aug 26 2023
We have an ongoing very exciting program with the veterans which involves our connection with willowdale state forest,, and to work on that yesterday both Elizabeth and Janine ended up walking three or four miles through the forest in the pouring rain.. I haven't heard from Elizabeth since--- it's a little bit rough out there ----the trail that I know very well runs along the top--- I think it's called an esker.. where it drops off 50 feet or so on either side and the trail is not much more than a foot wide.. The glaciers apparently had a wild time when they push through here back a few years ago because willodale is full of extremely steep piles of dirt commonly called hills... often with mud at the bottom there is a trail I believe it's called the Bay State trail which goes from Cape and to Cape Cod all the way around Boston --it's one of those things I'm going to do in my second lifetime---- right now I just know that it's not very far out our gate from what we call the a field..
one part of this veterans project is they need a gathering place which our ice T tent is just to busy--- the tent there by the guesthouse that overlooks the pond is very quiet but there is an area way in the back of a which would be ideal if we had some kind of shelter... not that I am a very efficient Indian woman but in the middle of the night I remembered I think we have the poles leftover from our huge tipi which I think was 27 feet wide that was a big deal and I think the poles are around---- so that's today's project is to go find at least three of them and see if I can stand them up there by the guesthouse and just look at them for a while and see whether I think we could make something of them.. I don't think it's a simple matter to just cover the thing with the canvas.. last Tipi dealings I had I think the canvas is a semi circle with the diameter of the length of the pole or something like that in any case I don't think it you can just put up the the poles and then just hang polyester tarps all over it I don't think that'll work but somehow we can figure something out maybe getting 2 canvas painters drapes go to pull the canvas would be a good 22 feet in diameter--I might be able to make the teepee out of two painters canvases because the order one from the tipi company would be expensive,
it would also be beautiful to get one of theirs.. the company I deal with is the company who made the teepees for dances with wolves so they look good.
that's the project of the day.... which will be cut very short if I can't find the 27 foot poles in the first place
