Techno makes you work faster!

This morning I woke up to a very rainy day. It was overcast and rainy heavily; quite a change from the previous few days of intense wind. The weather website told me it was going to low 50's and rainy all day, but when I got outside it felt a lot colder. It was a damp sort of cold. The kind that makes it feel especially nice to come inside. 

I spent the morning, as usual, with Richard working on "farm" stuff. We took a trip to the recycling center with a trailer full of the rusty old bits of wire from the old fence. It took about 20 times longer to unload the trailer than it should have because it kept getting tangled. After we returned we started a new project of cleaning out the barn. It is a large stone building filled with anything and everything you can imagine. It needs a lot of help in the organization department. An Australian guy named Matty, who also lives on the farm, came to help us out. Think of any stereotypical image of a cluttered attic. That's what it looked like in there. Only worse. There were 3 boats, about 5 bikes, tons of farm tools, boards, lamps, petrol cans, chairs, tables. Just about everything. So anyway, we cleaned that out until lunch, filling the trailer right back up again, and then some. 

Then it was off the the work shop to help out with the jewelry. Adam and Rich (I am going to call him that from now on so we can differentiate between him and Richard; Diana's son.) the tunes balsting and I was set right to work. I was retying knots on the little bags they give customers with their jewelry. They are made from old tartans. I probably did over 100 of them. Halfway through, Adam made some really good coffee that gave me just the swift kick in the pants I needed to get going. Then Diana's grand daughter, Rachel came over to help out. She's about my age and is going to art school in Edinburgh. 

Adam cranked up the techno and we all got working on our own seperate projects. I tied those knots, used the dremel tool, and sanded the backs of the gems. We were all working in this really good techno induced groove. It was just a really fun time. The atmosphere was light hearted, fun, and productive. I enjoyed myself quite a bit. It was so rainy outside, it was nice to be inside. 

Just another picture of the farm buildings. I can't get over how cool they are.

Again I had dinner up in the tree house. Matty came and Adam's friend Josh from London came as well. He brought Ben & Jerry's phish food. So not only did I have a great dinner with some cool guys in a tree house, but I had phish food dessert. 

Adam and Matty told this great story about a time they went fishing out in the fourth in a crappy old boat that started to sink. The wind, the tide, and the boat for that matter was against them. So they were rowing and rowing trying to get back to shore. Adam then asked Matty to throw the anchor over, that way they could at least stay put and figure out a way to get help. Matty did. Only Ada, had forgotten to tie the anochor line onto the boat. Nice. Anyway, the story is not as good retold by me, it's better to hear it live, but I though I had to share it. I really enjoyed hearing it and had a good time hanging out with them.

 

Crappy iPod picture, but that is Shiraz, Adam's cat sitting there.

 Sidenote: The whole time while we were eating, Shiraz was lying on her back just rolling around, showing off her spotty belly, giving that Puss in boots look. Meaning this:

 

It was totally adorable. Anyway, see you tomorrow!