. i'm off to dethistle and chop wood...and probably i'll sing to the chooks as well ;)
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