Things are great at the Bear! We have an abundance of good food......we're eating out of the garden every day. All the ditches are flowing good and our water systems are working fantastically. Travis and Beau have built more compost bins and turned the huge pile of horse #%@$ in the corral into them for some great soil this fall. I completed a brickwork ring around the dome of the greywater system. There's been numerous wood-runs here this week and the punky is full. We've got 2 truckloads of wood over at the sweat lodge for the Women's Gathering as well as wood piled up for the hot tub. Hope you ladies enjoy! There's 2 - 20 gallon tanks of gas at the summer kitchen for ya'll too. Clean up continues here at the ranch. Every person that has ever been here before comments about how nice and clean the place is.....we're proud of what we've been able to accomplish is such a short time. We're going to continue with the firewood to get the punky full by the kitchen and then start supplying each of the cabins. We've had an abundance of interested folks wanting to come to the ranch. I've been responding back to them with the guidelines/visitor policies that we hashed out at the last meeting. We're all totally stoked at the renewed interest that many folks (some new to us) and others from the river, are showing in the ranch. Looks like there truly is a new breath of air here and I'm thrilled to be a part of it (could this be the infamous BEAR SPIRIT)? We're planning a fruit harvest party for the near future as the apples, peaches, pears and grapes come on. More will be posted about this as the time grows closer and we get some of the details worked out (we'll probably do a big barbeque and folks can bring a dish....music, etc.) Well, that's all I can think of at the moment.............don't forget us.......we're still here!.........Thatch