Tekiah's newest member, Erik Brandenburg, arrived on April 15. Erik is a Grinnell alumnus, with roots in Chicago and Seattle. He will be taking over the hammock production management for Tekiah, as well as helping out with gardening and possibly working in town. Many of us have been using the arrival of our new members as an incentive to go out more, taking Ann and Erik to many of the concerts, dances, parties and gatherings around Floyd and introducing them to the wider Floyd community. There are just plain too many.
Kids can watch a cow get born if they've a hankering - or they can get a gerbil.
The belled collars are to minimize bird killing. We have found them to be pretty effective with DaVinci, with no appreciable diminishing of his rodent-control prowess. The flea control agreement is important because the people who are most sensitive to flea bites are often not the owners of the pets, but they will suffer when the fleas hop a ride on a pet owner to the community house and land on the couch. We did not mandate heavy duty chemical treatment, but we did agree that if someone's method is ineffective and they are notified, they will take immediate corrective measures. We have agreed to severely limit the number of free-ranging cats on the land.