nearly-solstice already?

(looks around, bewildered) Where is June slipping away to?! It's already the 19th?! SERIOUSLY?!

lol, I've been outside (& oblivious to the time/date, generally)... getting a GORGEOUS farmer's tan. :P Since the beginning of the month I've been hauling dirt. I started with 10 wheelbarrows full a day, but have since progressed to about an hour or more (~25 wheelbarrows) a day, sometimes a lot more, but always at least 10. I have over 120 yards of fill to move - that's 12 dumptruck loads (probably closer to 140 or 150 yards when I look at other piles here and there). Why? Because I am free labour. :) I have a wheelbarrow, a shovel, and me. So I can do this. I'm already nearly half-way, I figure. I'm hoping to be done by the end of August.

I've also been weedeating a lot, as well as gardening, caring for chickens (and chicks), etc. Yep, it's a rural life I lead.

I have, so far this month, rowed over 50 kms. I slacked off the past week, but I made up for it in wheelbarrows moved, lol. I looked up online that wheelbarrowing burns ~350 calories an hour. I usually burn twice that rowing but still, moving dirt is fun, productive and outside. :D

The house is pretty-much a disaster and in need of SERIOUS cleaning, but the YARD!!! OH, the YARD!!! I figure the housework can slip a little in exchange for consciously co-creating a living kin's domain right here! It's an acre of heaven on Earth I'm workin' on: Paradise!

Speaking of conscious co-creation and kin's domains, I've read Books 8.1 The New Civilisation and 8.2 The Rites of Love in the Ringing Cedars of Russia series this month as well. All I will say is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO inspiring. I know I've harped on and on about these books time and time again, but truly, they have the potential to change your thinking on so many topics. I have SO enjoyed these books; they are definitely ones I will purchase.

My daughter had her year-end dance show today. She did AMAZINGLY well on-stage. She didn't dance year-end last year because the year before (her first year dancing) she froze onstage in fright at the year-end show... two days in a row (I think we've ALL had an experience like that at some point in our lives, eh). So this has been her first time back on stage since, and she just revelled in it. What a difference two years makes. She's looking forward to more dance classes in the fall (I had to start figuring out the fall schedule already to see who will be doing what/when!).

Well, I'd best go see if I won a million dollars on Lotto Max! I heard no one won the $50 million AGAIN this week!

Happy Solstice on Monday if I don't check in before then!
Namaste'