Well, the past couple of days have been fairly low key thanks to consistent rain and gray skies. Yesterday, I only spent about three minutes on the computer because the power levels were too low from a long(ish) lack of sunlight, and it was not worth the risk of depleting the batteries (connected to the solar panels).
Nevertheless, on Wednesday I did some cobbing with the visitors on the Ironweed kitchen, stomping some sand, clay, and straw with my bare feet to make the cob itself, despite the less than ideal weather conditions. Soggy, but still fun. Then I helped do some actual cobbing in the kitchen interior, on a wall that seems almost nearly done. The kitchen has come a long way since I visited last year, and I will be excited to see the final product, which has been four years in the making so far. Dang. That’s a long time. In the evening, we watched 30 Days with the visitors. I guess this was the now the third time I’ve seen it, and it’s funny to me how little of the actual ecovillage itself that you see during the show. You don’t really get a sense of what the community actually looks like, I think. Too much time spent on b.s. reality show-type drama.
Yesterday was quiet and cold, and I mostly did some more reading and talking with folks, and overall it was a long and lazy day. For dinner, we had Tony’s vegan pizza, and it was as amazing as I can remember from last year.
Speaking of food… these first two weeks, I am eating free of charge with the Bobolink co-op, but next week that trial run will end. The current plan is that I will give the Sunflower co-op a shot (for a month?) after the trial period is over. Bobolink is vegan and currently has about four or five members. Sunflower is vegetarian and much larger, with about twelve members. Sunflower is also responsbile for feeding visitors for the majority of their visit throughout the summer, so it’s much more “open” and susceptible to change than Bobolink. Each co-op has a pretty unique vibe, so I’ll have to see which one I prefer in the long run. It’s too early to tell for the moment.
Anyway…. thankfully, today is sunny again, and hopefully some of the muddy paths will have a chance to finally dry up.
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