Our house is the vertical collection of 2x6's just to the left of the big green forklift thingey! It just leapt from a cement slab a few days ago. What a change! We are bewildered and excited to wander through the rooms to get a sense of the space.

Many of the homes in the Common Ground project have straw bale walls in place with plaster on them. Some have even got metal roofing on them. We've really enjoyed working on the site, and have set up a separate Common Ground blog for residents and interns to share thoughts, dreams, images.

Most saturdays we've been helping Ty and Sara to sell Thai icetea and coconut stickyrice at the Lopez Farmer's Market. Here's Ty in his chef's hat giving a free Thai language lesson to a patron.

4th of July

We went to see the 4th of July fireworks. The fireworks and the reflection on the water were beautiful!

Earlier in the day we were all in the parade. It's Lopez at its most diverse -- the hippies dressed in moss and cedar bark, all the way to the folks in black hummers with "God Bless the USA" stickers and flags. We found ourselves in the Friends of Lopez Island Pool (FLIP) -- with Sara dressed as a mermaid (throwing candy), Ty as Neptune (operating a water-blasting firearm), and Chom and Chris trailing behind blowing bubbles and waving a flag.