triple chocolate pudding goop, or, this way lies madness
Posted on January 27, 2009 - Filed Under food | Leave a Comment
I have discovered the most amazing-gooey-triple-chocolate-orgasm recipe in this universe. Maybe all universes. Except for that weird one with all the shrimp. Anyway, this is chocolaty madness in a bowl, impossible to resist, instantly fattening, gross and wonderful, in the way eating cake batter can make you feel sinful in the best possible way. This [...]
Read More..>>how to recycle a tiny house, day five
Posted on January 23, 2009 - Filed Under alternative building | 7 Comments
After taking a day off for the big snow, the guys were back at work for their fifth day recycling our new, tiny house (see the last few posts for details if you are new to the story). They arrived just about the time I was going out to the barn. Here is Fancy saying [...]
Read More..>>yurt in the snow
Posted on January 20, 2009 - Filed Under adventures, honeymilk farm, kiddo life | Leave a Comment
Six thirty this morning the kids are jumping all over me, “It snowed! It snowed!” A few minutes later I hear Sophie saying, “No Luc, you can’t go out into the snow in your underwear.” And I think, Okay, time to get up!
But their excitement is so infectious. If I walked outside and saw a [...]
how to recycle a tiny house, day four, afternoon
Posted on January 20, 2009 - Filed Under alternative building | 2 Comments
Continuing on in the amazing process of recycling an entire house. Here we are after the guys came back to work after lunch.
Monty started working inside, making the door between the two sections, putting up the loft, putting in the electrical outlets, etc, while Matt and Jose worked on the siding on the little side [...]
Read More..>>how to recycle a tiny house, day four
Posted on January 19, 2009 - Filed Under alternative building | 2 Comments
After taking the weekend off, the carpentry crew was back at eight this morning, slamming it into gear with their incredibly loud music and their hammers and full on get-it-done work ethic. I’ve been staring through the window in awe at their industry.
They’d been here about 45 minutes when it looked like this.
It’s just amazing [...]
Read More..>>how to recycle a tiny house, day three
Posted on January 17, 2009 - Filed Under alternative building | Leave a Comment
The guys brought the Noah House to its new home the morning of the third day. This the first load, pulling up to the yurt at 8:30 in the morning. Be glad there isn’t a picture of pre-coffee me, staggering outside to answer questions about where to put stuff. Scary.
The sun is coming in from [...]
Read More..>>how to recycle a tiny house, day two
Posted on January 16, 2009 - Filed Under alternative building | Leave a Comment
The crew was hard at work on the second morning. Here is what it looked like when we went over to the old site.
Here is the roof. Just a pile of stuff.
Then we came back about four hours later and the whole house was just a pile of stuff!
It’s hard to imagine this could ever [...]
Read More..>>how to recycle a tiny house, day one
Posted on January 15, 2009 - Filed Under alternative building | 1 Comment
As I reported yesterday, we are recycling an entire tiny house, by taking it apart where it is and putting it back together here. And it’s happening FAST.
Here was Noah’s house yesterday at noon:
And here it is four hours later:
The bits that had been taken off were in piles, ready to be moved on the [...]
Read More..>>recycling a tiny house
Posted on January 13, 2009 - Filed Under alternative building | 10 Comments
My cousin, Noah, built himself a tiny house.
It’s adorable and perfect for him. Let me tell you what happened to it.
But first, look at this: In a nearby botanical garden you can visit Paul Green’s tiny house, where he supposedly wrote many of his plays.
I love tiny houses! Maybe it’s an introspective writer-type thing. There’s [...]
Read More..>>nyquil gives us back the good stuff
Posted on January 9, 2009 - Filed Under mayalife | 4 Comments
Public service announcement! Nyquil is back! Huh, you say? Where did it go? Well, let me tell you.
Years ago I used to look forward to getting the sniffles because, hey, it meant I could cozy up to my big green jug of Nyquil and drift into a happy, floaty, dreamy sleep. Man, I loved that. [...]
