Gnarly Grater Handle

June 29, 2009 at 4:37 pm

Hanging out with my builder friends in British Columbia (shooting pictures for Builders of the Pacific Coast— has made me look at each nice piece of driftwood I spot on the beach, trying try to to figure out how to use it. The handle of this stainless grater finally broke off and — voilá

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Salmon Cabin

June 26, 2009 at 7:12 pm

Left: cabin from an old salmon boat hauled into the garden and used as an office to produce this wonderful blog of gardening, wild foods, fried zucchini flowers, strawberry jam, chickens, wild birds, frogs. Sweat equity to make your life richer.

 https://www.salmoncabin.com

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Garden Work Tables From Old Pallets

June 25, 2009 at 7:20 pm

This is brilliant. Cut pallet in half, 4 minimal 2x4s and voila! Pallet table plus a lot of wonderful ideas at: https://www.homegrownevolution.com/

I just ordered their Urban Homestead Book.

Following review of above website from latest CoolTools: “Mead making, beer brewing, bread baking, urban poultry raising, container planting, pirate gardening, foraging, pickling, bicycle-powered hauling, solar-oven making and anti-car culture ranting are just a fraction of what you’ll absorb plumbing the archives of HomegrownEvolution.com. Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen, husband and wife urban homesteaders, guide those of us who can’t make it back to the land on how best to incorporate aspects of it into our modern city-bound lives. They’re encouraging, but don’t preach or pretend to be perfect, and therein lies their appeal. Erik and Kelly are friends of mine, and over the past few years their website and their book, The Urban Homestead, have led my household, step by small step, to be less consumptive and more productive.” -Review by Elon Schoenholz

 

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Clingstone: House on the Rock

June 25, 2009 at 4:50 pm

Clingstone, an unusual, 103-year-old mansion in Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay, survives through the love and hard work of family and friends.

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https://twitter.com/lloydkahn

June 25, 2009 at 1:50 am

It took me a long time to accept the Mac. The first fax I saw blew me away; how can a drawing come over the phone line? Then I got dragged into blogging. After a few years, I’m finally comfortable with it; it satisfies my compulsion to communicate (and publish pix). I skipped Facebook and MySpace, but Twitter beckoned. I’m still in the novice stage, but enthralled — 140 max spaces means you write tight, good writer’s exercise. Perfect for my stream-of consciousness discoveries. Tweets go thru my mind all day long, always have. Trying to get some of them down without taking too much time, still gotta make a living. Right now I follow v. few people on Twitter. No extra time. It’s pretty much an output device for me. Jeez, what I can find on Google! You know, it’s a pretty goddamn interesting time on this planet right now! https://twitter.com/lloydkahn

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Swimming Cities of Serenissima

June 24, 2009 at 6:34 pm

“The Swimming Cities of Serenissima is a fleet of handmade boats and a crew of artists traveling the Adriatic Sea from Slovenia to Venice this May and June, 2009. We made art boats from junk and will be performing the dreamy story of a drifting metropolis during the Venice Biennale, a celebrated contemporary art exhibition.…”Click here.

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