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Quick “Domes”

Filed Under : Alternative Living,Gnome Home,Hobbit Hut,Tellings by Living Documents
Jun.21,2010

My Domes are fun.  Permanent or Semi-Permanent.  I’m having a lot of fun doing ‘em….but THEY TAKE TIME.  So got to thinking:  WHY NOT BUILD “TAKE IN / OUT  C O V E R”.  PREbuild the wanted “cabin” SHAPE (willow?) and LEAVE THE FRAME THERE.  Simply carry in the (tarp) covering when you’re going “camping”.  Either bury (in a rodent / water proof) container…the cover and carry in / out only a SHOVEL!

Yes, a TENT can “fill your needs” … MAYBE!

Ever try to lug a BIG TENT?

This way you can PRE-BUILD , E X A C T L Y, (within reason) WHAT YOU WANT to be using.

YOU might need more then One cover (OVERLAPPING WELL) but even that won’t be as hard as lugging in a BIG Tent.

Think I’ll try just this in the small forested area on this property.  See how it works out.  (I had 5 Tipis down there…AND TRESPASSERS:  “just looking”). Aho?    re

(WS)

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The Domes

Filed Under : Alternative Living,Gnome Home,Hobbit Hut,Skydome by Living Documents
Jun.19,2010

My NA Friends and 2 young daughters came. Couldn’t spend the night tho.  A lot of “tellings” told to all…kids included.  Then went to domes to see.  Adam’s (#2) 1st.  Had had no time to make ANY presentable BUT  DIDNT MATTER!  All 4 LOVED it in its SIMPLICITY.  Then to the original (#1)…..THEY…ALL 4 OF ‘EM…”WANT THIS!!!”.  The girls jumping on the bed and stretching out….Mom and Dad taking “note” of its “how”.  SERIOUSLY “Checking it out”!

“NOW for LAND!  We can make this pretty easily…or a 2 – 3 cluster of ‘em.  Bedroom for the girls and one for us and a main “Family Room”…AND have plenty of room for visitors.  THIS is REALLY NICE!  And its so WARM!”  (no fire / overcast day).

Left talking about it and #2 as Bedrooms.

On #2 they noted the “Sweat Lodge” type making and were seeing the “IGLOO DOORWAY!”

All do “sweats” and make ‘em, so this is not at all unfamiliar to them.  All 4 build their ‘sweats’.

I was surprised to see in #2 THAT One or Two of the Upright willows WERE REJUVENATING AND PRODUCING LEAVES!   The SMELL was WONDERFUL inside!  Real “Outdoorsy”!   HOPE MORE DO THE SAME!  Hope ALL do!  Make for clean odor, Extra insulation…and UNIQUENESS!  Talk about DIFFERENT as a “Home” Interior!   ( :

I have built a 2 man sweat with Leaved Willows, but wasn’t expecting THIS!

Then to SKYDOME.  Tho only Framing up, they all “saw” ITS HUGE SIZE and was no problem visualizing ITS “GREAT LIVABILITY!”

They are going to try to come again next month and see THIS one, Done.

They are “paring down” on their UN-needed “needs”.  See the BENEFIT on living on / with “far Less = Far EASIER” life style.  Even the KIDS!

We CAN “GO BACK!”  And teach others of us (NA) this “way” of Old Ones’ SIMPLICITY.  (This a quote, too).

A lot of Old NA “survival” teaching as well.  Snares / Traps / Wild food “ways”…AND (natch) Bible.

Ii KNOW they had a GREAT TIME!    WIDE OPEN TO TRUE NEEDS and LIVING MORE “Naturally” (quote).   PTL!   GB   re

(WS)

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Sky & Sky Dome

Filed Under : Alternative Living,Gnome Home,Hobbit Hut,Medicine Man,Short Stories by Living Documents
Jun.13,2010

SkyDome comeing right along.  BEAUTIFUL DAY to “DO”.  Thing is, I’m doing the Uprights nearly alone.  Sky and “helper” help (HA!) a TINY BIT and are STILL here playing @$#!!! Video Games.

