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.
Friday, June 22, 2007
Summer Solstice Countdown
We have only 17 more days before the trucks arrive with our house panels on them ( view pics of the panels at the Oregon Yurtworks production yard in Eugene, Oregon).
Fortunately these are the longest days ( AND shortest nights!) of the year - I might need every drop of daylight to pull together the zillion things that need to be done between now and T-day ( truck day).
How lucky can we get!!
Early Wednesday morning we were visited by our fairy-building inspector ( no, not THAT kind of fairy...) who blessed our project with a STOP Work Order. When Mark the dozer operator saw the sign first thing in the morning he wondered what the heck?!! However, his consternation melted to amusement when he read the grievance : No work allowed on the Eve of the Solstice per Mother Nature 603.2.1.
And during our Summer Solstice festivities later that evening, one of our friends asked 'What are all the tiny umbrellas for at the house site' - HUNH? What umbrellas? I thought he was pulling my leg - until I took a stroll over to the site and sure enough - there were a lot of tiny colorful umbrellas and festive crepe paper festooning the construction site. The Solstice Fairies had a quite the field day romping through our construction site....
posted by Tere # 10:48 PM 