It is pretty quiet at night on the farm (not a lot of night life). Last night we played a game where we all had a piece of tape with someone's name on it (could of been a person or character or anyone) on our forehead and we had to guess who we were. It turns out I was Charlie Brown. Definitely did not win but we were laughing all through the game. I am trying to see if anyone wants to play poker. Only Phillip is interested in a game of poker. So bedtime is pretty early but I do not mind.
It was still raining today, so we could not pick oranges, although I had to go and get one bucket and was soaked. Phillip is still nervous until the truck arrives to make sure the shipments are out. He is cannot multi-task so we are just sitting around. It seems to be a little unorganized; Phillip said that when Nirav gets back it will be even more unorganized. I have not met Nirav, the owner of the farm, but I understand that he has spent some time in India practicing meditation and yoga. I am real excited to meet him. He gets back at the end of the week.
The farm house has a large room dedicated to Yoga and Tai Chi, so I felt compelled to take a 30 minute Yoga break this morning. I am still waiting for Alfonso to give me Tai Chi lessons. I have always wanted to learn. I just found out what Alfonso does; he does massages... I may ask to get one.
In order to stay busy I washed the floor and cleaned the bathroom; hard to make that sound exciting but I really enjoyed the relaxation. Of course, I visited the puppies multiple times. They are the cutest things. I wish I could attach pictures so you could see them. Yes, I am getting attached.
I had responsibility to cook lunch today (lunch is the big meal of the day). I was very intimidated, since Liz and Malcolm are chefs and Martin loves to cook and believes his food is the best; Oh Whatever. I did not know what everything was because all the labels are in Italian, especially the seasonings. I tried reading a cookbook in Italian and gave up; also, there were limited ingredients. I decided to make two kinds of pasta: one with oil, asparagus, sun dried tomatoes, etc (whatever I could find even if I didn’t know what it was but it smelled good) and one with tomato sauce. It was ok but definitely not my best cooking.
We all wanted Pizza for dinner so once again I attempted to make pizza dough with no idea what I was doing. Alfonso was giving me directions (he only speaks Italian). I will let you know how it turns out tommorrow. I had a great time though.
I am not sure I mentioned Fennel in any of my blogs, but it is definitely used a lot in Italy for salads and as a vegetable. I really love the flavor and plan on making it part of my cooking when I return. I made a fennel and orange (of course oranges) salad.
I also had to find the donkeys today and put them back in their pen. I searched the whole property and finally found them on the other side. Good thing they knew their way back or I would have been lost.
It is so nice to be around open and friendly people. I just love the feeling of belonging to a big family; although I really miss my own family.
Ciao for now
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