In what looked to be another dry year in Northern California, we got over 2″ of rain earlier this week. My friend Louie in Mendocino county reported 5″. Never remember this much late rain. Mary spotted this dew-laden cobweb outside her office window. How do spiders know how to spin webs? They anchor them so they’ll hold up in wind, then make their lacy tapestry. Do mama spiders teach little ones?
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
In what looked to be another dry year in Northern California, we got over 2″ of rain earlier this week. My friend Louie in Mendocino county reported 5″. Never remember this much late rain. Mary spotted this dew-laden cobweb outside her office window. How do spiders know how to spin webs? They anchor them so they’ll hold up in wind, then make their lacy tapestry. Do mama spiders teach little ones?
is there an email for you, lloyd? how do readers send you things? cant find it anywhere…
My email: lloyd@shelterpub.com