Category Archives: Lifelong Learning
Playing Around, Learning a Lot
The quality of our lives depends on how we focus our energy and our attention. —Traits of Stress-Hearty, Resilient People The past couple of days have been very low energy for me again, but my attention span has been doing … Continue reading
Learning from Dogs
I’ve been reading a lot of books and blogs about dogs lately…we can learn a lot from them, and from the people who love them. The little girl in this video (thanks, bikehikebabe!) could have saved herself some trouble … Continue reading
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A Precious Resource
We met with Steve, our architect this week, saying we thought we had made most of the major decisions on the house. Could he think of anything we missed? Yes, said he, you might want to think about … Continue reading
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A Sunny Winter Day
Greg and John came up Tuesday to work a bit more on the solar panels. They continued wiring them up and also adjusted the angle for various times of year. The thing that tickled us the most was the … Continue reading
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Time for Some Help
It’s been an interesting week. I’ve been fighting off a cold since last Wednesday, and I haven’t had much appetite. That’s unusual for me and by this morning I was having trouble even drinking enough water and was clearly getting … Continue reading
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Progress!
Greg and his crew started working on installing the solar panels yesterday and today. They won’t be able to come tomorrow, but will hopefully do more next week. And even better news–the building inspector is planning to meet Andy at … Continue reading
Gathering Information
As I’ve indicated before, Andy and I love information. Steve has sent our plans to the kitchen design folks, and we have an appointment Tuesday morning to see what our options are given our budget. In the meantime we’ve … Continue reading
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Choices
As I mentioned before, things are slowing down up on the land now. Andy is plowing the road when needed, and we’re gradually planning our little kitchen and bathroom. At Steve’s suggestion we went to Pittman Brothers in Santa … Continue reading
Planning
They uncovered the house slab Friday and it had only one small crack. Steve hasn’t looked at it yet, but he already warned us that hairline cracks are almost possible to avoid and they’re no problem. He says … Continue reading
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A Quiet Time
View of shed from a distance. View towards the east from our clearing. No one except Andy went up this week. Joe and his crew had planned to go up Monday, but it was way too cold. It’s … Continue reading
