We got to sleep in after our late night (whoohoo!) and had a brunch at 11. This was outside, under beautiful trees :o) Before we started we had to do a “dance warm-up”! apparently this is a Saturday morning tradition; and prizes will be given out for those who put effort into dressing up for these... short shorts, sweat bands etc. Looking forward to seeing how people look next week, ha ha! American breakfasts can be weird... we had whole-wheat “pancakes” (which are more like crumpets), hash browns (which are just potatoes cut up and fried), sausage (which looks more like burger patties!), frozen fruit (SO GOOD!) and huge dollops of syrup over everything. Oh, and fried eggs for anyone who wanted those. And LOTS of coffee. This farm believes in coffee! But it’s the good stuff. Ken Helser (Jonathan’s dad) was back today, so we got to meet him. It’s amazing that we’re living out the dream that he had over 40 years ago, when he first saw this property, and began dreaming about what it could become.
After some free time, we all traipsed up to the art room (which is upstairs in the building called The Barn). It’s lovely, looking forward to spending some quality time in there (and will take some pictures of it soon)! We did a kind of intro to art together, just so that everyone, whether they’ve done art before or never, is on the same page. Justina spoke to us about line and colour, and got us to do some exercises with blind contour drawings (which is when you look at an object, tracing the outlines of it with your eyes, whilst your hand is drawing where your eyes are going. So you’re not supposed to be looking at the page – just at the object), shading and mixing colours. Then we had to head out and find something to draw (still in blind contour), and then bring it back to add some colour to it (we were limited to only two, but with shades and tints of those colours too). We can use the art room whenever we’d like to, and there’s some amazing equipment out there for us. Yay!
So it’s free time now... some people are sleeping, others are reading or swimming. My favourite is the little groups of musicians everywhere, making sweeeeet music together! There are some RIDICULOUSLY talented musicians here, with banjos and ukuleles and accordions and harmonicas and guitars and and, and there’s just SO much great music floating around. In fact, I’m about to get my violin out and go join in :o) Supper is going to be a “cook-out” down next to the lake. My favourite (mini) conversation of the day?
Ken Helser: Hey, has anybody told you today?
Me: Erm...
Ken: Has anybody told you?
Me: (now feeling a little nervous/confused) UMMM... told me what?
Ken: I love you...? (insert fatherly smile and pats on shoulder)
LOVE this place :o)
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