Building our new house
In early 2007, we began building our new Round House here at Sacred Groves with a vision to expand our residential community on this beautiful land.
We purchased 3 round structures from Oregon Yurtworks--a big house with a large round Great Room that has become the heart and hearth of the Sacred Groves community, and 2 yurtlettes, private bedroom-cabins for new residents. We are modeling a "small is beautiful" lifestyle with small personal spaces, sharing kitchen, bathrooms, laundry, living room. We are enthused about the joys and challenges of community living, committed to the spiritual and personal growth required for sharing life in this way.
This blog, which has the most recent entry at the top, tells the story of the construction of the new house, starting with the foundation built Spring 2007. Carpenter and Groves resident Tere Carranza has managed the project from start to near-finish.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Herding the Pony walls
I don't know why it's taking so long to get these pony walls built. Really - they are straight forward framed walls- 2x6 plates and studs, plywood nailed to one side...
OK - maybe there are several reasons why it's taking so long. First of all, the carpenter doing the work has been distracted by : shoveling dirt for the guys on the dozers, being available to wave my arms around for the guys on the dozers, spending a couple of days 'shopping' for conduit for the main electrical hook-up, putting together a little platform for the septic electrical system, delivering shared tools to my former 'boss' Dennis, borrowing shared tools from Dennis, wondering what the heck to do about the access opening into the crawl space, carrying out the idea for dealing with the access opening, coordinating the electrical trenching with the power company, getting Eddie and Sarah set up to install the conduit from the pumphouse to the main house, making phone calls about things - many of them I've forgotten already....
Maybe the real reason I haven't finished this aspect of the project is that I love the idea of horses roaming free- which conjures up images of me in my cowboy boots and red cowboy hat attempting to sweet talk the large rangy horse on the hill into letting me ride it - when I was 10 and the world was still a place where kids and horses communicated in the same language- and everything was possible.
By the end of this week, I'll have to get these ponies circled up and tied into place - and my attention turned, as much as possible, on sweet talking my way onto the next phase of this exciting beautiful wild-ride
posted by Tere # 9:49 PM 