JULY In the JUNGLE!

July is in full bloom! Our sweet Rihanna came back for the summer!!!! ( yayayayay!) She has become our full time baker, and basically lives at the beach when she isn't at work. It is inspiring to have someone here that makes a routine for themselves to swim every day. It has been incredible having that laugh here again, echoing down the hill. Our other baker, Sydney from St. Louis Missouri has picked up on baking famously. I am so impressed with how acclimated she has gotten to life in the jungle. I remember her first week, she asked about each spider, and if it was poisonous or not, and now, she bumps right into them without even flinching:) I am grateful for how easy-going you are miss Sydney Holst. You really keep calm, and collected, whether it is a centipede bite, or Ulanis car rolling down the hill into a tree:) And, the wind has blown in some of the cutest lil' things right out of a Dr. Suess book (there must be some book about the two of them!)....Sam and Kelly (Kam and Smelly). They really are like 'thing 1' and 'thing 2'....running around the land chasing each other. Uncontrollably laughing, "high-fives for breakfast", bathroom serenades and the best home-made pizza on the island. It is so refreshing to have young love on the farm, to remember what 22 feels like. Evening camp-fires and communal meals have revived themselves (we had a lull after Willow left:), and walking up the hill smelling white gingers in bloom, and plumerias lining the driveway...Summer sure is sweet.