More Preceptorship Info

This is getting stupid, talking about 3 week old news... ;)

During my preceptorship...
My first Saturday in town I went with one of the vets to this cob house compound "way off" in the boonies. Cob houses... they're made of clay, straw, etc, sometimes with straw bales incorporated into the walls. Apparently there has been a recent revival in the use of that building style.

There was a crew of people there for a cob house building seminar, and when we arrived they were off up a mountain collecting branches for the rafters of a kitchen building. Linda (who heads the compound with her husband Ianto) gave us a tour. I may post pictures later, but for now take a look at their website, www.cobcottage.com.
I could see living in something neat and tidy and symmetrical like these older cob houses:

http://www.cobcottage.com/taxonomy_menu/13/16/29/17
Some of the newer round-style houses would be great for a cute and funny garden house... but they are too haphazard to conceive of living in as a serious matter. For me, that is -- for someone else... more power to them. Take a look at the rocket stove and oven idea.

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While in Myrtle Point I did a bit of sleuthing for information about Varney ancestors that lived in the area in the early 1900s. I found a picture of a Varney in the Coos County Logging Museum -- interesting... probably related some how.

On my way home I stopped in Lincoln City to visit my friend Abigail Spinks, who was at that time renting a condominium for the month of June. It was good to catch up with her. She has a couple foster children, and appears to be doing a very good job with them.

Okay, the end of the preceptorship trip.