Fav-ulous Fire

Steamed fava beans taste a lot like edamame...but with more scope for bad puns. Sharing food and music around the fire is what I think we humans are meant to do.

Slow Food Cycle Tour

It was a (the?) beautiful sunny day: spending it at the Blue Heron Reserve with hundreds of organic-farm-loving cyclists was perfect!

Muddy Buddies

Our mud-buddies, Tamara and Shauna, are working away at finishing the garden tool shed with a natural building technique that seems to include straw, clay, kids spraying each other with hoses, everyone getting elbow deep in mud and laughing a lot.  I think it's the last three activities that make this 'natural building'.   And these two gals , with their arms around each other? ( Tam's hands are too muddy to touch Shauna, but Tam's shirt is dirty enough and Shauna's hands clean enough to touch her :>) )  .... they are from two of the farming families here who produce so many vegetables my fridge door won't shut properly anymore without squishing the bags of green goodness  therein. They've been friends since grade eight in a small interior BC town.  Usually they're hauling bales, washing and bagging salad mix, or hand-tilling the weeds between the rows.  But in this moment, they turned to each other and said "  When we were in high school, did we have any idea that we end up here together???"
They look happy. 

I don't know exactly which day this is. It's hard to tell one great campfire experience from another. We like to hang around the fire roasting marshmallows, wieners and corn. We like singing around fires, and we like gazing into them. Life is pretty good here!