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cool thing about living in a yurt # 54

On October 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In alternative building

The thing about having a giant memory card in my camera is I can get slack about downloading the pictures.  I think there are about five hundred on there right now!  I really need to get on that.  But anyway, I found this pic on the camera today, left from some mid-summer photos.

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it’s a bird! it’s a plane! no, it’s…Tree Guy!

On October 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In honeymilk farm

Sometimes, when the wind gives a gusty laugh, I look up through the yurt’s dome and see the tops of the pines heaving around like God is mixing a salad. Pine trees with vinaigrette, coming right up. Yikes. A few were particularly crazy-leaning-over trees, so we decided they had to go. Sorry trees.

Turns out [...]

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unexpected benefit of living in a round house #27

On April 26, 2009 · 5 Comments · In mayalife

Paul and I were having a fight one day, I don’t remember what about, something stupid probably—aren’t most of these fights about something stupid? It’s too bad you only realize that after the fact. Anyway, the fight reached a head and we both stomped off dramatically, as one is wont to do in those moments. [...]

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yurts: the downside

On April 22, 2009 · 13 Comments · In alternative building

We love our yurt. I am really glad we decided to go this route.

But no space is perfect in all ways, and yurts are no exception. After nearly four years in ours, here is the unvarnished truth to living in a gigantic, glorified tent.

Sound

If you put up your yurt on a mountaintop, [...]

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sneaking around, early in the morning, taking pictures

On April 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In honeymilk farm

I thought the yurt looked very pretty this morning.

All the bushes in front are blooming with tons of these crazy white flowers. I can’t remember the name, something about ‘bride’ or ‘maiden.’ Typical.

Fancy was happy to see me. Ma-a-a-a.

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calcifer the waterstove

On March 9, 2009 · 3 Comments · In alternative building

Two years ago, we ran across an old Taylor Waterstove for sale (great heater, really awful website). Heating with propane that first winter in the yurt broke the bank and we were looking for a wood burning option that didn’t put a wood stove in the yurt. (The reasons for that were [...]

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yurt in the snow

On January 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In adventures, honeymilk farm, kiddo life

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 [...]

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how to build a yurt (10 of 10)

On August 16, 2008 · 4 Comments · In alternative building

I just realized I never finished posting the yurt raising pictures. Here is the last page, plus a bonus page of yurt interior shots, from that day.

This picture shows the last part, installing the walls. The interior panels have canvas on one side and insulation (the silver stuff) on the [...]

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how to build a yurt (9 of 10)

On July 9, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In alternative building

The top photos show the roof going on. This huge, cone-shaped piece of heavy-duty vinyl stuff weighed a ton. The first pic on the top left shows the crew raising it up, one grueling inch at a time, to get it through the skylight. The picture on the middle right shows [...]

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how to build a yurt (8 of 10)

On July 6, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In alternative building

After lunch it was time to put up the the fabric layers, or the yurt skin. First came a layer of cotton canvas, which is what you see on the inside, the wall covering that shows behind the lattice. Next came the roof insulation–you can see that being lifted up to [...]

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