Saimnieks and soon-to-be saimniece with the firewood and the rock pile. There are about four firewood piles twice the size of what you can see in the picture and the rock pile keeps going too. As per the title of this post, we finally got to really clean up the mess we've been making and actually constructed instead of just destructed, and that is what was great.
This will be Lielais Ugunskurs ("big fireplace"), mainly for Jani (the summer solstice celebration) and.....the best part.....for burning all the branches I've collected on branch duty. KB dug the fireplace, we raked away all the dried grass around it and the we carried over and arranged the rocks. It was the first thing we actually built at Jaunvitagas - hooray! This weekend we also built Mazais Ugunskurs ("small fireplace") in Mezmala, which is what we are calling the area of the woods we have cleaned out and are making into more of a park.
The honorary lighting of the first fire. 
This is what branch duty looks like. There are no words to describe how good it felt to watch those suckers finally burn.
This is what I looked like at the end of the day. :) It felt great to lay in the sun with bare feet. Also we all got very sunburned faces - gotta be careful of the spring sun! 
Here is a side story. I like this next picture. It looks like it belongs in a storybook. I think I had this same image in my head sometime in my childhood listening to my Nani read us Latvian stories (except that girl probably wasn't wearing jeans and sneakers).
IG taught me to eat flowers and leaves! Here is the proof of what I am sticking in my mouth! 
Here is a close-up of what I was eating - three-leaf clovers and their flowers called Zakskabenes ("rabbit sours")!
And here is my reaction after eating them....
Just kidding! They were very tasty and refreshing, kind of like berries!So the work continues and the work never ends, so I've been told. Luckily, we love what we are doing, because we are building our future, literally from the ground up.
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