“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. …”
Discovered this at: https://www.tinyhouseliving.com/
Tammy Strobel wrote an essay on downsizing that will appear in our Tiny Homes book. Here’s the latest (October 16, 2011)from Tammy:
“{Every week, I post a short essay about the little house we’re building. Enjoy!}
We only have 8 more days until the little house rolls into Portland! It’s hard to believe we’re going to move in so soon! Last weekend we got to hang out with Dee and Katy and while Katy was in town she had a chance to pick up our roof (pictured below) and kitchen counter.”
https://erieconstruction.hubpages.com/hub/Tiny-Homes-and-the-Death-of-the-McMansion
“English taxidermist Jonathan McGowan has made roadkill his sole diet for the past 30 years. At the age of 14, he tried a dead adder and while it didn’t taste very good, it made him curious to try other roadkill finds.
The taxidermist lists fox, venison and deer among his favourite meats – but he has eaten everything the countryside has to offer over the years.
With thousands of animals being found dead at the roadside every year, Mr McGowan has varied if – on the face of it – slightly unedifying pickings.
He has eaten mice, moles, hedeghogs, squirrels, rats, foxes, badgers, hares, rabbits, deer, stoats, weasels, polecats, otters, wildcats, pheasants, finches, thrushes, ducks, geese, pigeons, owls, crows, gulls, blackbirds and cormorants.
He says many animals taste much better than people would expect.”
From: https://laughingsquid.com/english-taxidermist-chooses-to-live-on-exotic-roadkill-diet-for-30-years/
Thanks to Kevin Kelly
Lew discovered this. It stalls periodically, maybe something wrong in the encoding. We found it best to turn off sound and let it load. Once it’s in the cache, you can play it straight through. (Seems somehow fitting that that the electronic world gets garbled around SunRay, who is a magician of the natural world.
Inspired By… SunRay Kelley from Shwood Eyewear on Vimeo.
“Growing up in the wild hills of the Pacific Northwest, it seems like SunRay was always building something. His favorite source of inspiration and materials is the woods around him, “God’s Hardware Store” as he calls it. When working on a project it is not uncommon to see him pick up a saw and head off into the woods looking for the right piece of wood to present itself. If he says anything, he’ll mumble ‘I’m going shopping.’
Filmed by Gary Tyler Mcleod & Austin Will; Edited by Gary Tyler Mcleod”
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sunray-Kelley/112608048761762
“Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:48:25 -0700
To: lloyd@shelterpub.com
Subject: my work inspired by your work
I love and appreciate your books, I flip through often for inspiration. I was hoping you would take a moment to check it out some of my stuff. www.jeffrouitto.com
thanks
Jeffro”
Wow! And he’s from Tokeland, Washington!
-LK
Info on Jeff: https://is.gd/jeffro
“I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
-Mark Twain
Every once in a while I Google this to get the words right. So true. I’m really a slow writer.
Here are a lot of other great MT quotes. A guy after my own heart. https://thinkexist.com/quotation/i_didn-t_have_time_to_write_a_short_letter-so_i/338386.html
Lew just dug this up. Looks almost too good to be true. Sure worth checking out.
Are these cute or what?“The Bulldog All Terrain Truck is the most versatile off road vehicle on the market.
• At 4.5 x 10 ft and only weighing around 1400 lbs, these mini trucks haul easily to the hunting camp, farm or the trail ride. The truck is around 5 1/2 ft tall so it provides a comfortable ride while being able to ease around the trails and backroads.
• All models are right hand drive. Most models have a powerful 660 cc, 3 cylinder gasoline engine that will get over 40 mpg while running in excess of 55 mph. An 8 gallon gas tank has never provided so much.
• Models come with 4, 5 or 6 speed transmissions, automatics are very rare but available in limited quanitity. We are able to provide you with the best service, all parts and accessories that you would need for these trucks.”
We now offer Custom Extended Cab Trucks. Starting at $7300
https://www.bulldogoffroad.com/vans_4doors.htm
Shreveport, LA: 318-402-8834
Before blogging, these newsletters were my main means of communicating (other than the very occasional book). This one is primarily for book people, mostly about the Frankfurt Book Fair as well as our plans for the future: https://www.shelterpub.com/_gimme/_2011-10-18/gimme_shelter-2011-10-18.html
A reconstruction of San Francisco around 1300 A.D. from Nob Hill, looking east across the bay toward Oakland. © Laura Cunningham
“California ecology used to be much more driven by floods and fires, Cunningham said, showing with her paintings how the Great Valley would become a vast inland sea, like a huge vernal pool progressing each year from navigable water to intense flower displays to elk-grazed grassland. Lake Merritt in Oakland was a salt water inlet. On the Albany mudflats grizzly bears would tunnel into a beached humpback whale for food, joined by California condors. Every fall at the Carquinez Strait a million four-foot-long chinook salmon headed inland to spawn.
Only 300 years ago the whole Bay Area was grasslands, routinely burned by the local Indians. There were oaks in the valleys, redwoods in the Berkeley Hills, and extensive oak savannahs inland. The hills were greener more of the year than now, with fire-freshened grass attracting elk, and native perennial grasses drawing moisture with their deep roots.