February updates: experimenting in audio form

Delightful Internet corners, graduating interns, logging/milling, and a wedding!

Winter in Montana

Experimenting with updates in audio form this month!

Canyon Oak Version VIII updates:

Where I ramble about:

1. A new wisdom donation from David Rehkopf.

2. Other added tidbits to the website, such as the Corners of the Internet Database (Soul>Craft) - so delightful.

3. My first batch of interns—Rebecca Moriarty & Natasha Wan— “graduating”! They are both senior undergraduates at Tufts University in Massachusetts. Rebecca will be starting at Tufts Medical School in the summer. Natasha is finishing up her biomedical engineering degree and pre-medical coursework. See below for our audio-recorded reflections on the internship experience.

4. Crazy Call reflections & thoughts on Canyon Oak’s financial sustainability

5. Bigger updates to the website in progress: photo gallery & a page focused on the internship

2024 Internship reflections

Michelle:

Rebecca:

Natasha:

Other updates:

• We took a special trip to Montana this past month with our families and got married (hence the quiet January at Field Notes)! Here is a photo of us taken at the Montana Picture Gallery after the ceremony.

• Tree removal began and concluded on our property. A kind-hearted friend owns a logging and milling business and did all the work with help from his brother and Colin. They milled some of the best Ponderosa pine logs, so we could dry and use the wood in building our home. The rest of the logs were sold to a lumber company that will likely make windows and doors out of them. Fun to think of trees from our property being incorporated into someone’s home. The end result feels beautiful and open. Strategic tree removal was important to us to decrease fire risk, clear land that we will be building on, avoid large trees hanging over (and potentially dropping branches or falling on) the house, and give remaining trees more room to grow.

Milling, preparing milled boards for drying (neighbor’s house censored for privacy)

• More practice/house updates to come

Happy Lunar New Year!

To finding and creating delightful corners,

Michelle