So I think it did create a sense of closeness and just warmth around the whole phenomenon that very much permeates the whole straw bale community.

It was sort of exciting and it became clear as soon as we got here that it was going to be cold and uncomfortable and great.

There were a bunch of people who none of us fit in very well anywhere.

It was just an odd group.

It was going to be fun and we had a big pot of coffee and a lot of whiskey and we just started talking about straw bale.

And out of that fairly quickly came CASBA.

What are we going to do?

But way more importantly, the friendships.