Boone Hall News

Busy Busy!!
Tis a bustling time of year for the Boone Hall folk.
We have been frantically selling Christmas trees and wreaths and garland along with our usual stash of vegetables. This involves lots of running around and heavy lifting. Luckily for me, two of the guys stay with me now for most of the day so that they in fact can do the tree hauling. It has been most fun for me to sit with the fellas as they are very amusing and are teaching me Spanish. Soon I'm going to know what they are always muttering about me.

In between tree bagging and binding the guys are planting the spring crops. Look what they did with this field in just 4 hours.

 

Today we had a Goodbye party for Sotero (the guy in the far right of the picture). He is going home to Mexico and is going to meet his 3 year old baby for the first time. We are all very excited for him but quite sad to see him go. He's a very positive guy with an adorable smile. He was very surprised by his party and even took our "We'll miss you Sotero" signs home with him. Sweet little man.

In other news, I am done with this semester at 9:30 Friday morning. Good riddance. I have turned in my final papers, final projects, and taken all of my final tests (except French). I'm almost done with my Greek summer application and plan on booking my flight as soon as I get the green light.
Ellen is still working her two jobs and has become very lively with the cool weather. Despite our freezing apartment, Ellen has been jumping around, dancing, and annoying me every night. I've discovered that my personal preferences do not matter to Ellen when she is excited. She has been barging into my room a lot lately to talk trips and trip funding. Never mind my studying, showering, or sleeping. She just comes on in.
Mom and Dad are keeping busy as well. Mom was conned into decorating the Christmas tree by herself this year and Dad goes off every morning to tend to various housing projects. It seems all of our busy schedules continue right up until Christmas, though now that I'm done with classes I'll have some time for more important things like finding new recipes and shopping for winter clothes.

And as a fun note, I found Sadie like this when I came home the other day.