Thursday, September 2, 2010

Life is Rhythm

Dear Friends,
My life has been so busy, I often pause and note something that i should share with you all, and then quickly that moment flits away and I'm onto something else. Here are some things I've started to notice around our little hut--butterflies, humming birds, and bees. All so good!!! So beneficial for our plants. This means that nature knows that we are here and beautifing our little piece of land.

The days and weeks are blending together now that school has started. I am thankful for this. We have established a rhythm that the girls are thriving in. I've always known that rhythm provides comfort for me, but never really realized how important it is to the children. It seems obvious to me now. Nature is built on rhythm, and children are so close to nature, it makes perfect sense that they would thrive in rhythmic cycles. For example, Tuesdays are our berry picking/ bread making days, Wednesdays we sew and snack on millet, on Thursdays we have stone soup, and Friday is adventure day-- popcorn and chamolmile tea out in the woods.

We have been busy making our hut into a home. Last week it got down into the 50s, so Matthew fired up the woodburning stove--very nice and cozy. We are ready for Fall. Not quite ready for Winter, we still have to weatherized the windows, put the floor molding down and the inside pine wall panels--lots of work!

I'm FINALLY attching pictures of the inside of our hut. Thank you all for asking for pictures of the inside, the problem was i could never get the place clean enough to take pictures!

One last note of interest. It seems like I'm in some kind of "keeping up with the Jones" out here, but in an alternate universive where its cool to live in the smallest space possible. I had a strange conversation with a flatlander turned homesteader where I mentioned that we lived in an 800-some-odd sq ft house, and she said,"Oh I know, we are in a 600 sq ft house". She one upped me! Can't wait to talk with the new family that moved here from Berkeley to homestead--could they possbily beat 600 sq ft???
Here are the picks.





View from the front door



Livingroom



Kitchen, Matthew making pizza dough. Note the awesome pine shelving!


Girls bedroom loft. Still need to finish railng/fence




Cedar lined bathroom--smells glorious!