“And just like that, after many long days and nights, we are ready for the rainy season,… and not a minute too soon. As we apply the final pieces of siding, on our brow lay the first signs of the autumn rains. This is the true feeling of exultation. In this moment, life is bonded with the 4th dimension,… invisible, yet like the power of the wind, undeniable … easily missed, rarely found,… this is the way of intimate feeling and experience. …”
https://www.coalsmoke.com/Coalsmokes/Tiny_Homestead/Entries/2011/9/18_A_milestone_of_house_and_home.html
Discovered this at: https://www.tinyhouseliving.com/
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:
“And just like that, after many long days and nights, we are ready for the rainy season,… and not a minute too soon. As we apply the final pieces of siding, on our brow lay the first signs of the autumn rains. This is the true feeling of exultation. In this moment, life is bonded with the 4th dimension,… invisible, yet like the power of the wind, undeniable … easily missed, rarely found,… this is the way of intimate feeling and experience. …”
Hey Lloyd, thought you might be interested to see a blog of a friend of mine: called 'Masa Off Grid'. He is a write who abandoned his city life to move to the Queen Charlotte Islands to build a cabin and experience the change in lifestyle when fending for himself and living away from the city. The video blog posts are short but super interesting, and right up your alley. There is a whole community of people up there handbuilding houses with the real creativity and ethics that are so well captured in your Builders of the Pacific Coast.
Enjoy: http://www.radx.ca/masaoffgrid/index.php
What an excellent blog, thanks, I added it to my daily links. Great videos and very interesting and articulate guy. I am sure I am going to learn a lot.