Did you have Spring yesterday? We did and it was gorgeous. Cold, sunny, dry, windless. The air smells of green, the pasture fields are filling with lambs and the crop fields are showing shoots.
I walked twice, once with dogs and once with family. I found strange pawprints along a bank of mud in one of the streams - could we have otters?!
Watching our neighbours' chickens, guinea fowl and ducks scratching around their garden reignited my poultry fantasies and now I have three young bantams waiting for me to build them a house so they can move in with us. It helps to have a smallholder in the family.
Charlie has appointments made with business advisors and we're ready to roll with setting up his website, online store and marketing materials for the guided walks he's going to be doing around our home patch and beyond. It's just one of a few pies he has his fingers in but we're very excited about its potential as is everyone who hears about it.
I am finding great pleasure and peace is to be had in places other than my head.
My inspiration for this coming week:
- A post by my dear friend Leonie Wise that she appears to have taken down but I'm hoping will PUT BACK UP AGAIN.(Yes Leoniewise, 'Imagine'. That one. I need it.)
- This Shearwater track in particular. The new album is out this week in the UK.
- Tracie's snow day.
- The Spring Festival, a new year that makes sense to me.
- My sage, muse, ancestor who I clearly see is all and none of those things. She is me and I just need to give her life. And some hair dye.
Happy Monday.
x
