tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222633452024-03-19T03:21:45.261-07:00Tiny Cabin in the WoodsIt's all about the ride.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22263345.post-70661308376603921952009-07-20T17:13:00.000-07:002009-07-20T17:27:01.554-07:00This started quite a while agoAnnoying feature of blogs is that they run backwords so click on this. <a href="http://tinycabin.blogspot.com/2006/02/this-started-awhile-ago.html#links">Tiny Cabin in the Woods: This started awhile ago.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22263345.post-20947745621421710242009-06-07T08:27:00.001-07:002009-06-07T08:41:32.010-07:00FawnWalking in the lower pasture, I found this young fawn lying motionless. Even when I bent down to its level, it didn't move. After a little while, it got uneasy and bleated once then ran off. I flushed an adult deer near that location later. That could be its mom. There is a tick above its eye.<br /><br />Accomplishments: <br /><br />1. hung a clothesline between two cedar trees. <br />2. bathed twice in the kiddee pool with warm water <br />3. sprayed lots of sweetgum trees and multiflora rose with "Remedy" herbicide<br />4. met with the NRCS people. Don't think I'll sign my farm up for the WHIP program (Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program). While it is true that the federal government will assist me with expenses, I am not sure that I want the pressure of their oversight. I need to think more about this. <br />5. went birding with Joe Neal, Lance and Leslie Peacock, Becky Wheeler and others to learn about nesting forest birds in the area. Learned so much my head aches. <br />6. Still don't have my chimney or bathtub installed. <br />7. I think that lining the exterior door will make it look better.<br /><br /><br /><br /><style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/50468270@N00/3603991572/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3624/3603991572_5ea76dc5dd.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/50468270@N00/3603991572/">Fawn </a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/50468270@N00/">bouteloua</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22263345.post-69291170728606938512009-03-08T14:42:00.001-07:002009-03-08T14:42:26.459-07:00Burning the lower field<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="260" height="195" data="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=68975" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"> <param name="flashvars" value="intl_lang=en-us&photo_secret=65c0e06c6f&photo_id=3338585503&show_info_box=true"></param> <param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=68975"></param> <param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=68975" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="intl_lang=en-us&photo_secret=65c0e06c6f&photo_id=3338585503&flickr_show_info_box=true" height="195" width="260"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/50468270@N00/3338585503/">Burning the lower field</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/50468270@N00/">bouteloua</a></span></div>This is in a tight little canyon with creeks on either side. After the fire, I walked the fields and threw native warm season grass and forb seed on the burned part. Then like a miracle, a sweet springtime rain fell.<br clear="all" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22263345.post-66751245240506116122009-01-10T10:34:00.000-08:002009-01-10T10:34:51.610-08:00The Horse: Diagnosis: Examining the Evidence (Parasite Primer Part 6)<a href="http://www.thehorse.com/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=5193">The Horse: Diagnosis: Examining the Evidence (Parasite Primer Part 6)</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22263345.post-16719904751346323182008-09-13T16:29:00.000-07:002008-09-13T16:30:13.147-07:00Cabin projectsJust because we are in love with our yearling horse and have to see him daily, we have not worked on any cabin construction projects. This is about to change. <br /><br />Here is the list: <br /><br />1. Install heating wire on exposed water pipes so they don't freeze like last winter. <br /><br />2. Haul the last gable window into place. <br /><br />3. Assemble the chimney for the wood stove.