This week we’re finally slowing down at the Hostel, and have actually had some vacant beds during the week and weekend, giving the staff some much needed quiet time. It has been raining almost every day this week (it’s thundering right now) and the garden is still soaking it up. We’re producing tomatoes, zucchinis, cucumbers, squash, and beans – and of course more blueberries.

Due to only a few people having signed up, the sweatlodge for this Friday June 18th is cancelled. However, that evening we’ll be kicking off the first workshop of our Yoga Retreat, which is packed full of aspiring practitioners and looks to be an eventful weekend.

We said goodbye to six baby chicks and thirteen hens and roosters, including Eagle Chicken, a.k.a. Bret Michaels, to bring our total population down to around thirty. They are now living peacefully on a local farm. We’ve still got some adolescents, including a new rooster named Bruno, and two baby chicks named Tiny Dancer and Moe.

This week we also found a baby bluejay who’d fallen from the nest. He hung out on Molly’s shoulder for the afternoon while she worked in the garden, and ate plenty of food that we mixed up for him. She named him Elephant, and after a night of sleep tucked away inside, his parents came and found him out by the fire circle and started feeding him and coaxing him to fly away with them. Soon he was gone. Our banjo was abducted a few days ago, and then returned to us fixed up and restrung. Thanks Ash!

May The Forest Be With You…