April 25: Gord Foundation and Roger Woodworking

Gord Baird of EcoSense came by and worked with us to start setting up Freya's house foundation for the natural building course he's teaching here called Curvilinear Foundations for Sustainable Building. Freya is Brandy's little daughter (see pictures) and their house is the first of 9 residence buildings going up. One of the buildings is a commons house and the rest are live-in buildings. After Gord showed the bobcat operator where to dig, we went over to Roger's woodworking shop. Roger, described by my friend Jadis as a white-bearded bon-vivant, lives here and spends most of his time in the shop making furniture and similar things when he's not sipping Earl Grey or teasing someone. It's his birthday on Beltane, May 1st. They've got so many cool tools in the shop. Almost everything you could ask for. Gotta watch our fingers so they don't go missing, though. Respect the tools and they'll respect your anatomy.