July 10

Today the weather couldn’t decide what to do. The morning was calm with fog that turned into rain and then to overcast and then to partly cloudy and sunny. Talk about bipolar weather! Regardless of the weather, work still had to be done. In the morning Kristy and I started smashing a huge pile of dried clay with a sledge hammer to prepare it for making the pizza oven. It was good anger therapy to smash a huge hammer onto rocks and break them into pieces! 

Clay smashing.

After lunchtime Kristy continued with anger therapy while I helped bake some things in the kitchen. I made banana raisin cookies and banana bread. Can you tell we had a surplus of bananas? 

I also started the mixture for corn bread which we were having with seafood chowder tonight courtesy of Ginger. Of course, no day is boring out here and today was no exception. As Ginger and I were prepping dinner, a kombucha bottle exploded in the entryway and spilled its sugary, fermented goodness all over the floor. This took a few minutes to clean up and then we could finally have dinner. We ate good tonight; seafood chowder, corn bread, carrot, raisin and pineapple salad, a greens salad, and pea salad. 

Seafood chowder, corn bread, carrot, raisin, and pineapple salad, greens salad, and pea salad.

In the evening Kristy and I had some quality sister bonding time. We sat and talked for a long while, then we explored the homestead. Not many people can say they’ve sat in a net in the trees of the Alaskan bush or that they’ve jumped on a trampoline at the base of a mountain in the wilderness. Mystic Mountain is truly an amazing place.