Another great month with a good balance of work and play, warm weather and cold.
STARTING THE YEAR RIGHT
Good friends and good food is the best way to start a new year. Check out more pictures from our annual Hoppin John Party
LEETLE PITTSBORO
Home to one of the 600 or so Piggly Wiggle stores in the Southern and Midwestern U.S. Or, as we like to call it, the “Iggly Iggly.”
BITS AND PIECES
Little by little we’ve been reorganizing our lives since our return last month. Bob had an epic go at his desk. Camille borrowed a jigsaw puzzle from neighbors Fred and Reda.
WINTER WORK
When life gives you fallen trees or crappy trees that just need to be gone, make firewood! Read all about it on Winter Work
FAMILY!
This month it was Molly and Shane’s turn to drive down from the mountains for a visit. Haruka, Camille and Molly show off their new pashmina scarves from Morocco. Haruka and Jason joined us for dinner. Our life is rich with family and friends.
GREEN HOUSE PROJECT
One of Bob’s many projects is this pair of green houses at The Plant. As you can see, there’s plenty of work to be done here.
THE PLANT
A view through the green house frames towards Building 3 and Ray making boidiesel inside.
WAUKESHA
An upfit of this room in building 3 required removal of the wall and an enormous generator.
ON CAMPUS
Jill, Nora and Andy outside the Sustainability Building at Central Carolina Community College. Adah and Bob compare hairlines before a panel discussion in the college library.
CAFETERIA MAN
The Abundance Foundation brought together a panel featuring the man known as Cafeteria Man for a rousing discussion of how to fix the broken school lunch programs across our nation.
FEED YOUR HEAD, FEED THE BIRDS
Camille has put a Rastababy sticker on Christine which may or not invite the local police to pull her over. The bird feeder that once hung in the poplar tree now hangs on the porch outside our office window.
BUNNY BOMBERS
We bought these hats in 1998 before moving to China. They come in handy when the weather gets down into the single digits.
BLACK AND WHITE
The snow turned our world into black and white and sepia.
OUR SENTINNEL
We really must talk to Spot about letting all those deer into our yard but he always seems so cheerful we don’t have the heart to bring it up.
NEW ZEBRAS
Our friend Donna mailed us this nice pair of batiked zebras framed in bamboo. She thought it would fit with our decor and it does. We especially like that these zebras are not running off like the old zebras were. We are never leaving home again…
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THIS MONTH’S QUOTES:
“We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.” – Jonathan Safran 2013 commencement address at Middlebury College
“In our time, said to be an age of information, one of the most striking characteristics is the triviality, narrowness, and often factual inaccuracy of our political conversations. Much of what passes for public dialogue has to do with jobs and economic growth, but it is based on economic theories that fit neither biophysical reality nor the highest aspirations of humankind.” – David Orr
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