<br /><br />4. Cut trees in overgrown pasture. <br /><br />5. Plant native grasses and forbs.<br /><br />6. Complete installation of whirpool tick-pickin' tub.<br /><br />7. Fix pex plumbing. <br /><br />8. Repair leaky spray in sink. <br /><br />9. Stack firewood. <br /><br />10. Haul small refrigerator to cabin.<br /><br />That is one day's projects. More later.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22263345.post-70528845831893835142008-06-05T04:46:00.001-07:002008-06-05T04:46:05.187-07:00zwarte diamant<style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/50468270@N00/2548899393/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3147/2548899393_f9549fa7ff.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/50468270@N00/2548899393/">zwerte diamant</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/50468270@N00/">bouteloua</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> The denizens of this old Tiny Cabin are excited about our newest member, Zwarte Diamant. He is a yearling friesian and it will be at least 2 years before we start training. <br /><br />We have had a black horse before and have felt the loss of him intensely for 20 years. <br /><br />He currently lives in eastern Tennessee and will be shipped to the Ozarks in a few weeks. So among the next projects will be a shed for the little feller.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22263345.post-81026961036847959902008-06-03T06:14:00.001-07:002008-06-03T06:37:25.523-07:00Le Kidde Spa - a recipe in gloriousness<style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/50468270@N00/2547513445/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3273/2547513445_6d40ee97b0.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/50468270@N00/2547513445/">Le Kidde Spa</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/50468270@N00/">bouteloua</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> </p><br />Here at the Tiny Cabin we have been taking our sweet time getting things done. Even so, we do crave our creature comforts and an <em>al fresco</em> spa event is right up there with finding the inner happy creature. <br /><br />Here's the recipe: Get a kiddie pool and fill it with the glorious hot water that we get from the well and the tankless heater! Yippee. <br /><br />Lolling outside nekkid in warm water, listening to the birds, feeling the breeze and picking ticks is purely pleasure. (Since you asked, a white-eyed vireo, indigo bunting, red-eyed vireo, chuck will's widow, whippoorwill, hummingbird and others I don't know)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22263345.post-86290607862190385342008-05-24T06:55:00.001-07:002008-05-24T06:55:04.194-07:00When the Buffalo Gnats are bad in the east Arkansas Delta.<style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/50468270@N00/2477199750/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2357/2477199750_7afba02232.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/50468270@N00/2477199750/">P1000489</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/50468270@N00/">bouteloua</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> This is what you do. After we finished our field work, we knocked over a bank. The tiny cabin is up in the Boston Mountains area of the Ozarks and Buffalo gnats are NOT a problem. I just like this picture. <br />I am the one on the back.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22263345.post-91100952753287269962008-03-28T15:59:00.000-07:002008-03-28T17:18:30.998-07:00Home Depot's "Closet Fee"Tarr and I have drug off to work on another project. "How hard can it be?" fixing up <a href="http://bungalow404.blogspot.com">this little jewel.</a><br /><br />We bought it sort of on impulse because we have always really liked it. For decades. <br /><br />Anyway, like any good houseblogger, we have been pulling out rotten wood, sneaking stuff to other people's dumpsters, dealing with tardy contractors, losing great wads of money and, in Tarr's case, chasing the heck out of feral cats.