Does have it’s Good Side tho….no griping and “huffing” to listen to as I do the PVC Uprights.  Several in already…AND a ROUND WINDOW FRAME (Hula Hoop)!

 
Even the PVC and Conduit pipes were GIVEN, MANY years ago!  My cost so far: STRAPPING TAPE…and THAT roll bought 2-3 Xmases ago.  Using THIS instead of string Ties.  GOING UP FAST so far.  About 3 1/2 10s done all around.

Uprights are Easy…getting ‘em connected at top will be another matter.   This dome is more an oval then round….that’s why it will be difficult.

 
OK, dragged the boys out. Sought Sky’s advice to make SURE his design is being met.  So far so good.

 
Back in from #2 dome.  Marshmallow roast and more laughter.  Seems kids are only interested in DVD Games and FOOD!  ( :  

 
I’m getting better at these domes.  Fast and more PERMANENT.  The use of pvc is great and would sure go that route in the future…IF I didn’t have to BUY the stuff!   Won’t rot/bends rightly.  Fast!

The HORIZONTALS are still Willow.  Looks good and easy to get.  Holds the whole structure tight together.  Being INSIDE the tarp cover they won’t rot either.  Aho?

 
I’ve learned to NOT “shovel” dig the upright holes, too.  Pound in a Garden Trowel.  Then deeper with a stout “stick”.  This keeps the holes deep and VERY tight….RIGHT OFF! Shovel makes these holes to much trouble to “toughen up”.  Aho?

 
OK, enough for now.  GB    re

(WS)

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Sky Dome

Filed Under : Alternative Living,Gnome Home,Hobbit Hut,Medicine Man,Red Elk Speaks by Living Documents
Jun.11,2010

Very special thanks to Adam for sending me these pictures to share with everyone!

ZZ Stove in action!

I would like to comment on the New dome pictures just put up on the (“my”) Blog.
This is #2 dome.  The framing done by my 14 year old grandson and Adam (44 years old I think).  I basically supervised. It took them only 4 hours to put together.
The top picture doesn’t look like much, but is the BASIC Start of SKY’S Dome (grandson).  To HIS design.  Very “rough” start….and always changeable.  (Already HAS).
“I’m” doing HIS “way”…so he can learn (mistakes and all).  Doesn’t matter…its “HIS”.  He’ll have Pride of Accomplishment.   Aho?
If a just-turned-14 yr. old can do such a structure, most ANYONE can.

In this photo you can see PVC and CONDUIT Piping.  Literally SALVAGE.  What I / We HAVE ON HAND.  Aho?
Willow will be incorporated too.  FREE from our areas’ creek banks and farmers fields.
As I write this, a buddy of his has come for the weekend (18 yrs old) to help / learn.
As you can see in this and following pics, all domes are Quite “In – The – Open”.  Between I-90 Freeway and our rural rd.
This is deliberate.  To “catch the eye” of passers-by.    HAS, too!
I’m building to SHOW what CAN BE DONE…on “next to nothing”.
I intend to build an “Un-see-able” one at a later date.  Camouflaged as a pile of WOOD.  Old branches / etc. hiding it…as “forest Tree Cutting Cast-Offs”.  Aho?
These are “HOMES”.  Homes of our PAST and homes OF OUR FUTURE.  (IF we continue on the path the world is still / now on).
A number of these pics are “redundant”.  Won’t be on others.  Aho?
On #2 dome, it seems “odd shaped”.  IS!  The FREE Hay Tarp over also covers a Back “corner” EXTENDED “alcove”.  That added to this dome frame to get inside things (luggage / back packs / cut wood / food container) out of the small Inner flooring.  Might LOOK strange, but a reason for it.  Aho?
YOU TOO can “Add”.
Willow is VERY VERSATILE.
In one or two pics you can see #1 dome (recently called “The DELUXE Model” by a sightseer) as well as the framing of #2.
#2 dome has BLANKETS (free) as insulation.

