Sunday, September 28, 2008

Harvest Festival & Open house



We asked our friends of the community to come and help us harvest the vegetables. 
Even though it was a very wet summer and wettest summer for most of us, some vegetables grew well. As the garden has been providing a variety of vegetables for last few months, we are very grateful. With the extra hands, we managed to harvest all the carrots as well. 
After we could appreciate our harvest by eating nice hot soup that was made from our own vegetables in the garden. 

The same afternoon, we had "Open house" to welcome our friends and neighbors in Clai House. Instead of turning the events with full of games and programs to entertain our guests, we kept it simple. We could spend more time with our guests. 

There was one more event on the day in Kiltrateera afterwards. We had our first "story night". It was wonderful to listen to all kinds of stories sitting by the fire in the old farm house. The house has a perfect set up for such event. All the grown up were quietly listening. I hope we can create the story nights more in the future, especially in dark nights in winter time. 

Monday, July 28, 2008

new house


                                   


From 1st of July, We've been renting a new house called Kilreteera.
It's an old farm house with 5 acre land. 
There is a vegetable garden with 4 poly tunnels. There are strawberry, rasberry, black currant, red currant, goose berry , apple trees, pear trees, etc. 

It's a magical land where a lot of fairy beings  are around. 

inis house













we have reopened Inis house. It had not been used for a while as residential house. 
we are trying to get the house ready to accommodate people. we got new furniture as well and there is more warm atmosphere in the house definitely.

Friday, March 28, 2008

new weaving workshop
















We are building a new workshop next to Clai house. It's going to to be a bright room where weavers create something special with various colors. 

Monday, January 28, 2008

clai initiative blog

I've set up a blog for Clai life sharing community so that family & friends of our community can see what is happening here. 

I'm setting up online photo albums as well. You can view it and leave comments if you like. 

eiji