<br /><br />We discovered today that if a person asks the Home Depot dude why it costs a total of $791 to install a bottom-of-the-line $289 water heater, he will tell you that there is a "closet fee." In other words, if you have your water heater out in the living room, that is a good thing and no extra charge. But if you have it tucked away out of sight in a closet, it is $40 more. <br /><br />grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. just grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.<br /><br />The good news is that I have lots of people lined up to rent it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22263345.post-84099163482425402562008-03-12T19:04:00.000-07:002008-03-12T19:22:53.850-07:00What a border collie can do if he puts his mind to itThis is lovely. And yes, Tarr looks just like this. Music is Ludovico Einaudi's <em>I Giorni</em>.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sknEaZHHbhc&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sknEaZHHbhc&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /><br />More Fun.<br /><br /><div><embed src="http://www.livevideo.com/flvplayer/embed/45AF2B4F90F24098B74153A19201B282" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" WIDTH="445" HEIGHT="369" wmode="transparent"></embed><br/><a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/embedLink/45AF2B4F90F24098B74153A19201B282/545637/collie-wobble.aspx">COLLIE WOBBLE</a></div><br /><br />And why not?<br /><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/A7psYJ6mBpQ&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/A7psYJ6mBpQ&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22263345.post-45510908533366656682008-01-24T06:15:00.000-08:002008-12-09T00:57:04.762-08:00All Closed In!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPRJKW0Tg-Q1M-ELr2kP_7n_CqIenSeHLw3o0ghJYvyNHZ6StGVWdL75Ims4vASxWD3mLa3CU3QR74iy7GKDXmEptqysm7xcjCw9EZjj0JAFszE3cDkYzU8UFdQXoahOs8PqoEEw/s1600-h/Imported+Photos+00051.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPRJKW0Tg-Q1M-ELr2kP_7n_CqIenSeHLw3o0ghJYvyNHZ6StGVWdL75Ims4vASxWD3mLa3CU3QR74iy7GKDXmEptqysm7xcjCw9EZjj0JAFszE3cDkYzU8UFdQXoahOs8PqoEEw/s320/Imported+Photos+00051.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159047523428566274" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ4GpNoS_d_5f4TiysblgoxqRoApm2fID7cEA2FAgw-Uyyo6R79EyFsGLxgN2avw63nQ0GcuNkcjZAAUpmv6LHxgRQeY2yQemDaBd3zfTS88A8U9dSVGgYrfj0mKXB-XudliGx8w/s1600-h/Imported+Photos+00047.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ4GpNoS_d_5f4TiysblgoxqRoApm2fID7cEA2FAgw-Uyyo6R79EyFsGLxgN2avw63nQ0GcuNkcjZAAUpmv6LHxgRQeY2yQemDaBd3zfTS88A8U9dSVGgYrfj0mKXB-XudliGx8w/s320/Imported+Photos+00047.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159047544903402770" /></a><br />Once I get a chimney up, I can light a fire inside the wood stove.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22263345.post-65759950529172214112007-12-28T12:42:00.000-08:002008-12-09T00:57:05.033-08:00Swans are back/gone/back at the Boxley Millpond!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglxIoxMob1i8pzkS3eEe92YOA5tPdLH0sN_hsLlbFX6EILQEFBBHxf4_JKUxMngUubcaV5Pd3loeAYM9zg_PlAiceYU1AaRZlr_QhQpakxtsDCNbedsAptwIpredu4JhHbRpApRw/s1600-h/5+SWANS+A+SWIMMING.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglxIoxMob1i8pzkS3eEe92YOA5tPdLH0sN_hsLlbFX6EILQEFBBHxf4_JKUxMngUubcaV5Pd3loeAYM9zg_PlAiceYU1AaRZlr_QhQpakxtsDCNbedsAptwIpredu4JhHbRpApRw/s320/5+SWANS+A+SWIMMING.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159050667344626978" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg30rnJOlV_PcVGnf_BGij-76Y9emJdBKsO3zwjDpzdE8M5W_99AiZf2rFln1d9aeVnS5dthXe31ymYZObQEqn_weXBywboeV-_IZVrPZcCAQb6OL_BTgwopRlHklIFHnE-B3xJ4A/s1600-h/item7.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg30rnJOlV_PcVGnf_BGij-76Y9emJdBKsO3zwjDpzdE8M5W_99AiZf2rFln1d9aeVnS5dthXe31ymYZObQEqn_weXBywboeV-_IZVrPZcCAQb6OL_BTgwopRlHklIFHnE-B3xJ4A/s320/item7.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149127277848726818" /></a><br />Happy, Happy. After 40 some years, the Trumpeter swans are returning to Arkansas. <br /><br />These swans are gone. However, Arkansas Game and Fish and Buffalo National River biologists will be stocking some young ones this week. We'll see how that goes. <br /><br />No work on the Tiny Cabin. Too dang cold, dark and windy. <br /><br />They're back. Stocked this time by Buffalo National River, Arkansas Game and Fish and Iowa Dept. Natural Resources.