alternatetheory

there is no middle ground here

i've grown to hate this blog. i know you're loving to read this.

anyway, i can't figure out how to reconcile the different interests here. i mostly write to process, and i dont want to turn this all livejournal, mostly because i havent got the anonymity that would require. i could resort to photoblogging, but i was trying to make it more personal than that. 

and i dont have any idea what people actually want to read here, want out of me, and this. 

i guess i could find some way to squeeze a narrative out of finding an old half-rotten log under the pile of fliches (cut offs) next to the saw mill, and squeezing enough cured heartwood pine out of it to start the staircase.

how about attempting to rewire my solar batteries more efficiently, and it not working till i put them back the inefficient way? what's the story there?

or nada's first attempt at canning, tonight. not quite epic, but certainly a trial. 

there's so much strangeness that you dont know - maybe i need an anonyblog, i feel there're things i could tell, but not to my friends and family (assuming that's who's reading this). life is strange. and i'm not going to vent/process here. there're enough variables involving hurt feelings when i know who i'm talking to. 

progress

allovadaplace

we went to the fair:

prize ham! smelled soooo good.

a very friendly mule. i like mules. and audads. (an african goat i didn't get a picture of)

he's much more into the rides than last year. he wanted to go on almost everything.

tarpage redo. for great justice.

the building emerges from the earth. ironically, it IS earth.

and now for a quote:

there is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need do only inner work, in order to be alive like thisl that a man is entirely responsible for his own probemsl and that to cure himself, he need only change himself. this teaching has some value since it is so easy for a man to imagine that his problems are caused by "others." but it is a one0sided and mistaken view which also maintains the arrogance of the belief that the individual is self-sufficient, and not dependent in any essential way on his surroundings.

the timeless way of building, christopher alexander.

the intesection of the digital and the homestead:

learning chainsaw maintenance tips from youtube.

i'm so sick of titles! skip to the content!

+the foundation is (cosmetically) done. doesn't it look nice?

it actually needs another easy afternoon of multi-person work, but i'm actually saving it for my volunteers "educational edification."

+my goats are pretty, and our hardest workers. but then, their job is eating.

+ he's very big. he likes button up shirts (like me). he also probably has the chicken pox. nada said he looks like hes going to a wedding in santa cruz.

he buttoned his own shirt.

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and he will grow up as confused as i was.