#1 has none (intend to cover fully with earth and sod).
I went “whole hog” on #1.  It has cost $350.00 “to the penny”.  #2…10 CENTS!  (we are now adding to this.  “Fancying” inside).  Perhaps to as much as $50.00.
IN THE “AFTER” Future…..NONE will be “fancy”.  ALL will be EXTREMELY BASIC.  A Frame, a Cover.  That’s IT.
I’m aware not all have Willows available.  That’s when a builder must “SEE” other building materials.  STONE huts….DUG Outs…etc.
Caves?  EVER TRY ONE?  DARN COLD in winter and DARN SMOKY with a fire.  But better then nothing, though.  People of the distant  past used them, as well as in various “recent” wars.  Aho?
OK, enjoy.  Maybe get inspired?       Creator Bless.

re

(WS)

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ZZ Zip Stove

Filed Under : Alternative Living,Gnome Home,Hobbit Hut by Living Documents
Jun.8,2010

RE responds to a couple of emails about camp stoves used in his friend’s dome:


He left at 7:08 AM this morning.
Yes, we sure did.
SMALLER and MORE EFFICIENT FIRE….using the ZZStove.  I convinced him to buy one ($70.00)…a Back-Packer stove, sis. I’ve told all of this stove before. You too.  UNBELIEVABLE Stove.  Can Cook a meal with One PINE CONE (did, so know).

You oughta have SEEN his  J  O  Y  over buying this!  Just RAVES after RAVES, all nite long!   (YOU TOO should check it out)!  Please, DO SO!
The SIERRA Model.  NOT THE MORE PRICY ONE.  GB   re
2nd Email:

Think i know your stove.  Basically unfolds to 2 “legs” with a stick-up portion to hold a pot / etc. above the fire.  Super lightweight aluminum.  Right?

Had one myself.  Then realized I could do the same with 3 stones or a pressed mound of dirt (as “legs”).  So gave it to a Boy Scout.  Then eventually made a tin can “hobo” stove.  Worked darn good BUT was “tippy”.  Then, in mid ’60s bought an all brass Top O’ The Line (from Sweden) White Gas one.  WELL OVER $160.00!  In the ’60s, THAT was ALOT of $$!  I was the envy of many fellow campers, BUT it was HEAVY, Hard to FIND White Gas (almost IMPOSSIBLE today) AND you needed to lug stove AND fuel around.  Got to NOT liking it.  Gave IT away, too. Then one day I saw a SMALL write-up on the “ZZ”.  Price was right so decided to order.  LOVED IT IMMEDIATELY!  I’ve worn mine out. Not by USE but by several MOVES.  Sigh.

Told Adam of it and showed him my “old Jalopy”.  He too liked what he saw (tho no longer works) and ordered.  Mine is over 16 yrs old..they’ve Updated to EVEN BETTER!  WOW Yes, it IS “Even Better”!!!

Now to get Me one when I can.

This has a 3 way cooking “way” (so too my oldie)…9 volt battery for forced air (High Altitude cooking) and #1 no motor running.  Just as my oldie.  IDENTICAL in USE, just BETTER CONSTRUCTION…and WITHOUT Weight Gain! BETTER FRYING PAN and POT TOO!!!
I showed Adam how to get his fire FAST Started;  DRIED WEEDS!  With TINY TINY TWIGS above. VerrROOM..OFF SHE GOES! Then to “bigger” stuff.  A Pine Cone..Thick Stick…Etc.

And Does it EVER Throw out HEAT!  Enough to comfortably heat the dome (12 or 14 ft. Dia. x maybe 8 ft high, I think).

That blower TOSSES up any Smoke!  Once going, turn blower off and smoke has plenty of air below to NOT LET smoke billow…goes straight Up / Out too!

Battery lasts for HOURS and HOURS AND  H O U R S!!!  Alot easier to carry a spare in a pocket then all the Fuel these “modern” types use.  Easy to PACK OUT a tiny 9 volt then a BUNCH of LP Mini Bottles, too!

