People again!

Finally on Tuesday night everyone came back from the epic trip.  It is so nice to have people around again here at the house.  It defo was a relaxing week, but now I am glad to have company again.  That night we had another spa bath.  It is an awesome thing to be able to have it basically whenever as long as we plan ahead a bit and start the fire early.  Before everyone left we filled up the vat with water from the river and filled the fireplace with wood.

Then the first day everyone was back we finished up Jorge (the composting toilet).  Put up the door, added stairs, and varnished the inside.
Now we have our new
place to poo
with a view.
Shitty poetry, huh?  Below here is a picture of the finished product:

Then two days ago we tried out the earth oven for the first time.  I dug out the sand in the middle of it which was holding the shape while it was built.  Then I got a fire going in there for a couple hours.  Laura and Dani had spent most of the afternoon making pizza dough and bread to bake in our new earth oven.  And then when we go to bake... its barely hot at all.  I think that first fire was needed to dry everything out, and right now we've got another fire going that will hopefully heat up the oven this time.

Other than these couple projects its been a quiet few days here.  Today was a free day, and we went to the beach even though its been slowly getting cooler here.  I was the only one to get in the water.  I also went for a very light jog to test out my leg which has been feeling better.  I doubt it is back to 100% yet, but I might be able to stop worrying that I will strain it at any moment now.  Tonight is the end of daylight savings here and so tomorrow there will be 8 hrs difference to the east coast.

 Fijoas are my new favorite fruit.  And here's some to the left.  Yesterday Jon went over to the neighbor's house and got 2 huge bags of them.  I have eaten about 40 of these in the past 24 hours.  Yum.