I am pretty much back up to speed, thankfully, and just in time for the new week ahead.
Most notably, this week marks the beginning of the spring visitor periods. The first batch of visitors arrive tomorrow and they’ll be here for three weeks. This will be an enlightening experience, I think, to be on the other side of things this time around. Granted, I have only been here for a bit under a week, so I’m not a fully grounded resident, but I’ll certainly be thinking about my own visitor period when this first group shows up. It will probably summon quite a few memories.
Anyway, Sundays are the designated meeting days, and the coming week’s activities were laid out this afternoon. There are a few things I want to tap into, and I look forward to developing some kind of routine and getting more settled over these next couple of weeks. Right now, I am still feeling around a bit, and being laid up and sick for those two days kinda threw me off, too, of course. I suppose the highlight of today was riding down the road to pick up some raw milk (note to self: avoid doing that on a Sunday next time, since the Mennonites might not be too keen on that) from the dairy farm. It’s pretty much a serve-yourself type of thing. Bring your own container, crank open the valve to the giant stainless steel tank, fill up, leave money on desk. I’ve only had a small sip, so I can’t fully comment on the taste. On the way back, one of the farm dogs decided to follow me all the way back to DR. No matter how hard I tried to speed up and get away from him, or stop and try to trick him, he would continue right on with me. I eventually gave up and let him follow me all the way back up the road to DR. After an hour or so, I wanted to get rid of him, since he was still prowling the land over here and started a minor scuffle with the other DR dogs, so I had to ride all the way back to the dairy farm with him. He almost didn’t stay when we got there, either. Geez. At least I got some extra exercise.
But yea, sorry, I’m sure there will be more exciting stuff to talk about as the weeks go on…
Other than that, I cleaned up the grain bin a bit, and continued doing some reading. The big one on the plate is Endgame, and I’ve been flipping through a book about straw bale construction. If I feel like getting wordy or ideological or thinktalky, or whatever, I’ll probably bring up Endgame again later. I’m trying to balance the thinky books with the practical knowledge/skills books.
That about does it for now.
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Donkey was here.
That dog was Chloe’s disguise!
She came to DR with you but you just didn’t know