Video Series: Building the Straw Bale Cottage

Wow, I miss the days when we still had time to make mini-films about what we were up to. Maybe soon we will acquire a media intern to help us get back on that train! For now, check out this series from when we had a kickin’ camera, and some time. It’s all about the […]

Sun Worship and its Benefits to You as a Religion

(For benefits of it as a religion scroll to the bottom) -what a sunny day in mid-November means for the main dacha house, a passive-solar, earth-bermed structure, and its inhabitants. The sun is out after vacationing elsewhere for almost a week, and its brightening things up over here in many ways. Let’s review. 1. It’s […]

Thanks Fall, for Holding Out

Every extra hour that the weather holds out, is very possibly an extra hour of serious outdoor business getting done at the homestead-in-progress. Check out this photo essay of vital last minute projects, and some less vital - but still very nice projects, we’ve been up to. We put windows in the sun room, goodbye […]