What do I do?

"What do I do?" - asked familiar voice. It was my voice :))) Yeah.... I don't know! I don't know yet, but surely soon I will find out the right path :)

Tomato sauces

I have made 3 vegetarian tomato sauces and put them into jars, milked 2 goats, so I have milk for pudding and pancakes. Now I am just about to make lecho and maybe cucumber salad. Maybe I also put the cucumbers into jars? I have enough cucumbers to make some winter supplies. 

In the morning I had muesli with goat milk and a sliced banana. It was delicious.

I studied the package description so now I know how to make delicious muesli from my own ingredients. I need only buy oats somewhere and collect fruits and dry them or freeze them. I haven’t seen oats in Biedronka for a long time, but maybe in Lewiatan? I need to check. I love the oat flavour. 

It was raining all day, but now is sunny again. I think about going to the garden for a while.

I got to the half of the novel “The colonists”. This American family has real problems. They have to tackle with serial serious threats and evil. Me too. So I understand them very well and feel a kind of empathy. I am in the same situation like they are. Reading their story encourages me. There are others who have to fight for survival. Like me.


I spent some time in the veggetable garden. I replanted some pumpking seedlings from pots into soil. They are big. But those which I planted 3 weeks ago, are much bigger now. I hope they all will have enough time to produce big pumpkins before autumn.


At supper I prepared just muesli with fresh peaches and goat milk. It was good. I think I became muesli fun :)

Resting

Due to my present condition I decided to rest for a few days. Yesterday I had to go by bike to nearby town, where I have ordered some nice pancake plates ideal for my pancakes. After 10km journey I felt better and even much better. I managed to bike 40km yesterday. I returned with heavy shopping carrying the plates, muesly, vegetables. But today morning I felt again bad, so i did just basic everyday farming duties and now try to rest. Soon I would like to make lecho, but first I need to have a break.


I am cooking dinner: turkey, lecho, potatoes. It would be good to make a fresh cucumber salad with dill.

The herbal tea

Today I still don't feel well. I need to rest and take some painkillers. As I don't take artificial painkillers - I have collected some herbs and made myself a tea. It should help.

The Bloody Monday

This Monday I didn’t feel well. I spent most time in front of the house reading a book. The weather was perfect for sowing, but I couldn’t do anything in the garden. But I have cooked a good dinner and made a dessert. Before it I milked a goat and gave fresh water to poultry and dogs.

The Sunny sunday

It's so hot from the early morning since a few days... A friend of mine says the water in the lakes around is already very warm. She was swimming two days ago. I think it's the highest time to go swimming! I am afraid to go swimming on my own. I am not a good swimmer. I wish Mick would be here. He is a great surfer brave enough to surf high waves and for sure very good swimmer...

spent most Sunday reading a book and getting tanned by the way. In no time I was red :)))

The potatoe trip

I went by bike to Olecko to buy beautiful plates ideal for pancakes, but instead returned with 3 heavy bags of potatoes :)

How to get here

Połączenia na trasie Warszawa, dworzec Zachodni, dworzec autobusowy - Warsaw, Western railway station, bus station Olecko, dworzec autobusowy i dworzec kolejowy Olecko, bus station and railway station

Stanowisko  bus position	Odjazd departure	Przyjazd  arrival	Czas podróży travel time	Odległość distance
1	06:00	11:15	5 godz. 15 min. 5 hours 15 minutes	271  km	P N		więcej »
1	10:15	16:10	5 godz. 55 min.	271  km	P U		więcej »
1	13:50	19:15	5 godz. 25 min.	271  km	P N n		więcej »
1	22:45	03:55	5 godz. 10 min.	271  km	P n		więcej »

Oznaczenia:

n	nie kursuje 24. i 31.XII i w Wielką Sobotę
N	nie kursuje w I dzień B. Narodzenia i Wielkanocy
P	autobus linii pośpiesznej
U	nie kursuje w I dzień B. Narodzenia i Wielkanocy oraz w Nowy Rok

http://www.pkssuwalki.pl/pks_search,4.html?locale=pl_PL

Local activities in July

http://przystanek.pl/wydarzenia/19_przystanek_olecko.html

After The trip

I am exhausted after yesterday trip to Olecko. I need rest at least 3 days I think :)
And take better care of my animals. Today I found out, that 5 goats got scrambled together. I had to help them to release. Now they are okay. The stallion got his new spot as well. He is fine after the grovermina, so now I can give it to mares aa well without fear.

