Memphis Democrat August 8, 2001

Day to Day Life
Memphis Democrat Column -- Jacob's Travel Logs

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We've got less than 20 people on the farm and that means the pace has slowed down a lot. Though it means we get less done, its also kind of nice, because we get to spend more time with each of the folks that are here.

But to get to that small number, we've had lots of departures. Tamar and Ted both left on vacations. Brian left to finish his final year at the University of Rhode Island. He staged a small drama with Cecil as his goodbye. Ellen left to return to her home in Oregon. She likes to work with clay and had built a wedging table which she left for the community to use. On her last night, many of us gathering to make things, or just play, with clay.

We had another departure from our extended community, but in a different way. I mentioned that our former intern Minna was missing in CA. Well, her body has been found and we send our deepest condolences to her family and friends. Cecil attended the New Testament Church in Rutledge, where Minna used to attend, to deliver the news and was touched by folks' caring response.

Cecil has set up a recycling program in Rutledge, for aluminum cans. There's a barrel in the park next to the post office and if things go well he'll set up more barrels for other materials. Thanks to Kevin Tripp who cut the hole for cans in the barrel lid, and Megan Cain who painted the barrel nicely.

Megan has been working with Mark fixing up Kalen's little house. Kalen travels a lot and is currently learning blacksmithing skills in North Carolina. His house is unfinished, so Megan and Mark are putting some work into it and then will live in it a little while. They are insulating the walls with straw dipped in a thin clay slip and then stuffed tight. Then they appear at meals all covered in clay.

Aubrey and young Sara painted a beautiful sign for the herb garden. They had found a robin's nest and dead monarch butterfly and incorporated pictures of those into the design.

Tony and Cecil attended the Memphis City Council meeting to present information about the website they are making for Scotland County.

Tamar taught a fiddle lesson to a new student this week, Megan Westhoff. Her other student Abby's mom, Annette, has been giving us vegetable and flower seedlings that need to be put in the ground and we are doing our best!

I caught a ride with the bridge players on Wednesday night to attend the Sit and Stitch with the Kirksville Quilt Guild. I had a nice time getting to know some of the members better, and see the beautiful projects they are working on.

We meet every Sunday afternoon as a community to take care of business. We value everyone having equal power and use consensus to make decisions. In consensus, everyone's voice has equal weight and we don't decide something until everyone agrees its okay. This week we decided, among other things, to host our open house on October 6th. We hope to see many of you there.

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