A new job this morning for me: Painting.
Most of the outside of Wendy and Carol's house is made of raw-ish wood siding. It's quite lovely, but it needs some love. It requires periodic re-staining, so it was my job to start doing that today. It takes about a 50/50 split of the stain and water (otherwise it's way too dark).
And the effect is pretty good, too. Here's the garage pre-stain:
Half Stain:
And finished.
But the important part is this--PIPIS!
After all our fishing yesterday, and a day of letting the little mollusks clean themselves out, it was time to eat. We did another round of cockles with lemon and salt water on the deck, and steamed the pipis for pasta:
The color is amazing: Orange and red and white and yellows. And they taste amazing. Mussel, scallop, and tiny clam like. Very very good. And better when sauteed with butter and garlic and served with linguine and homemade red sauce. Sorry, we forgot to say hipstergrace before dinner this time.
An after dinner walk around the playing fields near by. They are surrounded, as we are, by dairy cattle.
A skittish bunch, and smelly. These cows are the same herd that munches around our yurt from time to time. Although I understand the problems with raising cows for commercial dairy, I do at least respect the amount of rotation that the local dairy farmers do. All the fields are allowed at least a week between grazings, so nothing looks like it is over grazed or muddy at all, despite the sheer number of cows that are being raised in the area.
Day of gray give way to a lovely sunset. Life is still good in Golden Bay.
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