After battling with the internet until late last night, I woke surprisingly early to a glorious sunny day. I had been trying to meet up with the only active CSer in Ballina (Dawn, a lively French girl who has been here for 10 years now) and finally we connected this morning. She was taking a CS guest (Isaac, from Quebec) out for a drive to Lacken, on the beach, and picked me up to come along. We also picked up Mariane (sp?) a French au pair who is living in a funky modern house with a living roof near Lacken... we ran around quite a bit to get different views and generally enjoy ourselves, and we found out way to the cliffside at Downpatrick Head, where there are great big gaping holes in the ground leading to beautifully-colored ocean below. It was all very enter-at-your-own-risk. There was a little statue to St. Patrick, of course.
We returned by midafternoon and it was more weeds and planting flowers. Beryl uses the biodynamic calendar for her planting, so we can only plant certain types of things on any given day. Weeding is apparently ok any time, and that's good thing, because there is plenty of it to do. It was nice to be out in the afternoon sun, though the wind had picked up by then and was roaring away as usual. I had a walk in the evening and home for bean soup and rice. Beryl went into town for Irish language practice, but I felt like playing homebody. Travel timewarp is getting to me, a bit.
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