At TWU: Grounds work is nearly done. Flowers were planted and the yard raked. The mural is almost finished and Kathy and Corrine were updated on the website progress.
At San Ildefonso: Lots of work completed in the field and garden...
Betty, Rita and Barbara worked with Bob in the greenhouse, planting seedlings and watering:
Barbara finished tending rows of garlic, piling up dirt around the base of the plants to keep some of the moisture in the soil:
At the firing pit, Michael, George, Rich and Waylan Sanchez (Gilbert's brother) were putting up shelving in the storage area and finishing the area next to the pit.
Sorrel Ann and Gilbert were high up on the frame, drilling down nails to hold the tin roof:
The firing pit is nearly completed and we'll go back tomorrow morning to finish up laying the roof and lining the pit.
In the afternoon, we all went to the gathering place where the Gathering for Mother Earth festival will be held at the end of September. The grounds are located high on a small plateau off a dirt road some distance away from the highway. We arrived with lumber and tools to demolish the existing 'arbor' (a sort of semi-circular Stonehenge-like structure with upright timber beams and short adobe walls) and construct a new one.
After unloading the truck, we removed all the old rotted poles and wire mesh, removed some of the cracking adobe blocks and began hoisting the timbers. Rich, George and Michael did much of the heavy demolition, knocking down the beams and prying loose the old connecting timber. Aurora, Sorrel Ann and William (and Waylan Jr.!) dug a pit to make the new adobe and Barbara, Rita, Diana C. and Ellen coated the new beams with weatherproofing:
By the end of the afternoon, the wind kicked up and Gilbert suggested with wait to finish tomorrow (rather than having our stuff fly around and hit someone on the head), so after a refreshing break (ice-cold vitamin water all around) we headed back to the ranch for dinner.
A good day.
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