Dear Folks: August 27, 2000
Dear Folks,
YES! The bulldozers are rolling!
It’s been an amazing, nonstop, exciting month. Groundbreaking day turned out to be Monday morning, August 14, two weeks ago. After all we had gone through to get to that point, and after so many postponements, and after the breathtaking last-minute coming together of the essential elements (especially the Act 250 permit), we had no [...]
Dear Folks: July 23, 2000
Dear Folks,
Is that the sound of bulldozers I hear outside, beginning the sitework and foundations of the Cobb Hill Cohousing complex?
Nope.
It could be the sound of our Kubota tractor out at the end of the CSA garden, where Stephen is turning in oat cover in preparation for fall veggie planting. It may be the sound of my dear cousin Eddie, [...]
Dear Folks: June 25, 2000
Dear Folks,
Warm, breezy summer afternoon, clouds coming up, severe thunderstorm warning. That’ll be par for the course; it has rained nearly every day this month, wonderful for the veggies, disaster for the hay.
Farmers are never satisfied. Dear God, dear Universe, dear Weathermaker, it would be so simple. Four days of bright, warm, breezy sunshine followed by an overnight inch of [...]
Dear Folks: May 28, 2000
Hello, Dear Folks!
It’s Memorial Day Monday, early morning, cool and beautiful outside. I wouldn’t be inside except that I’ve been out the last two days solid, I’ve put this letter off too long, and I have a minute before Marsha calls me for chicken-coop building.
We have our nice gypsy-mobile chicken house for the layers, but our brood of this year’s [...]
Dear Folks: February 26, 2000
Dear Folks,
What a lot can happen in a month! Even a short month like February.
I just looked back at what I wrote to you a month ago:
I was complaining about oil at $1.30 a gallon; now it’s $1.90.
It was 20 below with no snow. Today it’s 60 degrees warmer than that, the huge snowpiles around us are melting, and Ken [...]
