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So, here's how it happened. We had been trying to figure out what to call the place since before we moved here. I figured the mountain would "tell" us what we should call it.
Well, it didn't. I tried things in German, in Norwegian, in English, nothing seemed to fit. One of the things that Andrew and I have always said to each other was how quiet, how peaceful it is up here. But I was stuck on what it was we were doing up here. Teaching Yoga and Meditation, Massage, Cooking/Canning, Organic Gardening, Painting, Blah blah blah.
So anyway, last Saturday night, (5/19/12) we were sitting on the front porch in our rocking chairs, listening to the birds singing, the cows down valley mooing, the occasional whinny from one of the horses on the nearby farm and enjoying the warm breezes, when , for the eight millionth time, we looked at each other and said: " God I love it here, it's so peaceful". And, "we have to come up with a good name for our Mountain!" That's when Andrew sat up a little straighter and said "you know, my grandfather in northern Norway had a cabin that he called "Stille" I got pretty excited because it sounded the same as the German word "stille" which means "silent, calm, peaceful" So we looked it up in both dictionarys and not only did it have the same meaning, it had the same spelling!
From now on we will refer to the mountain as "Stille".
3 Large eggs, lightly beaten
1 Tbsp cider vinegar
3 Tbsp olive oil
1-1/3 cups water (room temp)
1 cup lentil flour
1 cup coconut flour
1/4 cup GF oat flour
1/4 cup GF oats
1/2 cup tapioca flour
1/2 cup corn starch
2 tsp xanthan gum
3 Tbsp packed brown sugar
1-1/2 tsp sea salt
1/2 cup non fat dry milk powder
2-1/4 active dry yeast
Combine wet ingredients plus 1 Tbsp brown sugar; pour into bread machine.
Sprinkle dry yeast over wet ingredients.
Measure dry ingredients and mix well to blend. Add to bread machine.
Set to normal/white cycle and start machine.
After mixing action has begun, help unmixed ingredients into the dough with a rubber spatula, keeping to the top and sides to prevent interference with the paddle.
Do not skip this part!
This is a dense bread that slices easily and is best sliced very thin.
Don't get too excited, we don't have Bees yet! But it is part of the plan. We think Bees are so important to the ecology and we get to have honey.
No matter what angle you look at it from, life on the mountain is good. You can get a massage out on the deck when the weather is good, indoors when it's not. We believe in taking good care of ourselves.
It has been a long time from the first little tiny vision of how we wanted to live our lives on the mountain. We cleared the land, built the house, started the apartment and put in the organic gardens. I healed from my surgery, took back my Yoga practice and even started teaching again! It's almost time to share more of our dream with the world. Eventually, Andrew will build me my studio and the mountain yoga studio and retreat center will be complete (sort of ) :o) There will always be more to do, more to learn, more to experience! In the meantime, we're livin' the dream!
