Getting into the Swing of Things

This is a picture of the Red Barn Farm in Weston. I go here, if I have cash, to buy fruits that they get from nearby farms. They do not have a lot of selection but it's fun to get non-commercial varieties of corn and watermelon etc. And yummy too.

In the past two weeks Hubii has been going to school and getting into work groove. These last weeks was full of faculty orientation and picnics. Yes you read right; picnics.
They monks had a welcome dinner for faculty and family the Friday before school started. The cafeteria staff grilled out burgers and a couple of different kind of hot dog/ sausage-y things. The monks gave us salads, tomatoes and fruits from their garden and some one brought a few huge kegs and a pump. Yes, once again, you read correctly they had kegs of beer. I love this place! Well not really because I don't like beer, but it's the thought that counts.
We also went to yet another ice cream social and this time they had home made ice cream!! The social was held at a little country church that was on a road that didn't even show up on our GPS at first (we had to add in gravel roads to find it). But that ice cream, I wish you could have tasted them. They were sooooo creamy. They told me their secret but I won't blurt it out on the internet. See how friendly they are here. It melts my ice cream chilled heart.
Yesterday we were at a potluck picnic at a professor's house. Everyone brought lots of yummy food. The best thing there, at least conversationally, was all the home brewed beer. If I cared anything for the taste of beer I would remember the different types. The only ones I remember were oatmeal stoat, creme ale and some rye thingamabob.
It seems that cottage industries (beer brewing, wine and mead making, goat cheese making etc) are the main source of entertainment for the professors here. I wouldn't blame them, they live quite far away from major cities. Soon, I will be one of them too. Fermenting strange fruits and liquids to extract their intoxicating wonders.
Hubii has taught his first complete week of classes. I think that he likes teaching but he doesn't like preparing for class. He is also worried about how to grade homework and tests. Hopefully once he gets into the swing of things he will have time to prepare for lecture, make HWs, tests and projects and grade them all. But he is wonderful and still does his chores around the house. Maybe I should pitch in a bit more but until this housewifii thing becomes permanent I don't want Hubii to change.

Sooo.... that's the highlight, in my opinion. Maybe next week I will get Hubii to give you his side of the story.