Tipi

In preparation for setting up the tipi, the poles which were cut from saplings in the forest, were sanded back and oiled up.

Then Paul and I set about creating a flat spot to put the tipi on. In a couple of days, we accomplished with great satisfaction what a bulldozer probably would have done in about ten minutes!

The tipi from Rainbow Tipis arrived a couple of days later and i couldn't help myself, but i had to unpack it all. After getting instructions over the phone, i raced over to the tipi site and set up the poles. It was hairy setting it up on my own as the poles are tall and quite heavy!

The next morning, i thought i could tie the poles better so i took it down and set it all up, including the skin in time for breakfast in the new tipi!

Of course it rained that same day so i got a chance to try out the rain shield.

Perra was a bit nervous of the whole thing, but i encouraged her in. I was going to sleep in their but didn't want to risk a bad night's sleep with a talk I was giving at the Healthy Living Expo the next day.

I did sit and admire it for a while from across the lake and saw the swallows flitting and soaring around it and just occasionally right into it.