Summer time

Its been a busy month on Temple Farm. Mostly, we've been preparing for the cob workshop that we are hosting early July. A new composting toilet, an outdoor shower, storage racks and a couple new sand bays have all been recently built, not to mention a huge foundation trench and urbanite wall, thank you Jason. We moved the kitchen downstairs and rearranged the entire house. I'm growing a big garden and attempting all sorts of things I've never tried before, like a huge potato patch, a 3 sisters guild, drip and soaker hose irrigation, growing tomatoes and peppers in a greenhouse, growing wildflowers etc. Its been a very wet spring and sometimes it seems all I'm actually growing is our local slug and snail population. Jonah has been accruing a fabulous collection of tools, and his latest and most favorite, is a sheath for his pocket neef (his pronunciation). he wears it outside and whips it out to cut branches and lumber that he steadies with his foot. This kid misses nothing. The cob oven, aka BIg Hot, is a ripper; pizzas cook in just a couple of minutes and are truly divine. My next project is baking loaves of bread and using the falling temperature gradient to cook a variety of other things, like casseroles, cookies, nuts etc. Jonah must be reading the dictionary at night when no one is looking because he's coming up with new words every day, not to mention complete sentences and correct verb usage. sigh. Amongst all the busyness, we find time at midday to go for our daily stroller walk down Blossom Lane which ends with Jonah falling asleep for his nap.