home sweet home...

dear friends,
i am sitting in the office at bluff mountain farm, outside the horses are grazing and it stopped raining. the clouds were hanging really deep today. heidi and i were cleaning today, making the house look pretty for us and our guests whoa re coming for dinner tomorrow. we will make a vegetarian/vegan/raw dinner and we are very excited. heidi bought a wonderful vegan cookbook and we are trying different recipes. it is fun. we'll make lemony roasted potatos with beans and tomatoes i believe. heidi is in charge of that course. i will make the coup as a appetizer which is a raw, cold soup with tomatoes and cantalopes. as a dessert we will have german applecake and avocato-chocolate mouse. oh and a salad. anybody wants to come??:)
i am so happy to be back. i simply love it here. the land is sooo pretty. yesterday heidi and i went shopping for the dinner tomorrow. on tuesday we went to charlottesville for me to see that beautiful town and then we bought some horse feed and we also went to see heidis new horse. sundance. he looks like pippi longstockings horse. white with brown dotes all over him. so beautiful.
it is great to be back in a climate that seems so familiar. the trees are all brown again (not as green and as covered with orchards etc like in cr) and the roads are all paved and i understand the people when they talk...missed that part a lot. funny now that when i encounter hispanis in the store i kinda get what they say. i mean not all of it for sure but more then before i went to costa rica.
i am back in my old room, the room i live dthe last couple times i was here. this time i actyually stay long enough to decorate it and make me feel at home. i still keep my routine of waking up with the sun, doing some yoga and meditation. i really love that. it gives me a lot of enery and takes away the stiffness i feel otherwise in the morning. i also keep my diet pretty much the same. only fruit in the morings (oh i miss those costa rican bananas...), no wheat and mostly no dairy. heidi baked this amazing bread with spealt and sunflower seeds and my body really likes that. it is fun to experiement with food and see what works for me. i encourage you all to try it too. i don't feel as tired during the day as i felt when i ate wheat and dairy. it is amazing how different i feel. especially when i compare how i feel when i eat raw and then cooked foods.
i will stay here in madison until the end of april and then i will go an meet my parents which i am very excited about. it will be fun to show them the counrty i fell in love with. after that i haven't decided what i wanna do. maybe come back to madison or find another farm. maybe visit come dear friends in maine who i met in costa rica. i wanna be back in canada by the end of may beginning of june so we'll see.
hope you are all doing well.
sending you love and peace,
jewels