June 1. Friday night dinner out with Harry and Julie. St. Agnes on Cornwall's North Coast

 The Driftwood Spars Restaurant in St. Agnes.

 St Agnes - looking down from the top of overlook area.

 St. Agnes - looking down from the restaurant parking lot.

 Fish and chips and mushy peas with mint.

 Harry and I decided he would order 3 scoops of ice cream and he would share one scoop with me.

 Cornish ice cream

The same family that came to lunch at the farm met us at the restaurant.   Chloe joined us to have dinner with Julie, her mom. 

Pub is downstairs and restaurant is upstairs,

 Outside of the restaurant.

View from top of the road where the restaurant is. 

 Brewery where Julie's daughter, Chloe works.

 parking lots are all pay if you can't prove you patronized a store.

 Beautiful quaint building with gargoyles on the roof.

 It gets dark at 10 PM in Cornwall.  We arrived for dinner around 7:30 PM and kayakers were coming in.  Not much wave action for an ocean.

 Beautiful plantings inside the tops of rock walls.

 As we approach the restaurant, we come to the end of the winding hilly road and catch a glimpse of the Atlantic Ocean on the north side of Cornwall - east of Hayle.

Roads are very narrow and winding,

June 1 2018 - Friday Dreary Overcast then Sunny Day - Guests Arrived for Lunch - Morning chores done

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.

Wednesday, May 30 2018 Weeding Shopping, Cooking, and Having a Trager Session for my Back

View from my bedroom window this morning looking out at the rain. 

Breakfast was Muesli, Cornish milk, strawberries from the garden, and Italian coffee.   

 Julie made lunch - duck eggs cheese and baked beans.
 The road leaving the farm to drive to Truro to shop at Tesco.

 City of Truro, the biggest city in Cornwall.

 Truro Cathedral in background

A rainy day walking through lovely Truro. 

One of the Gardens at The Riverside Farm

 Julie made a goat's cheese quiche with duck eggs and garden herbs for Tuesday tea.

 Quiche was lush and creamy.

 Harry took me out in the dark to see the temperature of the compost piles.

 Reading the thermometer in celcius temperature.

 Mustard has gone to flower so I'm pulling it out to make room for peppers.

 Ducks enjoying the rain.

 I gave the ducks some mustard plants to eat.

 I fed the ducks some grain in the rain.

 Hoop house is filled with many varieties of onions.

 Hoop house

 It is 5 PM in New York and 10 PM in Cornwall.  Julie went to a show with her daughter, and Harry and I stayed home.  I made a plate of food for Julie then cooked for Harry and me; we had gourmet ravioli and I made a sauce with many veggies chopped up, and we shredded cheese to place over it. but first he took the massage table out and gave me a Trager treatment for my spine, and the pain in my neck and lower back.   He put a fire on and he went to bed then left me in the parlor with the 2 dogs so I could write in my journal.

 wild foxglove growing all along the roadside.

Today was a very nice day.  Feeling sleepy and much more relaxed after a Trager session with Harry.   I really believe the gentler approach to pain relief is much better than the old ways of cracking the neck and back, causing more inflammation and pain.  Tomorrow I will clean  out the ducks houses, water baths, feed them, and then surprise Julie with a homemade chicken soup when she comes back from her day at work.