Hello, Good Morning to y’all! We have had a two days of showers and this morning kinda looks bright and sunny (cross my fingers).  We are sitting down with a cuppa getting ready for some farm work.  Some days, we have our Yorkshire tea and other days we have our own cinnamon leaves boiled for 10 minutes, steeped for 5 minutes and sweetened with honey.  It is a natural stimulant and sometimes we choose this over tea when we prefer a milder wake up!

Since it is generally drying up, Gnome has started a big mow again…the pond area was done first in preparation for our yearly bonfire for the the 5th of November (Remember, Remember…the 5th of November).   Ooooh, I wonder if Gnome will do a double bonfire again!!  It is an evening that we have friends around with bonfire(s), food cooked over coals and home-made wine.  We also undertake a little tradition every year that involves burning a
symbolic representation of an aspect of our life that we no longer
feel is necessary.   Hmmm…I am not sure if I am ready to burn the Pringles…it is one of my last links with consumerism!!  😉  This is the Guy from last year:

What else…oooh, exciting stuff…sink is plumbed and we have a bath-tub/ trough for bathing…hee-hee.

Gnome asked me,“…it’s not exactly Martha Stewart…are you okay with it?”

Munchkin reply: “…who’s Martha Stewart anyway??  That is exactly why I love it!!”

I will have a better picture for you next time.  Fine decor with Munchkin and Gnome where Practicality is all that matters.  What do you think…can we market this lifestyle??!!  😉

Anyway, I will leave you with a picture of a morning gift from our Beloved Cat (he is like a son to us: lazy good-for-nothing-but-we-love-him and uses the place like a hotel).  Cat:

A Gift from the Cat; he left this outside the front door and nonchalantly walked into the house to his eating area.  If he could talk, he would say: you guys can have the rat, I will have the gourmet liver that Munchkin serves up everyday, ta very much! 

This is what I said to Gnome: “…we could eat it…I have seen enough episodes of Alone to work out how to prepare the rat for food….”

Gnome: “…hmmm…don’t tell me you are starting to think you are an expert on survival skills from watching television!!”

Ha-Ha!!

(Alone is an American reality TV series where people are left to survive in the wilderness by themselves and expected to use their skills to hunt and forage to survive.  Many of the contestants have ended up catching rats to eat.

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