Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Yurt Report - Wind Test

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Two nights ago, the yurt underwent a spontaneous wind test.  A front with wind gusts up to 50mph moved through the area.  The bushes and tre...
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Sunday, October 27, 2013

Yurt report - a new stove

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The fire in the yurt test went well as reported in my previous post, but the guys at the shop were put off by the burnt potato smell left be...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

Yurt Report - Fire Test

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Another update on the yurt.  As my shop mate Tim said, I liked it better when you were building boats.  Still, yurts is what you get for now...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

A Tale of Bears, Beers and Anglers

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The Kings River, our destination at the end of a two mile hike downhill. One day while camping, we found a trail that goes down t...

The Camping Yurt

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I built a ten foot diameter yurt suitable for camping.  The ten foot diameter seemed suitably large for comfort but not so large as to prov...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

Camping as Space Travel

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Camping is often lauded as a way for harried urbanites to re-connect with nature.  Well maybe. Decades ago, I used to go on canoe trips t...
Monday, August 19, 2013

More Uses for a Two-ton Crane

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My neighbor at the shop came up with yet another novel way to use the two ton overhead crane. Ben floating over the bottom of his boa...
Sunday, June 30, 2013

Plastic kayaks - Pros and Cons

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Recently, a friend let me paddle his plastic kayak, a boat that he was quite fond of.  I never turn down an opportunity to try out other kay...
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Thursday, June 27, 2013

No More Spots

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The dust motes, like floaters in your eye are most noticeable in the sky which is a uniform color.  They are not that noticeable elsewher...

Wendy Tremayne and the Good Life Lab

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I met Wendy Tremayne through my wife who participated in a Swap o Rama Rama event at the San Mateo Makers Faire.  The Swap o Rama Rama id...

Just-In-Time Upcycling

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In the old days, like back as far as the 60's people used to re-use stuff.  Then along came re-cycling which was not the same as re-use....

Good News!! Tapping the Waste Stream

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While the world economy as a whole might be circling the drain and every other country is having watercanon fights with its citizens, here i...

Moving Boats

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Jan Adkins wrote a book called Moving Heavy Things .  The other day I decided to use the two ton crane at the shop to lift a kayak up int...
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Hot Air Wood Bending

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NOTE to readers: This particular post has gotten the most traffic of all my posts for a while now.  Is there really that much interest in w...
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Woman - Dog Boat

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Inka Petersen launched her two hatch baidarka yesterday.  One hatch was for her, the other for her dog, Rosie.  The boat was a bit of a chal...
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