I just happened to be working at home this afternoon enjoying the late afternoon sun in my south window. What was most fortunate however was to spend 20 minutes watching my 3 year old neighbor working away outside my window carefully hauling Tonka trucks and diggers as he calls them up and down and over and out of the snowbank, moving snow and mud from here to there and back again, talking or singing to himself with his stocking cap getting lower and lower over his eyes and his snowpants getting wetter and wetter and dirtier and dirtier. It all ended as the sun was lowering with his carefully planned parking of his construction vehicles one by one under the chairs on his front porch. Thank you my little friend for sharing your fun with me on this late winter day.
P.S. Of course I immediately placed a call to my 26 year old big boy son, in Washington D where he now plays on a real construction site as an Americorps volunteer to tell him I love him and miss him.
March 6th, 2010 by Mary | Tags: kids | Category: Life in general | Leave a comment
Spring must be coming — birds are starting to sing, and sap is starting to flow.
We’ve tapped a half-dozen sugar maples around the neighborhood, with plans for boiling our first batch of syrup on Sunday.
And I’ve learned that when you’re collecting the sap, it helps to have a partner along to help out:
March 5th, 2010 by Noel | Tags: kids, maple syrup, sugaring | Category: Life in general | Leave a comment
February 27th, 2010 by Clive | Category: Life in general | Leave a comment
February 24th, 2010 by Clive | Category: Life in general | Leave a comment
Some photos of last night’s festivities, including…..
A “Nub-Igloo”:
Homebrew:
And our boileriffic party:
February 20th, 2010 by Noel | Tags: beer, celebration, community meal, energy, kids | Category: Life in general | Leave a comment
Thanks everyone for a perfect day. How wonderful to return from weaving workshop in Harrisville with Patricia, the latest weaving convert, and discover Richard, Peter and the kids building the ultimate open air igloo, then to barely squeeze in the entryway and find a sliver of new moon hanging right above.
The home brew was fantastic and the boiler room tour made me proud to have such an ingenious heating system and about 2% knowledge of how it works. I know I could have gotten that up to 5% if I hadn’t cut out on Eric’s “seminar” to go eat. Oh well.
Dinner was just great — two delicious stewy soups made with our home raised chickens and pork, rather well prepared I must add! Then a few easy to understand games (thank you Suzy!) and home at an early hour.
Boiler team, you outdid yourselves.
Barbara M
February 20th, 2010 by Richard | Category: Life in general | Leave a comment
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February 2nd, 2010 by Clive | Category: Life in general | Leave a comment
Today has been a banner day at Nubi and it’s only 8 AM!
Suzy arrived at the Common House rosy from attending to the cows in -2 degree cold. She announced that the full moon had been in perfect alignment with the road through Nubi and was such a glorious sight, she barely refrained from summoning Clive to get his camera.
Then Clive himself appeared, delighted to announce that the tweaks made to the pellet system were paying off today with all boilers running and tons of heat and hot water to all.
For my part, I am thrilled to say that the cows are alive and well on day two of Shelley’s absence. And even Ed is alive and well having successfully milked the recalcitrant Pumpkin. Production is a bit low (the girls miss you, Shelley!), but the quality is perfect. It is really thrilling to know we can run the dairy by ourselves, all ten or so of us!
And yes I am knocking on wood.
January 30th, 2010 by Barbara M | Tags: cows, Farm | Category: Life in general | Leave a comment
This past weekend was a cohousing whirlwind of winter fun for our children.
Friday: our first annual neighborhood birthday celebration, which included outdoor scavenger hunt, indoor limbo contest and pina coladas, and a sumptuous community dinner.
Saturday and Sunday: ice skating on our pond, hot chocolate and movies with neighbors, community potluck in the Common House.
Monday: school canceled due to a big snow storm, so all the neighborhood kids spent most of the morning outside with snow fights, fort building, sledding, and creating a snow dinosaur (a “Nubisaurus” — see photos), followed by an impromptu pancake lunch in the Common House.
Not bad for a winter weekend.
January 20th, 2010 by Noel | Tags: kids, snow | Category: Life in general | Comments (1)
January 18th, 2010 by Clive | Category: Life in general | Leave a comment
