May 31, 2018 - Thursday morning alarm clock at Riverside Farm

 6:30 AM  outside by myself doing the chicken & duck chores,  6 duck eggs gathered from the Muscovy clan.  Moscovy ducks are one of the few breeds that are not mallard-derived. They are their own species and are closer related to a goose than they are a duck!

 This lichen can only grow in pure organic conditions and is a good sign that no chemicals are used on this acreage.   This is a dying lime tree.  A bract fungi growing on it. 

http://www.wildfooduk.com/mushroom-guides/

Lichens are a type of symbiotic organism made up of a plantlike partner and a fungus. There are three major types of lichen — crustose, foliose, and fructicose — each of which has its own shape, structure, and environmental preferences. Intermediate types include leprose and squamulose lichen, among  others.

https://staff.concord.org/~btinker/gaiamatters/investigations/lichens/typeslichens.html

 Ducks so happy to be let out to run, eat grasses, and get fresh clean water and feed.

Looking down at a the 1700 cob built home from up the hill where the open meadow and duck/chicken houses are.

It's 3 AM in New York and 8 AM in Cornwall.  It looks like the sun is peeking out of the clouds.  Harry and Julie have separate plans to be out all day and I am going to take that surprise chicken I bought at Tesco's yesterday, along with root crops, garden herbs, and some potatoes in the pantry, and make a big pot of chicken soup.  This will be our supper when they come home, tonight.  I have benefited from what Harry did last night using Trager gentle massage; he said he re-programmed my brain and body to the original factory setting as to the way it should be, pain free, and I am no longer in any pain from the 7 hour flight and 5 hour train ride on Monday.    I feel more balanced without pain,  and ready and able to work on the farm. http://trager.com/approach.html  Thank you, Harry  How kind of this lovely couple to treat me so well.

Julie is having company tomorrow so I cleaned the house and made chicken soup, garden salad, deviled eggs with curry and smoked paprika, potato salad, and washed fresh strawberries.  The laundry is outdoors in a laundry shed, and I washed towels and hung them out, and walked Digger Dog down the winding road under a canopy of old twisting gnarled English Oak trees.  And I picked many wildflowers for the table and placed them in 5 vases.   It looks so pretty.   I've whacked my back out and am in my beautiful room with 3 picture windows resting.  Julie has to go back out to a meeting so I'm allowing Harry and Julie to eat alone together.  Resting my back is a priority.   Today was a very productive day.