New Newsletter

[The front cover of a new, improved membership newsletter]

It's been a wild few days as we travelled back from San Francisco and settled into life on the land. I promised to get our organization's internal newsletter, The RadDish, converted to an email-distributed PDF format. This was a huge task, requiring about 20 hours of work on the formatting/internals, another 20 hours on the content, and 5 hours figuring out the database and mailing list distribution.

My goal with this project is to uphold and enhance the spirit of cooperation and empowerment in the organization right now. Our members can review minutes of January's meetings and see agendas for February's meetings. Most committees are open to all members, and it's our hope that people will jump in and help with the ambitious project goals we've set for 2010.

If you are an active Nomenus member and would like to update your membership to receive the new digital RadDish, please send me an email (blossom@blossommerz.com) and I'll forward you the form. For now, we need a signed paper form, but the Communications Team may make it easier in the future.

Today, the rains have subsided and given way to beautiful sunshine. It's warm and very, very wet. I went down to the swimming hole to check the creek level and found that our mushroom-laden alder tree fell across the creek in the rain.

[October, standing up and covered in mushrooms]

[Today, tipped into the creek and smashed on the rocks]

And, on a wildlife note, last night we heard a mountain lion killing a deer just a few feet from my back door. It was a prolonged, blood-curdling jumble of deer screams, lion screams and struggling. I got up this morning to find lots of muddy skid marks and overturned leaves.

Life sure is different out here in the country!