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Good morning Carter, it's Tutu. Yesterday I was out in the forest with my favorite Tutu Cedar tree.


It's a very rainy day, I'm staying inside the vardo but Tutu Pete is out in the rain, driving in his big yellow truck with his tools. He might start digging with his shovel to see what it's like to dig a long hole -- a trench -- to connect our wheelie home with our friend Hopi's home.

This is Hopi.

Yesterday, Steph (short for Stephanie), one of the five people who live here at Camp Bamboo came home with two new hens. Hens lay eggs. This morning we heard a new sound, a sound we haven't heard since Tutu Pete and I lived  in the woods with our chickens. The sound we heard this morning was  the sound of a hen laying an egg. 

It's a very loud and happy sound. She was giving birth. Like when your Mama gave birth to you!

So, here at Camp Bamboo we are five people, four goats, five chickens (also called hens), one dog and one cat.

When Tutu Pete figures out what to do about digging trenches, and getting help connecting POWA and WATA (electricity and water) to a spot down the lawn from Hopi, me and Tutu Pete will move our vardo and our kukana from Camp Bamboo to Hopi's Place.

That was a long tapping on the letter keys finger dance.

Here is a TAP DANCE you might enjoy. Old men doing some very cool and jumpy dancing with TAPS. I notice your legs are often moving. So ... take a look and let me know how you feel about TAP.


😄Love you!!! Tutu


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