The strawberry ride

We went to Olecko by bikes. Our aim was to make some essential shopping and hang up around Olecko. It was peculiar trip ;) When we were passing by a field with strawberries, we sensed the sweet, intense, nice strawberry scent and I decided to buy some strawberries for us.
I went to the owner of the strawberry field and asked to sell me 1kg strawberries. Instead, he gave me 3kg. He said it was 3kg. But he didn't have with him the scales, so he just poured the strawberries from a box. It felt like 5kg while I was carrying them in my rucksack.

We went to visit 7 shops while I was trying to find the things we needed.
Mick was grumbling that he would take a book with him if he knew how much time the shopping would last :) It was he, who was usually left with our bikes and the shopping outside, while I was penetrating shops in search of needed things :)

When we got hungry and were after basic shopping which needed to be done before 4 or 5 p.m. since most shops are closed at that time - we went to eat our dinner.

After eating we continued the shopping. We went to petrol station to buy some petrol for my chainsaw. By the way Mick pumped the bikes's wheels using the equipment located at the petrol station.

Then, on our way home, I have decided to do the final shopping. I meant to buy some food mainly, but in the  supermarket they had some nice goods in the friendly prices to which I really coudn't resist, so I bought them. It was a toaster, a ventilator, some colourful plates perfect for pancakes and beautiful and healthy snake plant about which I dreamed before. Apart from that I also bought some food as well. When Mick saw the the amount of shopping I have done he was really shocked, because we really didn't have much place on our bikes and in our rucksacks.

When he saw the snake plant - he burst out of hysterical laughter. But I am a perfectionist in packing, so we managed to locate everything in safe and comfortable way, including the snake plant :)))

The way home was okay, but the backpacks were bloody heavy. We had to do some stops on the way home to rest from the weight and to drink some water or eat some strawberries.


to be continued... ;)

Mick

Mick is the best helper which I have ever hosted here. I wish he could stay here longer! He is very helpful person, eager to tackle with any task which comes to be done. He has both technical skills and doesn’t strive away from any hard physical labour. And he is a total gentleman! Nice, cultural person to deal with. And what’s more he cares for me! He doesn’t want to leave me without fixed kitchen tap :) I am very lucky to have him here around! Thank you from bottom of my heart! :) You are awesome person :)

Gone with the wind

The canopy is gone - the strong wind have taken it away while we were having breakfast under it in front of the house :) We had to evacute ourselves inside the house, because suddenly a rain arrived. So we took our plates in our hands and ran away as fast as we could. It was yesterday.

I sow some new vegetables and moved electric fence a bit. We milked 3 goats this time to have more milk for pancakes.

I am planning to do some more gardening, but as the heater started to work again, first I took hot bath and relaxed for some time in the bathtube.

Yesterday horses tried to get into the garden. It would be disaster if they would succeed. So expanding new territory for them is a must, although they have there enough grass to eat, just they like the meadow next to the vegetable garden.

Today for breakfast we had pancakes, at dinner we will have curry chicken with brocoli and young potatoes.

At supper? I don't know yet. Maybe I will try to bake a cake or sweet bread and serve it with home made apple jam.

The air is very warm and humid. I am so sweat right now. It’s so hot and walk across high nettles is challenging a lot. I think I will need another bath this day. I am spreading electric fence over new area and Mick is securing chicken coup, this time around the metal net which has too big holes, so it needs to be covered with more dense plastic net.

