Very beautifully said! I do think that the gathering was very beneficial and a real boost to papercrete in general and it would be great if this can happen once a year. The overall unstructured feeling to such a meeting brings people together personally; open to learning, teaching, thinking things through, and sharing. During the time in Abiuqu someone sent an email refering to the gathering as a retreat; that is a great word for it. From the net dictionary-Retreat (offsite), a single or multi-day offsite meeting to discuss strategy.
Hey group
I finally had a rain day from work and had a bit of time to waste on line. Of course crusin the papercrete pictures can hardly be considered a waste of time. I just want to compliment new and veteran members on the great progress which has been made over this past season. The pictures over the last few weeks show a lot of great successes and a lot of maturing in methodology as we figure out great new techniques to up production save labour and all round have better looking results. Congrats to all. I think it is great to see so many of our discussions online translating into help to others and concrete results.
I hope we can continue to share results over time on how our projects stand up, so that the same co-operative nature can help us over the long term. I 'm sure certain mixes will stand up better than others and certain mixes will be better at resisting mold. Mold is a big concern for many of us and so are adding chemicals to our mixes so finding the minimum additives that work will be a huge bonus.
Nick
From: papercreters@yahoogroups.com [mailto:papercreters@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of JUDITH WILLIAMS
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 11:12 AM
To: papercreters papercreters
Subject: [papercreters] Abiquiu pics
I just uploaded a few pictures of the Abiquiu project. I took these a few days ago so the walls are up higher now - half way up!
I will take more and add later today.
Also uploaded a video to YouTube of this project. It's an invitation to Mike Lowe to bring Dirty Jobs to New Mexico. Very cornily (?) done but you get some pics of the building. It is still uploading.
Sincerely, Judith
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