Saturday, September 27, 2008

halfway there

This week marks halfway through the farm child's incubation period. So it's good in a way, and also reminds me how long there is to go! Life carries on as always - not much in the way of events or revelations to blog about. This morning I have prepared the vegetable beds for the spring plantings that I will put in late, this week. Corn, zucchini, eggplant, tomatoes, some more spinach and some other herbs and things hopefully. So now it's time to have an afternoon nap and think about what else there is to do in the next 20 weeks, before life changes in a big way.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

the educated farmer

My farmer and I are just returned from kota kinabalu, and here is some of what we have been doing overseas - attending weddings and watching orangutans. My farmer spent 6 months in indonesia, and it turns out that malay and indonesian are very similar languages. So I have once again been in awe of his skill in slipping straight back into the language, and communicating about things from pregnancy to pool towels.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

you know you're living in the country.

I've decided that the best way to reframe the sometimes frustrating mostly humourous and sometimes ridiculous moments I experience living where I do, is to have a common thread on this blog. That is, you know you're living in the country when...

I have been still very sick from the farm child, who we hope calms down a bit soon. Nothing glamorous about tasting meals more than once. Every day. So thank goodness for the Olympics, they kept me occupied for a whole two weeks. Yes, I even watched weightlifting and men's volleyball.

Anyhow, a week or so ago the farmer and I had some rare time together in town (140km away), and decided to take advantage and get takeaway. I had decided on the vegetarian pizza, until I realised that it included one choice of meat...You know you're living in the country when even the vegetarian pizza includes meat on it.

The farmer and I head off for a holiday on Friday (the farmer's birthday), so I will post more when we come back from our much anticipated trip to Kota Kinabalu.