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macgyver

was: french press pot with broken pot

is: goats milk filter

um/stuff

kitchen addition. 

louisa, logan with alethiometer, carolina.

cobbing the ovulator.

the strategy, gravel and mortar. used 1.5 bags of cement, lots of sand, lots of gravel coating the bags for this structure. but i've begun to think that in most situations, i'm just going to paint the freaking bags to protect them from uv. this solution was nice, but probably overkill for most functions.

obytheway

we built a strange chicken coop:

earthbag, strawbale, timberframe, vinyl.

see: on the bottom right - extra chicken doors for openable/closeable runs; on the left, layer boxes accessible from the outside; up top - nifty tricky joinery. 

vinyl!

the facade.

bonarazzled.

my debut as bonnaroo building coordinator... it stayed standing, anyway.  

actually it went pretty well. i won't go into complaints. but i didn't actually get a picture of the final product... here you can see a little - i'll post a decent final building picture when i can find one (someone send me a picture, plz!)

we got a little help (or a lot!)  from bungaloo paints... they were awesome and have a great product, (but their webpage is too flashed-up for me to find grabable logo!) anyways, i got into a little side buisness after the wall was done:

the rocking director of lovehopestrength, a cancer-support org: 

lovehopestrength has a dope logo:

additionally:

fillin in ink is fun. this one was on the street outside. the mounties interrupted me in the middle to take my sign. i still made $60 (part of that went to donations to svi).

jellyfish!

this is a picture of the boom camera and the jumbotron showing me taking a picture of the boom camera and jumbotron showing me taking a picture of the

and the purported "purpose" of the festival: music

here's erykah badu.

and ani difranco doing her song to obama.

drag me to chickens.

they leave a wake of destruction!!! and fertilization!!!

storage solutions.

in other news, we just got off a binge of chattanooga industrial consumer goodness with the visiting grandmom, and saw the new sam raimi goodness - a really quality  scary flick, even if it didn't haunt my sleeping like seeing friday the 13th the first time, and even though my personal spoiler figured out the final twist twenty minutes early. liked it a bunch more than "up," personally.

two beams

sun/rain

one floor

prepping the goat. a goat in 1 pot!

eating the goat!

two roof

old donated army tent. 

oddly, it has electricity. we have a refridgerator. it had a goat carcass and frozen 2-liter bottles for our kitchen cooler.

Food For Life '09, saturday night.

going on again next weekend, come see, much fun.