Waffles for breakfast! That was Felix’s demand. This is no
easy task, since step one is having a hot fire readily available. And today
everything is completely rain-soaked. Not only that, but for some reason, it’s
cold! Irma tries for about an hour to light a fire, using 30 matches and a lot
of cardboard. I can’t even light the cardboard! No fire yet. Mama is sad about
our oat-field, completely flattened by the rain. Everything else in the garden
is untouched. A gigantic branch has flown into the middle of the garden,
directly in the walking path, not harming a leaf of tomato. Henry and I harvest
a single potato that got uncovered by the rain washing away some of the top
dirt.We finish the geodome!
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| finishing touches |
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| hard work! |
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| easy work! |
Papa and Theodore and Henry go to the town of Western to get
a library card, and return happily.
Then everybody helps work on the outhouse – putting the
frame for the roof and then the plastic roofing tiles.
Mama and Theodore go chanterelle collecting and come back
with a dinner full. We make flatbreads over the fire and chanterelles. Mama
describes the chanterelles as “ordinary” … If this is an ordinary dinner…
then….. please, let’s have it every day.
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| waffle iron is just the cover |
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| hot fire for flatbreads |
The neighbors cross the street (full of curiosity) and
introduce themselves as Sue and Jerry, bearing gifts of zucchini and “chaga” a
strange fungus that grows on birch trees that one collects, dries and then
drinks as tea to avert things like cancer. We cannot find “chaga” in our fungus
guide. Perhaps when we have internet we will remember to look it up.
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| finishing touches |
When we first arrived here, Henry saw a billboard
advertising Canal-Fest. He has talked of nothing else since. All the boys,
except Felix who is napping, go. Mama and I stay behind to watch the sunset and
the moon rise. Felix wakes up and screams at the top of his lungs, trying to
get his papa to hear him and come back and bring him to the Canal-Fest. I calm
him down by showing him the lone corn plant in the soybean field, and the
finished roof on the outhouse. We pick wild mint in the field and make tea. We
go to sleep before the other people come home.
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