i am so lucky to have the luxury of time to be where i am.

today i woke up at 9 and,s after my ritual romp in the blueberry and strawberry patches to find fixings for my granola (which i made) to munch for breakfast, I tromped some more off into the garden for some harvesting. i got about 10 onions, handfulls of fresh oregano, basil, rosemary, and parsley, 2 huge baskets of tomatoes, and 5 huge peppers. then i chopped. and I chopped until about 2pm--finally threw it all into a pot and cooked it for a few hours: my own pasta sauce.

today I also finished my second round of ketchup (this time out of tiny golden baby tomatoes which will make it extra sweet), and then went out to the fruit trees and picked armfuls of peaches and then off to the blackberry patch and got a jar of those too. chop chop and into the dish, made a crumble topping and now that's baking in the oven: peach-blackberry crumble. there are 2 new WWOOFers living here too. they're from Wisconsin and a brother a sister. it's great. really nice to have new faces around. and they're loads of fun.

at some point today we also went swimming in the pond out front. we had inner tube races backwards and forwards and every which way. spinning contests and the like.

we've just finished cleaning the kitchen after this massive day of cooking, we're listening to bob dylan, and kiri (the girl) and i are about to do some yoga in the big open main room.

tomorrow we three (ben, kiri, and i) will go to a nearby farm and help there with some potato digging. also i suspect that tomorrow will consist of lots of tomato sauce eating and there's a whole pie to consume as well. lots of cooking comes with lots of eating!


like i said: i am so lucky to have the luxury of time to be doing this. how did i get here? how am i allowed to be doing this? it is so luxurious and relaxing. so time-loving. i mean by that: time is elongated for me here. and nothing is stressful or unpleasant. things just happen. i could live here for a while---probably later in life is better. right now, i can tell that i would feel cooped up quite quickly. i do need a bit more adventures in my life. a few more 5am nights out doing crazy things. but it's incredible to be able to have this taste of it now. and to have the ability to just relax into it. to soak it in.

the buckners are incredible people. so warm and generous. they just open their arms to me and say: COME enjoy this life that we have. work along side us and make and eat and enjoy our food. help us and we will give you a warm home to live in and a beautiful place to explore. i cannot think of a more perfect WWOOF situation in so so many ways.

i am now sitting on my bed with pepper, one of the kitties, purring next to me and she is rubbing her face up to mine, itching to be pet. so i will stop typing. and pet her.

that's about how life is here. and i think it's how life should be. we should be able to just stop and pet the kittens.