You never know what another person’s life is like….but the choices that this family made must lead to something good.
These choices must lead to something good.
Our house is kind of funky….recycled….occasionally sophisticated….usually kind of cobbed together….but, it’s ours and we turned something abandoned and unusable into a space to raise children and weather the storms…..and that’s something good, too.
There is so much that is goofy and useless on YouTube….but there’s stuff like this, too.
This is so different from the b.s.tiny homes you see on the television these days.
This is the kind of tiny home that got me interested in tiny homes in the first place.
Listen around the five-minute mark where he talks about filling his tiny house up with stuff….and what a problem that might be if he was living in a 3,000 square foot house.
Curved walls….curved sheetrock (wetted first to conform to the walls)….off-grid.
She also talks a little about why some land is cheap….no great revelations, but for an off-grid situation, you can get away with buying property that wouldn’t be usable otherwise.
Her house is built on 5 or so acres out in Washington.
If you have the time, even if you don’t have a lot of money, you can do some creative stuff.
I need to finish the drywall down in the kitchen…I need to finish the treehouse…I need to weedeat…..ETC, ETC, ETC…..what am I doing thinking about any cool building projects?
You could replace the whole assembly with a sealed assembly (probably the best way to go)…..but probably the most elegant way….and the cheapest way….to do this is to just grease and adjust and go with what you have.
Maybe that’s just the cheapest way.
Maybe that’s why it’s appealing.
Here’s the process for replacing the old bottom bracket with a sealed unit….
These videos are pretty cool….but pretty boring if you didn’t have a bike you wanted to fix.
Nate: Yeah….that’s because he’s a billionaire. Billionaire’s are smart.
What? What’s that about? Billionaires? Smart?
I need the veneer of money to cement my stature as a reasonably smart guy….or maybe I need money to start the rumor that I’m smart?
Who wants to be a millionaire? Wasn’t that the question that the television used to ask?
It’s funny what goes on in Nate’s head….interesting to talk to him.
I had a crazy, horrendous day at work today….started at 6:30…..finished at 6:15….full of packages and pounds and pounds of letters and magazines and catalogs.
Crazy, crazy, crazy day….all the while wondering if I was going to be able to find enough gas anywhere so that I could do it all again come morning.
Our local station sold me 25.00 worth, though….and saved the day.
Now I’m loaded for bear….ready to rock….all gassed up and rarin’ to deliver little bundles of joy all over these mountains.
Tomorrow should be easier.
Tuesdays at the USPS are always better than Mondays.
How much do I enjoy this guy and his approach to music?
The answer to that short and simple question is: a lot.
Here’s a guy who does a lot of his touring by bicycle….and who can fill a room with his voice and….cello.
How many guys are there out there like that?
Not many.
He’s going to be in Asheville Oct 7….appearing with another cool band called Elephant Revival.
I doubt that I’ll go….but maybe my cello playing budding engineer will?
Who knows?
Took a bike ride around the lake with the family this morning…..and my chain broke.
That took a fairly simple vehicle like a bicycle out of commission pretty easily….turned an easy locomoting fun machine into an unwieldy push-mobile.
I like pedaling better than pushing.
Jenny got the minivan after pedaling to it at our starting point (with the two little guys in the Burly bike cart….hard work) and drove back and got me and my chainless ride.
Cool.
Rescued.
It’s raining here for the first time in a bunch of weeks….maybe the grass will grow again?
The big puppy doesn’t know what to do with himself when he gets wet.
It’s a lot easier when the weather is dry….but it’s a lot harder on all the green stuff.
I asked our two-year-old what she thought of Donald Trump, and she said, “I think he’s creepy”.
That was kind of funny….to me.
Had a good day out on the route….saw a couple of very young raccoons who didn’t know enough to get out of the long dirt road.
Sat and watched them watch me for a while….and when I started to creep forward, they sauntered off into the ditch.
That’s the thing about this route….I can be off by myself….deep in the country to deliver to a couple of mailboxes that are a couple of miles up the mountain….and….somehow….it’s still work.
I get paid!
I like being out in the country.
Again….don’t tell anyone.
And….I’m thinking about running again.
I put it on hold while I was trying to learn the new route….but it feels like it might be time to give it another go.
I’m tired of feeling stiff like an old man.
At least when I’m running, I feel like I have a little spring in my step.
I’ve got to get this browser problem fixed, too.
It’s driving me crazy to have the browsers misbehaving like this.