This stove is UNBELIEVABLE!
2 I’ve shared with have bought.  One a camper in Holland.  SHE LOVES LOVES LOVES it TOO!  Thanked me PROFUSELY!
I’ll try to buy another very soon.  “Depending”….aho?
ALSO, this stove is rated as USEABLE when “NO OPEN FIRES PERMITTED”!  LEGAL!
Sparks?  TINY and LOW.
The PERFECT “Run” stove (if you’re running “fancy”).  Aho?
No! Hole in top of dome NOT MADE BIGGER!   ( :
re

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Having a ball!

Filed Under : Gnome Home,Hobbit Hut,Medicine Man,Red Elk Speaks,Short Stories by Living Documents
Jun.6,2010

 

Got something to share.  See the time this is being done ( 12:07 am – WS)?  Why so Late?  Well, HAVEING A BALL!  Adam (#2 Co”owner”) and Sky and I have been out in #2 dome “shooting the breeze” around Adam’s new ZZ-Zip Camp Stove  (he LISTENED TO ME!).  Dome all closed and NO SMOKE!  WARM inside (I’m in a T shirt).  I’m in now while they’ve headed to town to buy MARSHMALLOWS!  WE ARE HAVING A BALL!
Spent nearly the whole day berming this dome.  4 to 5 wheelbarrows will FINALLY Finish it (outside)!    TIGHT FROM DRAFTS / WINDS and COLD!  Went in, made the fire, closed the door and goofed off.  Lots of Laughter!  Will go out again when they return.
Been planting live “clump grass” in the berming as we go.  MAKES THE DOME LOOK REALLY REALLY “COOL”.  Like its been there for a CENTURY!  Also “set” a long Half Log along one side up on berm as a SEAT for 3.  We’ve set and rested our backs against the “skin”, sunny side, and relaxed from digging work.  NICE!  I mean REALLY Nice!
Been a great day.  HECK OF AN ABODE!  So PRIMITIVE and so COMFORTABLE!  Price STILL : 10 CENTS!!!
Any staying a night in this will LOVE IT!
Also, Sky and I have been “roughing out” HIS dome (to be).  Making him wait till both #1 and #2 are FULLY Done first, tho.
He’s “chomping at the bit!  ( :
Really WANTS to DO!  PTL!
Pictures taken….might be a book(let) here.
Dirt to dome forming the Bath Room for both…Tub and Pot basically.  “2 birds with one stone” so to speak.  Aho?
So, coming right along.
Who knows, might be a VILLAGE!
The “Yesterday and Tomorrow” village.  ( :
Wish YOU were here!  ( :    GB    re
(PS: the fire pit has 3 “tiers”…2 being grates.  On Top Grate we set a flat Lava Stone…its heated from fire below as we are “off” awhile.  ( :   re )
(WS)

ABOUT 2 hrs and 20 mins. sleep last night.  WORTH IT.  GREAT Time in the dome!
KNOW Sky will NEVER Forget….even long after I’m “gone”.
Know what I mean?  (Surely we ALL have “Good Memories” .  Things we’ll NEVER Forget…Aho?).
Sorta Kinda “Pass-On memories”.  REMEMBER!  ?        ( :   re

(edited by WS)

AHO!   YOU mean “Good Memories” Made?

I’m so “woozy” i could DROP!  But dinner in 1/2 hr.  Hate cold food and no would DARE wake me!  ( :   But, Boy, AFTER!!!  

Meachelle needed $$…took even my PENNIES!  ALL!  (Laundry).  My PENNIES for gosh sake!  ALL 8 OF ‘EM!   sigh   ( ;  

(Been there, Done that).   ( :

In all truth, sis, I’M GLAD FOR MY “BACKGROUND”…and my GETTING USE TO TRUSTING “POP”!   I’m RELAXED and SO IS MEACHELLE!

Not many can claim that.  Just havent learned to REALLY (and CONSTENTLY)  T R U S T “Him”.

SAY they do… ’til push comes to shove.  Poor buggers.

I really feel for them…ALL.  sigh

A Creator SO VERY REAL, and “children” that PANIC at the drop of a hat.  

