Enjoying Community Life

Wolf Creek Lodge Newsletter

Proactive Adult Cohousing in Grass Valley, California

August, 2016

Last month we looked at "getting the work done" at Wolf Creek Lodge. Now I doubt if anyone moved to a cohousing community to do work. They moved there for the community life style. So although working together certainly builds community let's focus this month on how we enjoy the life style at Wolf Creek Lodge. Our theme is "enjoying community life."

We look at several of the regular features of life at Wolf Creek Lodge form morning coffee, walking and hiking, a common dinner and night on the town.

A two bedroom home is now available at Wolf Creek Lodge. There are two other possibilities. One couple would entertain an offer for a single bedroom home. Another two bedroom home may also be offered for sale later in the year.

See here and contact us if you are interested so we can be more specific.

We welcome questions you may have after reading our newsletter or perhaps you have suggestions for future themes for the newsletter. Simply reply to this email with your questions and suggestions.

Bob Miller,
Editor.

Morning Coffee

Now not everyone wants to leap out of bed and join in conversation with the morning coffee group. I understand some prefer to get a cup of coffee, return to bed and read the newspaper.

However, there is a group of regulars who are there every morning. They are sometimes joined by some we will call "irregulars". The topic of coversation is wide ranging, the jokes may be repetitive but who's counting?

Let's Move


In the Empire Mine State Park


	At the end of the Hirschman Trail

Feeling like a walk or a hike? Or not feeling like a walk or a hike but knowing you should. What better than having neighbors to motivate you? At Wolf Creek Lodge there are a lot of choices.

For a short excursion consider going down the steps to Wolf Creek. Recent work by the town has considerably expanded the opportunities to walk along the creek.

Alternatively walk 700 yards along East McKnight Way past the SPD shopping area, over the freeway and into a back entrance to the Empire Mine State Park. There you will find miles of trails used by walkers, horses and mountain bikers. Use Google Maps, both Map and Earth views, to see for yourself.

For other local hikes a short drive takes you to a wide variety of trails The Bear Yuba Land Trust continues to both expand and maintain the available trails. SYRCL (The South Yuba River Citizens League) continues to nurture the trails and swimming holes along the river.

The more adventurous will drive for an hour east to Donner Summit at 6,700 ft and enjoy world class hiking. See here for a more extreme example of Wolf Creek Lodgers on the trial.

And for a very 2016 experience try this.

The Gardens

For a change of pace we can relax on a chair on the patio and enjoy the fine display of flowers and shrubs. The picture changes with the seasons.

Common Meals

We have been on a hike, relaxed on the patio - now it's time for dinner. Since we are not on the cook team today we enjoy the dining as if in a restaurant.

Wolf Creek Lodgers gather for common meals several times a week. On most Saturdays we enjoy potlucks, while during the week a cook team prepares the meal. The meals vary from fine dining, through exotic to "mom's cooking". From healthy to unapologetically unhealthy. You sign on-line up for the ones you like - check the menu but, more importantly, check to see who are the cooks!

Social Hour and Movie Night

Each Friday night we gather for "social hour" at 6:00 pm. We bring various snacks and to enjoy, sometimes with a glass of wine. Following social hour we show a movie on the big monitor in the common house.

Out and About in Grass Valley and beyond

Keep an eye on your emails. There is a constant stream of invitations to join fellow lodgers on a trip to the theater, musical events, social events or whatever. Meet in the parking lot to car pool. Sometimes we go further afield to events in Sacramento.

Pokemon Go Report

Those considering buying a home at Wolf Creek Lodge will be delighted to learn that there are two nearby Pokestops.

One is at the Post Office in the SPD Super Market. The other is at the Gazebo. Go down Freeman Lane, then turn left onto Piccadilly Lane.

Wolf Creek Lodge hired, at considerable expense, an 8 year old, level 8 Pokemon consultant to survey the neighborhood. He is available for hire by other cohousing communities at very reasonable rates.

See the Pokemon Trailer at the link below:

Pokemon Trailer

Digging in the dirt.

Claire Miller

This month is less about actual digging in the dirt, and more about traveling in it.

