I did it!
I successfully moved over
and I must say that I am really enjoying my new place.
It sure is an upgrade :<)
With the help of a friend, on Tuesday
and my twin sister, on Wednesday,
I managed to pretty smoothly transition from one place to another.
As a result of all the heavy lifting and probably a bit of unavoidable stress over the move, as well as the ever-changing weather
( it started raining, once again ), I had to slow down, yesterday.
While pruning a grape vine on my new land,
I started to seriously feel my lower back
and I took this as a sign to rest.
While pruning, after having switched from bare foot gardening to boots, because I stepped into an ant's nest and these tiny ants didn't like that, something pretty (awesome) happened...
I heard a loud buzzing and didn't believe my eyes at first.
About a meter away, a hummingbird, no, a hummingbird (hawk-)moth was sucking the nectar from a (grape) flower.
It took me a couple of seconds to realize what I was seeing. I had never seen one before. I later looked it up and I had correctly identified this special creature.
Anyhow, after a while, my back started signalling to me
that it was time to take a serious break.
The pretty heavy rain, that basically continued until this morning, also helped with this.
Suffice to say that I basically vegged out on the couch, watched a movie, tried to keep feeding myself (although a cook would have been nice) and spent most of the day indoors, aside from some watering of the plants aka garden-pee-breaks.
I am not that great at granting myself a break, but I am getting better at listening to my body's signals and I believe that I managed to do so, yesterday. And perhaps even more importantly, I was able to enjoy this time off.
Today is another day and I am still trying to take it easy.
Although I walked into town this morning ( now a 30 minute hike, where it used to be 20 minutes, from my previous place ) and walked back the same distance with a backpack filled with groceries.
All in all, a one hour workout. Probably way more than the average person gets in. And, as an added bonus, outdoors.
I also drank a coffee (or two) too many with the friend that helped me moving house and had uma tosta mista. It was worth it though.
This afternoon, I compensated for the excess caffeine by having a good lunch and drinking loads of water.
I also emptied - and cleaned out - the compost toilet ( from my new bathroom ) which was a bit of a shitty job, not recommended for those with a fear of germs but I'm not one of those, otherwise this off-grid life would have sucked haha!
While doing this 'dirty' job, I had to think of you @paradigmprospect and not because you're a shitty person or because you shit post ;<) because you're not and you don't, but because of this series of posts of yours about Humanure: using poo to save the world that I should probably dive into ( not into the poo but into the content haha! )
Did you spot my ukulele?
I think the picture above was taken yesterday morning,
on the side of my house.
And the following was probably taken this morning,
on my way into the village.
I am gonna end it here, for today.
I still have more resting to do,
as well as re-organizing, cleaning and so on.
Just wanted to let all of you know that I did it
and remind my future self of yet another transition in my life, another upgrade, close(r) to the life that I (would) like to live.
I really wouldn't mind staying here (more than) a bit longer than 4 months and that is an understatement.
Sending love!✨