Wish I could help……………………… Wish they would HEAR.  Aho?    

That’s why the Domes….HOPE!

Better then ULCERS! 

(Doesn’t take a Medicine Man to TRUST….just  GUTS!)   Aho?

GB    re

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Parable of the Fat Little Chick

Filed Under : Alternative Living,Creator,dome home,Family,Gnome Home,Hobbit Hut,Home home,Message From Dad,Mother Earth,Prayers,prophecy,Purity,Red Elk Speaks,Short Stories,Spiritual Matters,Tellings by Whale Sister
Nov.19,2009

I just was loading my truck with several bags of our garbage to go to the dump. As I did I was reminded that: “This is YOU.  As you clean the porch it not only gets rid of the trash, IT MAKES THE PORCH LOOK CLEAN AND REFRESHING AGAIN.
This trash is as You, Red Elk.  YOU collect.  You “HAVE.”  You are not liking the SIMPLICITY of OF WHAT YOUR LIFE CAN BE!  So, you gripe and moan…BECAUSE YOU “CLING” to NEEDLESS “THINGS”….And ADD TO IT!

This represents Your INNER Spiritual Life!

I AM GETTING YOU PREPARED  I N S I DE !   FREE!   “Trash Free.”  Do you understand?

You can do something about it Now…or FORCE ME to do it FOR YOU, LATER!  The choice is yours, My Son.  Either you help Me help YOU…NOW….or it won’t be only Meachelle who “won’t like it”…IT WILL be YOU, AS WELL!  AHO?

Hear Me :   TO have NOT is to have ALL -  ME!    It must be done to LEARN TO TRUST ME  F  U  L  L  Y!   YOU, Others MUST BE THE TORCH THAT OTHERS WILL COME TO!  Aho?”

I have just returned from the garbage dump.  Thinking on what was shared by “Him” and thinking “that was IT”…not so!

It continued:
“Now you know why nothing was given to contemplate on in this morning’s Prayer Time.  NOW is the ‘Contemplation.’ Aho?
Know this, son:  ‘To GET is to GIVE.’  As you realize, all these “things” are an outreach of your Inner Self (as you have already understood).  Now look deeper.  I have watched you learn.  Watched you Share.  This is GOOD.
I have ‘doled out’ my gifting to you over the years.  Always “just enough.” BARELY enough.  Yet you have reached your age despite the hardship.  I HAVE GIVEN so YOU COULD Learn AND SHARE.
You tell “look to nature” to learn.  This is True, for nature has MUCH to teach.
Now SEE THE BIRDS  (at this I was shown a nest with 3-4 young ones.  Each being fed.)
Do you see how one is Fatter then the others?  Do you see one is exceedingly weak?  WHY is it so?  LOOK!  The FAT ONE IS HOGGING OUT THE OTHERS!  “GIVE ME…GIVE  ME” is its mindset.  It doesn’t matter about its brethren, it ONLY CARES ABOUT ITSELF!  GREED!  This Greed is KILLING ONE and WEAKENING THE OTHERS!
‘Survival of the fittest’ its said.  SURVIVAL OF ITS  SELF wants.
Man is like that.
Yes, it grows fat…but IN ITS WEIGHT, when this one tries its wings, IT FALLS THE HARDEST!  Its GREED is HURTING IT!
Man is like that.

Son, HOW FAT IS YOUR BELLY???

It is not LOVE and CARING that “WANT  WANT  WANT” provides at the end.  It is LOVE and CARING that BRINGS SURVIVAL FOR ALL!
Thus you TOO must be as a bird that SHARES…for ALL.

Now You must look into the ‘Lesson of the Birds’.

I have given and given and GIVEN.  Now your nest is LITTERED with the Leavings.  NOW You COMPLAIN: “I NEED A BIGGER NEST!”  And ask for such.  WHY?!  So  you have a BIGGER PLACE to MESS?!!
You’re big enough to FLY…Well, DO SO!

