There’s a silly Facebook thing going around these days with simple instructions. “Share an album cover a day for ten days – no explanations or reviews…” And for the first couple of days I did just that and then today I decided I was just blindly following pointless rules and shared this trip down memory lane.

So back when we lived in the yurt, we were so far from any city and definitely nowhere near a CD store. And really, living as we did on sometimes as little as $300/month we weren’t exactly swimming in extra cash for much more than food and necessities. I did find, though, that sometimes on Ebay you could find albums people were selling for very little – often as little as $1-2 and shipping of CDs was cheap as well. And so I bought this one.Something about this album was the right album at the right time and we listened to it SO much that if you put it on now, I’m instantly transported. It’s a June morning and already getting hot outside. After weeks of putting off calling someone to hook up our gas stove to the cylinder I finally decided to risk it and bought some pipe and tried it myself. And so, here I am making pancakes made of buckwheat and cornmeal and topping them with peanut butter from the nearby intentional community. A single-cup brewer sits on top of a Hartford Diner mug, making my morning’s coffee. Daegan is crawling on the floor and Sage is off at our friends’ house nearby building a website for a local non-profit. Later I will put Daegan in the sling and we’ll brave the ticks for a walk up a nearby mountain. He will fall asleep in the sling on the way back so I will carefully put him down on the bed for a nap and take my book out to the simple hammock we made from 3 yards of canvas and a couple of metal rings. Seeing me lying down, Shelly the cat will come and rest on my chest. The heat of the day, the comfort of the hammock and a purring cat conspire to put me asleep for my own nap. I sleep until I hear Sage coming down the path carrying a big jug of water. It’s really hot now and I know it is the perfect time for me to fill our solar shower’s water bag and put it in a nearby field to warm in the sun. It will be lovely to have a hot shower outside as the sun sets and the air cools.When I come back Daegan wakes. He nurses and I make a lunch of gazpacho made from organic tomatoes and cucumbers we bartered for by doing some computer repair and web design. I toss the leftovers in a cooler we’ve buried in the ground along with a jug of ice Sage brought back from the house.See? I told you that rule of “no explanations” is silly…