Nadine MacLane and Megan. Nadine, daughter-in-law extraordinaire, is one of the three people without whom this whole thing would not (indeed, could not) have happened.

Nadine is the sorceress (financial and otherwise) who made everything work. She is also the generous person who sacrificed time with her husband and daughter to enable Jon (with Megan in tow) to be here when really she wanted them at home. This has gone on (off and on) for three years while we got this together.

Nadine also came up with a lot of the best ideas for doing things here and the most economical way of doing them. May she reap the good she has sown a hundredfold!

My number one son and the contractor, Jonathan MacLane, is another of the indispensible people on this project.

Pretty much everything that has happened Jon either did or supervised the doing thereof. The list is far too long to even begin to write.

The most outstanding thing, apart from his willingness to spend all this time and energy over the last several years, has been that Jon has a deep understanding of the spiritual side of what I'm building here. For example, he didn't just pile the tree stumps up to burn, like anyone else would have done without even asking me. Everyone knows that's what you do with waste tree stumps, right? No, he asked me where I wanted them. And when I told him I wanted them to make the Gnome Ghome, he grinned and said, "Right! Good idea!" And told Tomas just where to put them.

Lee Ehrheart is the third of the indispensible trio here. When it looked as if this project was going to never even start, Lee pulled a miracle out of his pocket. This, he said, is what friends are for.

We were neighbors aboard our boats forty years ago in Norway, and now we are neighbors again because he bought the land next door. There is something very satisfyingly symmetrical about this to us both.

It's lovely moving to a new place and being able to count on an old friend and neighbor to give a hand from time to time. And to know that a hand given back will be appreciated. Good neighbors who are old friends are beyond price.

Tomas and Jubenal are Jon's best and most reliable crew, and they were often assigned to come work in the forest here. Pretty much everything Jon didn't do was done by them - and that was a lot of work.

Not only were they reliable, but they were also cheerful and helpful, even in the face of daunting weather and hard labor.

The heavy crew - Jon, Jubenal, and Tomas - hard at work pouring foundations for the house. Most of the pictures I took that day came out blurred - they were all moving so fast. There was a lot to do before the concrete set.

Larry Hays making a track through the trackless forest, Dr. Pepper in hand.

Larry is a friend who came for a visit early on in the project. He got to play with Tommy the Track Hoe - and a shovel. He cut a large section of the path through the undergrowth between the future site of the house and the blessing cairn itself. He also did a lot of digging in the meditation garden opposite the cairn, his childhood farming skills coming to my rescue as we figured out what the garden needed. He even bought some "clay buster" for it, and planted the first flowers in the garden. Once a man learns how to dig and plant, it seems he never forgets.

Megan MacLane, grand-daughter prima, digging a hole for a plant by my personal altar. She is 18 months old here and has been helping with the house and entertaining the fae since she was born, one way and another.

Below, Megan at six months "driving" the track hoe, one of her very favorite things to do.

Elaine Hodgson arrived on a visit from Scotland to see her old healing teacher (me) and promptly set to work in the garden.

She knows, as I do, that the best way to please the fae is to provide for the creatures on the land, so we assembled the birdbath and planted flowers she bought to please the hummingbirds and the bees. This is in my little private altar garden up by the house. The altar stone wasn't there yet when Elaine was here.

Elaine also weeded the Blessing Cairn itself and spent hours and hours packing to get me closer to actually moving onto the land. She was also the first of my friends to actually sleep in the my new home - on a foam pad on the floor.

I couldn't have had a better guest. I promise to have better accommodations next time, Elaine!

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How the Blessing Cairn Came To Be
What Happens Here
An Lios - the Garden
Creating Your Own Sacred Space
How You Can Give to the Fae
Thanks to the Fae
Jesa's Coracle Pages with boatloads of stuff,
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