i got steelwool today so Julian and i can set to work to rid the saucepan of it's teflon coating. Course, med. fine. That ought to do it? I have so many feelings about Taking …living organisms… these would be the first here, that i would Ask for, to see if they might give color. It's not going to be easy.
Outside the post office on the big steps, a man, not young, not old, sat, a small folding table, making longstemmed roses from palm fronds. He worked as he sat. I dont have a pic here, i'd arrived down at the gate at the same time as Alyssia and gave it to Emrie. It's in her car. But i asked him about his work when i'd finished the long long line to mail the pennant to Mo. There were so many people in line again, and i think this will be how it is for months as there is no mail service to the areas of the Burn and most likely won't be. Maybe a year? he had sheaves of fronds layed out and i commented on how much they seemed like Yucca and he said they are much kinder to the hands. He had interesting facial tatoos. Not a lot of teeth. A nice hat. He said he'd make me one from the beginning if i wanted to watch and i did. His hands moved with sure precision and in a couple of minutes, a rose. He began snipping off the threads but stopped, saying he'd seen how i'd liked them, touched them on the raw fronds and i said he was right.
across the street from the hardware for the steelwool is the Library, where i've not gone yet. But, with my new sense of everything, i walked across and to the door…nope. There were two gentlemen sitting on the bench next to their parked bikes with saddle bags of stuff. They informed me of the Library hours. Sunday till 1:00. Monday closed. New. I told them i wanted MAPS….and thought the Library might have some that could be printed out there and they were interested in that, i said i don't talk to that "lady" on my cell phone, don't ask her for directions, that i wanted a map in my hand, showing me the streets of Oroville, and the Yonder, that i didn't know my way around, coming from New Mexico and they were interested in why i was here and that story over, one suggested i go to the AAA place. He was sure they would have maps and gave me good directions on how to get there from this Library and i'll try that. Street people are having new feelings with all the influx of evacuees. It was a good conversation and i also asked them if they knew what i would need to get a Library Card and that i did have a picture Id but it was my N. Mex driver's licence ….that's how the New Mex part of the conversation actually got going, but they thought that the N Mex licence and my California Voters Registration would be good enough. it was a nice exchange.
Alyssia had read that there is reconsideration of "tiny houses" happening. That there are companies that manufacture them wanting to donate to Paradise. Actually, SENDING them already. That though Butte County had been dragging their feet about allowing such dwellings to be coded, there seems to be a change of heart. They make such practical sense and all this would help us with the redtape with code here that she and Jenny have dealt with for the last year, the issue of building permits where there is no orthodox electric from PGE…it's the electrical grid that sets many of the fires…and they won't permit housing here with just basic Solar to begin….all this. These Earth Changes will cause so many changes if we are open to them.
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