Nigh Ox Newsletter

August 2001

Volunteer Week

Thanks, Volunteers, for your help during Volunteer Week! The patent books have been organized and the shelves filled. The Abbey library, including magazines, journals, and books, is beginning to take shape. The posts have been mortised for the front porch of the heated space. The posts were hewn to continue the Arts and Crafts theme of the building. The old Abbey barn is much cleaner, and tools and hardware in Carroll's wood shop are better organized. The second cutting of alfalfa was baled and put away without any hitches, and harvest from the market garden was made easier with more hands. The manure is out of the barn and into the fields. The blacksmith shop is reorganized and much more tidy, with steel sorted and more racks made to store it. We were unable to call everyone on our list of 1,200 but we hope that you can attend next year's Volunteer Week. Although we have not set up exact dates, it will be some time in August.
Thanks so much:

Chuck Andrews
Clint Bolton
Paul Carlson
Emmore Dent
Nathan Durham
Sharon Dykstra
Rick Gutierrez
Andy Hirzel
Arnie Hoye
Bob Kellogg
Paul McGuire
Beth Murphy
Bill Morgan
Ron Smith
Carol Svenson
Steve, Matt, and Andy Poland
Rob and Belinda Hewlett
Foster Woodward
Don Squires
All of the people from Camp Tavor

If you would like to volunteer, there is plenty of opportunity. Don't hesitate to call. Harvest and Farm tasks are ongoing, and there is work to do on the buildings and in the shops.