“Connor Ferster has been living in a teepee on the eastern outskirts of Calgary since Sept. 15. He made the choice to “have a better relationship with the natural world.”
Photograph: Gavin Young, Calgary Herald
Sent us by Anonymous
https://www.calgaryherald.com/Calgary+blizzard+brazen+mice+teepee+life+test/9243333/story.html
“Good morning!
Seeing the photo of the beautiful rowboat this morning made me think of one I saw yesterday evening at our local watering hole, what I thought of as a dinghy with sail-a-bility as well as a rowboat. In this case, it has a Seagull engine mounted on it.
A friend sent this additional info: ‘The sailing tender was built at the Harvey W. Smith Watercraft Center in Beaufort NC. Traditional wooden sailing and rowing vessels are made here by folks from around the world.’
Looking forward to the new book!
‘Being good and kind, that will carry you through the world.” ~ Alvin, gardener at Biras Creek
My blog here.”
-MJ (Island Woman)
(A great blog! – LK)
Click here.
From Jack Fulton
From Lew Lewandowski
I got into using a Mac tje same way I started doing a blog. Reluctantly. Heels dragging. But, eventually, I got with the program(s). Now I’m head over heels in love with my MacAir sand stunned and somewhatb amazed every day by what I can do online.
With the blog, once I got it figured out, I locked into it. For a self-styled journalist and communicator — perfect! Embarrassing, perhaps, but I t ahink about the blog every day. I’m a slow writer, and can only get afew posts a week out about what I’m doing, so I fill in with stuff I discover out there or people turn me on to.
Pointy of all this: the blog has taken me away from these newsletters and ZI haveb to remind myself to sendn them out (because they reach a different audience (I don’t read anyone’s blogs). Herewith:
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BTW, Tiny Homes has had a big surge in sales in November and the first part of December.
“Redditor AdventurousHuman posted the photo of hiking China’s Mount Huashan. The trail is one of the most dangerous in the world.
The trails up Mount Hua Shan involve steep staircases, vertical ascents, and a plank trail consisting of wooden platforms bolted onto the mountainside.…”
Click here.
Sent by Jack Fulton
From Mike W. This is translated from the Hebrew. I’ve left the text unedited.
House on wheels, free from cables
“Almost 50 animator Joseph Tayyar tired from the bustle of the city and cables property. He bought a new truck and made it with his own hands, to satisfy all needs, (including electricity and water) – and even expands a bit when it’s parked. Now he dreams of building a village on wheels, the people who choose to live differently…(the idea was born in his mind four years ago. Years spent planning and construction of the house, where did it all himself. ” True, I gave up on a lot of things – books, clothes and other unnecessary things we all hamsters at home. But I gained freedom. Real freedom. Freedom of movement, that allows me to live near the beach, in the desert, in a beautiful grove or even a city. Freedom from property tax, electricity companies, cable and water corporations”
Photos: Ilan Nachum
“A Stallergenes machine acts as a pollen vacuum cleaner. The pollen is used in the drug company’s immunotheraphy treatments.”
Photo by Vincent Arbelet/Stallergenes
This photo caught my eye in yesterday’s NYTimes.
“Cob gingerbread House
September, 2013
This House was built out of pallets filled with straw and then covered in cob. It has LED lights running through the stained glass.”
