A & C

 Watch a YouTube Video This week snuck up on me! All of a sudden it was Sunday and time for another post. I guess that is what time does when you start to get into the swing of things and learn the natural routines of life in a new location. It has been full of more tasks (of course) to learn how to do/figure out. Lots of physical labor, feeding/caring for animals, and finding a balance of our own space and comfort here. The theme this past week was “Do you know how to do this? No. Watch a YouTube video.” And that we did.  Some activities this week included: Cleaning the chimney (Connor did not fall off the roofs! Phew!)  Moving the pigs to another fenced area (was a sweet goodbye from them living in and under our shed area all the time) Fixing a sledgehammer that broke at the wooden handle  Cleaning out dog kennels (second grossest thing we have done here; chicken coop cleaning took number 1) Moving and sorting the sheep for slaughter (was very interesting watching ...

Feliz Pascua! Hello all! Week 2! As time always does, it has been both a fast and slow 2 weeks since arriving. It is Easter (Pascua) today and we are enjoying a relaxing holiday, eating warm food and sitting by the fire. This past weekend with Good Friday (or el Pasion de christo) through Easter Sunday has been very low key around the farm with not much work aside from the daily routine of feeding the animals.    The temperature is slowly but surely dropping as the fall season progresses. We have gotten down to 36 degrees at night with most of the highs in the low 50s. It rains, not super hard but some, about every other day. It is cloudy most days, although there were a couple of sunny days this past week which were pleasant surprises! It has been a big adjustment to not have our normal comforts and basic needs met, such as a temperature controlled room/home. It takes time to make a fire in the stove to heat up the space. At night in our room, we do not have a stove so it is ...

Bienvenidos a Chile!  Hi all! Thanks for being here. My lovely husband Connor and I are officially in the Patagonia region in the south of Chile. I’ve had to say that maybe 100 times since getting here for it to actually set it. It has officially been one week since arriving, and BOY has it been eventful! After a 26 hour travel day involving 4 flights, an hour bus ride, taxi ride, and a 30 minute walk downhill with our packs, we finally arrived to the Fundo (farm). We found our place we were told to stay in, what they call their “sheep shed,” and made ourselves at home. Two twin beds and a sink in a closet-like space is pretty cozy, but we have found our way (thanks to Connor and his years of organizational practice). The next morning we met all the people on the farm which includes a family of four that owns it, a ranch hand with his wife and baby, and then two other temporary helpers who are here for the rest of the month of April.  The farm here uses the model of regenerati...