choplicker
Posted on May 29, 2008 - Filed Under mayalife | 3 Comments
When I turned twenty I got a cat, Annabelle, and her daughter Henrietta. Annabelle promptly got preggo and had kittens, all but two of which I kept. For a while there, I had a lot of cats.
For the past several years, though, I just had one, Choplicker, the oldest and strongest of Annabelle’s [...]
get yer baby goats right here!
Posted on May 28, 2008 - Filed Under goats, honeymilk farm | 1 Comment
Liam and Mike, one month old today. Aren’t they cute????
Sophie plays with them every morning while I take care of the grown up goats. They ADORE her.
You can’t see it very well from this side, but this is a cool rock bench Paul made. The goats do these amazing, spring-loaded careening leaps [...]
Read More..>>how to build a yurt (5 of 10)
Posted on May 28, 2008 - Filed Under alternative building | Leave a Comment
Read More..>>melting into a puddle moment
Posted on May 28, 2008 - Filed Under kiddo life, mayalife | Leave a Comment
Luc, 2, put his short little arms around my neck this morning and said (in his little tiny voice, and with precious few beginning-of-word consonants), “If you took all the marshmallows from all the grocery stores in the whole world and wrote ‘I love you’ on every one with chalk, and then put them all [...]
Read More..>>goat house tour
Posted on May 27, 2008 - Filed Under alternative building, goats | 2 Comments
Today I thought I’d show you our goat house.
Paul built it out of recycled materials–the only bits purchased new were some treated wood posts, tar paper for the roof, screws, and some brackets for the scrap plywood puzzle that makes up the ceiling. Altogether, it cost us about $100.
One of the cool things about [...]
unwrapping my new macbook
Posted on May 26, 2008 - Filed Under geeklife | Leave a Comment
Time for a little geek fetish moment.
Ooooo…ahhhhh….
Even the styro-foam is cute.
Wait for it…wait for it…
Ta da!
And, though I already posted this one, just for completeness:
Here I am trying to figure out what password my brother-in-law put in for me…. (Sophie took this one.)
Okay, go get a glass of water and lie down. You [...]
Read More..>>how to build a yurt (4 of 10)
Posted on May 25, 2008 - Filed Under alternative building | Leave a Comment
Because the lattice rests right on the floor, you lay the final flooring on before the yurt goes up. Which is hair raising, because here you have 700 square foot of oak floor and what if it rains? Luckily, it didn’t. And you’ll see in the next installment what they did [...]
Read More..>>i have the most amazing family
Posted on May 24, 2008 - Filed Under geeklife | 1 Comment
I went to a family birthday party today, a lovely time in my aunt’s rose garden, eating fabulous, homemade food and hanging out under the sun watching the kids catch frogs. But at some point my mother, sister and brother-in-law started kind-of…giggling.
“Come on, Maya, we want to show you something (hee hee hee!).”
“What?” say [...]
time for a bit of the old ultra-violence
Posted on May 23, 2008 - Filed Under adventures | Leave a Comment
In the nineties, on those old black and white macs, there was a game called Despair. Oh man, I loved that game. In a way, it isn’t a game, in that there are no rules and no way to lose. Basically you are God, and you have these little stick-figure people walking [...]
Read More..>>how to build a yurt (3 of 10)
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under alternative building | 1 Comment
Aren’t my family cool? Uncles, aunts, cousins, sisters, the whole clan, they came out, over and over, to help Paul with putting this whole thing together–while I did nothing but take photos and sit around, hugely pregnant.
Well, it was my idea to do the yurt. Maybe I get credit for that. It’s actually [...]
