This life is amazing...
The general day consists of waking up to the sunlight streaming in my window off the mountain side, with my gaze running over the terraced gardens down to the sea in the distance. I then grab some breakfast, tea and toast or muesli while sitting and catching more views off the front porch...warming my hands on my fat tea mug. My work is generally mild, starting with watering the garden and coming up with strategies for the plants to contain more water by moving the earth to cup it. Mainly I have been moving lots of earth...making small swales for the trees and lining them with rocks, mulching their new water catching niche....our news project (that would be Emily and me...shes 19 from Alaska, super awesome, great laugh, super fun..) is to flatten out the small stadium at the bottom on the garden....we are not quite sure if we are leveling or flattening it...bc the point is to flatten it..but allow the slope to drain down to the west...its a nice art we are enhancing in our lives...moving earth.
It sounds boring, but it is actually super enjoyable. I love using my senses to observe the land and then see what logically needs to be changes for the best water catching purposes. And whenever we get a bit exerted I simply lean on my shovel and watch the sea...
I am getting over a cold now, so I ended up sleeping allll day yesterday...waking up at sunset...and then until noon today.
I better go, Irini just brought out the cake, and Raymond just made tea...getting ready for a movie.
love you all
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