In late April of this year I celebrated my 70th birthday. The actual day was fairly quiet, ending with an ice-cream feast at Wolf Creek Lodge. The real event, however, began in late June when I hit upon the idea of walking 70 miles along the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) in celebration of my 70 years!

I was immediately convinced that this was a great idea. I have been hiking in the mountains for years, after all, and have done lots of day hikes on parts of this very trail, so why not string a length of it together? Surely now, if ever, is a time to take risks! Why not hike several days in a row? Why not sleep out under the stars? Why not drink from questionable streams? Why not have moonlight conversations with prowling mountain lions? Or gamble on being eaten by bears?

Over several sleepless nights of 'imagining the possibilities", the thing evolved. Intense planning and scheduling found shape in paper lists. Gear was borrowed or bought. The back pack filled up. The first foray was a 4 mile excursion along the trail alone one afternoon - my first experience of carrying a full pack with tent and 4 days worth of food and 1 � days worth of water. No problem.

Then it was time for the first overnight. I worked on a plan with a fellow Wolf Creek Lodger, Jacque, to walk 26 miles over the next four days. Bob drove us from the lodge and by 10:00 am we set off on the PCT at Donner Summit.

We saw fields and hills of wildflowers, listened to birds, watched a full moon come up, and chatted with lots of 'through hikers' (those are the real hard core folks that had already been walking for two months.)

As it happened we didn't see any bears or lions, but we were thwarted by the 'little guys' - that is the rotten, buzzing, biting mosquitoes that haunted the drying pools of water near the trail north of the Peter Grub Hut. AT&T came through with limited coverage to send out an SOS and rescue was quick to materialize in the shape of Bob who risked my car on Forest Service roads to come and intercept us at the 16 miles point.

Undaunted, the following week a long day hike has brought me to the milestone of 33 � miles Only 36 � miles to go. The summer is still young enough! Am I??

Letter from #104

Suzanne Marriott

Sojourn in Mexico

This letter comes from the beautiful city of San Miguel de Allende.

I have the pleasure of staying the entire month of July to study writing at the Bellas Artes, a center for the arts, originally constructed in 1755-56 as the cloister area of a convent.


	Parroquia .


Jardin

San Miguel, originally a Spanish colonial city dating back to the 16th Century, is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Rich in colonial and revolutionary history, San Miguel today is an exciting place to visit. Most of the action takes place in the Jardin (har deen'), the central square across from the neo-Gothic church, Parroquia.


Bellas Artes

The city's charm lies in its hilly, meandering cobblestone streets, its many interior verdant patios rich in colorful flowers, a plethora of international and Mexican restaurants, and a vibrant art scene.

It's an exciting place to visit and an equally hard place to leave, as evidenced by the 5 to 8,000 expats (almost 5% of the population) who call San Miguel de Allende home.

Living in the Lodge

Magdalene Jaeckel

There are so many reasons why I enjoy living at Wolf Creek Lodge.

For one thing it is most pleasant to step out on my front porch in the morning and look down on the group having coffee down on the big patio. I wave at them and they at me and call "good morning!" What a nice start to the day!

As the day goes on some of the younger folks bring up a big package from Amazon that would be heavy for me to carry. Then my neighbor and I start out to go to the weekly exercise class that we both enjoy.

As the sun comes around to the front of the building there is always a neighbor who offers to help to crank up the big shade that keeps the deck cool. Many times we go together to concerts, theater or the Metropolitan Opera at the local movie theater. I do like to sing in a community choir, and there is a friend who shares my enthusiasm, and she drives us there every week.

Can you imagine how dull my life would be if I lived by myself? Many seniors get depressed and lonesome and feel isolated. That does not happen in cohousing!

Homes Available

A two bedroom home is now available. Owners of two other homes have expressed an interest in selling should a purchaser make their interest known. Your best option is to contact us so we can be more explicit.
We try to keep the latest status on our website. By checking on these links to the website during the month you will get the latest updates. Here are the links:

email: info@wolfcreeklodge.org

For details of Open Houses and much more visit our website at:

www.wolfcreeklodge.org .