This past weekend in Taos we had both the Wool Festival and the Mountain Film Festival. I tried to get to both. It was cool on Saturday so that put me in the mood to look at wool hats, sweaters, scarves, and to pet the sheep and llamas and alpacas. There are a lot of little sheep operations around these parts, and by these parts I also mean Southern Colorado and Eastern Arizona. Of course yall know the Navajo are big sheep ranchers and weavers and they're close by. So I went to the wool festival and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Everything cost an arm and a cunt, as my friend Julie would say. I didn't buy anything. I also went to the film festival and at one of the parties I sat and talked with a star. One of the stars of "Touch-g The V-id". The real guy not the actor that played him. The movie was made after the famous ascent of a big mountain in Peru which resulted in a pretty remarkable adventure, all life and deathy. I met the guy who didn't fall into the crevasse. He was quite entertaining. I enjoyed the unedited (drunken) version of how he felt about the movie, and the other guy, and the whole experience.
It was a pretty fun weekend, though the films made me tired. all that outdoor activity gets exhausting to watch after awhile.
I'm heading off to Raton, NM for another module of energy Healing School. I'm really looking forward to that.
And the lil earthship is SO FRIGGIN COOL! I've been learning more about how the black water systems work and meeting more neighbors and seeing more earthships and it has all renewed my enthusiasm for the whole thing. Plus, my lil earthship is so warm and toasty. I am so sold on being off the grid. I want to spread the word so this can start being done in other lands. Apparently the developer of my community has worked to get building policy changed to accommodate all the alternative building that goes on here in New Mexico. It's a process so other places will need to get to work, plus earthships have gone through a lot of evolution since the first ones. In different climates alternative building will need to be adjusted and improved upon. My neighbor J has a really really nice 2000 square foot earthship, with two cisterns so he's got lots of water, and he has it all- a washer and dryer and a bathtub. His attitude, which is now my attitude- is that you ought to have all the comforts you want. I mean, if you can afford it you might as well throw up extra panels and have more square footage on your roof and put in an extra cistern or even three. You're not wasting anything, just utilizing what the Erf gives you. When it comes to Solar energy- I heard someone say, "I got Saudi Arabia right outside in the sky" It's true. We do and it rocks and it's the way to go yall. I'm telling you. And it's so pragmatic, it just makes so much sense. In so many ways.
The Fall here has been nice. There are Aspens and the leaves turn yellow and fall down, so I'm getting that fall smell. It's gotten a little chilly but the sky is big and blue and the snow on yonder mountaintops makes it all even more picturesque. The tarantulas have almost all gone, they were really super cute. Shy animals, I was scared to pick one up because I had heard that they have spiky things on their back legs. I just wanted one to walk across my hand but they all ran away.
