Moving Forward

After much thought, sleep and discussion with Pablo I have come to the decision to leave my work as a part-time Spanish teacher at our dear Eugene Waldorf School. I look towards a career that will sustain us in different ways. I'm not sure right now what that will be, but trust in the path there.

Fun

We love all the fun to be had in the summer.

The Fair is always lots of work. We get dusty and sweaty and wiped out but it is so worth it. Sahara thrives in the environment. I appreciate that it gives her the opportunity to spend time with some really neat, kind folk.


It took us most of this week to recuperate and today the girls and I drove up to Salem for their Art Festival. Sahara watched some young gals stomp around the stage Celtic style and she decided she wants to take it up now. I think she would shine doing Flamenco! She shines doing just about anything.


Lydia is wearing her own underwear these days and we didn't even have any accidents for all our driving and the excitement of the festival!

Haven

This morning we all trekked out to the Fair for set-up. Only five minutes there and I step on an old nail. Ouch!
A few hours later, I'm back home with a band-aid on my left bicep hobbling into the garden. It is a perfect place to be on a hot afternoon. Our little pool is set up for anyone who needs a dip to cool off and I can smile at our lovely produce coming on here and there.

Can you guess what these are?

It is our first year growing them.

I see you!

First Potato Harvest

I made goat cheese and corn enchiladas with red mole for dinner last night. Knowing that Sahara would take one look and say "I don't like that" we went out back before dinner and together harvested our first potatoes of the year.


She did take a 'thank you bite' of the enchiladas and then slathered the potatoes with butter and ate them all up. That, with broccoli (this was our best broccoli year yet) and a bowl full of black beans and a few olives, comprised her dinner for last night.

We also made our first fruit leather from some raspberries and strawberries. This morning Papa cut and rolled the leather and Sahara to take in her backpack for her last day of Nature Camp.