The canopy

The days are so full of different activities, that I don’t have time and energy to write posts, but I try :) At least I try to write :)

Today I took out my new canopy which I bought last year but didn’t have chance to use it and asked Mick to install it. It is standing now giving in hot noons some shadow. We want to install it to house wall to make it more stabile. Also Mick continued today with nets in chicken coup collar. The nets are nearly stretched. Tomorrow they should be ready and I will be able to let poultry graze there safely. We need eggs! And in order to have them, hens need eat well lots of fresh green grass and worms.

I have repaired the wire in orchard where stallion eats grass and made breakfast and cooked lunch for us. This time it was chicken soup with vegetables, chickens and groats with tomatoes. Dessert – pudding and jelly. For supper we have eaten sandwiches with vegetables and egg.

Mick repaired heater cable, so tomorrow hot bath. I have prepared bread for baking. Tomorrow morning we will have fresh, warm bread.

After supper we went by bikes around the area. We cycled several kilometres across 4 villages. It was nice trip. We checked if my bikes are okay and they are okay. They are ready for longer trips. Mick says, that while he was cycling across France and Spain he was able to cover distance of 100km daily. For me it is too much, but 40-50km I can do daily.

Securing chickens

Today in the morning we first milked a goat and then went with Mick to cut some bushes in the orchard. For breakfast we had sandwiches with ham and tomatoes, some tea. For lunch I cooked mince cutlets, cabbage and rice. For dessert - jelly. After lunch Mick stretched net over the chicken collar. We took a heavy garden table out of stable and put it in front of the house to have meals here. I have stretched an electric tape to protect us from curious horses. Yesterday Mick cultivated a piece of garden, for lunch we had pigeons, for supper muesli with goat milk. Mick cleaned the chimney, so I could cook the dishes over the kitchen stove. The weather improved, it would be good to go for a bike trip to nearby lakes. Before we go, Mick wants to finish stretching the net and I would like to repair the electric wire next to the young stallion.

A grumpy kid

I have arranged a lift for an Estonian man from Tartu in Estonia to at least Suwałki in Poland and he still was not happy and complained! So I have got irritated and told him not to come. Then he sent me his angry 4 paragraph letter and has written a post at his blog :)))) hahaha... Gee... Innitially he was to come here by hitchhiking. And I made to him easy coming here by arranging the lift. And he, instead of be happy and thankful was still whining! Grrr... What a grumpy kid!

Soaking feet

Yesterday we had with Mick special evening :) Mick had idea to use my two new yellow bowls for soaking our feet :) so, we poured hot water into the bowls, sit at the kitchen table and enjoyed Irish music and soaking our feet while drinking tea :) It was very simple, but joyful thing to do :) I think I like Irish ballads...

The worst day ever

Today happened the worst day in my life. People say, that unhappy events walk in pairs. That’s true, at least today. Two extremely negative things happened today to me. Although the Tarot predicted them, I hoped that it had been wrong. Unfortunately hadn’t. What was predicted weeks ago, just happened today. I even don’t have force to cry anymore. I am so overwhelmed with the unhappiness, that I have stopped reacting. I stay calm, peaceful and try to accept what has happened. I know, I couldn’t prevent it. It was written to happen. Such fate.

The flight

I have one person on my mind today... Something finished, before it really started... I feel so sorry, sad and a bit philosophical... what next?

This morning no Sun. Grey sky, wet grass, some shower. I think it will be good day for gardening - making new vegetable beds, sowing and planting some plants. Mick will help me with it, as his hand is soar and he cannot continue his task in the woods.

I have tried to hide my tears before my guest while I was smiling to him this afternoon while preparing breakfast for us. It was late breakfast. I stood up at 11 at noon. Now he went to do some gardening and soon I am going to join him. The life goes on. I cannot let myself fall into depression. But this day my eyes are wet. I hope he cannot notice that.

Monday

Monday is not that sunny like sunday was. At night was raining... Today for breakfast we had tropical muesli with bananas. We milked one goat for the milk. At lunch I have prepared fried chicken with cabbage and boiled potatoes. Now sjesta :))) I need some rest before I go to dig the garden :) Mick is reading the English speaking novel which I have lent out to him. I will have a nap and later take care of the garden.