it's been about a week, settling in
It is peaceful up here at Emerald Earth. Things seem to move slowly around here in a nice way, not much rush at all. Last weekend, right after Sandra and Edrie drove me up was a work party, which was more busy and hectic, but since then things seem quite laid back, but it is easy to keep busy. So different from daily deadlines.
There is lots of land, a common house, houses for the members, mainly built out of straw, sand and clay with some wood, a pond and a creek which dries up in the summer, two gardens, ducks and chickens, a green house with a beautiful mosaic shower inside it, a sauna behind, and guest loft, a few composting toilets, tool sheds, a shop, there are two water systems one from a well and one from a spring, and lots of solar panels and batteries and an inverter to turn the 12 volt DC into 110 AC so devices made to be plugged into the US power grid can be used, and a complicated phone system which works but is expensive to use.
I got my huge tent set up and mostly unpacked and set up everything in it.
I have been helping with getting garden beds ready to plant then planting (mainly potatoes so far), digging into a hillside to make a pad for a new house, pulling out thistles, watering parts of the garden, moving firewood, and cooking and cleaning of course.
I've also been relaxing, sitting by the pond, chatting with people (7 people live here all the time and right now there are 5 people here doing work trade) listening to music (a few of the folks here play), looking at the moon and stars, and there was a sanua one night and have been evening fire circles twice. Aaron and Salam came up to visit on Wednesday, that was nice we spent the afternoon by the pond and Salam fished.
There is lots of land, a common house, houses for the members, mainly built out of straw, sand and clay with some wood, a pond and a creek which dries up in the summer, two gardens, ducks and chickens, a green house with a beautiful mosaic shower inside it, a sauna behind, and guest loft, a few composting toilets, tool sheds, a shop, there are two water systems one from a well and one from a spring, and lots of solar panels and batteries and an inverter to turn the 12 volt DC into 110 AC so devices made to be plugged into the US power grid can be used, and a complicated phone system which works but is expensive to use.
I got my huge tent set up and mostly unpacked and set up everything in it.
I have been helping with getting garden beds ready to plant then planting (mainly potatoes so far), digging into a hillside to make a pad for a new house, pulling out thistles, watering parts of the garden, moving firewood, and cooking and cleaning of course.
I've also been relaxing, sitting by the pond, chatting with people (7 people live here all the time and right now there are 5 people here doing work trade) listening to music (a few of the folks here play), looking at the moon and stars, and there was a sanua one night and have been evening fire circles twice. Aaron and Salam came up to visit on Wednesday, that was nice we spent the afternoon by the pond and Salam fished.
posted by jade at 9:44 AM
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