Tiny House Ontario

Going Buggy!

I got a lady bug key for Tiny House Ontario when I put the locks in.  I thought it would be easier to find if I was coming home after dark, and it is.

When I was going through my art supplies a few weeks ago, I found some small wooden lady bugs left over from when I was teaching Art to young children in a school in Germany so I thought I would put them on the door  marching toward the key hole.  I think they are too cute!

Today, I went for a pedicure and I suddenly decided that I wanted my toes done decoratively… you guessed it.  Perhaps it because I want to march back there myself.  I miss Tiny House Ontario!

The people there are still hoping for rain.

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Worry

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.

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Big Day, Big Shift!

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!

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Reading Outside

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!

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Garden Watered and Fooding

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!

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