chile:full.house.

this morning started off nice and quiet with some tea i found in the cabin called “jose”.

 i’m not really sure what it was since the name didn’t give much away and one of the ingredients was melissa (?) but it was delicious! we went to the house and got started on some “light” reading tracy wanted us to get done. sam helped.

it was fun though because we were trying to decide what to plant for the spring. we definitely learned a lot about what grows well at different temperatures, shade levels, near other plants, etc. etc. then i had to play detective and find out what gross disease/pest was plaguing the lemon tree.

tracy took lance to the airport today so she was out of the house, but truckee and i were not lonely because we had the housekeeper alicia and a little 13 year old named damien who chops wood on saturdays keeping us company. well actually they shooed us out of the house so they could get their work done so we just did some work in the greenhouses and yard down below. we made some compost tea which is the compost mixed with water and we have to spray it on all the plants in the greenhouses everyday, it acts as a bug repellant. pretty cool.

later, the bed that tracy had ordered on our trip to temuco came and that was an ordeal. we were moving furniture all over the place: up the stairs, down the stairs around and around and then tracy came home and we went into full on redecorating mode. it was kind of chaotic because alicia doesn’t speak any english and we can’t understand her spanish because she talks so fast so there was a lot of confused looks on our part and exasperated sighs on hers.

all that moving made us ravenously hungry, but thankfully we had started our dinner of roasted rosemary potatoes and beet salad before tracy came back so it was ready to go. we were informed that while we were working outside, alicia had found a huge rat in its nest in one of the cupboards and she just killed it with a board! fearless lady.

what a crazy day, we are both hoping tomorrow will be a bit less hectic. i think the dogs feel the same way, with lance leaving and all the furniture different they are a bit overwhelmed. poor pups!