Rita and I gave an end of summer party. Some of the positions of the guests and the debrie or was it brie all over the chair? Any way it was a lot of fun while the moon went it's way and we went ours.

Home

We found an old chicken coop turned into a home back in 1950.

We bought it and now live here. This image is what we saw back in august around 7:30 in the evening.

This will be our 4th night sleeping here and there is 26" of snow on the ground.

                                 This view is from the studio looking at a small barn in between.

                             From the above image,turn around and this is what you would have seen .
                               I know it has great potential as a studio.      
                                     



Filtration

This is a water filtration "system" as it's called by the smart and confident people. I on the other hand wanted to filter out excess white material from the coffee machine water. It also had to be done with out spending any money. Here it is and it works beautifully. One gallon glass lined Thermos,circa 1920, porcelain Melita funnel,coffee filter and a home made spout. The perk is it tastes better too.

last fall Rita saw this in our dining room window. I took this picture as we looked on. Just a reflection at the end of the day but what an end of day! We thought about the energy out and in the house . It captured our times. Burnnnnn Ahnn!

What goes up must go down

It's amazing what a small thing can do to lift the spirits. How many times with gained skill I fetched out of the drain hole any number of things. Grey slime, hair and other scumie stuff.

I made this brass drain cover and it was good! A little "home land security" goes a long way.

For Sensitive Skin

This is a good example of the kind of ingredients that are in my soup. I made this watering can with a cheap funnel and an old watering can sprinkler I had around. Some silicone calk and aluminium pop rivits to hold the funnel on. My sprinkler has a fine spray for seedlings. It can be made with out the sprinkler too. The recycling and carbon saving detail isn't interesting to me but it is a deal to make. I left the lable in place because now in it's altered state it makes me laugh.