Yesterday was a good and active day. Well, the not-so-good part of the day came in the form of bringing down the iconic elm tree at the entrance of the Dancing Rabbit property. Unfortunately, the tree was suffering from either Dutch Elm disease or just old age. Either way, we held a nice ceremony for the tree on Wednesday, and then all of the branches were sliced off yesterday.
Between the branch cutting and burning, and the construction on the Milkweed Mercantile, the main village square was filled with human activity throughout the day. It’s great to see so many people chipping in and lending a hand, and a flurry of people getting a large amount of work done so fluidly. The sun was blazing and it was immediately noticeable just how much shade that great elm tree had once provided us.
At dinner, Tony whipped up an amazing Ethiopian dish. Folks from the Ironweed co-op joined us for the night and it was jovial and delicious and filling. Damn, I love eating here…
After the meal, we walked over to Red Earth Farms to hang out with our neighbors. Red Earth is a small homesteading-style community of five members based on 80-odd acres of land, and yesterday was their official “land day”. (The community is now two years old). There’s a lot of exciting permaculture projects going on over there, and their land is gorgeous and quite different from that of DR’s. We took a land walk at 8:00 p.m., just as dark, ominous clouds started to roll in. Over the course of the next hour, the sky had become a beautiful and dynamic spread of color and light. Each direction of the sky had morphed into a totally different hue: light blue sharply divided by a straight streak of gray sky in the east, red clouds in the east transitioning into purple and gray storm clouds to the south… It was incredible. Photos would not do that amazing sight justice.
Yea, it was a good day…
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