Ben Skiba wrote:Thanks for the reply Orin.I pmed you some history.Mainly a lightening god that once lived there haha.I don't wanna take away from your blog.Dwarfs redoubt awesome name.Any plans for the wofati by lemontree site?
Nothing taken away Ben. I've watched all the videos I could find including on Jesse's youtube channel so I could understand the past in order to find a path in to the future. The amount of heart and work that went into some of the structures, the wildness of the place and the following loss was something I wanted to understand....and build a bridge into whatever comes next.
Naw, the Dwarf's Redoubt is a narly awkward name, picked to reflect the fact there is no
solar gain, difficult in its placement with regards to flooding, and yet that I still want to save the pit portion to preserve the internal feel of the old structure ....maybe I will rock the entire thing in (nubian vault comes to mind). On the other hand, On Narrow
Pond, has more than one meaning and reflects the person who hopes to shape it :)
I understand the shortness of the building season and the race too which pushed
people to build with less regard to long term viability than to immediacy.... my critique of the
shelters is biased by my own shelter,
water, fire and food goals, and certainly not about the people who built them nor the events which ushered out their era on the Upper
Wheaton Labs.
Had the lighting god gotten lighting perhaps On Narrow
Pond would never exist! Where the
Bear Den once stood, there will either be a cool tribute to the first group living in
Ant Village or a mere clay water basin good for catching rain and directing it to a narrow pond -time always tells the story.
The Lemon Tree site is being worked by Clayton now. He is having to replace the six main poles holding up the roof; not an easy task to say the least!