The March Hare: Spring '04
Issue 40

Spring is in the air! * Truth and perspective * Compost this wigwam * The Ecovillage at 1 Jaunty Weasel Lane * Maggie sends memories of her time at Dancing Rabbit * Ironweed: native blossom * Nature Corner: Spring Peepers * DR experiences growing pains

Come see our past issues for lots of Dancing Rabbit information.

Spring is in the air!

Morning yoga in the Community Building

Birds are singing, frogs are peeping and croaking and clicking, the ladybeetles are annoying (in both the present progressive and adjectival senses), and the mosquitoes are slowly making an appearance. We're all happy to see the days getting noticeably longer—funny how the sun seemed to go down a whole hour later a couple Sundays ago than it did the preceding day—and most of us are happy to be building far fewer fires for warmth at night. We may be just at the start of it, but it does appear that the official Dancing Rabbit haircut and beard-trimming season has begun. Yes indeedy, a few of our members will be sporting new looks for the spring fashion magazines.

In this fine issue of the Hare you'll get to meet the hot new co-op called Ironweed. At the end of our Year-in-Preview session at our annual retreat we like to give out awards for vision, creativity, and other such things. This year's winner of the "You're gonna try to do all that this year!!?" award was Ironweed co-op. Be sure to read all about them to see why. (Okay, I admit it. We don't really have any such award ceremony. But if we were to, they'd certainly win it this year.) You'll also get to hear a word or three about one of the more picturesque—and inexpensive—abodes to ever appear on DR's land in Thomas's quick description of the construction of his wigwam.

Along with birds and gardens and walks and haircuts, spring also brings visitors to Dancing Rabbit. We're excited to get started with our yearly visitor season and hope to come out of this one with some new members. And speaking of visitors, this issue introduces a brand-new feature: a serial piece of fiction about life at (the imaginary) Jaunty Weasel Ecovillage. Stay tuned to the pages of the Hare to find out whatever is to become of Leslie!