A Day In the Life of a Lannin

Amazing how quickly time can slip by…it has been  weeks since our last post, and we have not been very prolific writers for the month of June.

We are reminded that it has been a while when Gina & I start receiving emails on our personal email accounts asking what is going on.

The answer is usually not very exciting…

…and it isn’t this time either.

We have just been hanging out in Obera, Argentina not really doing much of anything and certainly nothing that would constitute “exciting” or worthy of writing about.

Gina and I spend the mornings drinking coffee by the fire, checking emails and doing that “facebook thing”, letting the dogs out to do their business, and going around turning off all the lights on the property to save electricity.

Pretty exciting, huh….

Gigi is usually up next and we get her some hot cocoa and a little breakfast – she spends her mornings watching a movie, playing cards, writing in her journal, or doing so art project.

We rarely see Grant before noon – when he does wake he wants to eat and we want him to take a shower…epic struggle!

The weather has been quite dramatic, from freezing to mid 60′s, both sunny and pouring rain.

On cold, rainy days we just hole up inside the cabin trying to stay warm and coming up with ways of entertaining ourselves.  On sunny days we open up the cabin and sit outside in the sun, or sit beside the pool, or up by the open-air kitchen.  The days are spent reading, playing cards, writing, on the internet, or playing with 3 dogs and a cat.

We walk the 1/2 mile to the grocery store once a week.  Fresh bread and eggs are purchased from the next door neighbor.

It is winter in the Southern Hemisphere so the days are short…by 4 pm we need to get everything back inside and build the 2nd fire of the day.

We cook rice and liver for the dogs and feed them.

Without microwaves and pre-made foods we actually have to cook our meals.  Depending on what we are cooking this might start in the morning.  We are making lots of soups and stews so usually something is simmering away on the stove all day.

The nights are spent trying to stay warm, listening to music, playing cards, playing on the computers, etc., etc..

…we get up and do it again.

SO – that is why we have not posted anything on the blog…just not very exciting.