Birds and the Bees

The remainder of our week on the farm involved laying a stone walk way. With large rocks and fairly solid ground, it seemed like Kevin was doing all the work; and what a fine job he did! I tried my best to contribute and did find myself quite useful with the shovel, wheel barrel, cro-bar, and rake, as well as feeding Ethan, entertaining him, and putting him down for naps.

We're in a valley with mountains all around, it is quite pretty and the weather seems to change every few hours: sunny, cloudy, sun showers, hot, cool. It does smell wonderful after it rains! The ozone layer in this part of the world is thin and we have to be very careful about the UV rays. The sunscreen we have seems to go on like a paste and even after rubbing it in we look a little on the albino side.

While on the farm we noticed an anomaly of nature. The bumble bees here are bigger then birds back in Canada. They'd put any humming bird up to a challenge - rather scary, unless giant bees don't bother you. Then it's par the course, standard fair. In fact, they look like fuzzy little "bumble bears".