After updating my Small House Society membership this morning, I was looking through the links and came across this. The Texas Tiny House. They harvest old lumber and architectural elements and concentrate them into a tiny footprint so they are just gems.
http://www.thing-a-day.com/author/junio/
Check it out if you like.
I just payed the annual fees on this site and realize that I haven’t posted anything in six months. Not a great record to have.
Yesterday I signed up for the Thing-a-day.com challenge. I don’t know for sure what I’ll make every day, but I’m pretty sure that today I will make bread. We need it after all. You can go to thing-a-day.com to check out what people are making this month.
My next big note is that I’m not fond of the rebate checks that the Federal Government plans on releasing as soon as it gets its act together. I believe that those who felt that the money would be better spent going into food stamps and extending unemployment benefits, and legislation should go into putting a curb on poor lending practices. The New York Times even has a very good article on why the rebates won’t work.
So here is my proposal. It is our duty to spend these rebate checks rather than saving them, but if we all spend them on the same things, we can actually act like the Government knows what it’s doing. If you get a check and can spare the money, spend it on something environmentally sound that you might otherwise not have spent money on. I’m going to be coming up with several plans for how someone might spend this money, and hopefully we can turn this bonus into a real bonus for everyone.
Thank you all for coming to our wedding, and to those of you who were thinking of us.
There is a Flickr group of photos of the wedding. Feel free to look at the pictures and add your photos to it if you have any.
There is a breakfast joint down the street from us that Katie and I have only been to once because it is always so packed on the weekends.
It turns out that the editors at Saveur are even in on the secret of this place. They make really great fresh juice besides making great short order food at dirt cheap prices.
The Hungry Cabbie relates this to you in a much better way than I could.
Even though I’d taken a thousand fares to Williamsburg and no one ever recommended Reben, I had a good feeling I was about to experience something great. I was right. The drink was absolutely delicious. And the guys behind the counter were as friendly as could be. I knew I’d found a new stop to take people on eating tours.
The Morir Sonando was refreshing and sweet. The flavor was so pleasing it made my shoulders slump and my eye lids droop shut when it hit my lips. I could clearly see why they call it To Die Dreaming.
We’re going to try and get one before we go up to VT for the wedding.
Read the whole story here:
The Hungry Cabbie
A couple of weekends ago the 3rd annual Renegade Craft Fair in Brooklyn was held at the McCarren Park Pool. The difference between the Renegade Craft Fair and any other craft fair is that it is for the type of crafters who read Readymade, Craft, or Make Magazine. A little bit indie, and not the least bit frou frou.
Almost every crafter there has a website or an etsy.com account selling his or her wares. A lot of them were from the West Coast as well.
Read on for pictures.
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There’s a new solar power plant up and running in Nevada. It’s a solar thermal plant rather than a photo-voltaic plant. It’s currently supplying power to 15,000 homes while I write this.
via Treehugger
Also, a brand new plant in Rwanda will supply 250 kilowatts of power to the country happens to be the biggest solar plant in Africa.
Also via Treehugger
Katie and I have started collecting Glidden ceramics. Specifically the Menagerie patterns. eBay is our main resource for acquisitions, but we’ve gotten one platter from Twice Upon a Time in Brattleboro.
Katie got me a book on Glidden ceramics for Christmas. Unfortunately the company, which is from Alfred NY home of SUNY’s ceramics school, went out of business fifty years ago. Continue Reading…
This cat lives at a stationary company in Japan. He has a very poetic blog (when you translate it)
Do you think that Pico Pico and the Duke should start blogging?
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Tonight Nova had the best program I’ve seen on solar energy.
Check your local listings at pbs.org
