2023-12-26, 1620h

The weather - and gravity of our planning - has me feeling exhausted, so I mostly napped, but I also moved a few bins around down by the 202 Soilworks.

Talked with Zitkato: - Gave me some tasks I added to the Migration to Pine Ridge and Living with Phahin Sinte Wakpala - Told him about how we brought tree frogs back to the Headwaters, Crooked Creek. - Also shared some photos of our HDPE potato hotbox and our Soilworks. - He wasn't irked by the Groundhog aesthetic. "It's not trash if you use it." - Talked about my ideas for HDPE casting using solar ovens. - Asked about water: available nearby, walk or short drive. "The people around you will be there to help." - Zitkato says, "Jobs are scarce but we are working on that too," and mentioned a potential food truck. (Could we provide them with microgreens and/or mushrooms)? - I mentioned Mo and Ari and Zitkato was excited: they've been wanting a welder to help make wood stoves. - I asked if an arrive in mid/late March 2024 was feasible, and he said we'd make it work. - We talked a bit about how if we do not make opportunities for accomplices to help us, then well-intentioned folk have no option but to support the grifters. - Zitkato spoke to coming from an orientation of revolutionary suicide. - We can use his Uncle Leo's PO box at first. - He mentioned we'll be building a buffalo prairie. - I talked about the cranefly orchid that has come up in the Headwaters, Crooked Creek through this winter. (And have learned transcribing this entry that another common name for the plant is the "crippled cranefly.")

talked with Ralph McDonald: - No actions had been taken in actually buying a homestead - Their searching had expanded all the way to West Virginia, so wasn't likely to provide the accommodations we'd want. - Told him that we had our plan: Migration to Pine Ridge and wanted to make sure he wouldn't feel abandoned if we did that. - He said he wouldn't, and would be happy to help with the migration. - That might solve parts of the issues with the 202 Garden Relocation: he can take things that we can't, back to Atlanta or wherever.

Talked with Hannah Kass - Explained a bit about the migration. - They want to write something about it with me, to iteratively document and manifest it. - I set up #mooneys-island within Turntide Islands for this discussion. - In that channel I've discussed that we're using AI as part of the Groundhog Autonomous Zone.