The Pumpkin Soup

I don’t have to eat every day a chicken (although I would like to :))) ), so I have decided to cook a pumpkin soup. It is already good, 5 minutes more and the soup will be ready... :) I can’t wait to eat it... Tastes good! :)

The soup was good. I think tomorrow I will eat the same. I am sleepy again. I need to rest a while and then I will try to do what I planned to do today. Maybe desert? I have got two puddings in the fridge. 

Mares had escaped. I managed to bring back two of them. Still the youngest is outside my orchard. This case is more hard. I need rope this time. My tricks which worked with two other mares doesn’t work with the youngest.
I need to use force this time. So I came back home to change shoes and find a rope.

Okay. The foal is back in the orchard. But it was not an easy task. However I didn’t have to use force. First I tried persuasion, then one of my techniques. Eventually I made the foal to come back. I am tired. I had to walk a lot chasing the foal. I also corrected the neighbour’s fence, but this part of the fence is totally rotten and broken, there is no current. I secured that part with a tape, but it’s not enough. It needs to be repaired better. This part needs new logs and wire. 

When I was coming home the neighbour’s son arrived on his quad. I yelled to him, that the fence is gone. He didn’t respond. Either he didn’t hear or he is wild. I am not sure. He was hidden behind bushes around 200 metres away from me. I started to walk into his direction wanting to tell him that this part of fence is broken, but when I approached him closer – he drove away.

I brought additional tape and cut off the vulnerable part of the fence from the rest of the orchard. I hope it will be enough to prevent horses against breaking into there. But this vulnerable part of fence has to be replaced with new logs and wire. Also in repaired part of fence should be current. Today no current. The neighbour is keeping here his huge herd of cattle and current should be on. I don’t want his cows to get into my orchard and destroy my fruit trees.

I went to hug mares that they are so politely grazing in my orchard. Especially the oldest mare is doing here good job. I think she reads in my thoughts :) I have given them some apples, big hugs and kisses. 

It’s already 8 p.m. Time to bed. I am tired. Maybe I will have a cup of tea only. Oh, I should have my special herbal tea against menstruation pains... Tomorrow... I will try to survive today without it. I feel strange, but not so bad like recently.

Cat Miriam

The cat allowed me to see her twice this morning. She emerged twice from behind my cupboards in the study.

This time she was close to my face and looked for a while at me. Directly into my eyes. I wanted to touch her, but also didn’t want to scare her. I let her to take her time with her taming. But it’s progress :) I am glad. She will learn soon that there is no need to be afraid of me. I am her best friend.

It seems that it is going to rain. I need to walk outside to do something before it’s raining.

I washed two windows at the attic. I washed them not, because I expect volunteers here or any other guests. I washed them for myself. I think I should start doing more for myself. For my own comfort and pleasure. The view from the windows is amazing. I like to listen to the wind whispering among leafs of trees growing in front of the house from the south. The Sun appeared. I washed the windows and need a rest now. My forces today are frail. I need to save them and manage them carefully. I think I will make lunch from young pumpkin. No rush today please... I don’t have to build a pyramid today. I may enjoy every moment of this day in slow pace, doing minor things. Nothing exhausting today.

Between Dreams

I fight with my overwhelming somnolence. I think I need to slow down and stop demanding from myself so much. I am overworked and overtired. Days are long enough, but I need more and more breaks before each task. I need to rest often. I feel like a bear who fell asleep in it’s winter dream. I am not well physically today. So I have decided to work only a bit, just basic and simple things. Nothing too heavy. I need to prepare for the winter, but also need to do it in slower pace than I planned.

I also think about the people who came to my farm this year. Some of them were eager to pull out from me personal information only to use them against me. It taught me stop sharing with them this. I think it would be wiser not to talk about myself, my problems and my life and my matters. Most people don’t deserve your trust.

For example pressed by Jeff I reluctantly told him how much I paid for my farm. The day when he was leaving my farm he told me something stupid: “I could buy your farm and even a few farms like yours. I am rich enough for it”. Well, I didn’t share my personal information about my farm to hear something like that. Besides, he was wrong. The price I paid for the farm 10 years ago was good deal for me then, but right now, if I would like to sell the farm – I would get easily 20 times more. The prices changed a lot during last 10 years, not mentioning, that the price I have negotiated 10 years ago was real occasion, because at that time no-one was interested in buying this farm and the owner was in a hurry, so he was happy to sell the farm for any money. Estate market changed a couple years later after I moved here. Poland joined EU and land prices went suddenly up. And still are climbing. They will be climbing till 2016 when they will get their peak.

                                           One of mine beautiful natural ponds...

So, if I would like to sell my farm in 2016 year, I would make much more money on it then now. But I don’t want to sell it. It’s my home. My chosen place in the world. I sacrificed 10 years of my life and hard labour working on my land and trying to survive here. I am not going to sell it. Never. And such commercial approach as Jeff presented was in my opinion rude or at least arrogant. I felt it was rude. I hosted him for 10 days. He was my guest. And saying something like that it was rude. I need to be more careful whom I invite to my house. But it’s difficult to know it before you meet people. Strangers always try to present themselves in good light from distance. They promise great help, but when they come to your place they often are becoming a hard work to you, another burden. 

My natural pond... I love this place :) Ir's magic!

I wish I could renovate the house till the end and could start renting rooms for money. I have enough of dealing with some difficult to deal with tourists who pretend to be volunteers. They can be a real nuisance for you. Better to leave the work for skilled professionals and start to charge tourists for their stays at my farm. Right now it is not possible, because the renovation is still not finished. But I hope that in next year it will be possible.

The new cat let me see her this morning :) She was behind the cupboard in my study. Probably she was chasing there mice. That’s good. She has a lot of job to do in the house.