Here are a few updates on various topics here:

• The Mini is doing very well here. I only drive it to the airport, and it can deal with the mile or so of dirt roads between our house and the tarmac just fine.
• The drives to the airport are not bad. I’ve been doing a lot of traveling this month and am doing fine. it’s a much nicer drive during daylight though.
• The greenhouse is coming along. (It will be screened, not glassed, in, but we’re still considering it a greenhouse.) Last week, Brad got cement and plaster, and this weekend we worked on the corner pillars.
• We are going to start composting soon. I got several books from the library and have had advice from some of my Tweeple and am excited to get started. We are going to build a 55 gallon drum composter.
• We are going to be creating and hosting a new web site for Portal Rescue, the local fire and rescue group (and the closest thing we have to any kind of local governance or community group). I’m very excited about this.
• The wind is still blowing — intermittently, but when it blows, it really is unbelievable.
• There have been several reports on the very rare jaguarundi in our area. The field service here is setting some “camera traps” to confirm.
• The cows are coming down from the mountains where they grazed this winter into our valley. We saw a few on our run this morning.
• We still don’t have a building permit.