What's Gong On?

Lots!

Ok where to start.  We have purchased and installed the fill lines to the septic system, not Bill just has to hook up the line to the main line in the house and we will have toilets!  Woo Hoo!   No pictures as Bill did all of this work last week while I was up here in St. Louis and I haven’t been down there yet to see his handiwork.  We also want to get the furnace ductwork in soon so that we can get the furnace hooked up as well.  Then on to finish putting up the inside walls and insulating to keep all that heat and cool inside!

We’ve decided to start work on the showers as well.  We will build just one shower stall and sink for now since the expense to put in the entire shower house at this time is prohibitive.  The decking alone is over $1200.00!  So, we will build the deck but put up only as much as we need with walls surrounding it for now.  This probably won’t get done before Samhain but should be complete before Beltane next spring. 

As I posted back in July Erik got engaged.  Welllllll there was trouble in paradise it seems and now they are not engaged. There was a week there where he looked like a zombie walking around the house all forlorn and depressed.  But, they got back together last weekend.  They are not engaged again but he is happy again so I like that better.  I’m just hoping they both take it easy with each other and give it time!

Our busy weekends started off last weekend with Mabon at Ozark Avalon.  Meh… it was ok.  I’ve been to better festivals but I go for the people not necessarily the event or the place.  This was only by 3^rd time at OA and by far I explored the land the most this time.  I visited the fairy shrine (interesting) and realized that the road wrapped all the way around the property and back to the community area via a short walk through the woods.  I liked the fact that I could walk it all.  Ritual left a bit to be desired and the drumming just plain sucked!  There was a group there that leads a drum circle in St. Louis.  Their style would be great for a drum circle but not for dancing around the fire.  We kept telling them to slow it down and not be so chaotic but they didn’t seem to listen.  Eventually everyone left the fire to go find a different place to hang out.

I will be heading out this afternoon after work to Bill’s house so that we can load up camping gear and vending stuff to go to a Hoodoo festival in Kentucky this weekend.  Vic the rock lady at PSG talked him into vending with her at this festival.  I’ve never been to a Hoodoo festival before so I don’t really know what to expect but we will be with (non-hoodoo) friends so I’m sure it will be fine. 

Next weekend is our work weekend at the property and my student’s dedication.  Bill says he will be cutting up some downed trees around the campground this coming week so that we can split and stack them next weekend.  I think we need to also build a second outhouse for the other side of the road as we have cleared camping space over there too but we’ll see how that goes.