Things were going so well, until that is i spotted a huge mistake at the final stage of the flooring for my new home and the start of ecoVillages. If there was one thing i learned building and living in India for 15 years it was that i trusted people who didn’t do good work and in the end i should have just done it myself! I was rather hoping to rely on a few local people to take me through the process of making this base, which is an 8 sided octagon. The problem was , as you can see in the thumbnail image... one of the corners is sticking out by a whole 10cm! This is not good at all, since the cloth wall of the yurt needs to drape down to make sure water does not come in. I scratched my head in disbelief, that corner has been hidden by plastic and even though i would have assumed my friend and guide would have got this very important thing right, it definitely wasn’t! After some measuring and checking i realised the problem originated from the very first step, cutting the 8 pieces of wood to exactly the same length. They were off by as much as 3cm, and there was no way i was going to undo all that work!

I spend most of yesterday pondering and was quite upset. I didn’t get angry with my friend, even though i am even paying him to help me.. and just tried to stay cool. Surely it would be OK to cut it and then make that corner go in a bit. Since i have no experience with octagons and wood i really wasn’t sure.. but luckily i had my very good friend and brother @naturejon to call! Jon is a dear friend and has many years of experience building yurts and eco homes. He said it should be totally fine to cut it and put some supports back in and not to worry. Phewph! That was a relief. After 2 months or more of extreme hard work it was pretty crushing to have been looking at the potential of having to undo a lot of work.

I just came back from the land, and im very pleased to say that the surgery is complete! It don't look pretty but you wont see it when it is finished, and i just put SO many supports in that i think this base is Super strong.. might even hold an elephant.. although that’s not something i hope to ever try!

Its good to learn lessons in these early stages of building in a new location. In India i learned a lot building a geodesic dome, and now im learning here with this yurt! I have already decided that I will put the yurt up myself with a friend.. rather than to have to painfully watch someone butcher my new home and hard work! That i hope to start within a week.. Very exciting!!!

What's is also very exciting is that tomorrow we DIG A WELL! If you saw my previous update you will know we doused for water over a month ago now, and we had an amazing result with the dousing stick bending strongly in two locations on our land. On one spot the stick literally split and almost exploded in front of us! So let us see if tomorrow our land gifts me with a beautiful birthday present.. WATER! (yes tomorrow also happens to be my birthday but Shhh. don’t tell anyone!)

IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO ECO VILLAGE COIN (ECO) HODLERS:

We've moved! ecoVillage tokens have migrated to hive-engine. Air-drop is complete to all hodlers.

This is an important update to everyone who has purchased ecoVillage coin. There is nothing to do on your end except be aware of the changes. As many of you will know steem engine has a new hive version called hive engine. Since Steem is no longer stable or decentralised I have now completed the migration of all ecoVillage coins to https://www.hive-engine. I have also completed an air-drop of any tokens purchased by you to your hive wallets. You should be able to see them on peakd.com or hive-engine.com. This is the new location for everyone to buy and sell ecoVillage coins (ECO).

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