All work and no play? NOT AT ALL!

Last week many of the members, visitors, and work exchangers took Thursday off from working to float down the Des Moines River in our kayaks, canoes, and various other makeshift floatation devices. Drinking beer, eating amazing food, and floating/swimming in the fast flowing river made for an all around enjoyable all day event. I believe it was the break from building we all needed. What a gregarious group it was.

Yesterday 9 of us traveled to Columbia, MO to participate in the Show-Me Games Ultimate Frisbee competition. We decided on the team name of Red Hill Rabbits (a combination of the 3 surrounding communities that comprised our team - Red Earth Farms, Sandhill, and Dancing Rabbit). We were definitely the most ragtag team there, which helped us pick up 3 extra teammates (Sarah, Mark, & Pedro) who were looking for a team. Since our field at Dancing Rabbit is about half the size of a regulation field, we normal play 4 on 4. The new 7 on 7 made for quite a challenge for some of us who had never played competitively before. Our first game started out well, being up by 4 points or so, but ended up loosing to the Cleveland Steamers 12-13. The next two games were much more challenging, playing all male teams who had been playing together for years. Next, we took on an all women's team from St. Louis. With both teams being exhausted and tired of loosing, it turned into more of a friendly practice match without much score keeping. Some of our players then decided to join forces with them for their next game, giving those college students a run for their money. All in all, it was a fun (but very long and tiring) day.

We also met two journalism students from MU who were sent to write a story on the Ultimate Frisbee tournament. After talking with our team before any others, they decided to change the topic of their article community living and how it relates to the game of Ultimate Frisbee (I think). When I find their article I will be sure to post it up here.

Back at DR this morning we woke up to our 2nd and final straw bale delivery of around 150 bales. This picture is only a portion of them, but you can see the finished ceiling that Jennifer and I work so hard, until after 5:30, on Friday to finish.