The past couple of days, I began peeling bark off of the logs for the rafters of my living roof. I’m using a borrowed drawknife, a long, curved, two-handled blade for peeling back the bark. It’s sorta like whittling, only on a bigger scale. The idea is to peel back both the bark and [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2008’
Human-powered transportation
Today, Thomas and I went out to the land to collect and transport some of the pin oak trees I’ve cut to the village. We went out with the infamous ‘Cynder cart’ (a homemade handcart), which would serve as our sturdy, two-wheeled transport vehicle.
First, we had to drag the 30 foot long trees out to [...]
Lumberjacking
The days have been packed recently. A few days ago, I began cutting down pin oak trees for the living roof of my cob house. On Tuesday morning, Dan lent me a hand and we took down three trees in an hour and a half, despite the ground being quite muddy.
This morning, I went out [...]
alive again
Damned internet and its problems.
All clear now.
Spring is coming
Today is the first day that I’ve truly felt that spring is arriving. Ok, well, the second day, but this one feels much more promising. Last weekend, on a 70+ degree day, we could see flock after flock of Canadian and snow geese flying north. A week or so earlier, the red-winged blackbirds, the first [...]
The latest cob house designs
In an earlier post about my cob cottage plans, I mentioned that I had some new design ideas. I’ve done some thinking about a new shape for the house, this latest (and perhaps final?) design being more like a spiral. (Or a scotch tape dispenser if you think about it.)
Check it out:
Originally, the design was [...]
Hopes for making homemade butter
It’s easy for me to get pretty excited about food. Especially making new and different types of food. Yesterday, I went to the dairy to get some milk for my usual kefir making. I left an extra quart of plain milk outside overnight, and since it was so cold, it froze and the cap bent [...]
A new media
Sometimes, I think I should be keeping up more with current events. I don’t often read the news. I often find it to be mostly rubbish, and I know that I’m not getting what I want to hear from most mainstream sources.
If I ever check the news, it’s usually very briefly, and usually at the [...]
