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Friar Truck RIP.
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Our garden became Certified Naturally Grown!
Bunny went to Texas to pick up a new diesel truck. Judy and her son Danny came from Ithaca for a brief internship. They vowed to return next year!
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Bunny converted Hearne to run on vegetable oil, using some parts salvaged from Friar Truck. |
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Six kids were born toward the end of the month, with more to come.
Then he got some new hardware installed . . .
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. . . stainless steel, that is.
A new visitor, Joe, arrived. His help was much appreciated in a difficult time, but alas, he had other places to go.
Yet another visitor, a godsend from WWOOF-USA, named Skyenne payed us a visit and helped for a while.
David departed to prepare for his trip to Puerto Rico. We're not sure when he'll be back.
Travis, another WWOOFer, stayed for a while and helped tremendously.
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Oliver, a.k.a. Chef, a.k.a. OK arrived for an internship. He helped us out with drywall spackling and painting.
After many trials and tribulations, Grace arrived for an internship.
Oliver took a trip to Sandhill Farm.
Oliver returned and became a provisional member.
Grace departed, more visitors arrived to lend a hand: JT and Richard.
Pearl took a trip to Iowa to visit her family, leaving OM to the tender mercies of three males.
JT and Richard left before Pearl's return.
Pearl returned, with Katya, a friend of OK, in tow.
We planted a few dozen cherry trees generously donated.
Katya left to go to massage school in Virginia, vowing to return in August.
Later OK took a trip to visit Katya.
Pearl traveled with two friends to Kansas City for a “Coming Home to Eat” conference. When she came back she made lots of birdhouses.
Pearl and Bunny continued to struggle through the exceptionally cold winter.
Hearne's fuel system finally gave out completely. After installing a new injector pump at great expense, she ran both fine and dandy.
Another visitor interested in membership, Seth, arrived for a one-week stay, from Alaska.
Shortly thereafter, Oliver returned from his adventures back east.
We planted a little over one hundred trees and shrubs, mostly pecans, false indigo, dogwoods, and spice bushes, twenty-five of each. We also planted a few sand cherries and Manchurian apricots. Help from a crew of East Winders was much appreciated.
Bunny started keeping a blog, in response to David's suggestion that some people might appreciate an account of everyday life at OM.
Pearl and Oliver began work on building a duck house. (to house our ducks)
Tragically, Hearne's new (rebuilt) injector pump seized up on the highway, leaving Bunny stranded. The company that warranteed it claimed that it failed due to fuel contamination, so they would not replace it. Thus we had little choice but to buy a new one. Figuring what went wrong with our fuel filtration system became a high priority.
We had the pleasure of a brief internship with Mike from Minnesota. (late of the Navajo reservation) He was a lot of help with our first goat slaughter. Pearl's son, Jesse, and his daughter, Isis also came for a visit on the Solstice.
We got another slew of WWOOFers, Crystal and Daniel from Arizona; and Alex and Travis from California. They all stayed about a week, then Seth came back for an ostensibly longer stay, but decided OM was not for him, so he left at the end of the month to go to Ohio. Oliver took a trip to Virginia, to visit Katya and to represent OM at the FEC meeting in August.
Oliver is missing in action. He got to TO but never made it to the FEC Assembly.
Bunny began training as an Emergency Medical Technician. We had a visit from Bennet, who is an associate at EW.
We had a great week's visit from our friend Tess, whom we hadn't seen in about seven years. She helped us with the drywall in the Catbox, and vowed to return in the spring. Later we got a visit from Miles of Pittsburgh. Miles gave us a big hand with the painting.
Bunny graduated from EMT class. He also joined the volunteer fire department as a first responder.
Miles departed for points west. Bunny passed the NREMT practical examination. Pearl took a trip to Iowa to visit her mother, leaving Bunny all alone with the four-legged people.
Pearl returned from Iowa, then we got a visit from a couple, Alex & Aaron, from Indiana. They had to leave after five days to attend to a family crisis. Bunny passed the NREMT cognitive examination, which qualified him to receive his Missouri EMT license. Richard, who had visited in October of 2006, paid us another visit. While Richard was still here, David returned to resume his provisional membership.
David began working on wiring up the Catbox, mostly for lighting. Richard headed back to EW. David took a brief trip to NYC. Five kids were born. Pearl attended the FEC Assembly at EW and talked to Oliver about his mysterious disappearance.
We decided to build an earthship in Lalomah. A sixth kid was born. We planted 25 each of elderberries, paw paws, and hazelnuts, and 35 pecans.
Digging commenced on our earthship, dubbed Foryu. Pearl and Bunny became official storm spotters for the National Weather Service. A guy from the Netherlands named Menno paid us a visit, helped out a lot with spring garden preparations.
Ellie from Tennessee arrived for a brief internship. She helped out lots in the garden and donated a bunch of books to our library. Menno departed for Mammoth Cave. Bunny secured employment as an EMT-B in West Plains (63 miles away!)