Thursday starts with buckwheat porridge, apple sauce from our own trees and procrastination. Friday is really productive and ends with a big success. In between there are visits from friends and lots of crafting fun. Shortly before the weekend, there's a roofing ceremony.

The morning of yesterday's Estonian Independence Day greets us with glorious sunshine, which some of us take as an opportunity to use for a morning walk. We also see the first signs of construction progress. Finally, there is a surprise with the metal detector.

Finally the time has come: After over a year of planning and after 32 years of vacancy, we're bringing and old forestry farm back to life.

Thanks to the newly created business cards and website, we received a very exciting e-mail last fall, shortly after our trip to Estonia. In it, Krista from Estonia introduced us to the Rihula farm.

Report from our first joint fall trip through Estonia.