USA is out on a full moon

A beautiful day gave way to a beautiful fuschia sunset. The full moon is high tonight—was hoping for a USA win, but Ghana played well. There are so many Spanish speaking countries in the Round of 16, the finals may end up pitting one Spanish speaking country against another.

Today's Good Things

• Received my 4th piece of snail mail. Thanks SD for your letter. I'll write back soon
• My coriander seeds are germinating—I see tell-tale coriander leaves
• Skyping with May and family
• The local Fete de l'ecole and folding paper cranes, balls and boxes with my Japanese friend who was manning the origami table. I folded a fun box—and it got me thinking about decorating a wall of our new "reading room" with a colorful paper crane garland
• Worked on my resume a little and forwarded my resume to someone who's offered to review my resume from a Swiss/international perspective. I'm really grateful and looking forward to hearing his feedback
• Started some weight training and hope to keep up with it. My back's been bothering me lately and I hope this alleviates the pain

Planting and a hidden economy

It's almost 1am. My circadian rhythm is still off, and I find myself waking up late, staying up later, and napping somewhere in between. But at least there is sun today. R and I postponed going to Geneva until later this week, opting to work on the garden and researching French language classes instead.

How does our garden grow?
Neighbor P's rototiller did a great job of turning over the grass, weeds, and compacted soil to unearth the black gold in our vegetable patch. Life was teeming underneath the super aerated rich soil—in addition to lots of worms, there were snails, ants, and beetles including one beautiful metallic green/blue/yellow beetle.