The Adventures of Familia Bajaboy

 We are coming up on six months living full time here, and we couldn't be happier.  We're now all comfortably settling into a routine.   The kids are back to school.  Gabriel is in 8th grade full time, however still online.  This is not due to COVID as I first thought, however the sewer system at his school is in need of serious, costly repairs.  As such, all of his classes are online.  He has classes each hour from 8 am to 1:00, with a 5- 10 minute break in between.  Both Zac and I are really impressed with the curriculum, the class materials, and they way in which his classes are being delivered online.  As for Mika, she's back on campus in 6th grade.  She attends daily from 8 am to 10 am.  Zac and I find such joy walking her to school and picking her up.  As we hug Mika goodbye, we start most days with a chat with the school's director.  Often times he makes sure we are informed of school events, tells us how well she's doing, or today asked if Mika would be inte

Most mornings, I walk through the garden and inevitably find myself pulling weeds or doing some other task.  I figured it's been awhile since I've shared any progress so here we go. Our garden seems to be happy and thriving.  We had a good summer crop of tomatoes, peppers, and squash but the dirt still needs a lot of work.  I keep adding spent grains from our home brews, torn up cardboard, compostable food, and yard waste, too.  Slowly but surely, the dirt is getting better.  We also break up peanut shells and thrown them around, too. In this bed, we have orange butternut squash, tomatoes, two types of lettuce, assorted bell peppers, arugula, and beets. Here is our tomato invasion.  These are all volunteer tomatoes. We planted a second round of spaghetti squash because it does great here. Super excited to see so many flowers on our mango tree.  Our blood orange and sapote have a lot of flowers as well Here we have butternut squash, a few varieties of tomatoes, basil, arugula, s