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November 06, 2005
Back from Workside
I spent the weekend out at the new land for Flipside. It was a work weekend, and while we wielded no shovels, I'm still quite spent. Mostly it was a group survey, and I helped with the team that was checking out the existing infrastructure and seeing what needed to be repaired or replaced. My quest for adding showers looks a little more feasible, though we're waiting on word from the land owner on some issues, both in terms of permission and also to better understand the fire-suppression requirements.
All in all, the land looks very good. It's big, and it has a real beauty that was lacking at Recreation Plantation. However, it's also dangerous. We're making it a high priority to add some safety features to the land, marking out the danger zones, but I cannot stress enough that this land is dangerous, mostly due to numerous cliffs and other sharp elevation changes. There were perhaps only 100 of us there, and even then we had two injuries: a sprained ankle and a broken wrist. So on that note, some were suggesting that we have found our theme for Flipside 2006: "Culling the Herd"
And on the subject of this odd community, I was sitting around a campfire with someone, and he mentioned that he had a friend living on ten acres nearby. And I was thinking of how conenient that will be for this friend. "Is he a Burner?" I asked. He thought it over for a moment and replied, "No, he's pretty stable."
(Oh, I know I promised NaNoWriMo charts. The first will be on the 10th. At present, I'm a little behind due to work and camping, but it's not really NaNoWriMo unless you've fallen behind in the first week.)
Life in General by Dan at November 6, 2005 10:08 PM