Here’s a young couple living out in the desert in a tiny house.
A cabin.
A “tiny house”.
Description makes something cool, right?
This is a nice setup.
See the big water tanks?
They talk about the bigger house they’re building, though, so they recognize that a tiny house might not be the way to go “long term”.
They also mention that the legal issue of living in a tiny house comes into the equation, too.
Cabin or “tiny house”?
“Tiny house” is hipper.
I love seeing stuff like this.
Of course, some would say, “I don’t understand. This isn’t interesting. Where are the Kardashians?”
Everybody likes something different.
I remember a lot of pieces of firewood that I commented on before I threw them into the woodstove.
Flame….curl….a lot of figuring.
When you’re getting ready to burn a chunk of firewood, it’s too late to do anything with it.
Maybe you could make a knife handle or something small?
I always just burned it.
It was kind of sad to have made the mistake of missing the beauty in a piece of log.
You can’t see what’s inside of something until you get a chance to look closer.
Hopefully, you see it before you toss it into the fire.
Here’s the song that was featured at the end of the video…..nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGmOzMe1cO8
Awwwww.
Check this out!
Family of eight hikes the Appalachian Trail.
That’s a long way to go with little kids.
That’s a long way to go with “just yourself” along.
These guys got a lot of support….and caught a lot of grief….for their efforts.
I think that it was good for the kids.
Who gets to experience something big like this unless….you just go for it?
I’ve got to get ready now to run another bunch of mail around Saluda.
I’m not going to hike….just yet.
I have duties today.
Oh…my….goodness.
We live in a beautiful area.
I’ve lived here for a while, and the beautiful has become familiar enough that sometimes I catch myself taking it for granted.
I take it for granted…until I see a deer in a field…becoming visible through dense fog…head down…grazing…unaware that I see it.
I take it for granted…until the sun hits the ridge and I notice (again) how beautiful it all is.
It’s beautiful here.
But….look at this short film of Norway!
Norway is intense!
There is so much appeal in this way of travelling through the world, too.
We need to slow down and start seeing it all.
We need to see it.
Here’s a realistic look at what living in a van might encompass.
Foresty Forest makes some good films.
I used to think that the Tim McGraw song said, “I spent 2.7 seconds on a full length Fu Manchu”.
Turns out, it was really about a bull.
A bull named Fu Manchu.
Who knew?
Here’s a bunch of years cycling condensed into a short video.
That’s better than a whole afternoon expanded into a feature film.
What would it be like to cycle around like this?
I wonder if we could do something like this?
Maybe we should start with some car camping?
That might be a better “shake down cruise”.
This riding around looks appealing, though.
Listening to an autobiography by Richard Branson….and he talked a lot about this musician and the album that helped start Virgin Records.
Mike Oldfield…..and the album was…. “Tubular Bells”.
Tubular Bells was later used in the soundtrack to the movie “The Exorcist”.
That’s how most Americans became aware of this music.
Some good music came out of the early 1970’s….for sure.
From the YouTube description:
A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity is a free feature-length documentary that follows a community in Australia who came together to explore and demonstrate a simpler way to live in response to global crises. Throughout the year the group build tiny houses, plant veggie gardens, practice simple living, and discover the challenges of living in community. This film is the product of hours and hours of footage that I shot during that year-long experiment in simple living. The documentary includes interviews with David Holmgren, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Nicole Foss, Ted Trainer, Graham Turner, and more.
Film by Happen Films.