What is there to do here?      
Early Innocent Days 2000 2001
2002 2003 2004
No longer the beginning 2005 2006
2007 End of First Phase 2008
2009 Burning
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Early Innocent Days
1. 2000
Settlers arrive and are wowed.
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87 _00jun__0001 Beginning to reclaim from nature
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87 _00nov_00_0008

Early Innocent Days
2. 2001
Still savoring.
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87 _01jul_0008 At last, a septic tank.
87 _01jun_0003 Standing on the old bridge. Under Bruce's feet are several huge old-grown logs spanning the creek in the ravine below. The logs are covered with dirt but gaps can be seen. This bridge has nnot been used for perhaps 25 years.
87 _01jun_0004 Standing on the old log bridge. The log bridge was removed in 2005 to make way for a new steel bridge. See "death and destruction."
87 _01nov_0001 Farmers? Don't think so.

Early Innocent Days
3. 2002
Settlers begin to "improve" nature
87 _02jun_0004 Music is a welcome interruption of the eloquent silence.
87 _02jun_0005 Early Man's crude shelter. (It certainly beats no shelter!)
87 _02jun_0011 Under construction "milk carton" interior.
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87 _02jun_0015 Making the first garden.
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87 _02jul_0012 The charming animals opposite us across the road.
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87 _02aug_0001 First garden. Exploiting the available fertilizer.
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87 _02aug_0008
87 _02nov_02_32 Yes, it's cold.
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87 _02nov_02_40 Fire 'n Ice.

Early Innocent Days
4. 2003
What happened to 2003?
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Early Innocent Days
5. 2004
Some leisure is now permitted.
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87 _04jul_0013
87 _04jul_0014
87 _shoes040729 Evidencing heroic service.
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87 _04dec_0002
87 _04dec_0003
87 _04dec_0004 Terrorizing creek creatures
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87 _Dec04_0004
87 _family041219b

No longer the beginning
6. 2005
Some leisure and some harvest.
87 _05Apr01-1514
87 _05Apr01-1754
87 _05Apr01-1756
87 _Settlers050625
87 _05Aug7_breezeway
87 _05Aug7_KayA A Ceremony of Plants
87 _05Aug7_KayB A Ceremony of Plants
87 _5Aug7_KayC
87 _05Aug7_KayRelax
87 _05Aug7_TamiRelax
87 _05Aug7_UnderNashMillSun Under Anderson Valley sun
87 _5Aug7_KayD Midsummer can be very hot.
87 _5Aug7_KayE
87 _5Aug7_TamiA
87 _05Nov12-1439swTodd
87 _05Nov25-1323
87 _05Nov25-1442
87 _05Oct02-1609
87 _05Oct02-1611
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87 _05Sept_wittdC

No longer the beginning
7. 2006
Activities
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87 _06May13-1823
87 _29May06_P1000003
87 _11Jun06_P1000057
87 _11Jun06_P1000060
87 _15Jul06_P1000082
87 _15Jul06_P1000083
87 _16Jul06_P1000088
87 _4Jul06_P1000077 Heroic service.
87 _5Nov06_P1000538

No longer the beginning
8. 2007
Activities
87 _07Apr16_957
87 _07Aug04-1308
87 _07Aug04-1532
87 _07Aug04-1532a
87 _07Aug04-1859
87 _07Aug18-1134 Heroic service.
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87 _07Dec01-NM1452
87 _07Dec30-nm_1304a
87 _07Jul21-1920a
87 _07Jul21-1920c
87 _07Jul21-1921a
87 _07Mar17_920
87 _07Mar17_921 Improving nature. Routing surface water to my trees.
87 _07Mar17_923
87 _07Mar25_936
87 _07Mar25_937
87 _07Mar25_940
87 _07Mar25_941
87 _07May27_970
87 _07May27_971
87 _07Nov23-1250
87 _07Sep16-1631
87 _07Sep16-1714b Wow, Genki+!
87 _07Sep16-1916

End of First Phase
9. 2008
Planting and plant infrastructure maintenance.
87 _08Apr12-nm_1747 Perpetual improvement of water and irrigation.
87 _08Jul04-GAME_1938
87 _08Jul04-GAME_1942
87 _08Jul19-nm_1445
87 _08Jul19-nm_1714 Resting while maintaining Laura's gravesite.
87 _08Mar22-nm_1149
87 _08Mar22-nm_1619
87 _08May10-nm_1634 Wow!
87 _08Oct05-nm_1859
87 _08Oct05-nm_1859a
87 _08Sep20-nm_1037 WOW!!!! Prodigious energy! The health benefits of farming!
87 _08Sep20-nm_1155
87 _08Sep20-nm_1200

End of First Phase
10. 2009
Awaiting the next phase of construction.
87 _09Mar25-nm_1743
87 _09Apr11-nm1423 WoodenRose advances at The Land.
87 _09Apr11-nm1505
87 _09Apr25-nm1446
87 _09Jun21-nm_0941 Heroic service.
87 _09Jun21-nm_1358
87 _09Jun21-nm_1358a
87 _09Jun21-nm_1627
87 _09Jun21-nm_1627a
87 _09Jun21-nm_1628 Sexy surveyor.
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87 _09Jun21-nm_1948a
87 _09Jun21-nm_1949b
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End of First Phase
11. Burning
Warming ourselves, and the planet.
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87 _07Dec30-nm_1822
87 _07Dec30-nm_1824
87 _07Dec30-nm_1824a
87 _JollyNorikoNFire
87 _P1010711ThreeAtFireCrop Fire pleases.
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87 _07Feb17_834
87 _07Feb17_835
87 _07Nov23-1603
87 _07Nov23-1603a
87 _08Mar22-nm_1332a Note smoking crater and singed forest, behind. This person is extremely dangerous.
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87 _09Apr11-nm1513a