Tiny House Ontario

Something New

Posted on June 2, 2012 by Laura

I have been looking all over for a unit to go into the little WC.  I have about a 1 foot wide by 6 inch deep space to put the trash bin, coconut husk bin and as well I wanted a little surface to put things on as well as a small drawer for personal products.  For the last month I have stopped at as many of the second hand places as I could think of and could never find anything of these particular dimensions which suited my needs.

Today I left the Tiny House because of the rain with the idea that I would do a blog post and also stop and get a little box to put the toiletries in.  We are over near the town centre in the Home Depot plaza and we found a nice little stand at JYSK.  They are tiny and not too expensive and today the tax is included, so the unit was under $25.  I also bought a $2. piece of oil cloth for my table (mine is ripped).  Next door at the Dollarama I got two little plastic bins for 1.50 each, white for garbage and black for coconut husks.  It was a $30 shopping extravaganza!

I am looking forward to getting them set up.  It is too rainy to get the eves trough up/rain barrel working, but even getting a little small stuff accomplished feels good.  

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Laughing Wire Water Garden

Posted on June 2, 2012 by Laura

My cousin Vernie, one of my favourite people, let me know that he had some chicken wire to put over my garden to keep out the rodents.  So I went over to his place to pick it up and he shared a few hilarious anecdotes from the past.  He just slays me!  His daughter Tracey has also inherited his wicked sense of humour so we laugh a lot when we are together.  I love that my life is filled with hilarity!

Vern also shared one of his new inventions with us, a very cool corn planting machine.  The man is a genius!

With chicken wire in hand and though it was raining cats and chihuahuas we braved the rain to reseed and also to put the chicken wire down.  It looks pretty nifty and will be interesting to see how the plants can come though it.  Hopefully they will not all be gnawed off.

This morning it was still pouring but the seeds seem to one totally in place.  I hope it keeps on raining for another day or two since everything is dry as bone here and water is needed to get the food growing.

I left a small rubber container out on the cloth porch last night and it was about 2 inches deep this morning.  Thus it was a good rain.

My mom used to sing… “oh Lord don’t let the rain come down, because my roof has got a hole in it and I might drown”, but we are dry in Tiny House Ontario as well as in town doing a blog post.

I think I will sing… “oh lord how I wish it would rain down on me” to keep that water coming for a bit and get my garden going.

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Cuddling Corner

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Laura

I rearranged the furniture at Tiny House and have found that I really like to sit in this little corner.  It is particularly nice if one of the dogs cuddle in with me while I read or write.

The photo of Honey is not too flattering, but she does not get on line much and I won’t tell her about it, so please don’t tell her about it either.

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Wild Strawberries…

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Laura

When the rain stops, I will go into the forest and pick a bunch of wild strawberries.  They are nearly ready at Tiny House Ontario.  I think that nothing tastes better than these little wild wonders.

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Growing – Maybe

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Laura

It is now six months since I started the Tiny House Ontario Blog.  It is almost a year since the Tiny House was built enough to move things and myself into.

This year we got some soil from one of the local farm boys.  He delivered beautiful soil to me, far more than I needed for $40.  The best thing is that it is REAL soil not sifted dead crap that you buy from the companies who bring their interpretation of soil. Dead dirt.

The soil has lovely clay deposits in it which I took out and will make a clay oven from ( I now have half of what I need).  It also had some wonderful round granite rocks which are left overs from the ice age going over the Canadian Shield, these will be beautiful orange accents, for the stone fence, I also had four full wheel barrels of extra soil which I put beside my humanure/compost unit and this will be used to cover the organics.  I am grateful to the farmer and to the young man for sharing with me.

There was a good half day of digging and I am grateful that I have a husband who took care of this for me.  I am still quite winded from losing my grandmother, so it was nice to have him take care of the hard work.  He dug and I threw out the beautiful stones and clay, then raked and planted the garden.

We went to Sand’s Produce and picked up a few tomato and pepper plants from the Sands family business and planted them too.

The next morning we found that some little critter stole every single one of the zucchini and squash seeds as well as having dug up the bean seeds.  Today since it is raining, I put a few more in the ground and will put wire mesh over the seeds.

I am not sure if we can produce any food in a garden, in a small clearing, in the middle of a forest.  I guess it is fully depending on the cooperation of the other creatures who make this their home as well.

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