Tough Farm Girl

              

Howdy everybody!! Up until this past week my summer vacation has been nothing but sleeping and babysitting, with a science museum visit here and there and a lot of great new restaurants. My lazy schedule was so shaken up this week, though, when I helped out at a summer camp for 3-5 year olds at our new favorite farm!

The fam and I had visited the farm many times before, and when Farmer Rosie (or Grandma Rosie, as Sadie calls her) asked me if I was free to help her out. Uhmm- get paid to play with babies on your farm? Lemme think about that...

So, of course, this week was amazing and filled with adorable stories and adorable smiles. It was so great seeing these kids buck up and be so brave when faced with giant hungry goats and muddy pigs- but as I always told them (especially when little scrapes and bumps appeared) "You've gotta be tough on the farm!"These pics are just from a single day at camp- those youngsters didn't let me have my hands empty long enough to take many more! I was way too busy carrying warm eggs, baby bunnies, and farm-sticky hands during long walks. It was hot, it was exhausting, but man was it fun! I'm really going to miss all those little friends I made. Like, a lot. I know of a good four or five I could steal away and cuddle with forever.

               

              

Hope your summer is going great!! Here's to sleep, food, hours and hours of reading, and more sleep!

Cheers!

love, rudi

Today we went to Durham's Flea Market  to see what all the hype was about. I keep talking about food, but buying handmade mozzarella cheese and locally raised sausage really makes me smile. I might have found a mini-passion here. Plus check out the gorgeous colors on these veggies. North Carolina plants seem to really love flashing their peacock feathers.

We also had a great lunch at Toast, an Italian Sandwich shop downtown. It was so wonderful- I love how creative Durham-ers are with their food! I'm so in love with this place.

love, rudi

Dur-Ham!

Mom, Sadie, and I have been spending our first few days in Durham exploring and getting used to this amazing new town. I love it here! There are so many great restaurants that focus on being healthy and use local food. At the grocery we get our milk, eggs, and bread from local farms and bakeries, and there's a festival we're trying to get tickets to entirely based around locally grown cuisine. This might be pretty normal for bigger cities, so I may sound silly to some of you, but after growing up in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere for the past ten years it's such a luxury to be able to have choices like this.

This whole town is full of gorgeous little shops and wonderful restaurants, adorable people who always seem to have something interesting to say- I'm not exaggerating, this town might be my soulmate.

 My mom with some Carolina Crunch- homemade ice cream from the 

same local cows we get our milk from! There was a clown making balloon animals for all the kids there, too. We all really got a kick out of that.

The best meal I've had in a long, long time at Parker and Otis. I don't even like tomato soup, but I scooped up all of Sadie's leftovers.

 This is our new backyard, and you can see one of our new cats in the distance there. I made waffles this morning and Sadie decided to eat hers outside.

I'll show you all our new house when we get another sunny day. I truly love rainy weather, but it's not the best for photos sometimes.

love, rudi