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22263345.post-66523094415736200652007-11-16T10:29:00.000-08:002008-12-09T00:57:05.283-08:00With a moan of anguished anticipation<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK4vSwJ4g8aO2uac8EtracdUbOpm8FzXy9v3hMJkDSA1haqw2bqXC3___mc-K9HZFTwCZzR3G8g2m7aqDNCe2g6z02p6G_6DmxDqnkxwZ7deUdE0n8WB1SxNENJdRs10uQKZ4nzg/s1600-h/P1000222.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK4vSwJ4g8aO2uac8EtracdUbOpm8FzXy9v3hMJkDSA1haqw2bqXC3___mc-K9HZFTwCZzR3G8g2m7aqDNCe2g6z02p6G_6DmxDqnkxwZ7deUdE0n8WB1SxNENJdRs10uQKZ4nzg/s200/P1000222.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5133507905068939874" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg85PPXRVlG2aZDV-4p8P1MTGg8itt9YzsSfBy9HGITJhJi6L8oIIf5-ZBhejJxInxTCkikC0ncJPYfRO6blG9Wv2DHzvIFQ9x3QMHst6E1md2AyrQrzu_SO_qdV1C3sAWbVNARSg/s1600-h/P1000211.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg85PPXRVlG2aZDV-4p8P1MTGg8itt9YzsSfBy9HGITJhJi6L8oIIf5-ZBhejJxInxTCkikC0ncJPYfRO6blG9Wv2DHzvIFQ9x3QMHst6E1md2AyrQrzu_SO_qdV1C3sAWbVNARSg/s200/P1000211.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5133507909363907186" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />After building a little frame out of quarter-round, I put gobs of black caulking all around the perimeter, stuck the stained glass window in and stepped back to admire the look. It looked so great! Happy. Happy. Then it flopped forward and I could hear the glass breaking.<br /><br />If you have ever read Nabokov's Pnin,** I felt Pnin's pain when he thought he had broken a cherished bowl while washing it. Only this really did break. After moping around a little bit, I decided to finish installing it anyway. You can't see the cracks in the glass but I think I'll cut some window glass to help support it. <br /><br />Part of the lore.<br /><br />**Pnin is washing up, after a party. Lovingly, he places an aquamarine bowl in the water. This bowl is a gift from his young son. It is Pnin's most precious object. It slips out of his hand and drops into the suds-filled sink.<br /><br />He almost caught it--his fingertips actually came into contact with it in mid-air, but this only helped to propel it into the treasure-concealing foam of the sink, where an excruciating crack of broken glass followed upon the plunge.<br /><br />Then something wonderful happens: "With a moan of anguished anticipation, he went back to the sink and, bracing himself, dipped his hand deep into the foam. A jagger of glass stung him. Gently he removed a broken goblet. The beautiful bowl was intact. He took a fresh dish towel and went on with his household work."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22263345.post-37442198251842563352007-11-16T09:47:00.001-08:002008-12-09T00:57:05.449-08:00Spar varnish on door to tiny cabin<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMpdfAgrNfA9ABx_z8N4IURcuInRKEkzdS5UcMTaYLhTgsdWRrrBbaQFWh11NqGYdD3pUSm6f4ul82RpUpQGPzWAz6Jf9oOiPU38BWGnmoovYT9O63DzxCZk696B35ZXES8_rU0A/s1600-h/P1000216.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMpdfAgrNfA9ABx_z8N4IURcuInRKEkzdS5UcMTaYLhTgsdWRrrBbaQFWh11NqGYdD3pUSm6f4ul82RpUpQGPzWAz6Jf9oOiPU38BWGnmoovYT9O63DzxCZk696B35ZXES8_rU0A/s200/P1000216.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5133501960834202178" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDcxXrRlY_ebXJs1IRKSiHswKtSK6aTkVbxs4rg7pjr2A4yvDXXoJRzCOj4ssfT0hRlZNZrg-_x77EwCZkeOqWGAp-mzX7E4AsRJE4mEnRC81CDDGnXtJ4xWYw6ql_RR53NMP47g/s1600-h/P1000215.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDcxXrRlY_ebXJs1IRKSiHswKtSK6aTkVbxs4rg7pjr2A4yvDXXoJRzCOj4ssfT0hRlZNZrg-_x77EwCZkeOqWGAp-mzX7E4AsRJE4mEnRC81CDDGnXtJ4xWYw6ql_RR53NMP47g/s200/P1000215.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5133501969424136786" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Shiny thing alert. I really like marine spar varnish - because it reminds me of boats (durr), and Honduras. It doesn't smell as bad as polyurethane during application and it will last longer than I probably will. It will protect the wooden door despite what weather can throw at it. Eventually the wooden walls will turn a brown-gray and set off the door and the little red window nicely.