•May 10, 2009 •
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Here we go again on getting this roof up! I can’t wait to have a kitchen with an oven and a kitchen aide and a stereo and a counter with a real table! The sun is out. The Flowers are blooming. All is well at Spider Spring. We also did some planting yesterday of Mock Orange, Service Berry, Oregon Grape, Knick Knick, Choke Cherry, Ocean Spray and a little Crab Apple tree. Hope renewed. Thank you, Spring.






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•April 13, 2009 •
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•April 13, 2009 •
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•March 3, 2009 •
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Back up goes the kitchen. Back up go the tarps. A new delivery of dry wood. Remove some nails. Pound in new ones. Dash outside when the sun shines. Hole up with a warm fire and a movie when the rain pours and the wind blows. I can see spring just around the next bend.




Life feels much warmer these days.
Posted in Buidling Stuff, Pixie Styx, Waste and Whatnot, simple living, storms, yurt life
Tags: building, gather, go on, magic, pig, Pixie, rebuild, simple, storm
•August 8, 2008 •
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We got back from our trip, unpacked the car of bags and groceries, and plopped down in the yurt. We were chatting and I glanced over at Nathan. Behind him, just out of the window where we can see our building site, in the middle of it, sat a big ol’ black bear. Hello, bear. My eyes got wide and I think I got Nathan’s attention by repeating, “lookie lookie lookie lookie” in an urgent whisper. We stood up and the bear moved nonchalantly toward the forest. I opened the door to make noise to discourage the bear from coming back, (Don’t get me wrong: that bear was beautiful and I’m always half-hoping to see her again, but I don’t want her to get used to human food and get herself into trouble.) and a little cub literally rolled out from behind the big nurselog. I slammed the door and announced, “BABY!” to the entire coastal range. And they sauntered off. PIxie? What was the faithful hound doing? Eating. Walking around. Completely uninterested until they left. The worse part of the event is that the camera was still in the car. So I’ll post a black bear picture swiped from the World Wide Waste-of-time…

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Tags: animals, bears, black bears, coastal range, nature, oregon
•August 8, 2008 •
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We’re back! Here are some highlights from our annual trek to Wisconsin. This year we took Hy 2 all the way there, then zipped home on the freeway.
Posted in Outdoor Cooking, Pixie Styx, Waste and Whatnot, simple living, storms
Tags: adventure, dog, drive, fun, highway 2, idaho, minnesota, montana, north dakota, oregon, Pixie, road trip, vacation, wisconsin
•July 5, 2008 •
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We don’t have a great garden space yet, but here’s our little container garden. It grows much more slowly just here at the base of the coastal range than in the lush valley. We’ll see what happens. We also hauled some stumps in a circle and screened the bottom then added sand, compost and fill dirt. We planted nasturtiums, forget-me-nots, sunflowers, cucumbers, calendula and bachelor buttons. I know, weird mix, but they were found seeds.

Posted in Cob Building, Outdoor Cooking, simple living, yurt life
Tags: cob, container, garden, nature, tiny, tomatoes, yurt
•July 5, 2008 •
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It’s like a paragraph in the books about cob. But if the site is not perfectly clear, this “clear and level the footprint of the house” takes chapters of time. But what are they going to say? Repeat ‘Keep Digging’ for pages and pages? It would at least give the real feel of the task. We are “getting there”, as they say, but we like to take breaks a lot. The root is is gruesome work. I wish I had a real, USFS quality Polaski.




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Tags: cob, cottage, digging, footprint, foundation, red alder, roots
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