the past couple weeks have been good.  We have been doing a good bit of work up at the farm in La Muralla.  We have been clearing these tall grasses and planting velvet bean.  Velvet bean is a very aggressive legume that helps put nutrients in the soil.  we are also hoping that it beats out the invasive grasses that have taken over.  it is kind of like a battle, using different qualities that plants have to use them against each other, or with each other.  Also last week there was a death in the La Muralla community.  A father and his son where walking down the trail and the father had a loaded shotgun.  He slipped and the gun fired and it peppered the son.  It wasn´t serious though, certainly nothing fatal.  They took him to the hospital and things seemed to be okay, but the doctors would not release him because they wanted to observe him.  After a few days he caught pneumonia and died.  We went to the funeral then next day; it was really sad to see.  It was a good reminder for me that even though I come from such a different walk in life, from the US, they come from farming the hills for generations, there are certain things that are so common to all of humanity, and in the end these things are so much greater than any difference. 

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