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We stayed at the lovely little retirement farm that had been Boris's parents, with its rustic barns.
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One of the last operating windmills is really just a museum piece on the neighboring island
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The first thing that got our attention was a little sandbox with all the necessary tools to sift and shovel the sand.
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This simple kitchen was the center of our home life when we were indoors. Notice the balalanka on the back bedroom wall.
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This classic northern stove was the focus of much of Ben's attention. The flue could be redirected to heat the entire house.
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Boris got us started with how to enjoy the life of Saaremaa by cooking some fish on the old stove.
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This is what was left of Boris's excellent fish dinner at the end of the meal
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The trip to Saaremaa was the first time Ben took the time to sketch. Here he is making a pencil drawing of the old barn with the antique
tools hanging on the log wall.
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Each day, we would all head to the beach where the very fine and soft sand was hot and water warm and clear.
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One of outings with Boris took us to the local fish farm where they raised trout. There was another, sea-side, farm for raising salmon.
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There were always beautiful wild and domestic flowers for our vase on the kitchen table.
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In the evening, before the slowly advancing darkness of summer night had taken over, Kristen and Thomas would study with
Gretchen as their teacher.
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Thomas enjoyed climbing in the trees, in fact had to be called down from one when it was finally time to leave Saaremaa
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An album of photographs of butterflies, spiders, and insects
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