The learning never stops...

Do you know that feeling you get when you do something new and it works out well?  We've been experiencing that a lot lately and we're aware of what a privilege it is to be entrusted with tasks that we have no previous experience with....  the perfect opportunity to try something new and learn!

 Decorating the new kitchen floor with a moon symbol.  The moon plays an important part in biodynamic farming.

 Laying the new concrete floor.

 Taking a break from all that hard work - that is, staying off the freshly laid concrete!

 One of Nahlia's exhuberant strolls towards the house goose and the cat!

 LOVE that cat!  Although she is a little rough with them, they still like the attention.

Saying goodbye to five roosters.  Our host had an excess of roosters from their last hatching, which they wanted to get rid of.   They are vegetarians themselves, but they were happy for us to eat them as long as they didn't have to see it happen.  A neighbour of theirs has a chicken-plucking machine and so we were able to take some roosters and join in on a day of killing, plucking, and gutting chickens and ducks from several of the neighbours altogether.

Killing our own animals for food was an amazing experience.  What struck me most was the split second between when the birds were alive and when they were dead and on their way to our table.  I find myself awed at the miracle of life almost as much at the end of it for these roosters as I was at the beginning of Nahlia's, when she was born.  We didn't know these roosters all their lives so we had no attachment to them and did not grieve their lives....and part of us feels like we should have.  We were thankful for their lives and every part of it (every part of them) will not be wasted.

Let the learning continue!!