I can’t tell you how grateful I am that Colleen brought her camera and shared her great photography with me and you!
From a utility standpoint, the lights are great, because they allow me to stay up and read or just contemplate my next project. But they look so cute from outside! I so much wanted to share a photo with you because I think it looks charming or enchanted.
Do you agree?
Thanks again Colleen for sharing the day and your skills! xo L
I love the way the inhouse looks when the afternoon sun flows in!
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?
For the past three days Hj and I have been busy installing the 12 volt lighting and power system at Tiny House Ontario. Like a lot of work that I do at THO, it is a longer task than I had expected it to be. This is due to two reasons. First, I have to be very careful when removing the wooden walls so that I don’t split or spoil any of the boards, which worked out perfect so far. Second my drill is old and not very powerful so drilling through the joists is not a fast thing to do.
We have installed four of the lights now. We put them up in order of our perceived importance, so the main floor, front entryway, loft, and the cloth porch all have illumination. Really bright: easy to read at night: see the lights as you come up the driveway, lighting! I have to say that he LED yacht lights are great! I would suggest to any off-grid person to put at least a couple of these in because you don’t need too much power to run them because they are straight up 12v and there is no inverter involved. They are a little bit costly but very, very bright! When I need to use the inverter, I will just plug this in!
My battery guy says that I have 6 times the power I need because of the awesome little LEDs!
You will notice in the bedroom that I maintained the LED battery operated lights. I have not been too thrilled with these because the batteries have a short life with them, still I think because they are already there, I might as well keep them as back ups. Then the Coleman LED camping lights are back ups of the back ups and then the flashlights are backups of these! Hilarious really – but I want to be sure that the lighting really works as I am sure it will, for a year before I start purging the extra gear despite the space that it takes up. Plus, for the bedroom the battery LED will be used to get up because it has a circular switch. I can turn this on/off downstairs/upstairs whereas the yacht lights are simply switched at the surface.
It took a lot more 16 gauge wire than I thought. I had to buy an additional 150 feet (!!!!). The cost was $75 plus tax. This means that it took 250 feet of the stuff to wire the little Tiny house! That is about six times around the house! There are only seven lights and one outlet so the wire that was needed for the job was mind boggling to me.
I have to say, if my camera worked better I would love to take and share some photos of the exterior of THO because it looks positively cute as a button in the dark with its new lights on!
I never heard of Dick Proenneke until tonight. I was looking up some videos on how to build timber frame place out of logs and basically stumbled on this beautiful footage. His footage, of himself, building a life in the forest of Alaska in 1968.
There is also a second video which was just released in 2011
The third is yet to be released!
If you love this, as I did then perhaps you will also want to read his Journals? Which can be downloaded free here.
Sometimes the internet is so cool. How else would I have ever met him?
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