Cob mythology - Misha, etc. (slightly off topic)

[John Schinnerer]

Aloha,

Brief storytelling, just for flavor...:-)

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From:	Robert Bolman [SMTP:robtb at efn.org]
>Are you talking about Misha Raushwerger (sp?)  He's a former CCC intern,
>dark curly hair, maybe 30.  I last saw him about a year and a half ago.  He
>was with a woman named Elizabeth and there was no child in sight.

Yep, that's the Misha!  Ianto tells a story which briefly put goes like this: 
 A woman named Alysheva (pardon if I'm spelling it wrong, I don't have it 
written down anywhere...) came and took one of their first workshops.  She 
found it quite healing, took five more, and then <Ianto grin> ran off with 
the apprentice!  (...that would be Misha, at the time).

Her little boy Iain is in the CCC video - he was 2 1/2 or so then - he's the 
little kid shown shoveling earth with a tiny shovel, patting cob into place, 
etc.  Last summer he was 5, I think, and quite the precocious little cobber. 
 The three of them were living in a travel trailer with a strawbale & cob 
foyer while building their cob house.  I'm guessing that the "Finishing" 
course listed as being in "Sierras, CA" is at their place...?

John Schinnerer