Topic: simplicity

My little horror story can't compete with the gruesomeness of a horror film. But it has its own charm because it comes from my real life. It happened last evening. 

In the last two nights we got about 30mm and 10mm of rain. This is wonderful news for us! We haven't had any significant rain for four months. That was normal a few years ago, now it is a pleasantly short dry season. In summer, we had little water for irrigation because the source that supplies us with water had less water than before. I have heard that the water flows underground from the Sierra Nevada to the source. And in the Sierra Nevada it rained much less than normal last season. The same with us: there was heavy rain only in December and in June. Now we hope for more water from the clouds in the coming season.

I measure the rain with a bucket.

For many years I've been cutting my hair only once a year, for some years only every two years, because my partner prefers long hair. But I still want to cut it sometimes, because I don't like it quite so long. Today was one of those days. A neighbour lent me her hair clippers. I was sceptical at first because it was quite small. But it worked like a charm! In a short time everything that was hanging around up there was gone. And my partner and friends had to look twice when they saw me.... I keep the hair, I still have the hair from the last haircut. Someday I'll make a long tear-proof string out of them. Of course I'll show you how to do it then!

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After haircut

Don't worry, Meenhard!

She becomes my partner and moves to my land. I got in touch with her on the Mulberry Retreat 2018. Before she spent two times 6 months in Sumatra (Indonesia) at the raw food community "Terramana". She grew up near Paris. Murielle is her original name, for a while she called herself Aim'jie.

Murielle and I, 4 June 2021

When I worked on the Veggie-finca, I saw sometines an old spanish couple working on the land next door. They told me that they would like to give up their finca. My friend negociated with them, and we came to an agreement ... One of the first trees I planted, was a Sapote Blanco tree. It gave us in spring and early summer 2022 the first fruits. Murielle and I are thanksful for that - and unfortunattely sometimes the chickens too. See About my land

I lived on the land of a friend, who was good in speaking spanish and negociating with the farmers. He heloed me to get this finca. Before there was conventional cultivated eggplants, pepper, onions and strawberries. I weeded there for a few months by hand all the wild plants, because of an agreement with the previous landlord: I weeded by hand, and he didn't use herbicides (like "Atila" that contains a lot of glyphosate). The earth was covered with black plastic sheeting, but many wild plants came through.

View over the Veggie-finca, Jan 2023