Around the Commune: Where are you guys?

I'm sure that's what you're asking yourself. What's going on with the garden? How are all the plants? Yes, yes. Here's an update.

Mx moved out. He got a great oppuetunity to go to law school and off he went. Congratulations, Mx!

When Mx moved out, Kv took is place upstairs.

Mt, not to be outdone, is getting ready to move off to India (with a quick stopover in Okinawa, Japan first). :sigh: We all hate him now because he's just soooo much cooler than us. :pout: (<3 you, Mt!)

This all means that Nk has the back apartment all to himself (soon).

Jn has a new job lined up to start soon. Congratulations, Jn!

Al, Rb, and I are just doing our everyday thing. Nothing super new or special here.

So now you know what we are all up to... you probably want to know about the garden:

Well... we live in Texas and it's ridiculously hot these days. So, being the lazy hippies we mostly are, there isn't a lot getting done with the garden. We decided to skip our July planting and wait until the heat has dispersed and we will actually do the projects we want to do.

Right now we are barely managing to water the plants we have and pick the food they give us.

Also, Jn has saved some of our cucumber and jalapeno seeds. He's going to try to plant them and see what happens. And our tomato plants that were looking bad are looking better after a treatment with ash.

Stay cool!

Around the Commune: To work or not to work?

Imagine it's a quiet Tuesday afternoon. The Dallas weather is sweltering at best. The commune is unusually still and deserted. All it's inhabitants are at work or school.

Except two lone hippies with nothing to do.

What did our intrepid hippies choose to spend their afternoon doing?

One choose hard manual labor with old rusty (but effective) tools. The other did crossword puzzles.


It's a good... if lonely... day at the commune. :)

Around the Commune: Meeting tonight!

We're having our follow-up meeting for garden and chickens tonight. I'm hoping it will be productive... we've fallen down on most of what we had planned to get done after the last meeting. (Of course, that storm changed a few things...)

In other news, our tomatoes are finally starting to turn, our cucumbers are cuking, and our pepper plants are peppering. :D

Around the Commune: Look what I found on the way to the laundromat!

One of our crazy communite hippies (Mt) also happens to make his living as a writer.

He (not too long ago) wrote a hysterical piece about animals getting drunk and that's where I learned all about bees getting drunk on pollen.

So wasn't I surprised to find this guy on our driveway:
























He's clearly covered in pollen, completely coated. He was just sort of dancing around like a very tired rave kid whose glow sticks are being outshined by the sun rising.

Around the Commune: A meeting?!

How organized of us!

In further news, this site is about to be abandoned in lieu of a better homemade site. (Thankies, Rb!) But don't worry I will be sure to tell you exactly where and when to switch over! Until then keep coming here for more updates!
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Around the Commune: T'rrists

With only 14 days left 'til Flipside, the T'rrists gathered for pictures and silliness.

Around the Commune: Rain and Beer

Last weekend, most of the commune (6 out of 8, missed you Rb and Al) and a couple of friends headed out to Kv's family's lake house to shoot guns, drink beer, play in the mud, and generally have a great little vacation. (Thx Kv!)

It's been crazy rainy lately (woo!) and the lake was much fuller than I have ever seen it. Pretty, pretty, pretty.



<- This pretty much sums up the weekend. The lake, the doggies, the beer, the ammo, the guns... who could ask for anything more!













But wait... that's not all. We also scored a fridge for brewing!

Around the Commune: :EEEEEK:

I mentioned once, awhile back, that the property could be sold out from under our sweet little hippie adventurers. Today, that threat becomes a little more real.

Someone has come by the house, liked it, and is coming back again to see the other units. They 'really want' to see the whole place. :sigh: It's a little hard not to start sabotaging the commune so that they won't want it.

It seems more serious than normal. Not only are they coming back, but the landlord has asked us to clean up more and has sent over the handymen to fix shit up. :(

Will all our hard work be for naught?
More to come...

Update: Around the Commune

Not too much going on.

Several of us dirty hippies are preparing for Flipside (a regional Burning Man event). We went from having a bunch of boards in the backyard to having a shade structure skeleton! Very important in Tx in May. We're also working on wine-shooting AKs, an obstacle course, a bar, and hula hoops. 33 days left... not much time.

In other news, we gained control of the shed in the backyard. The owner of the house had been storing some stuff in there and we were locked out. But he came by picked up his stuff and allowed us to have the extra storage room. Result! This has allowed Rb and I's porch to be cleared off (mostly) and some extra space in each apartment.

Now we have 4 runners in our commune of 8, 3 of whom are barefoot. We also have 3 bikes and have been using them a lot! (Mostly to go buy ice cream and look at comic books, but still...)

So that's what's been going on around the commune.