Tales from the farm

Last night, after having another voluptuous Ethiopian dinner at my friend Willy's houseboat, with Vilhelm and Saathi the dog, I got back home eager to keep working with fixing the patchy walls of the caravan. So at midnight, with a tiny torchlight in my hand and chilly winds whispering tales of winter in my ears, I entered the caravan and found an antique cast-iron wood stove, used several decades ago. Squealing in delight I went around knocking my neighbors' doors urging them to come see the shinny new present I got from Olle and Eva, our dear farmers and landlords.

A wood stove that may save my life this winter

Woke up in the morning to find frost everywhere and a bucket of water frozen hard. The thermometer said 1C but it felt much warmer. So like every other morning, there was porridge for breakfast with oats, honey, raisins, hard bread, and cinnamon all from local ecological farms cooked over a stove powered by a windmill. This wholesome treat came with undeding supply of organic fair trade coffee under the sun (sponsored by God).

During the evenings, horses and sheep roam around these planes

With sun on our faces, autumn leaves all around, we, the village people, sat and watched the world spin around it's own axis leaving us to breath in the golden fall...

Who knew death could be so beautiful... Maybe it is all about rebirth

But now the sun is calling me to get back to work hope I am able to create a home out of the workshop caravan that gives me shelter for as long as my heart longs for me to live there...

Under all the layers of grime, dust, and wall marks lay a beautiful living room

All set to work

Keeping appearances... find an ugly hole, patch it and paint it over as if it wasn't even there

Looking forward to tearing down that wall with Olle, our farmer

Alright, back to work. The walls aren't gonna paint themselves arright!

A part of me wants to hurry up and get it done. It wants to control and hope a certain future, but the words spoken by Olle sooth my nerves and bring a calm to me that is helping me enjoy life as is. He said, 'God has a bigger plan than I know. It's easy for me to try to control and fix things my way, but what is gonna be, will be and I have learnt to trust and let go knowing His plan includes us all'.