Windy day on the farm and frost last night.  We've been keeping our hopes up for the early flowering fruit trees!

Planting beets, kale, onions and potatoes. The olives are curing!

I made my first mozzarella cheese from Leche's milk (I still milk her once a day and the calf gets her the rest of the time).

Tim VanOrden had retired from collegiate cross-country skiing at the age of 20. At the time, bad knees and a case of athletically-induced asthma knocked him out of the game, despite living in Vermont, one of the cleanest air environments in the United States. For 18 years, he did not train, trek, or cross anything.

This past Wednesday night, for Chandra's (our Director of Operations) birthday, we got together and went and saw Prince, his Purple Majesty, at the Oakland Arena.  We were blown away by how excellent his show was....how he had the crowd in a dancing frenzy, how he hops from instrument to instrument playing the next one with as much skill and finesse as the other, how his show was jam packed full of the many HITS he has had over his over 30 year career.  

Mostly though, we all agreed at how impressed we all were at what great shape this 52 year old man is in.  He pretty much looks the same as he did when he was crooning "The Beautiful Ones" back in 1984 on the silver screen in "Purple Rain".  He looks so fit and healthy and it's amazing how much energy he exhibits as he dances around the gigantic stage in boots with heels inches higher than anything I've ever even attempted to walk in.  

Afterwards, we were all raving about how we want to look and feel that great when we are in our 50's and beyond.  We were talking about how fantastically healthy we feel when we spend the majority of our dining hours at Cafe Gratitude and Gracias Madre drinking those "I am Healthys" and eating all of that organic food.  We were convinced that Prince must drink green juice all the time!!!  We were imagining that Prince must be vegan and he probably does yoga everyday after his double shot of wheatgrass.