Hello,
I was just reading Lloyd’s blog and watched a video of him talking about his work (and skateboarding). I wanted to share a audio project (and book) I put together on Jackrabbit Homesteading out in the Mojave a few years back. Thought it may be of interest. Anyhow, the website is: https://www.jackrabbithomestead.com/
Enjoy!
Kim Stringfellow
www.kimstringfellow.com
I’ve had this little piece by Lesley hanging on my office wall for some years. It’s 13″ by 16″. I love the asymmetry within the symmetry of her quilt work. See: https://www.lesleycreed.com/
Danny MacAskill, April 2009
I just can’t believe this guy. Sent us by Brage.
“16 Years of custom building, located in central Minnesota, The Rustic Way offers a custom service to create your eco-friendly personal dream in cabinetry, furniture, picture framing, buildings and an asortment of speciality items. All of The Rustic Way’s products have the warmth, character and lustre created by using wood that has experienced decades of aging; before it was carefully preserved from buildings that date back generations.”
“…Dan Pauly has a passion for old wood – its warm luster, tight grain and fascinating, unique history, first as trees harvested from old-growth forests in the 19th Century and then as lumber from old structures – barns, granaries, grain elevators, warehouses, stores. ‘This wood reflects our natural heritage,’ Dan observes, ‘and has a much richer and more attractive patina and grain than modern wood.'”
Sent us by Irene Tukuafu
It rained bigtime Tuesday. 1½” here, real late and unusual for this time of year in California. After running along the coast a ways Tuesday night (solo these days), then splashing along in the surf on the beach, running back to the inn and jumping in all the puddles on the way hee-hee), I ducked underwater in the creek, then had a Guinness on tap with the boys, a Gemütlichkeit night in the pub, celtic music playing softly. The rain had stopped and on the way home north along the coast, the fog was so thick it was like crawling through a tunnel. Having grown up in San Francisco, the fog is a friend.
Update, December 11, 2011: Thanks largely to the Environmental Action Committee, a well-funded “environmental” group, all trailers have to be gone from Lawson’s in 5 years. Score a win for trust fund activists (anyone check the income level and sources thereof of the activists?), a loss for Californians of moderate means.
I consider myself an environmentalist. And for this reason I’m alarmed by a new and very strong movement among people who call themselves “environmentalists.” If I may generalize, these are people who do not hunt or fish or make their living from the land. They often have not grown up in the areas where they are active. They want everything to return to an imaginary pristine state. They tend to be from families of wealth, have college degrees, can raise money for their non-profit groups, and know their way around in the political and media worlds.
This something I wrote on behalf of a gem of a local community that is now being persecuted. It’s for people of Marin County, and for Californians in general.
I’m about to write a review of this great new book by Mike Litchfield. In the interim, check out Mike’s website Cozy Digz for photos from the book:
Also click on “Cool Stuff” in the left hand column for small house appliances. fixtures, and hardware.
Mike is a former editor of Fine Homebuilding, and author of the best-selling encyclopedic Taunton book, Renovation.
Every day I walk on the beach I pick up shells. I arrange them in a basket when I get home, leave them for a week or two, as tableaux of days on the beach…
The boss boy and two girls in the afternoon sun:
