The Unproductive Season

We took advantage of "migrant labor" and a sunny day to put the plastic on the first hoophouse:

This is the time for big slow change.  The pace of life slows to a “lazy” crawl as the sun sets earlier and earlier, leaving us with a gradual increase in evening and night and sleep.  We find ourselves with “leisure” time and piles of books left unread throughout the season.  We bake more bread, watch more movies, and just plain get less done.  Call it the unproductive season. I still have lists, of course, but it seems like few things on them are crisis anymore so it becomes easier and easier to put them off.  Perhaps the biggest slow change of all to happen this season is the finishing of our house!  We are moving in!  We had planned to escape to the beach next week, but instead have decided that moving into our newly finished house (well, almost finished) is a higher priority.  Jason promised me that we would do no work except move into the house (we’ll see), but I was easily swayed.  We sat around the other day planning all the things we would cook in our real kitchen with our real oven.  Oh, the small pleasures in life (and big ones).  We’ve been joking for a week that we’re going to quit doing dishes and instead just pile them into the wheelbarrow and haul them up to the house to be cleaned by our new automatic dishwasher!  I can’t wait to have a soak in the tub.  Oh! I could go on and on about how excited we are to move out of the camper and into our real house. See pictures of the house here!