Well, whaddya know?  The HeartSong land had another treasure to share with us.  The other day  I went on another walkabout to fully acquaint myself with the full 13.52 acres that it is, and lo and behold, I came upon another “road” that we didn’t know about!

I went walking down hill instead of up that day which is the part of the land that goes down to a point, and ends very close to the road and to the track where we come onto the land through our neighbour’s land, past a house there.  I had only been down into that area of the land once before when the whole tribe went down there along the stream, down in a big deep gulley.  It had been quite an adventure and we even saw a small waterfall down there.  That day, we had walked back up the access road.

This day, I went a little way down the gulley, but then I decided I wanted to see the area to the south of there, so I climbed up the hill in that direction.  Suddenly, I came to the top of that bank and found what appeared to be a bit of a trail, although it had a LOT of rhododendron growing wildly across it and both sides of it.  It still looked like a road though, so I decided to go down it to see where it went, and then to come back up it and see where that way went.  I clambered down under a lot of rhododendron – it was hard to get through some of it, there was so much but I then found myself at the bottom point of the land and could just see the (County) road ahead, and to my right, I could just make out our neighbour’s access road that we currently use to get onto the land.  Well, that was cool.  So, I then hiked back up this trail, and the rhododendron was growing thick and fast everywhere, but I truly could see that at some point in time, someone must have dug out a trail/road just below the ridge which is the border of the HS land.  I cut a few branches of the rhododendron so that I could pass through, but sure enough, after cutting a bunch of rhododendron branches, I as able to clamber through the bushes and stay on the trail.  Lo and behold, the next thing I knew, I was close to camp, in an area I had traversed often, but I had never taken this one trail because it was blocked by rhododendron branches.

A couple of days later, I went back over there with Cindy (Lopper -we call the loppers “Cindy”!  LOL!), and a bow saw and machete.  It took me a while, but I managed to clear the trail so that it now looks as it does in the video posted below – don’t laugh at me huffing and puffing up the trail – it looks like I’m walking a straight level path, but I assure you, it is plenty steep!!  😛

So, just a quick update on the doings on the land – as you can see from the picture above, our big “basecamp” tent has been relocated onto a (relatively) level area.  This is an area that Rodney leveled for us with the digger – it is at the end of our “Newold Road” and directly above the Heart Space base building site.  This means we can store our spare stuff AND have plenty of room for tools and materials (such as earthbags and barbed wire for the building of the dome) and also still have room if we want to hang out up there or even camp up there the tent is so big.

The video below is of the road as it is now and the tent, then looking down at the site as well as a view of a path/wagon trail, that I made so that we can wheel stuff down from the road/storage area to the building site.

This is a photo of the area before raking it into a New Wagon Trail down to the building site from where the tent is at the end of the Newold Road as seen in the video above.

After working on the New Wagon Trail

We are almost ready to get started with the foundation of the dome, and to start with buillding one of the small “pods” which will be the “bedrooms” they will be 9 foot diameter earthbag adobe domes.

More soon  ❤