The big news of the moment is that I’ve moved into my cob house! I’ve been a little lax about writing here lately, but trust me, I’ve been busy on the offline side of things… Check out The Year of Mud for more!
Oh yea, I’ll try to get that counterpoint photo up sometime soon…
Posts Tagged ‘Life’
I moved into my cob house
Another trek to New Jersey
(A note about the previous post: I may have jumped the gun a bit on posting that image, but I want to provide a contrast between the suburban home I grew up in versus the home I am building now, and about to move into. That image is still a couple weeks away, though!)
I am [...]
Spring creeps closer
Spring is creeping closer to reality. Green grass is starting to poke through the soil, and today we had our first major thunderstorm and flash flood of the season. The creek to the north of the village went way over its banks, and our neighbor’s pasture is now totally flooded. I’ve never actually seen it [...]
A garden and goats and pizza and mushrooms. And more.
There’s a modestly large number of things I want to do this year. I have been increasingly inspired throughout the last several months as I’ve thought about all that I’d love to see and try and do in 2009. Once my house is completed, so much more of my time will be freed up to [...]
Jumping into icy waters
After my New Year’s visit to Twin Oaks, and a trip to hang out with St. Louis squatters and anarchists, I am back home. I’ve been back for a week, and it feels good, despite some cold weather. I don’t totally mind the single degree temperatures. It’s all part of the game, you know? There’s [...]
Visiting Twin Oaks
Today marks the end of my month-long visit in New Jersey. Tomorrow I’m off on the bus to Twin Oaks, an intentional community in rural Virginia. I’ve never spent time at TO before; in fact, I’ve never been to an intentional community other than Dancing Rabbit, so I’m pretty interested to see what’s going on [...]
The Ithaca farming and food scenes
I recently visited my friend Sean up in the Ithaca area of New York state for a few days. It’s a great little community up there. I’m a fan. There are strong progressive / environmental / farming / natural building / permaculture / local foods scenes. It’s definitely something of a hotbed.
Sean recently got himself [...]
The night I went to the moon
The other night, I went to the moon. I’m still not sure how exactly I got there, but it involved placing a candle in a small sphere shrunk to 2/3 its original size. This triggered our flight. I, along with several others, floated off to the moon in a deep darkness. It wasn’t the moon [...]
The night I lost my roof
The other night, I had a dream about losing the roof of my house. It was horribly realistic. More often that not, dream appearances don’t quite match up with their real life counterparts, but in this case, it was definitely my house that I was looking at, sans roof. I don’t know how it happened, [...]
Going back… to the outside world
When you live in community, there are many instances in which you must refer to places outside of your community. It’s not always just the physical place itself, but the culture that comes with it, too. There are different labels for “out there” that different communities use, but the one I find myself using most [...]
Now writing at Planetsave.com
Recently, I got a new blogging job. I have been doing freelance blogging for over two years now. Previously, I’ve been writing for various video production blogs, but now I’m doing something a little more personally rewarding and more relevant to my everyday interests.
My new position is at Green Options for their blog Planetsave, which [...]
A challenging week
This was a tough week.
Bad weather, a tired body, stress, and some other bad spells and downers spilled over me in one week’s time. I had a bad case of fatigue that lasted a few days. At some point I slept nearly 36 hours in two days. I was essentially bed-ridden.
Significant rain delayed the raising [...]
