Rustic routine

"Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle"

Alexandra Pauline "Sasha" Cohen

There are a couple of approaches to exercising up here in the hills. One option is to gloriously sleep in, wait until the conditions are just right, put on the exercise gear including short shorts and a headband, and then go for a 10 minute jog up the road and back. Done!

Alternatively, one could be rudely awoken on Sacred Saturday to be told "We're ahead of schedule, your three tonnes of wood will arrive in 20 minutes." Then you race outside in whatever clothes you have lying on the floor and spend the next four hours lugging wood hither and thither about the place while the wind and rain threaten to derail the whole deal.

Which method do you think prevails in these parts?

The mid-winter delivery of wood is a little OTT given that we have so much already stored, but squirreling away while the going is good is our method of keeping sane, and it is so nice to have good seasoned wood when we need it. So who can blame us for "exercising" away our precious Saturday.

Stay warm y'all.