Message from Ann

About nine months ago I, Vivian Vaillant, kidnapped the Nutshell Niblets Newsletter from Ann.

I refused to return the Nutshells to her until I received one freshly baked apple pie.

And from Ann?  There was silence.  No pie.  No ....

Well. I suppose perhaps she was tired.  Or busy.  I know around here so many of us are tired and busy. There is so much living to do here you see?  So many ways to overwhelm yourself with projects.  I kidnapped the Niblets- but I could see Ann was happy to have them off her plate for a while.

Secretly I have missed Ann's version of the Niblets.  It is so much more gratifying to READ about living here than it is to have to be the one to WRITE about living here.  When I lived out of town I remember my delight in seeing a nutshells come in to my inbox.  Like a letter from home when you are overseas!  I would save the Niblets until I could make a cup of tea and curl up with a soft blanket to read it.  It felt like home.

Writing the Niblets feels like a tremendous responsibility.  So much changes so quickly here, and yet so slowly at the same time.  Some news is charged with emotion.  Often there is more to a story than I can possibly include and still be brief.  The truth is I would rather have had the pie!

And then today- I saw this in my inbox!

Dear Villagers,

I've been known to write little village newsletters called 

"Nutshell Niblets" Ann's very personal, highly biased and incomplete guide to the ecovillage ... in a nutshell.

I have one in the works, as a matter of fact. 

But I have a little advance teaser that's news too exciting not to share immediately .  It's not my news... it's Coco's .. and the more complete details will be revealed after Coco's regular meeting --- Thursday am-  I believe (check with Beverly and/or the google calendar.)

• If you've been following the saga...  you'll know this has significance... Yarrow Waterworks has written the required letter to the City.  It slapped resoundingly onto their desk.  
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• We have received PLA - Preliminary Layout Approval. ( What's that you ask?  It's good news ... more details to follow) 
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• We are only inches away from completing  changes to our zoning.
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• YES Coop members agreed to the new boundary adjustment that puts the farm with Groundswell Cohousing. (Yarrow Central Enterprises ( the commercial front two acres ) doesn't need the farm acres to assist their financing, after all) 

All this is bringing strata  close.

Hmmm...  can you smell its breath?  :>)

Ann 

I might just get my pie yet!