Not washing day today!

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Thought you might like to have a peek at my good friend's blog!
Her name is Little Blue Petal, and she lives near Shrewsbury. Blue is also home-edding her 4 girls and they live in a farmhouse. They are viditing on Saturday(8am), so will look forward to that!. We will go to the thrift shops and have samosas for lunch, and pick some fruit hopefully, at Smithy's lovely house in Burrington, about 4 miles from here!My wish for large pickling jars may come true when she comes! Then I will make everyone who wants them some pickled eggs! Please advise whether you want hot as hell or normal spiced!
Got my cd by James Morrison today in the post......hurray at last!I have only heard "You give me something" before, and have been listening to the other songs which are sung from experience I think! He has such a sexy voice!!!!!!

Day of rest??

The day started off with my morning cuppa and the usual daydreams out of the kitchen window. I thought of my strawbale design.....round, square, oblong......and the way it might look when it's built. Where to build? Haven't a clue yet! Somewhere remote and beautiful hopefully, with a stream nearby, so I can hear the gurgling water and be free to think without noisy distractions and neighbours!
Went out to find some numb brain had pulled up another Cypress tree. I replanted and watered it, wondering about the person who did it. Thinking how they must not care about nature or have any respect.
Making red pepper,yellow pepper,green pepper,onion,sweet potato,cumin,coriander and brown rice for supper.
Talked to my sis in AZ, who has signed over her house to her greedy ex whom she owes child support to. Funny how she has lived there 11 years and now will leave with nothing but a few belongings. Never mind, I told her. I have done that several times, and material things don't really matter. Getting away from the cursed mountain does. Native Americans cursed the mountain when the settlers put them on reservations, and nobody has a chance there. Everything goes wrong. A better life is round the corner...
I would rather have peace in a tent, than be in a situation like hers has been.
It has rained today, and the parched land will soon be green again. I am looking forward to picking greengages soon and make some more jam. I want to make some pickled eggs but don't have big enough jars!
Life can be so strange.....

Rain has come at last!

Last night as I lay awake, I could smell water in the air. It reminded me of the days I used to live in the desert 50 miles west of Phoenix, AZ, where it was dry most of the year, except for the monsoon season starting July.
I awoke to a sky full of grey and white clouds, with a breeze making my bamboo windchime play tunes on my front porch.I looked out of my kitchen window with my morning cup of tea at the hill in the distance with the green trees sitting on top of it, and wondered and daydreamed as I do every day.
Then at lunchtime it happened!
Beautiful cool drops of rain started to fall and quench the cracked earth beneath.It was a gift from Mother Earth to end the heat-wave,and a reminder of how fragile our ecosystem really is.
We can be thankful for dry weather for the harvest, with lots of strawbales leftover for eco-building!