Farming for Fun

Will and I have been enjoying Linda's wonderful "garden."  My favorite part is partaking in all the amazing food stuffs :).  Having just read the book "French Women Don't Get Fat," I now realize how savoring and salavating over "good" foods can make me skinny.  I've also learned that when I pull them out of the ground (and all the other weeds around them) I get free exercise time.  It's amazing how much money I've spent on "diet" foods, gym memberships, classes, and books when all the while skinny-benefitting activities are all around me.  I realized last night, that I even have a "walk-up style" Parisian apartment to climb up to.  

In the book, Mireille describes how French women walk everywhere (to and from school/work and home) and how most apartment buildings don't have elevators.  I can't walk to work and there isn't much around us (which I think is a nice thing), so I was worried about fitting in my French woman walking into my daily routine.  I realized that we had a free "stair master" staircase in the house when I was looking for my sweater.  So I decided to walk the 14 steps over and over again, while listening to some french music on Pandora.  You can try it too, if you like, the station that I love is called "French Cafe."  I tried to imagine that I was walking up to my Parisian flat and down to go meet a friend at a local cafe.  Will and the family giggled as I creaked up and down the stairs.

The weeding outside is an even better fat-burner!  Plus, it has many bennifits: 


1)You are outside.  The sun feels amazing, consider it a free sauna session or "hot-box" yoga studio.  


2)When all the weeds are gone and you've cleared a whole row, there is this incredible sense of accomplishment.  So much in teaching you feel as if you are putting so much effort into projects and you really get no sence of a job well-done.  There is always more and you feel as if there were so many ways you could improve.  But, with weeds...you get rid of them and in their absence, all you see is beauty.
3)No weeds=more goodies!  We are clearing the "berry patch" and while you get rid of all those weeds, you get to nibble on rasberries, strawberries, and maybe soon we will get some blackberries and blueberries.

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-Mahalos! Jess