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22263345.post-20107420214494161912007-10-28T17:53:00.000-07:002008-12-09T00:57:05.580-08:00Hot and Cold running water<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibmti3dNfD81KdbKrFXyxs2wUbwawWn84WSfcJ9mK_9Tzl_97arquXBX8FA3NomPAhao5STn-SiFj2F63YGNhfg2TOUvZaL-AXcZJBpbvkE-UEguAmE2m_EbRFuHRoemUP8daaeg/s1600-h/DSC02568.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibmti3dNfD81KdbKrFXyxs2wUbwawWn84WSfcJ9mK_9Tzl_97arquXBX8FA3NomPAhao5STn-SiFj2F63YGNhfg2TOUvZaL-AXcZJBpbvkE-UEguAmE2m_EbRFuHRoemUP8daaeg/s320/DSC02568.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126556629860295410" /></a><br />An endless amount of hot and cold running water. And it only leaks a little bit. This is joy. There is a dial on the electric tankless water heater that makes it go hotter or not hotter.<br /><br />I still can't recommend pex. One of the features I had hoped for was enough flexibility so that joints are minimized. As I found out, it doesn't bend very much at all. So after attaching all the joints, turning on the water and having it spew pretty much at every new joint, I went to bed, filthy, wet and demoralized. <br /><br />The next morning, I fussed, tinkered and tightened and still have a small leak. But good enough for now.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22263345.post-19414757109504562672007-10-14T07:20:00.000-07:002008-12-09T00:57:05.784-08:00A compassionate diversionRose <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3Xum5_zO_E07s5LaLJ_x3_AcAZ_wvVNZtXh-0CDCj94x0pO3a6gffYO4c6opuLtoZuuzcZV2WguIkJ6ZNegqviE17WN7dxgQRWbvzJ7-OnqCpfY06zb4AmZ2IQ1xyAd6d-cPI2w/s1600-h/Rose.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3Xum5_zO_E07s5LaLJ_x3_AcAZ_wvVNZtXh-0CDCj94x0pO3a6gffYO4c6opuLtoZuuzcZV2WguIkJ6ZNegqviE17WN7dxgQRWbvzJ7-OnqCpfY06zb4AmZ2IQ1xyAd6d-cPI2w/s320/Rose.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5121199302436727266" /></a><br />Fynn <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwvA4xm2zrEmAg8Ypp4rpYibem5_VCdsa_Bk3WE3HzA7DjAbSGkARfj45kpv_BLb5-QPIEngk-HRGVskzbbiozgl43-WUkvAxYoh3hZXt_1IK65_YEoDDzZr7Kdhutn2I0INeRTA/s1600-h/Striped+eyes+(3).JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwvA4xm2zrEmAg8Ypp4rpYibem5_VCdsa_Bk3WE3HzA7DjAbSGkARfj45kpv_BLb5-QPIEngk-HRGVskzbbiozgl43-WUkvAxYoh3hZXt_1IK65_YEoDDzZr7Kdhutn2I0INeRTA/s320/Striped+eyes+(3).JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5121199023263853010" /></a><br />Like it or not, Tarr has two new companions: two border collies that were on the <a href="http://dogblog.dogster.com/2007/09/18/90-animals-found-in-u-haul-in-little-rock-arkansas/">Uhaul of Misery</a>. Though still young, I think they have spent their whole lives in a cage. They don't know how to walk very well, doors terrify them and they seem baffled by having space to roam. Click on the second picture to see some weird stripy eyes.<br /><br />One was skeletal and the other not so much - so I think one was eating the other's food. I am free feeding them so they both look rolly polly with bones on top. <br /><br />First things first: good food, clean water, head pats and exercise. They are in ptsd or the dog equivalent. <br /><br />UPDATE: These dogs are coming along great! Wonderful border collies.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22263345.post-28333897744037187102007-10-10T05:28:00.001-07:002007-10-10T13:34:05.956-07:00WoeSeveral members of the Rodentia order have taken up residence in TinyCabin imparting a bad smell and rodent droppings of different sizes. They skitter around loudly at night, chew rudely and party with the rat poison I've left out. One white-footed mouse was found feets up but the size of most of the droppings makes me think I've got flying squirrels or woodrats.<br /><br />Tarr is indifferent to these potential prey items and will not get out of bed to deal with them. Because the exterior walls are not completed yet (but soon!) I am lucky I don't have bears inside.<br /><br />Earlier I bragged too soon about the wonders of Pex Plumbing. I don't love Pex anymore because when I actually turned the water on water spewed from many of the fittings. Pex doesn't bend as readily as I had envisioned - so I had to use quite a few brass fittings and these are expensive and introduce the real possibility of leaks and multiple trips to the plumbing supply store.