I'm not sure I'm going to have the energy to keep up with daily letters to you, even though I still have the enthusiasm. What I have right now is a sore body! I'm sure I will be fine, but a full day of using my body in ways I'm not used to is taking a very slight toll, but nothing a little arnica and Young Living Pan-away oil won't fix!
Believe it or not, this is the culprit:
All that straw along the edges was covering these perennial flowers, and now it's not, and it didn't teleport there. To be fair, the majority of it had been done before I came along, but Rose and I did at least half of the larger field this morning. The afternoon was spent combatting a bunch of ornamental onions that decided to infest the irises in the foreground in the second picture. I think we got that second field pretty close to fully weeded, though. Nate did some stuff with some greenhouses and some power tools, and according to four-year-old Jane, he learned how to use a hoe. I'm told that tomorrow we will be transplanting some baby lettuces into one of the greenhouses. I'm just hoping there's no weeding involved!
As for our cabin, it looks like this:
It's a sweet setup! And I got a good panoramic of the interior:
I'm really most interested in the bed right now. And I'm starting to question my abilities. I'm soooo exhausted right now. Am I strong enough for this? Am I too old? Can I really do this? How are we going to have the energy to build on our days off when, after just one day of not-really-hard labor, we are both so incredibly beat?
I imagine these questions are probably pretty normal. It's like, "Holy shit. What have I gotten myself into?" I can tell you this, though: it's a good kind of exhausted, and I like the way I spent today more than the way I've spent most days at most jobs. I also know that this just feels right, and it's what I want. No one promised it would be easy, but I've been told many times that it'll be worth it.
Anything worth having is worth working for. And this is a life worth having.
I love reading about this Tamarra-thanks for taking the time to do it!
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, you're too old. It's EXACTLY why you should be doing it!
It's not that I AM too old... It's that I FEEL too old...All those times I did something stupid to my body, and my mom said, "You're going to regret that when you get older!"...She was right!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome. This is really fun!