(note: all tasks are
subject to change due to weather or other priorities)
Saturday, February 11
Saturday, March 11
- Make repairs for the Spring Festival
- Finish stripping bark from poles
- Weed Dance Circle
- Frame up shade arbors, replacing willow poles as
necessary
Saturday, April 8
- Gather willow and strip bark
- Finish preparations for the Spring Festival
Saturday, May 13
- Complete frames
for tule structures
- Split more wood
if needed
- Prepare for removal
of roundhouse roof
Saturday, June 10
- Round house roof
- Wire willow poles
to protect them
- Replace roof poles
on shade arbors as necessary
Saturday, July 8
- Roundhouse roof
(probable extra workdays)
- Prepare for Big
Time
- Prepare tule drying
racks
- Tule and cattail
gathering and drying and cattail twine making
Saturday, July
22- Big Time Festival
Saturday, August
12
- Roundhouse roof
- Harvest tule
Saturday, September 9
- Harvest tule and/or
work on tule kotcha
Saturday, October
14
Saturday, November
11
- Remove boughs from
shade arbors
- Begin dismantling
sweat lodge?
Saturday, December
9
Monthly Fires:
Every workday, a fire should be built in the roundhouse. Other structures
may have fires built in them if there is a need and if there is approval.
For safety purposes, the grass on the roof should be watered before fires
during the summer. Fires should not be built during extreme fire danger.
Wood Splitting:
If there is extra time during a workday, wood should be split for use in
the roundhouse.
Additional Projects:
During any
given workday, additional projects may arise, if a structure needs immediate
attention or if there is a windfall of materials. Let’s hope some
redwood bark falls from the sky…
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