<br /><br />So I'm on my back on the floor under the sink trying to fix things, leak by leak, ickily aware that I was lying in a murky soup of water, dust, filth and rat feces. Then the faucet broke. <br /><br />That did it. <br /><br />After swabbing the cabin floor with ammonia, I went home and took a shower. Then I took a bath. No pictures. I was just too bummed.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22263345.post-42278307695005821512007-09-30T12:47:00.001-07:002008-12-09T00:57:05.932-08:00Boxley Baptist Church at dawn<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR5HQhz8uLKsOsQAddNT1eRHHjET97F-pICDJ_2M4pzSTGJzw1FQAUc8n0LLugv4mrK6j2P2upTGR2twiq5-TqIJJk-LBFL8blnR9_hyphenhyphenSDqceHs3ZH3J6P08_Zrm9bLG2A57zG1Q/s1600-h/item4%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR5HQhz8uLKsOsQAddNT1eRHHjET97F-pICDJ_2M4pzSTGJzw1FQAUc8n0LLugv4mrK6j2P2upTGR2twiq5-TqIJJk-LBFL8blnR9_hyphenhyphenSDqceHs3ZH3J6P08_Zrm9bLG2A57zG1Q/s320/item4%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116087853267823042" /></a><br />There are not only elk and swans in Boxley valley where I'm building the tinycabin but also this pretty church and graveyard. The moon was full a few days ago. <br /><br />The former owners of my land are all in this graveyard now. Samuel, Seleta, Raford, Walsie...<br /><br /><br />Taken by Tim Ernst yesterday morning.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22263345.post-75763053838921058782007-09-27T18:57:00.001-07:002007-09-30T12:57:09.541-07:00Le moderne tick picking equipment<style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/50468270@N00/1424698612/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1249/1424698612_f6d3337ecc.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption">< <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> You may not think much about getting ticks or chiggers when you are out in nature but this is a reality in much of the tropical and temperate world. Definitely in the southern US. <br /><br />Here we have embodied the ideal device - it even has a little built in seat - where a person can inspect hisorherownself before slipping blissfully into hot bubbling whirling tick- and chigger-defying water. <br /><br />Rusticity has its limits.</p><br />This tub will be installed about 1.5 feet up from the floor so that I can contemplate nature while bathing.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22263345.post-90677506561399683782007-09-22T13:21:00.001-07:002007-09-22T13:50:41.652-07:00Tarr gets all important with a deer leg<style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/50468270@N00/1424697742/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1041/1424697742_980e0f7354.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/50468270@N00/1424697742/">Tarr gets a leg</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/50468270@N00/">bouteloua</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> Tarr got this special cocky prance when he was carrying around a dead deer leg. Like he thinks he has reclaimed his inner vicious beast.<br /><br />We watched him futz around with this for a little while - he was feeling so, so self important. Then he dug a little hole with his paws, gently placed the leg in the hole, then used his nose to push dirt over it to completely cover it. It took him quite a while to do it to his own satisfaction. But he got it done. <br /><br />We were fascinated: we had never seen a dog use his nose for a burial tool. But Tarr does things his own way.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22263345.post-6965307309063978662007-09-22T13:05:00.001-07:002007-09-22T14:19:16.905-07:00Young of the year road-killed fawn<style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/50468270@N00/1423814725/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1313/1423814725_c867a2523e.