Author Archives: Laura

About Laura

Laura is an Artist who lives in Guelph Ontario. She is interested in societal equality, beauty, architecture, philosophy, feminism, people watching, dogs, animal rescue, ecology, as well as the generational ties between people. Laura has always been interested in peace and because she loves animals she is vegan. https://www.instagram.com/atelieroflauraleemoreland/ https://www.facebook.com/AtelierofLauraLeeMoreland https://atelieroflauraleemoreland.com

Worry

Posted on July 24, 2012 by Laura

I have heard from friends near Tiny House Ontario that it still has not rained a drop. The Weather Network calls for rain on Thursday but they have not been right yet when calling for rain. They said that there would be rain there today, for example.

I am afraid that my garden looks like this (or worse):

I am even more afraid that worried that the trees are still falling and I hope that THO is safe there alone in the drought.

I won’t get back there for a few more days to water, I have no idea what to expect when I return there on Sunday.

Categories: Drought, Forest, Nature, Off Grid, Ontario, Tiny House Ontario | 2 Comments

Big Day, Big Shift!

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Laura

Today Tiny House Ontario reached 30,000 reads. I have to say that I really had not expected this when I started this blog back on November 30 2011, less than 8 months ago. I had intended to keep my interested friends up to date on what I was up to because they are all spread out and I don’t see them a lot. Basically, I thought it would be easier than explaining what a Tiny House is, over and over again; so it was a laziness thing!

To say that I am surprised at the interest, would be a vast understatement. Thank you all very much! I am very flattered by the attention Tiny House Ontario has received.

Speaking of attention, tomorrow is my interview with KBOO Radio from Portland, Oregon! Oh my!

The other big thing for me is that I am in Hamilton in order to do some work on my book. I have printed what I have transcribed and will work on transcribing the rest. What I mean is that draft number one of my book is ready. I am sure that there is a lot of work to still do on it, nonetheless… it is now nearly all typed up and in a paper format waiting for its first edit by yours truly!

Back to you folks! Should you wonder, here is where my readers are coming in from for the last quarter of a year: I notice that I am back up in Canadian readers again, last quarter they were about par with friends to the South.

Thank you very much for reading about Tiny House Ontario!

Categories: Laura Moreland, Ontario, Readers, Tiny House Ontario, Writing | Leave a comment

Reading Outside

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Laura

Over the last weeks of heat wave, I wished I could lay down outside to read when it was simply too hot to do anything else.

I mentioned this to my husband and magically he had a solution. A zero gravity chair. $50 (at Canadian Tire) I believe, he said.

Thank you! I love it!

Categories: Cloth Porch, Drought, Family, Forest, Off Grid, Ontario, Tiny House Ontario | 1 Comment

Garden Watered and Fooding

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Laura

My husband and I carried in 100 litres of water from our neighbour’s house today. Thankfully they are good to us and our garden. I hope I can produce enough that I can bring some stuff up to them!

Finally we saw a tiny bit of benefit to all this water carrying. We picked to make a little pasta sauce. A few good sized tomatoes, a green pepper, lots of basil and flat parsley. I added salt, oil, garlic, gnocchi and a good beer (my favourite kind) on the side.

Since we returned with all this to Hamilton from THO, it is not really a zero mile diet, not even close but the sauce was great and so too was the cold beer!

I will be in Hamilton until Sunday so I will catch up on my posts I hope!

Categories: Food, Forest, Ontario, Rules, Simple living, Tiny House Ontario | Leave a comment

The Force of Nature!

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Laura

My husband and I were sitting in the cloth porch this afternoon. We were discussing plans for the next week because he is away on business and I had to return to Hamilton for the week because there is a list of things that need doing here. Suddenly there was a HUGE explosive noise that happened not too far away from the house. I could tell that it was within the property that belongs to us, just South East of Tiny House Ontario.

My husband is not a rural born person and he was puzzled, but I knew right away that we were losing some HUGE trees to the drought.

We walked back through the land. All of the forest small plants are dead, small trees too are failing. We found the big tree that we thought had come down but then we saw that not only was one down but quite a few came down. We lost a lot in last year’s tornado but now one of the biggest trees on the property lost a huge part and there are about 8 more trees that have come down. We did not stay too long back at the ridge, there was still a lot of noise coming from the trees and I certainly do not want to be under one of those if they fall!

Can you see the tree spirits in the images?

My God! We need rain.