Ontario

Tomatoes

 

Everywhere I look right now in my small house there are tomatoes… green ones.  Thankfully, my friend Marilyn is going to take some off my hands because she likes fried green tomatoes.  I made a baked variety with coconut milk and gluten free crumbs which were pretty yummy, so I thought the 300 green cherry tomatoes would work similarly.   I roasted them too but they seem to have too much solanine in them because they don’t taste good at all.  What a waste!   Even too bitter to be enjoyable after I ground them up, put onions and curry and more coconut milk in… sigh.

I kept a few in varying degrees of redness out and put some bananas near them to keep them ripening.  The others which were ripe or ripening I am stewing as I write.

As for the other quarter bushel of green tomatoes?  I don’t like chutney, or relish… I have no good ideas.

 

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Something Missing

Don’t worry!  Like I said before, I don’t worry about security at Tiny House Ontario.

I fixed the screen door and took a couple of photos before I left.  I noticed now, looking at them, how funny, empty and tidy it looks since I moved the thing.

Do you see what is missing?

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Crying in the Rain

When we left Tiny House Ontario it was raining all day.  We had not planned on closing up for the season quite yet, but I will not go back for a couple of weeks and it has been unseasonably cold.  As a caution, I thought I better take all liquids out of the house as well as to empty the rain barrel.  Simple reason, I don’t want things to be ruined by freezing nor or by freezing and thawing.

The car was pretty full because of having the last chair in there already.  This meant that the battery operated stuff will have to come back to Hamilton on the next trip.  Flash lights, drill, radio, solar lights and battery from the bike will all come here for the winter on the next trip and after this we only get back from time to time.

There is not much of 2012 left as far as THO season goes… I hate to leave there.  With it raining and grey it feels like the sky is crying.

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THO Floor Space

Finally!  THO has floor space!  Making the Tiny House bigger is something that I have been working on for a while now.  I did not want to build on so the only solution was to downsize the stuff that I keep in the place.  After getting the Tiny adaptable table that my cousin Vernie built, I started getting rid of the table and chairs inside and now finally they are removed.  I can’t believe how HUGE the place feels now!

 

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The New Cloth Porch

It is not exactly a new room but the same Cloth Porch with a bit of a change up as well as a cold weather transition.  I attached a bunch of 2×8’s to the roof which Hj handed up to me, then tarped some of it, and just as it started to rain we lifted the BBQ inside.  It was totally awesome!  It was pissing rain outside and there I was tucked safely under the newly tarped roof, dry and cozy cooking supper.  We worked on the meal and tidying up the construction mess while things were cooking.  We both felt happy to have the porch at least semi set up so that we could work through the stuff that had to be done, dry and cozy.

We had rice with a few remaining garden veggies in a red pepper and coconut cream sauce.  I had tea and the big German had a beer.  I have to tell you supper was totally yum!  You know what I mean, food is always so good after fresh air and a good day of work.

I decided in the night that I am not going to tarp the rest rather I am actually going to cut down the South facing tarp and I will cover the rest with thick vapour barrier plastic.  Not exactly the prettiest stuff but it will allow light in, so this is a better solution I think.

This morning we fixed up the screen door which after two summers with little dogs pushing on it had let go of the screen.  I just put the screen back in and screwed some 1×2 alone the entire rubber bead.  Works again like a charm!  This winter it too will be plastic coated.  Not today though, we are back on the highway soon, as you see by the photos it is pissing rain here so we will lock the doors again and won’t be back for a couple of weeks in order to finish what we started.

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