a sort of 'townhouse' in the middle of the jungle near the cave system
Another whole week went by, it doesn't seem like it was that much time... but we've been busy. Esme made meatloaf last weekend, and it turned into lasagna spaghetti in the midweek, and we ate up all the leftovers. I've made some ramen and stir fry as well, and used all of my sushi rice and adzuki beans taking bento boxes to lunch.
I've been studying Spanish, French and Japanese - and actually got to use some of the Spanish at my job this week several times. I still find it much harder to get my brain to switch into Spanish gear - even trying to remember thank you (so simple, you would think) the German or the French gets in the way and I have this awkward pause where my brain is saying 'danke schon' and I am actually saying nothing until I can remember 'gracias'.
Why is Spanish so hard for me? I even remembered some Czech one day first (dekuji) instead of the Spanish - it's like having eight cards for everything you want to say and having to throw away the first four until you get to the right language. It's not a problem exactly of too many languages - but that Spanish is that far down my 'queue'. C'est la vie, que sera, right? They say it climbs up that queue the more you actually have use for it. We'll see.
We're thinking still about getting a new outdoor shelter for the goat and cats (beyond the ones they already have, which are several), but haven't went down and looked at it in person yet. I still have postal route tomorrow, and it is going to rain all day. I've also had poison ivy on my arm for days and it is getting to be quite annoying. I've been trying to get myself to sleep every night before I actually want to fall over, and have been waking up even a tad bit earlier in the mornings.
In Minetest, I've somehow wandered all the way from my northern almost tundra alpine climate area down to the south jungle again where the cocoa farm is. I don't know why - I hung around the cocoa farm for a long time and built five more houses and roads in all directions, and the cocoa still did not grow. And then, when I thought maybe I'd go and get tomatoes and papyrus and bring them all across the southern continent in a development sweep - I fell into a cavern in the jungle, and discovered an absolute rabbit warren of natural caves, full of clay and other minerals (no ores, though), and have been popping out of this entrance or that one like whack-a-mole for several days, bringing up hundreds and hundreds of blocks of moonstone, silver sand, limestones, amber, amethyst and more.
Every time I think I've found all the little holes in the landscape where this cave comes to the surface - I find more - and I say 'Hey, I can see (name of site) from here. I can see my house from here!'. I made one true base for the cave system where it comes out into the ocean on the shore near another major jungle site - and I have been collecting up the resources there - and trying a different little building style as well. After a bit longer, I will go off back to one of my cities across the ocean from this and see if I can pick up the tomatoes and papyrus.
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