Tue, 6 Mar 2012 Hi Lloyd, hope all is well,
Came across Alistair Humphreys today, who has spent the year trying to get folk out on mini adventures. Local overnights and expeditions close to home.
I like getting out canoeing in the backwaters. The little rivers streams and storm drains that take us to hidden England. The places that no one ever gets to see.
We get out and bivvy occasionally, or swim in the rivers: any little adventure that helps us feel ALIVE!
Anyway check his site out if you get a chance.
https://www.alastairhumphreys.com/2011/12/year-microadventure-review/
Cheers,
Rich
(Richard Ieian Jones)
Here’s an overnight adventure:
Also to consider: mini microadventures. Like yesterday around 6 PM I took off with my skate board and my Big Kahuna paddle (like a canoe paddle, except with a rubber stopper at one end instead of a paddle) and skated around for about 15 minutes before dinner. Sometimes just a 5-10-15 minute bit of activity, and you always feel better. Ya
“Watershed House 70 square feet FLOAT Architectural Research and Design Wren, Oregon Built for a writer who wanted to channel his own inner Thoreau, the tiny Watershed House has got to offer some of the most stylish living available in 70 square feet. Reducing a cramped feeling, the cabin has lots of openings to let the light and the scenery in.”
https://pinterest.com/oddtonic/tiny-houses-and-boats/
Brad has left a new comment on your post “Attention Deficit Not Necessarily a Disorder“:
Lloyd – this link is very appropos although you won’t see why until you watch the vid. This craftsman is incredible and he talks about the focus it takes to do his work. I think often we have to condition ourselves to allow that focus/single mindedness to take place. It used to be the norm, but these days it’s easy to mentally flit between things every few seconds. Love this guy! https://pacingthepanicroom.blogspot.com/2012/03/foot-stools.html
Brad
From David Pescovitz on Boing Boing an hour ago:
“San Francisco photographer Sharon Beals photographed hundreds of birds’ nests in the collection of the California Academy of Sciences and other science museums. She’s posted the stunning images on Flickr and they are also compiled in her recent book, “Nests: Fifty Nests and the Birds that Built Them.” (Thanks, Jennifer Lum!)”
Someone sent us a bunch of pictures of this bus converted into living quarters for our next book, Wheels and Water: Tiny Homes on the Move. Somehow the e-mail got separated from the photos. If this is yours, please contact us.
We just got this globe last week and I find myself looking at it all the time. I should have had one of these decades ago. With all that’s going on in the world, in unfamiliar places, it’s great to see just where various countries are.
This one is called the Explorer Globe. It’s about $45. The stand is plastic and a bit lightweight. The map itself is bright, clearly delineated, and has slightly raised areas indicating mountain ranges. The manufacturer,Replogle Globes, has over 70 different globes.
https://shltr.net/worldglobe
This Friday I’m doing a slide show/book signing at Gallery Bookshop in Mendocino, Calif
— Friday March 16, 6:30 p.m. Next night, Saturday, same at North Town Books in Arcata, Calif. at 7 PM.
Then next week I’ll be at Bookshop Santa Cruz on Wednesday March 21st at 7:30 PM.
We have sold out of the first printing of 15,000 copies; the 2nd printing of 12,500 is due to arrive at the PGW warehouse in early April. We are currently backordered some 5000 copies. Yahoo!
“Hello! My name is Carrie and I’m an architectural Designer. My husband is Shane and he is a Builder. We’ve started designing and building our own home (a Tiny House) and our blog will document the adventure.
Our hopes are to turn this into a career where we can design and build Tiny Houses for others. We both have years of experience designing and building, but we thought the best way to learn about the intricacies of a Tiny House would be to design and build one for ourselves that we will live in.
We started designing it in February of 2012, bought the trailer platform February 25th, and started building February 27th.
How we came up with the name: “Clothesline Tiny Homes”. I thought of about…. 123 different names and then Shane walked outside the next day, looked at the clothesline, and said “Clothesline Tiny Homes!” Perfect.…
Why Tiny? Clothesline Tiny Homes will strive to have a small footprint on our natural environment, will allow us to live wherever we want paying much less money for rent / mortgage and utilities, and will be a fun adventure where we can grow and learn to live with less stuff and enjoy our beautiful world much more!”
https://clotheslinetinyhomes.com/
