Once when I was on some heavy-duty drugs (it was a prescription people!) I was sitting on my deck looking at the wind in the leaves of the trees and I remember saying, "The wind in the trees is soooo beautiful!" Well guess what?! Here we are in Lovina saying exactly the same thing about the wind in the leaves of the bamboo trees that tower all around us and there are no drugs involved. :-)
We're finding it very interesting that even though it is well into the rainy season now....there is virtually no rain here on the north coast. While we were in Ubud there was very heavy rain most afternoons but here we really haven't seen any rain to speak of at all. There was that light little mist that fell yesterday morning for maybe 1/2 hour at most and we know there has been some rain overnight because we see evidence of it in the mornings but....that's it! What a treat! We were prepared for the fact that we might not be able to make use of our pool here but we were sure wrong on that front!
Jeez....it is like grand central station around here this morning. First Kadeck came by with broom in hand and then a minute later it was Birgit's husband cleaning the pool and now it's Gooday bringing us some beautiful little shallots to add to the eggs. Today we're going to have a cheese omelet! Guess I'd better get my apron on cuz cooking them is my job. Lynda's got the coffee done so I better get a move on!
Okay so that cheese omelet was damn fine if I do say so myself! In fact the edges of it puffed up so beautifully it was kind of like a cross between an omelette and a soufflé. We had two different kinds of cheese in it that was gooey and warm and that contrasted beautifully with the fresh tomatoes and golden brown shallots. Is your mouth watering yet....mine is starting to as it is almost dinner time already.
This morning Birgit (our host) donned her long pants and a long sleeve shirt. She put elastic bands around the bottom of her pants and the wrists of her shirt. Can you guess why? She was moving a swarm of indigenous honey bees that had decided they liked the eaves of our bungalow better than they liked the beautiful little box nest she has hanging for them in the tree. She was successful in getting them moved without any mishap and so everyone's fingers are crossed that they'll decide they like the nest better than the eaves. Birgit chooses to use indigenous bees over the honey bees we're familiar with because they are super hardy in contrast to the many problems (disease and mites) other bee keepers have with our type of honey bees. The other keepers keep trying with the honey bees though because they produce soooo much more honey than these little indigenous guys do.
What a lazy day today! We've played a game of Scrabble, several rounds of dice (5000 - the game is called 5000 - NOT that we played 5000 games!), and a game of SkipBo. We're not going to play any more SkipBo though because the cards are too yucky and they stick together and it's no fun having to be so careful that you just get one card at a time. Jeez....I just realized how spoiled I sounded there....hmmmmm.....
The new guests arrived late this afternoon and we only saw them for a second before they disappeared into their bungalow. They're only here for 2 nights so we may not even see them at all during their short stay. Unless something has changed on the reservations front, I think we are the only guests here till the 21st so we'll have the entire place back to ourselves again after tomorrow. Holy....that sounds kind of spoiled too.....what's up with that?! Maybe it's just because I'm feeling rather spoiled at the moment. :-). And how can I not feel spoiled? This morning after I made the breakfast all of the dishes and the entire kitchen was magically cleaned up and then while we were playing one of our many games our bungalow was also magically cleaned, floors washed, towels replaced, and beds made. Interesting how quickly we've settled into this very comfortable existence! :-)
It is a degree or two cooler today as there has been that light mist falling on and off throughout the day. In fact, it is falling again right now. It can hardly be called rain even though it gets the ground all wet but you can't even hear it falling. When you compare that to the torrential downpours we had every day in Ubud where the skies literally opened up and dumped; this is nothing like that at all. I say that it is a degree or two cooler and honestly I'm not kidding. The temperature really never changes. It stays at about a constant 28-30 day and night. When it is that temperature at home it's really kind of nice and here it is also nice as long as you're sitting under an overhead fan. Here the addition of high humidity makes that nice warm 28 degrees feel like a lot more.
Signing off for now so till next time.....
L & L
P.S.
Lynda is laughing about the fact that I've managed to get this much written for today. She says she could sum it up in a single sentence. Her blog post would be, "My ass is flat from sitting and doing nothing all day!"
Now aren't you glad its me writing and not Lynda?!
Nighty night. :-)
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