Off Grid

Another Angle

A while ago one of my readers asked me why I don’t show other angles of Tiny House Ontario.  The reason is much more simple than you might think.  Just five feet in front of the house begins a thorn bramble.  It runs due East to West and makes stepping far enough away from the house to get a photo sort of tricky.

The bramble is dense.  when I stand on the other side of it in the clearest area about 30 feet from the house, after half of the leaves have fallen this what you can see of the house.   Can you see it???Tiny House Ontario from the South

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Photos to follow up from Tiny House Listings

Tiny House Listings has posted my weekly column here.  Here are more photos from the solar furnace project!

G caulking the cracks Here is the exterior infrastructure!  Adjusting the screws Laura hanging on the roof doing nothing Ready for Plexiglass Matt paint Viking in contemporary drag G adjusting Guillaume doing my work for me A HOLE IN THE WALL!!!!  EEEEK! Resuming with the box up! Vent near outlet Hj Fixing my wiring Cut wires and curse words Waiting after the injury

 

Can you guess?

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A Spy!

Have you ever been busy doing something and felt that someone is watching you.  Well, I have.  As a matter of fact it happened to me just this morning.  Fortunately, I caught the watcher on camera, so I have proof!

Spy

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THO Plans, Failed and Realized

I failed in taking care of my current plans because I did something stupid!  However, due to my failed plans I had the time to dig out the plans that I fulfilled and promised to share.  Here is an explanation for the photo below…  and the THO house plans at Tiny House Listings.

Here is the result of my stupidity.

Plan Foiler

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Joining forces

The joining of the stoneA quick update before I run for a live music event tonight.  I did another stone run today.  I got enough stone to join the patio with the path.  It is set in but clearly, I have not levelled it.

524 square feet of stone is 100% in place. Roughly 200 of this still is not set to level. It took me a lot of my spare time over 6 weeks to get to this point on it. The job cost me $530 dollars including stone, truck insurance and gas. Still way less than ******* quoted me for the delivery for only 144 square foot of stone. I got nearly four times the stone for $460 less than this company quoted!

I am glad I shopped around and I am grateful to brother-in-law B and sister C for allowing me the use of their truck.

Thanks too, goes out to Mulrooney Trucking where I got the stone from one of their quarries.  Specifically a big thanks to Dan who has been an awesome person to deal with.  Your customer service is excellent and I have recommended you to many people who live in the Kingston area.

An end is in sight and my arms are still not toned… oh well, you can’t have everything…

 

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