Day One Working in the Shed

view from the porch of the house

Today was by far filled with more laughter than I have had in a while… and for those of you who know me well this is a lot because I laugh at just about anything. I woke up well rested at about 730 this morning! Best night's sleep I have had since I left, probably because Fanny was not coming in at all hours of the morning and I had a room to myself! Went downstairs and grabbed some breakfast and then Andrew (house owner) asked if we wanted to join for yoga. Well... I find out that when Anne told him when we were coming she expressed that we were really into yoga because according to the “WOOF” handbook people are more willing to take you if you share interests and since we were coming to a self sustaining yoga community she put this in here. So after awaking sore from by run yesterday in Sydney we went downstairs for yoga. I had to bite my tongue the whole time to keep from laughing or crying because 1. I haven’t tried yoga since I was like 15 because I was FAR to uncoordinated 2. We were in some random town in Australia on top of a mountain doing yoga and I was just trying to
take it all in. After yoga we sat out on the porch for a while relaxing before starting “work” at about 10. First Andrew gives us directions… don’t be fooled, even though Australians speak English still a serious language barrier. We finally got our directions and the 2 other guys that have been here for a while were just as confused as us. The organization in this place kills me! However, we are staying here for free and they are feeding us so I put a smile on my face and built shelves, movedd wood, unloaded trailers etc. It was fairly hard labor….. the shed we were organizing and cleaning reminds me of growing up what Grandfathers in Mathiston looked like… but there are about 6 of them and larger… so it's CHAOS. We found all types of stuff from about 7 weed eaters to a unicycle. Anne, Manni, and I worked together all day. How do I describe Manni…. he is from Canada, speaks French and some English and is a major hippie… so we just ended up laughing mostly at the miscommunication that occurred between all of us all day trying to communicate. After a couple hours of work we came up ate lunch on the porch and went for a couple more hours of work. The property is amazing! awork in the shed got to see all kinds of fun stuff, a drowned “cane toad” that had fallen in a water barrel, a mouse that had drown in the water pail, and the type of spider we saw in the ZOO! It was HUGE. No worries though I did not get this close to take the picture, Manni took the photo as I ran the opposite direction. After working all day—Cameron, Manni, Anne, and I went on a hike of the property. Andrew in all has 15 acres around where we
are. It is so pretty around here! We went out to a small landing area in the woods which is going to be turned into a camping/yoga area woods and sat out there for a while. I think one morning we are going to make it up there to watch the sunrise. Earlier in the day when I was working with Cameron on a project at the dam he asked me of the types of stuff I enjoy to do and I had listed most sports… on the hike however both of them kept laughing at us and were like you played sports?? You sure are uncoordinated! I managed to only fall once though! Allie, a friend of Andrews that lives nearby came over for dinner tonight—it was yummy! And Manni made us chocolate and banana crepes…. So much for the “healthy” yoga community! Just finished cleaning up the kitchen and am heading to sleep!!! Hard days work on the farm really takes it out of you. Oh and Sarah, your name came up a lot between us today. Every time we were hauling cinder blocks we just kept laughing at what you would do if you were here!


So I can't figure out how to do captions on the pics but they are as follows--- 1. white house on the hill in which we are living 2. Anne working in the shed 3. me day one work 4. spider we actually found in the shed 5. Cameron showing us on the hike of the property 5. More on our hike