I love the way the inhouse looks when the afternoon sun flows in!
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Uppers Done
My cousin Vernie biscuited a joint for the last cupboard door which is a triangle.
I am doing some other finishing over the next day or two.
I am really pleased with the way that this turns out.
Categories: Ontario, Simple living, Tiny House Ontario
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Sands Mud Bog
I took the day off yesterday. Spent the day with my dad’s side of the family at the Sands Mud bog, North of Battersea. Talk about a total hoot! It is a family/community event that is held every year. It was the first time that I have been able to make it back and I can tell you that I am not missing it again unless I am too old to get into the back of a truck! The family and thier community are just so much fun!
Lots of people – a beer or two were enjoyed. The laughter was as loud as the trucks in the bog.
Sadly, I forgot my camera so I had to steal a couple of pics from my cousin A. Hope that is groovy with her as a truck tire in the bog. The John Deere truck is her baby. She is a dead awesome bogger! Uncle Steve would be huge proud! I have to tell you that it makes me really sentimental. I am thinking that the rainbow that popped up just as the bog ended was more than a little symbolic.
Thanks to my cousin B and C who hosted this brilliant event! Glad to be invited!
After the mud bogs I went to another family event (Mom’s side). While there, I mentioned that I had enjoyed a totally awesome day at the mud bogs. A lady who was there stuck up her nose and said “I don’t see the point, this is a stupid thing to do, it just ruins the soil in the bog, so loud, so futile… blah, blah, blah”. I was not prepared for anyone to be such an argumentative, negative, arse-pick. Seriously… with the way that the land is being taken over by housing? A mud bog does significantly less damage than one single McMansion and I can assure you that this one gave pleasure and a community event for about a hundred or more people… hard for a person as uptight as that to understand laughter and community participation is my guess?
You can’t make everyone happy and I have to say that if I am picking who to have fun with… well you know the answer, I am getting in the truck going to Battersea and I am wearing my rubbers too.
I wonder what the other Tiny Housers did this weekend?
Categories: Family, Friendship, Magical, Off Grid, Ontario, Simple living, View
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Upper Kitchen
I am sorry that I have not posted. It has been awkward not having a computer. Still there is good news! My camera and card reader dried out and now work!
I have now got power in the kitchen. The outlet now works and so too does the kitchen light. As well, I have started building in the upper cupboards.
Categories: Tiny House Ontario
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Gloom, Despair and Agony on Me
Last night I went to a poetry reading in Kingston. I was caught in the pouring rain which came to us at the tail end of the Issac storm. I knew I would get wet but I went through it anyway. To tell you the truth it was sort of fun! There was lots of water so it was a bit like a ride at a water park.
We have had so little rain this year that I was glad to see it come. It was nice to be soaked right to the skin. Thing is that when I arrived I ran right in and only at the half time break when I wanted to get a card from my purse (tucked safely in my trunk) did I run back out in the rain again.
Turns out, my truck did not lock properly and it was gaping open when I went out. The trunk was filled right to the top with water – about 6 inches deep. The terrible thing about this, is that my camera and my Mac laptop were both totally submerged. SUBMERGED.
Worse… My laptop had the only copy of the draft of my novel on it. Plus all other writing outside of this blog. Over a year of my writing disolved like sugar in tea.
I have brought it in to see if they can recover the data but I am not very hopeful. I am sitting now at the public library posting. I have huge tears rolling down my cheeks as I write and I feel like I have been kicked really hard in the stomach.
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UPDATE: After writing this – I remembered that I printed a hard copy of my novel, two months ago, so even with the data lost I can type it again! Feeling like I can breathe again….
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