...let there be shelter

another exciting couple of days. its hard to keep track of it all. it guess it was 2 days ago there was some serious sun happening here in nanaimo that broke all kinds of temperature records. it was over 40 celcius and of course me and antonio were outside walking around and getting well lost. We eventually made our way to our destination, although a little bit late and sweaty for our meeting with Ian. Ian took us on a tour of his house pointing out, explaing and answering about all of the energy saving and other interesting modifications he has made, including a composting toilet, solar hot water heater, PV energy system, heat exchanger....tres. cool. it was nice to see all the stuff that we would eventually want to implement in the future in our own lives or on our test building site in cedar, happening and working in our own backyard. the rest of the day was spent melting and trying to do as little as possible.
The next morning we biked out to the work site. It was about a 20km ride and the weather was perfect. we explored the site to figure out what we would build and where, set up a tarp that was the best looking tarp setup i have ever been proud to be a part of (you would be proud charlotte), started building an outdoor shower, and were provided with yet another wonderful meal by Pauline before biking back home at 9pm. we slept well.
this morning's meeting was with an electrician regarding the planning of our future bike generator, and the workshop we will be holding teaching others how to build one. we don't know how to build one yet. so the afternoon was spent scouring the city's bike shops trying to find someone who did. no luck yet. but we did find a cheap deep cycle 12 volt battery.
and finally, it seems we may have another member of our team named eric, freshly returned from lasqueti island. more action to come shortly.