Here is a one hour documentary from Les Stroud about the life that he and Sue chose for themselves.
Enjoy!
Thanks Les! xo L
Family
Les and Sue Stroud
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Mud Bog Image
On September 8 2012, I was at the Sand’s Mud Bog which I wrote about earlier. This morning my cousin T sent me a photo that I think is great so I wanted to share. Better late than never, am I right?
Here I am with a few of my fabulous cousins. Good times!
Makes me wish I was home right now.
Categories: Family, Friendship, Magical, Off Grid, Ontario, Time
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12 Year Old Tiny Houser!
There is a 12 year old girl out of Georgia, who with the help of her parents is building a Tiny House of her own design.
La Petite Maison is her blog.
I don’t know her name but I wish her the best of luck!
xo L
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Sweet Little Ones
Leo came and put the eves trough up. Now that I have a ladder, this means that all I have to do is hook up a barrel to it next spring in order to have running water in the in-house. I decided to put two downspout holes in it. One for the garden water which is using chain instead of a downspout simply because I saw this on the internet and liked the look. I will let you know how it works.
He brought someone fantastic with him. Beautiful blue eyed Izzie. She was a very good sport about the thousand kisses that Rudigrrr placed on her little cheeks. She is a very quiet little girl, totally easy going. I had to play with her of course! I also sang and played a bit of music for her and she never once complained. I am not a good musician so this was pretty cool. She also let me read “The Giving Tree” to her and since I don’t know her that well, I totally can’t believe how easily she just let me entertain her! What a sweet child!
When Leo, Kyle and Izzie left, we worked on the cloth porch to get it closed up but did not get quite finished. The green tarp had a salamander living in it, and while trying to help it to the ground the poor thing fell about 5 or 6 feet from the tarp to the ground. It walked away after laying stunned for about 30 seconds. I hope it will be okay. Anyone know anything about salamanders? This sweet little one was a darkish colour with a yellow stripe. We have a lot of them around THO, but I don’t know much about them. They sure are cute and tiny… I love their itty-bitty fingers.
Categories: Cloth Porch, Dog, Family, Magical, Music, Nature, Off Grid, Ontario, Tiny House Ontario, View
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Cloth Porch Adaptive
I am facing the awful Toronto traffic again this evening to head back to Tiny House Ontario. I started a project last weekend and I am going to finish it up this weekend.
Project is: I decided to cover the cloth porch roof, 2×8 boards, 17 of them butting each other in order to keep the snow out in winter and rain out in summer. I have a huge green tarp which I will use to cover the porch. I think it will be large enough to cover the top and two of the sides. The other side I will close up with another small white tarp because this will allow some light in.
I think the cloth porch will be a good makeshift shed to bring in items for winter such as the bike, the BBQ and wheelbarrow. It should also serve as a good spot to put a small wood stove and some wood too. If I find a Tiny wood stove (cheap) and figure out how to hook it up safely. My cousin Sandy, who is an outdoorsman says that there are Tiny stoves designed to heat a tent and this should work to heat up the porch and house too. I was thinking that a few bales of straw would probably help to shelter it a little more as well, but of course then I would have the problem about what to do with these afterward, so I think I will just tarp it up and hope for the best.
A stove will mean poking a hole in the cloth. I am okay with this because the front cloth is on its last legs now. It has many small holes in it and some big ones too that I sewed up. I already got replacement cloth for the porch when it when the $2.metre sale was on in the spring, so when the tarp comes off the new cloth can go up.
I understand that by covering the roof on the South side of the house that I will be giving up a lot of light in the house; however, if this goes well, it will mean that THO will be used a lot more this winter. Keeping warm is more essential than light, particularly now that I have the 12v system.
I have to add, that the hilarity of how this will look is not lost on me… tarp room with a wood stove, BBQ, motorbike, makeshift kitchen, garden tools, and woodpile attached to the house, sounds like the epiphany of red-neck additions. Seems like a great place to stop by with the sleds and drink out of a wineskin. It is making my rural heart sing!
Categories: Cloth Porch, Family, Friendship, Magical, Off Grid, Ontario, Tiny House Ontario
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