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Oct. 10th, 2006 07:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluebeardokay, so there's more to say about gathering that I forgot, and it's important.
I kept looking around at the varieties of trees on the mountain, listening to the birds that hadn't left yet, thinking this is home, soon. one day I will look out my bedroom window and this is what I will see.
it's an amazing feeling. I love that place so much, and to think that it will become home is beyond words. looking at the people that live there and thinking these people will be my neighbors, these people that I've always thought of as homesteading, sustainable living superheroes.
we went to the land a couple times, once by road just to go look, and another time taking the back paths through the bottoms, looking at the other building projects going on. it's amazing, seeing just support beams and a floor, and somebody's built an altar nearby showing all the love and energy they're putting into their new home. I get to be one of those people. it boggles.
there is a well on the land by the cabin that will become my house. we thought it might be dry, but as it turns out there's 20 feet of water in it, at least -- the tape went 200 feet and never hit bottom. that means a lot: we won't have to carve out the waterfall to get water, we won't need as powerful of a pump, and we won't have to run pipes all over the place. all good. the less modification to the land, the better.
I kept looking around at the varieties of trees on the mountain, listening to the birds that hadn't left yet, thinking this is home, soon. one day I will look out my bedroom window and this is what I will see.
it's an amazing feeling. I love that place so much, and to think that it will become home is beyond words. looking at the people that live there and thinking these people will be my neighbors, these people that I've always thought of as homesteading, sustainable living superheroes.
we went to the land a couple times, once by road just to go look, and another time taking the back paths through the bottoms, looking at the other building projects going on. it's amazing, seeing just support beams and a floor, and somebody's built an altar nearby showing all the love and energy they're putting into their new home. I get to be one of those people. it boggles.
there is a well on the land by the cabin that will become my house. we thought it might be dry, but as it turns out there's 20 feet of water in it, at least -- the tape went 200 feet and never hit bottom. that means a lot: we won't have to carve out the waterfall to get water, we won't need as powerful of a pump, and we won't have to run pipes all over the place. all good. the less modification to the land, the better.