Hi everyone,
We just finished harvested another field of tea today. Hot sun and a cool breeze help keep the tea leaves dry enough for picking. It's a good feeling looking at a bright green flush of new tea buds and knowing they will soon be in someone's cup, warming them on a cool night. We heard 49 of the 50 states were blanketed in snow last week.
It's still hard to get used to the climate here. It does get chilly at night (like around 50 degrees, which is still cold when you live in a tent) but in terms of temperature there is little variation between summer and winter. Coming from 25 years in Boston, I'm used to below freezing in February. Here, if you plant a seed it will grow regardless of season. The trees around our cabin are putting out flowers, little splashes of red and orange waving high in the wind.
Our farm is really starting to feel like home. We now refer to our cabin as "the house" and our outhouse as "the bathroom". Our tent hasn't become "our room" but it is "bed". Still, I don't know if I could ever feel that I am more than a visitor to this tropical isle.
It seems ironic that agriculture, the thing which has allowed people for thousands of years to stay put and feel this sense of "Home", is the same thing that has made me a nomad.
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Hi Greg and Susannah! Wow, you've done amazing of documenting your experiences. The photos make me a little nostalgic for the tropical island life, but I know there's a lot of work to do on the farm.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure there's much less than a one percent change of your reading this before you already know about it, but I see on Reuter news that a tsunami may be headed toward the Hawaiian Islands from a large earthquake in Chile. So today (Saturday) would be a good day to stay well off the beaches. But you'll be hearing warning sirens I'm sure.
take care,
Uncle Rob