I bought this little Olympus Cremina machine many years ago for $250 used. It quit working and I bought a used Rancilio Silvia. A while ago I took the Olympus in and got it fixed. I’ve switched to using it now. I like the industrial look. I’m working on my crema. I’ve looked for them online today and the only one for sale (new) was $3850!
On Sirius “’50s on 5” radio now:
…I’m like a one-eyed cat
Sleepin’ in a seafood store…
-Shake, Rattle and Roll, Big Joe Turner
You get to this place on a 500-foot cable over a river (in winter when river is high). It was Thursday night and Louie was cooking a wild duck dinner for 4 of us. When I approached the house, it was lookin good. Louie insisted I get a photo with the big redwood tree and I got him to stand on the deck.
Yeah!
Louie built his house based on the sketch at bottom right of page 20 of Shelter, titled “Lashed-frame house in southern Japan,” shown at left.
It’s a drippy grey Sunday morning and I’m looking over my photos, I love doing this — it’s like hunting, but with cameras not guns. So goldarned much going on everywhere I go in the world. It’s just a matter of seeing it.
When I first took acid (1964), I could see flowers breathing; it wasn’t an hallucination. Flowers do breathe, we just usually don’t see it. So I’m looking around in this absolutely interesting inspiring fascinating world. (You’ll have to pardon me if I’m not incapacitated by all the evil, greed, and shitty politics afoot.)
I wish I could do a decent layout of my trips upon return. My HTML skills are not up to doing it right now, so will just keep throwing photos out in this limited format. “I’m Jimmy Reed” playing now. You Got me Dizzy. Cup of espresso sweetened with agave nectar, whole wheat toast with marmalade, vapor by Volcano, stylin’…
I’m going to throw a bunch of photos out from the last 3 days, not necessarily in order:
Rivers in NorCal low right now. Gimme some rain!
Just unloaded photos from 3 days on the road.
Elephant Mountain Wednesday morning:
Louie’s friend Pepe made us a great breakfast of French toast and bacon and barista-quality coffee this morning. Pepe is into elegant design. He turned me on the my Canon Powershot S90 (and 95)camera, my coffee roaster, a couple of lenses for my Canon 20D, shocks for my Toyota 4×4…. Today he showed me the Fujifilm X10. Looks like the first thing better than the S90-95-100 in years. It’s bigger, but looks like it might be the camera for me to travel with, rather than having the limitation of my Powershot (as good as it is), or the weight of my serious camera and assorted lenses (Panasonic Lumix G-1). Going to check it out.
Pepe’s pics of Louie and me:
I met my friend Louie in Bodega Bay yesterday. We went out in his homemade sailboat to pull up a crab pot. Only one crab. Then north along Hwy 1. The pic below is of the beach at Jenner, the mouth of the Russian River, where it was churning with life of seal and bird persuasion. Then over the next 10 or so miles of winding often-hair-pin cliffside highway to the Timber Cove Inn, where we had (great) hamburgers and dark draft beer and looked out at the ocean, where whales were spouting, on their way from Alaska south to Scammon’s lagoon and other warm water bays for calving. Sun setting just before we got into Pt. Arena. Really a nice day, blue water, a nice swell, surfers out (mostly getting stuffed by straight across 8-foot waves) at Salmon Creek. I feel so lucky, being able to take off for a few days like this, recharging psychic batteries…
12:30 PM Monday
I just talked to Jay, who’s in Nantucket. He said they’re going to take it (model shown here) into the East Village tomorrow, He said hooking up with the Occupy folks turned out to be too complicated. “It’ll be a tiny house protest…” — against McMansions, heavy mortgages, high rents, overconsumption, energy and material wastage in housing as it’s been practiced in America in the last 20 years.
For New Yorkers: Jay will be speaking in Manhattan at 1-4 PM tomorrow. Details: https://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/see-a-tiny-house/tiny-house-in-manhattan/
PRESS RELEASE — For immediate release
Presenting an Affordable Solution to the Housing Crisis
Since the bank bailout, over 5,000,000 US homes have been foreclosed. Can you imagine what our economy would look like today if we built smaller, more affordable homes 10 years ago? The housing crisis is at the crux of our failing economy. The bottom line is that bank lending policies created a housing market fixated on larger and larger homes while ignoring the long term impact to our economy and environment. Unfortunately, we don’t see any indications that change is coming.
We understand that Occupy Wall Street is divisive and many in the Small House Movement disagree. We also believe that Occupy Wall Street provides the world’s largest stage to bring awareness to a real alternative. Our message is too important to ignore – which is why we continually embrace the opportunity to spread the word wherever we can; from Fox Business News to Al Jazeera TV, and now Occupy Wall Street. On December 13th, 2011, Tumbleweed Founder and Small House Advocate Jay Shafer will go to Occupy Wall Street with a tiny house in tow to suggest a true alternative.