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HANGING OUT IN THE BACKYARD















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After Paul saw the great bread baking video Aaron put together, he enlisted his help making a video about the saw mill. Aaron spent the morning directing b-list actors: Paul and Bill. The subject matter wasn't all that enthralling but he did get some good shots. Look for the video on the blog in a few days. After shooting, Bill told Aaron he could take us to shoot some cool old homesteads. He said he knows of one place in particular that used to have two great chimneys, and then he took one. And then he found out he wasn't supposed to do that. Apparently it's against the rules to steal from a National Forest. He chuckled at his own story.

Jen finally finished categorizing books this morning...or at least she thought she did. Paul later mentioned there are plenty more books at his house to categorize. Next week she'll have to spend time at their house entering all the info to a database she creates. Thrilling.

All the categorizing of books inspired us to pick some of them up to read. There are loads that seem interesting. Aaron's settled on "The Lazy Gardener" by Linda Tilgner; he's learning great tips that will help us one day when we have a garden of our own. Despite the fact that it's for a lazy gardener, all the tips require lots of work. Suppose if you're reading a book about gardening, you're not taking such a lazy approach after all. The book has excellent illustrations to go along with the tips. Paul instructed Jen to separate all the novels into a "light reading" category which don't warrant thorough classification. Instead, they are doomed to a bookshelf in a corner of the cabin away from all the "important" books. Ruth Ozeki, author of "My Year of Meats*" which Jen has yet to read, and convinced Aaron to become a vegetarian for quite some time, has written a masterpiece in "All Over Creation" that will end up on said shelf. Jen must tear herself away from reading this book to do anything else. She highly recommends it. Yesterday she lamented in the fact that there wouldn't be enough time to finish the book before we leave at the end of next week, but now being over 300 pages in, she's pretty devastated she'll have nothing to read all of next week.

This afternoon we played outside in the our "backyard" for a bit. Enjoy the photos.

*Ericka Kura Jones: If you are reading this, kindly return my copy of this book.