New Year's Day

January 1 is always the first day of a new year, but 2010 feels like an especially new year full of exciting times ahead.  We are working out the details to formally record our community contributions: we'll decide how best to start this at our residents' meeting this week (I'll report back).

We are full of excitement for our planning sessions with Chuck Durrett from January 16 - 20: I can't wait to see where we decide to put the common house and whether Matthew's dream of a natural swimming pond fits somewhere.  For now, we've made the summer kitchen in the big farm house our temporary common house: we squeezed 23 people in for our New Year's day supper, and plan to hold weekly common meals starting with Britta's soup on Tuesday.  Ann posted our guidelines for success on the walls: may they bring us wisdom and harmony as we make the many decisions ahead of us this year.