Give Me Back My Hometown

Only two weeks left! Whew how has the time flown by? When I got on that plane to Amsterdam I thought two months will take forever... But everyone commenting on my trip was right, it has gone by so quickly. Now I can finally start the countdown to coming home with a less absurd number than 37 days or something. I heard that when you're away, you dream of home and then when you come back you dream of your travels. Not sure about the latter, but I have been dreaming of home. Sort of... I dream about things like using my phone without needing wifi, and normal sized refrigerators, or driving my car, and Mac and cheese, or the occoquan docks. Whole Foods makes a lot of appearances. So let's see what random things my brain will pull up when I'm back with all those creature comforts. 

Another rainy day here in Skipness. You couldn't even see Araan today for all the fog/drizzle. Wish I had done my long run yesterday instead of today. Running in the rain for an hour and a half is... Well, gross. My time here so far has been plenty interesting though; less work in the woods than I expected but that should change next week. It's been just me and Rupert (the owner) this past week and he's been working on an access road to haul out some oaks so I've been left to my own devices. Been chopping a lot of wood... And scraping windows... But those boring jobs have been offset by painting a sign for selling the firewood, and getting back on my running schedule. When the other wwoofer shows up on Sunday (he got off schedule) we will be doing a lot more clearing in the wood since it's a three person job. 

Yesterday I walked up to the Skipness Castle.

It's pretty impressive. Even in the state it is in now.

That was at 10:30pm by the way... The sun sets at about midnight and rises at 4:30ish at this time of year. So little more than four hours of darkness. Means we can get a lot more work done outside. It also means the sheep stay in the field outside my window for 24 hours; no reason to put them in the barn when there's so much light. When the sun comes up, they start talking again... Most of the time it's a few baas here and there, nothing I can't sleep through. But then someone says the wrong thing or they all agree or something, and then the whole field goes up for about five minutes. It takes awhile to settle back down... 

Here's from this morning at 5:30am when they all kept it up for about half an hour. Not conducive for sleep... So it goes.

The rest of my day will be spent baking bread, drinking tea, and reading since it's raining too hard to get anything done sufficiently. Can't complain I guess. 

Who am I kidding, I'm so content here I might just stay :)