The beginning of these posts was my My Life Just Hit a Brick Wall at High Velocity, on the Cusp of My 50th Birthday: Mid Life Crisis 101 post. I link that post because I want to give my readers some useful context for what I write in these posts.
Warm greetings all! 🙏 💚
The morning weather kept alternating between sun and rain, but finally settled on sun for the rest of the day. I had a lovely mellow morning enjoying superfood fire coffee, hanging with my numerous cute gecko friends, and writing myIndex4Index Daily Inspired Motivation: The Fruit of a Successful Life morning Hive post. Since I had Hive pretty well caught up and my fire coffee finish finish, I went down to start working probably about 11:30AM or so.
I planted another round of mostly fruit tree seeds: Tamarind, Bolivian mangosteen, cherry mangosteen, peanut butter fruit, acerola cherry, as well as a handful of mixed acorns (oak seeds) from Ohio that Omya had brought. All but the acorns went in my nursery. The acorns need to be put in a refrigerator for three to four months to stratify, or they would likely not sprout. If they survive and grow, we'll plant them at high elevations on either Mauna Kea or Mauna Loa.
Once the seeds were planted, I worked with Ano and Austin emptying twelve five-gallon buckets of well-composted humanure from the composting toilets around various bananas and fruit trees. At this stage of composting, it has no noticeble smell, and looks like very rich soil. The fruit trees love it, and it gives them a good nutrient boost.
Once we got that completed, I finally tossed some laundry from sessions into the washing machine (in a community with multiple women with children, doing laundry can be a real challenge sometimes!), then I returned to the Flow House to rest and catch up on Hive for a while, before diving into my next task. I was feeling a little drowsy, so I closed my eyes for a bit too, which felt great. I stayed up there for maybe an hour before continuing on with my day.
The next bit of work on my docket was to splice and repair an ethernet cable that I laid last year from the Landing to Power Sharing, but that someone had unknowingly partially cut while clearing weeds. Normally I would just replace the whole cable, but it took a lot of time and effort the first time putting it in conduit and digging a long trench for it, then burying it. Only two wires were cut, so splicing them back together was a good option. Onc I had the two wires reconnected, I wrapped the whole section of cable very well in electrical tape. Very thankfully it was an easy repair. That's not always the case in the jungle.
After repairing the ethernet cable, I transfered my session laundry to the dryer, then collected some food items from Tutu that Kana had picked up for me on the Wednesday town run, to take them to the Landing to put in the fridge.
With those smaller tasks completed, I grabbed my trusty Fijian machete and went to continue clearing along the fence line in the Citrus Orchard behind Tutu, to get it ready for sheep. Given that the last time I was clearing in there, along the far side, I had to stop because the intense burning itch of little fire ants got too much for me, this time I cleared on the other side of the Citrus Orchard, along the side closest to Tutu. I kept going until the cane grass got very dense indeed, and my energy and motivation to continue waned for the day. I got a lot done, though I still haven't gotten completely around the fence line yet. Hopefully I'll be able to get that done within the next day or two.
I took a quick shower after putting my machete away, collected my dry laundry and took it up to the Flow House, then I headed to Tutu once again to collect a few more food supplies to take back to the Landing. I needed more honey (we get five-gallon buckets of local raw honey) for my superfood fire coffee tomorrow morning, as well as eggs, onions, and tomatoes for the food I intended to make in the Landing when I returned. I also got another half-gallon jar of raw whole cow milk to turn it into kefir.
So far I've been making new batches of kefir in quart jars, but since I've been drinking a lot more lately, I wanted to make a half-gallon batch this time. I already had one quart jar fermenting, so I mixed that with the half gallon of new milk, then redistributed the newly inoculated milk back into the half-gallon and quart jars, capped them, then put them on a shelf to ferment for a few days. I've come to absolutely adore cold kefir blended with honey, cinnamon, and cacao. I really enjoy drinking it at night, as I'm doing my last Hive tasks for the day, just before going to sleep.
When the kefir was done, I made myself some eggs mixed with some red onion, red sweet pepper, tomato, chopped spinach-and-feta chicken sausage, pink Himalayan sea salt, and some pepperjack cheese, all sautéed in olive oil. I took it up to the Flow House to enjoy, while I caught up on my beloved Hive, and began writing this post.
It was a lovely full day for me in the jungle here at GaiaYoga Gardens, one that leaves me grateful, accomplished, and satisfied. The one thing that I didn't do that I would have liked to have done is to do some up-potting in my nursery, as there are still many plants in need of more growing room. I think I'll focus on that tomorrow.
Anyway my dear Hive friends, with that I'll say G'Night, and take my leave for now! I wish y'all indomitable joy! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️❇️✳️👣🌱✨
All photos were taken with my Motorola G Power Android Phone.
Thank you all so much who have helped me get to where I am today, and allowing me to share more of the beauty and magic from my life and my world with you, and for your continuous appreciation and support! I am truly deeply grateful! 😁🙏💚
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