Moving in

We are moving into the yurt this week, its not totally done but, good enough to move into. The tile is on the kitchen floor and the door is going up today , a couple bedroom walls are up and the bathroom wall will be going up soon. I have pictures hopefully ill be able to get them on soon. the actual moving part or moving stinks. Weve been getting rid of bags and car loads and truck loads of stuff for over 3 months now, and theres still so much stuff! Getting used to the lighting will be one of the harder challenges at the yurt , i think. Solar lights , oil lamps and battey lights dont give off nearly as much light as the lights we are used to. We are heating water for showers with solar and propane, and buying our drinking and cooking water. We need to buy a portable dvd player still so that we can watch movies once in a while.i suspect well spend more time playing board games, reading, playing outside, and listening to music, than we have been. The next project is to get the rest of the roof finished , a layer of radient barrier., layer of insulation bubble wrap, another layer of radient barrier, and then the final tarp , it will probably take 2 more week to get all the stuff. Were paying for supplies week by week so we have no debt but things have to be done a little at a time. we should be totally done with everything by the 3rd week in october so well probably be having a fall house warming, Falls my favorite season!
love ya  Sandi

The yurt is coming along slowly but surely. kitchen wall is in and the sub floor on the tile is waiting in boxes, "till the time is right"?... Anyways we picked up "new" furniture along the road and at yard sales, were pretty well set for furniture, except we need some foam padding for our pocket beds. Living in the yurt means no electric, no internet, no cable and no running water, so were getting used to that now . so what do we do for entertainment? , believe me,  with 4  kids and friends always around theres always plenty of "entertainment". We have games , books , music, phones, portable dvd players...Well my computers dying , i'll post more pictures soon

Sunrise

Daaron and I got up at 5:15 this morning to head out to the nature center to catch the sunrise.  He wanted to do that for his birthday so we headed out and got to the center at about 6:00.  Here are two of his sunrise pictures, but he didn't have enough memory on his card for the other shots he would have liked.  There were flocks of Great Blue Heron flying out of the sunset and mist as well as many cranes, both on the ground and in flight.  Very, very cool.  He also saw a Kingfisher doing a little fishing on a small lake as the mist rose off the surface.  I'm sure we'll be back there soon as he is getting a new memory card and a tripod for his b-day today. 

Too hot !

It's been too hot to get much work done, but the windows are cut out the trench that the skirting will sit in to keep the critters out is dug, and the skirting, a recycled free pool, has been cut and is ready to be installed. I've been making tile for the bathroom out of paint sample cards from walmart , and polyurethane. And the gardens are the only ones liking this heat.

deciding on siding

Our choices were, Molson Canadian,  or  Dodge Ram, I think the Molson goes quite well with the Jack Daniels roof. The siding has to be stapled up better, and the windows and doors cut out. The the roof over hang will be trimmed up. We may eventually put "real" siding up, or try out some vinyl paint. The only lettering that will be seen after windows are cut out , is this one big B. I wonder what that can stand for?