Community Bulletin #14 --- Nutshell Niblets

August 25th, 2010

Chuck This Weekend



This is the last and best workshop before the Maestro ( Chuck Durrett www.cohousingco.com) turns toward the audience, bows and leaves us with our final plans for our Site, Common House, Outbuildings, Landscaping and Private home layouts. Visitors welcome to tour our village on Friday at 10am (free -- RSVP) and observe our workshop on Saturday at $40 per household with lunch - (RSVP).

We're Not Seniors (and We love Kids but Don't Want to Live with Them) Cohousing



Our cohousing plans for adults above the shops in the front are going ahead with gusto. Come and meet Chuck . Friday at 2pm in the barn loft --- RSVP to Alan Carpenter- alan.carpenter@gmail.com






New people in new homes



Welcome to these recent red letter folks... you're hardly here yet and we love you already!

These folks are moving into new homes the next several months: Krishna, Britta, Joe', Tam and Joel , Shauna and Nevin,

These are hot on their heels next spring or sooner: Maureen and Ken, Beverly and Matthew, Janice and Bill, Brenda and Jim, Linda , Cheryl, Yonas and Julia, Shayne and Cher, Allan and Lin

And these folks are waiting in the wings : Nicole and Robin, Dorothy and Meg, Vivian and Paul, Marjanne, Liz,

Their kids are : Eli, Teagan,Noah, James, Marieke,Chantelle,Isaac, Dahlia, Millie, Leo, Eli, Sophie, Julian, Markus, Ben, Caius, Mira, Quin and I've probably missed some!

Is there room for you ? Yes, but we're on a roll ... jump on board!

Waste water

Yonas has arranged that the necessary cement trucks will have ( high speed) access to the septic field in the back pasture over the neighbour's cow pasture. Mooooove over, cows ... it's happening soon! This is what "bio dynamic" means ...cows on the run!

And trenches will be dug to the existing new houses to attach them to the new system.

Hole-istic Living and the Resulting Construction

In the next several weeks, foundations will excavated for two new houses and our carpentry shop. Just think .... new homes and a useful commonbuilding. This is our shared dream coming true. How can we not rejoice?

( Warning: Use caution--- Small dogs and children can be swallowed wholistically in the holes and trenches)



Blackberry Confessionals



My confession: I shove ten blackberries at a time into my mouth , so if there's a sour one I don't notice it. Send me your blackberry confession, and I'll publish it next time ... anonymously, of course.

Silo



Ed knows how to have a good time when on holiday in the summer and we're the happy, grateful recipents of a clean and painted concrete silo. The owls are moving to the big barn this winter. Ed is knitting egg cosies for them, if he has time before going back to school.



Consuelo



I hope you've been in to see Consuelo's spiffy shop ...it stocks all sorts of interesting things, besides cosmetics and skin products. Hint; you can eat them.



Wendell Berry Poem



The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

— Wendell Berry ,