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Tuesday! Dec 13 2005 // 10:39 am // permalink Beginning the processYesterday I decided to be done working. This week I’ll be finishing small projects and helping with wholesale orders and meals, but mostly I’ll be getting ready to be gone by the weekend. The pumphouse dismantling will be on Thursday and Friday, and anyone who’s been in there should know how difficult that will be. JPB was out visiting last week and described it as a shrine. I guess that’s how I decorate all my personal spaces, as if they were shrines. Bedrooms, kitchens, practice spaces, cubicles, tents, cars, and so on. Bringing magic and the spirit of my friends and family - living and otherwise - into my space makes being creative and happy just a little easier. White walls make me feel trapped. I’ll try to take a few photos of the interior and post them here. Until spring, I’ll be hanging with my parents, and then it’s on to travelling around the country working a few jobs and visiting relatives and friends. Let me know if you’d like a visitor, I’d love to add you to my itinerary. One of the other projects I’ll be working on will be archiving all of the farm photos currently saved on the farm computer. Thousands of photos will be tansfered to cd, and in the process I’ll be posting some of my favorites here. Saturday! Dec 03 2005 // 9:20 am // permalink Big winter crewThis week was full of big projects and big visitors. And without getting into a full essay on sexism, I’ll outline some of the subtleties of what’s been happening around here lately. We’ve had a nebulous crew of four to seven men, and two women. Almost immediately I noticed a difference in mood. Tracy and I have been frustrated at times as it is much harder to feel part of the crew, and in a few instances we’ve been ignored completely. After hours, for the most part, they have tried to be inclusive. She and I have had several conversations about the new atmosphere, trying to narrow down what is or is not sexist behavior and what may be just attention-hungry personalities. This is one of the issues of my job that I end up ignoring more than I confront. I’ve always tried to work harder and fit in to a situation as opposed to calling someone out on questionable behavior. And then I wonder why I’m so physically and emotionally drained at the end of the day. Working with someone who is perhaps more tuned into recognizing a sketchy situation has been welcome. Not that we’ve been able to do much about it. The week’s work: -A cinder block building on the new property has been rebuilt, nearly from the ground up. New walls, new roof, etc. I’ll post photos sometime next week. -Thursday and Friday we dug a trench from the well head to the basement of the cow barn to install a hydrant. Almost a hundred feet long, four feet deep, and about a foot and a half wide. It goes down a hill and around a corner into the barn. -After the trench was filled in, we started the stone staircase that will go down the same hill. Building a stone staircase involves a lot of digging, and moving of giant rocks. -For a little while yesterday, Reid and I split and stacked firewood, one of my favorite winter jobs. |
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