Wow I can't believe its been four days here already. The days are a little shorter than they were on earth. It makes waking up early pretty easy. I've seen the sunrise every day. Thats a first for me.
Most of the time right now I spend working. Everyone here is required to spend two hours a day in the community fields. Much of the labor has to be done by hand. Our vehicles are limited right now. All of our vehicles run on solar powered batteries. It will take a few years of getting everything developed before we'll have fuel powered vehicles again. I've been digging ditches for irrigation and planting seeds for fruit trees. A lot of wheat and corn was planted a few weeks ago when we arrived and before I woke up. Some of it is starting to shoot up and we've been having to weed it by hand. Talk about tedious, but with five hundred people putting in two hours a day I think we'll be able to grow enough this season to feed us.
For the rest of my days I've joined a group of guys helping each other to build our houses. We've got ten foundations laid out and we'll start putting up walls soon. The materials we brought were limited so we're planning on an expedition soon to the forests about thirty kilometers away to fell trees to make homes. Its amazing to think that we left large comfortable homes on earth with indoor plumbing and a/c and heaters so that we could start a new life on a new planet living in a log house. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking leaving behind an office job to come here. I've crashed into bed pretty much every night. Except for Saturday night when I stayed out late talking to Becca. We have a lot in common and I've really enjoyed spending as much time as I can with her these last couple days.
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