When I’m on the road, I fluctuate between giddy delight and morose depression.
“Best day of my life.”
“I’m so homesick.”
One day will be the sweet spot in time* when it all comes together: the right people, places, climate, food, feng shui…Another day I don’t know where I’m going to stay, where I’ll eat, what I’ll do. The volatility of it all.
Yesterday was a good one. I came back to Kapaa from the south, went to a yoga class that was perfect for this body, which has had long and hard usage, then hung out with some wonderful people in the afternoon. Swimming at Anini Beach, beautiful sandy bay inside a reef, got $95 hotel room at the Kauai Shores, which I really like, then good dinner (camorones mojo de ago) at Mariachi’s (there’s a real chef at work here), watched the sun rise from the beach this morning, now having fine latte, warm cinnamon roll and savvy wi-fi at Java Kai…
During the down periods I try to let serendipity take over. Valleys often followed by peaks. The best is often unplanned. The grand sequenter…
*The Sweet Spot in Time, by John Jerome is about that moment in sports when everything comes together. The 85-yard punt return, surfing on a day when the water’s warm, the waves perfect…I read it years ago and thought it applied to life in general.
“’Pamir’ was originally launched in Hamburg in 1905, she had a steel hull, a tonnage of 3020 gross, an overall length of 375 feet, a beam of 46 feet and a loaded draught of 24 feet. Her three masts stood 168 feet above the deck and the main yard was 92 feet wide. She carried a total of 50,000 square feet of sails and could reach a top speed of 16 knots, while her speed on passage was often better than 10 knots.
Pamir, a four-masted barque, was one of the famous Flying P-Liner sailing ships of the German shipping company F. Laeisz. She was the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn, in 1949. By 1957 she had been outmoded by modern bulk carriers and could not operate at a profit. Her shipping consortium’s inability to finance much-needed repairs or to recruit sufficient sail-trained officers caused severe technical difficulties. On 21 September 1957 she was caught in Hurricane Carrie and sank off the Azores, with only six survivors rescued after an extensive search.…”
Photo: https://i.imgur.com/GYNzpLS.jpg
Text: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamir_(ship)
“Price: $0 (must be moved)
Location: Grimesland, North Carolina, USA.
The History:…Around 1910, William (Faucette) built this grand farmhouse on the site of the original house, and he lived there with his wife and daughter, both named Louise. The house stayed in the family until 2011, when the owner of an adjacent property bought the estate for the land. He is now offering the house to anyone willing to move it.
Shown: The 4,363-square-foot house has six bedrooms and two-and-a-half bathrooms. It retains original exterior details, such as Doric columns and the center gable’s fish-scale shingles.”
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Hey there,
Wanted to share with you this little thing I did on my blog on John Witzig’s old place in Angourie…with some of John’s old photos:
https://www.richardolsen.org/blog/
cheers,
Richard (Olsen)
Great pamphlet, good drawings and photos, plus some really nice furniture designs. You can scout around on this website for other vintage publications.
https://archive.org/stream/buildingwithlogs579fick#page/32/mode/2up
From Eric Light via Godfrey Stephens.
Eric says to check out …”loo on poop deck.”
Supposedly on Shorpy, but couldn’t locate it. However lots of great vintage pics on Shorpy.
What a beauty! It’s in Silver City, Nevada. Notice how the top window has been placed off-center so as not to conflict with the cupola roof below. The eaves look straight and true, indicating a sound foundation. This website, by photographer Steve Bingham, is a treasure trove of ghost town photos.
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Made in America
Update: As pointed out in comment by Anonymous, this was only for plans + materials. You still had to build house.
From Jim Macey
This sent us by Eva. It’s pretty long, and I haven’t watched it all, but I sure would if I lived where there was stone. Looks like a very thorough explanation of the principles of stone walls with and without mortar. A great explanation of why stone wall joints should not be lined up under one another.
I loved this part: “Every stone in the world has an ambition…” — pause, twinkle in his eye –“that ambition is to sink to the center of the earth as soon as possible…”
https://www.chelmsfordlibrary.org/anytime/videos.html
When I’m on the road, I fluctuate between giddy delight and morose depression.
