Yesterday the entire Karaz family came over to the farm to check on me (the treatment for my HLA-B27-associated Uveitis has temporarily rendered me about 80% blind) and to spend some time at the farm. While they were here, Amy and the girls, and my other friend Amy, did a little garden harvesting.
This picture of Oona in her Burberry pants is just for the members of the Oona fan club. You know who you are!
It was one of those lovely afternoons when the weather is so glorious that you can’t imagine why you don’t just live outside. The kids were in a hilarious mood, competing with each other to pick the most tomatoes, the ripest pepper, the biggest parsnip.
Neve took the prize for largest parsnip. The prize? A giant parsnip!
Meanwhile, Paul mowed my lawn and, because he is the nicest man in the world, went home and brought back an enormous backhoe to get all the compost out of the front pasture and make it all level and ready for grass seeds.
I can’t begin to tell you how lucky I got when I moved into the town Amy and Paul lived in.They are just kind and decent people and when I say I don’t know what I would do with out them, I mean that quite literally. I will never be able to repay their kindness to me.
I did, however, send them home with a bushel of peppers and 20 pounds of parsnips as a small token.
P.S. My vision should be restored in a couple days- it’s already worlds better!
