Cohousing-L Mailing List: Fred back for DC, SC and SC,IA / admin notes

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

Hi,

Fred, the Cohousing-L listserv manager here.
I'm now home from an extraordinary 5 weeks that included travel to
Washington, DC , South Carolina (SC) and Sioux City, IA (SC,IA).
and in between several sessions with Diana Leafe Christian here in
Minneapolis.

During the 3 days in DC we stayed at Takoma Village and stayed in the unit
Jennifer Ryan recently posted was for rent in May and June and possibly
for sale later. TVC is an urban community I would very much like to live
in (if only they had a "worm hole" to Minneapolis).  Jennifer's unit is
very nice and spacious and conveniently located part way down the "U"
shaped court yard from the common house. See her post at:
http://lists.cohousing.org/archives/cohousing-l/msg29859.html

My Sioux City time was unplanned and was to be with my 90 year old mother
during what turned out to be her final two weeks.  It was a good visit and
I noted that I have continued her long tradition of activism in the
community.

While traveling I get access to the net one way or another and am able to
do list manager tasks at least minimally tho a few things don't get done
as well as they deserve.  If there are any outstanding requests from
recent weeks, please send me a note off list.

Please DO NOT reply to this message about admin stuff.

Note that I do not make general announcements about my absences in advance
for security reasons tho I typically mention it to a few subscribers in
case a major problem develops when I am not checking in very often.

BTW even when I am at home, I do not get Cohousing-L messages in my Inbox
tho I typically browse the archives fairly often.  So it is possible that
a problem might develop that is mentioned in a message(s) posted to the
list and I would not notice for a while.  Feel free to send me a note
direct to alert me to such things.

Other admin notes...

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Fred, listserv manager, http://justcomm.org

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