November 24, 2009

There are javelina outside my back porch right now because I threw some of my food waste (peels etc) out there last night. The javelina in Oracle are supposed to be tame, and this was actually a good opportunity to finally see them myself. But I'll probably choose to throw my compostables further from the house ferom now on ( Read more... )

November 21, 2009

I just finished turning a compost pile about 6 ft high with the bobcat. It was nice to have some time to myself with the machine to just mess around and get to know it. I think that's what I need to do with a standard vehicle.

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November 22, 2009

vivien showed me aroound her garden greenhouse ( Read more... )

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November 12, 2009

The efflorescence we washed off the buildings came back. There might even be more today than yesterday. EXCELLENT! :P ( Read more... )

November 10, 2009

Wakin up at sunrise -- love it! Goin outside.

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I drew a pretty bomb site plan today of Quentin and Julie's property, in prep for the Green Buildings Tour they're on this weekend. It's actually a diagram to show their water catchment system. I'll take a picture of it for you tomorrow ( Read more... )

November 3, 2009

Meeting Quentin at 9am, and we're going to figure out where to put the Evaporative Cooler in the Great Room (we'll finish the walls this weekend). Also keep putting together the package for this upcoming wkend's workshop ( Read more... )

October 30, 2009

I just discovered that we have a wrap-around porch! (I've only been here during the dark hrs so far ( Read more... )

These are all excerpts from emails, mostly to Henning. I called Quentin Branch, of Rammed Earth Solar Homes, on Wednesday, October 28, 2009. He asked me how soon I could get out to Arizona, and I told him "tomorrow." So the journey began...

October 29, 2009

We're just passing through Phoenix, about 2.5 hrs left to Oracle. My mom and I had a ( Read more... )

A quick note that I'm alive. Still in AZ. Still loving the people. Still loving earth construction. Still loving Henning. I will be retroactively posting updates soon.

I had a dream last night that I was getting married. To a guy I was crazy about. We'd been together maybe a year. But I loved him, and my family loved him. During the wedding rehearsal, I walked down the aisle, and as I was standing at the front, imagining it was the real thing, I had a moment of hesitation. And I stopped the ceremony, pulled ( Read more... )