This country has fallen a long way from its original ideals. Despite what our government and most of our population have come to represent at home and abroad, our founding fathers were free-thinking, rebellious, proud, stubborn, tough and practical believers in liberty, equality, and justice. In other words, they were Thelemites (well, ( Read more... )

I fell ( Read more... )

Hello Friends ( Read more... )

Back online after a miserable six weeks (!) without internet access. Was visiting the public library to check for urgent emails a couple of times per week. I am a complete internet junkie. Nothing like going cold turkey to prove to you that you are an addict. I don't have or watch TV, but the internet is my pacifier. When I am stressed or ( Read more... )

The Bloody Sire ( Read more... )

Am shingling the roof now... it's tedious and slow but not terribly difficult... the roof is "Sierra Grey" (the color of Sierra granite) and the siding will be white with pale grey trim; the doors a deep rich blue (siding and doors not installed as of yet). Am exhausted and depressed at the slow progress, but it will be finished eventually... ( Read more... )

Rock and Hawk ( Read more... )

Alternative title: 9 out of 10 child-molesting clergy prefer Bush ( Read more... )

The east and west walls were raised today! And we sat in the building for the first time, and had an apricot ale... Tommorrow we will set up the scaffolding, and on Friday we will raise the trusses (the skeleton of the roof). Anyone interested is welcome to join us on Friday...

Hooray! The two long walls are now standing... next step: framing and raising the two short walls... Thanks to DS, RJ, MB, CA, TB, KG, and BC for their help! It was an amazing example of what teamwork can do: these tremendously heavy wall sections, 8 by 17 feet each (two sections for each wall), completely impossible for one or two persons to ( Read more... )