A model sustainability homestead in Central New York
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 16th, 2008
So much going on so little time to blog. Even though I have officially retired to California for the winter, others are dutifully working the land and completing our humble Winter Palace. Here is some of what has happened since our last work party. By thoroughly monitoring Freecycle and Craigslist we managed to score loads [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 15th, 2008
Every evening for the past while, a sea of birds (black birds?) fly over the land at dusk. We see them as we finish building for the evening, or as we prepare to build into the dark. They don’t go far once they’ve vanished from our view, I know because their immense dialog is audible [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 8th, 2008
Here is pt 2, just like I promised. Please enjoy, it took a second to edit. More on the way in future. Perhaps as it gets so cold in Ithaca that I can’t go outside, I will pump these out faster. For now we are still building, taking classes, making friends and being mad busy. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 8th, 2008
This is pt 1 of our tool shed building adventure, shot way back in August, when the tool shed still aspired to be a tool shed. Eventually, we over built so that we began to feel bad about calling it a tool shed, and started referring to it as a palace. Being the Russians that [...]