After a long and mostly quiet winter and spring, the house is resuming its normal duties. On Monday my joyful niece Tillie arrived from Denver, and hit the ground running, ready to work immediately. Late on Tuesday night Peio arrived from Spain, having suddenly rearranged his travel plans because of all the trouble in Turkey. He slept late on Wednesday but was in the field picking beans by the afternoon. Jon just left to pick up Benjamin at Dulles. Benjamin will be in the country for a month, visiting people, working a little but not very much, I expect. Tomorrow night both Rebecca and Alissa will come from Boston, on separate planes, to separate airports. And then the house will be truly full.
Meanwhile, Anna's house is also filling up. Our cousin Owen's son Robby arrived last week for his first two week stint on the farm. Stephen and his girlfriend Julia came in on Monday night from Berlin, and over the weekend Jesse and Shalini will be here because who can resist all this?
It is quite noisy in the evenings, but everyone goes to bed early because the day starts at 6:30 for the young people. I start as soon as it is light out, so I miss the morning breakfast chatter, seeing them for the first time at the daily meeting at 6:30 sharp.
Without this, it would not feel like summer. So much energy and laughing and teasing and complaining about bug bites and so much talk about tomato sandwiches. Tillie talks the most, entertaining all of us, but now that Peio is here she has a partner to banter with.
I need to get back outside. This is the last day of below 90 degree weather for a long time.
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