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/50468270@N00/1423814725/">Young of the year road kill fawn</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/50468270@N00/">bouteloua</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> Deer season doesn't open for several more weeks. However, vehicular smashing of deer happens all the time. We didn't see the crash, but this one was fresh - its mother was still hanging around waiting for the dead fawn to recover. <br /><br />It was not going to recover - the good doctor determined that it had multiple broken bones and an exploded liver. And was already dead. <br /><br />So he tossed the fawn in the bathtub he was hauling in the back of his pickup. Fortunately he had a state wildlife biologist along if an explanation to game wardens was called for.</p><br /><p>He recovered what meat there was. </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22263345.post-71609042098636105562007-09-22T12:15:00.001-07:002007-09-22T14:15:52.014-07:00Pex Plumbing For Idiots<style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/50468270@N00/1423818655/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1235/1423818655_42e31089eb.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/50468270@N00/1423818655/">Pex Plumbing For Idiots</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/50468270@N00/">bouteloua</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> This is so simple that I think that plumbers have been keeping big (and expensive) secrets from us. Here you can see the water entering the cabin (at left from the floor) being routed through a big blue household water filter. <br /><br />Next it splits off to provide either cold water or is sent through the electric tankless water heater (Steibel Eltron silver colored box) for hot water. <br /><br />I had to have a special tool and have not completed all of the crimps at each juncture, but how hard can it be?<br /><br />Yes, I did this myself. Most plumbing projects require multiple trips to the store for supplies and this took two. It is over 100 miles round trip through very very windy roads in the remote hills to get pex supplies and back.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22263345.post-6511835819401478132007-09-05T04:30:00.001-07:002008-12-09T00:57:06.108-08:00Not supposed to be scairt of this but<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF_Fa0YS7qBgLlaavkuOtV0c0jmvGPaJtrU3l_BBNIWviiVUgklco3E5qca2Rfg659JiO3r7OkIRwvimp7PMyeXTDe_LtfybdNhiu_tVV1L0oHVWvarqqrGGUzryxJ_X0Y0N7yKQ/s1600-h/tz3+131.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF_Fa0YS7qBgLlaavkuOtV0c0jmvGPaJtrU3l_BBNIWviiVUgklco3E5qca2Rfg659JiO3r7OkIRwvimp7PMyeXTDe_LtfybdNhiu_tVV1L0oHVWvarqqrGGUzryxJ_X0Y0N7yKQ/s320/tz3+131.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106682115674952610" /></a><br />This is a copperhead snake that is more afraid of me that I am of it and is rapidly leaving. There won't be any getting down on the ground and playing with it because its a SNAKE. <br /><br />You people who get all cuddly with snakes? Good for you. There is something hardwired in me to not want to be friendly with venomous snakes.<br /><br />The weather has started to moderate and more Tiny Cabin projects will commence in a couple of weeks. My friends would like to stay there while the elk bugle.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22263345.post-60556639547491945922007-08-30T16:11:00.000-07:002007-09-05T04:40:42.187-07:00Tarr goes to work<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/80/221247522_8cd34b89f7_o.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/80/221247522_8cd34b89f7_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Tarr came along to the workplace today to the delight of many of us po' working schlubs. After work, I was walking out with my boss and told him that Tarr had made a lot of people happy today. <br /><br />I read something in his look and said, "Yeah, I won't do it again. We're not here to be happy."<br /><br />He laughed.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22263345.post-59084728454303032032007-07-25T02:39:00.000-07:002007-07-25T02:47:22.308-07:00Lofty thoughtsI plan to install the sleeping loft floor this weekend.<br /><br />How hard could it be? Just laying massive boards (2.5 inches thick by 12 inches wide by 14 feet) side by side, then screwing them down. <br /><br />This will mean one less pile of lumber to trip over.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3