Leave the clutter.  Leave the nest.  It’s served its purpose.  You’ll ALWAYS remember it….but NOW you can have the WORLD as your “nest.”  LET GO OF “THINGS.”  FLY in the FREEDOM and JOY of BEING WHAT YOU ARE MEANT TO BE!  a FREE FLYER!
A thing of BEAUTY that the ‘landlocked’ MARVEL at, and Wish They TOO could SOAR.

It is one thing to be shown what you have…but QUITE ANOTHER to SHOW the Teaching of it.
This is but a study book. It is Not ’til you APPLY its teachings that MANIFESTATIONS BECOME!

I gave and GIVE the book.  YOU must give the AMBITION.

I leave you now.  It is up to YOU to apply, or grow FAT and get NOWHERE!  Ho.”

re

(WS)

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Medicine Packrat

Filed Under : Alternative Living,dome home,Family,Gnome Home,Handy Tips,Hobbit Hut,Home home,Mother Earth,Natural Living Tips,prophecy,Red Elk Speaks,Skydome,Spiritual Matters,survival skills by Whale Sister

My Brothers and Sisters,
You are not me.  In many ways we are alike, yet each has their OWN “way.”  I’d like to share my thoughts on my way:   FREEDOM!  At least as I FEEL its meaning.
Do you KNOW what it’s like to be “unburdened?”  To have Nothing?
Right now I have so MUCH “Things.”  I’m literally Overflowing with “THINGS”…and I’m POOR?!!    Shoot, I can barely MOVE ABOUT in this house!  Can you believe FIVE TVs?!  FIVE for gosh sake!  Only 4 living here…WHY do I/We need FIVE!!!  ???
Our closets so JAM-PACKED we need to store “everyday” clothing in BOXES and LAUNDRY SACKS!
Heck, HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH! ???

I’m stuck.   With a Collector….and my wife is just that.  SO AM I !
I can’t  NOT blame MySELF!  (Bad grammar, but true)

I HAVE TOO MUCH STUFF!  Me, PERSONALLY.

I LONG for “the simple life”…..the days I was in a TiPi.  That was NOT a LONG TIME AGO!  10 years?

Gosh it was nice, but it was Lonely.  Meachelle wanted nothing to do with it.   sigh

So I bent to her Will  (it’s called marriage).  HAVE and HAD to.

Do you know what it’s like to go from an Uncluttered space AND ITS CLEANLINESS, to one of WALKING Room ONLY in a BIG Space?

UNCLUTTER, to TURMOIL?  And then ADDING TO IT, To BOOT! ?

Well, guess what?  I’M GUILTY.

Yup, me.

Disgusting , isn’t it…………………….

Now I want “OUT.”  Up past my brown eyes in STUPIDITY.  “STUFF!”     stuff  Stuff  STUFF!

What an idiot……………………………

Well, I can do something about it.  At least to MY “stuff.”

Methinks our Living Creator will “help” M on hers.  A FORCED lesson.  She’s not gonna like it………

“BEND LIKE A GREEN REED.”

Friend(s), YOU WILL BE FORCED INTO THE SAME “WAY.”

A MUST “way.”

Look about you.  See the clutter.   IS it WORTH IT?

Well, no.  Nice to have, but NECESSARY?   Only you can decide.  Me?  I WANNA “HIBERNATE” IN MY MINI DOME!

Thing is, tho IT’S “clean,” ALL my “STUFF” will still be within easy reach, mere yards away. Convenient.  Aho?

Hummmmm

(I’ve got ALOT to think about.)

You?
re

(WS)

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The Embrace of Trees

Filed Under : Alternative Living,dome home,Gnome Home,Handy Tips,Mother Earth,Natural Living Tips,Nature,Skydome,survival skills by Whale Sister
Nov.15,2009

Been looking at local trees as I drive by….thinking “survival shelters.”  Has dawned on me that many’s out-reaching big branches could form quick and easy…and INTERESTING structures IF PLACED UPSIDE-DOWN with trunk straight up.  “Pre-Made” Wall BRACES!

A “Future Experiment?”   Anyway, something to “Brain File.”

Would be easy to plant these and cover with rush leaves/Long weed “sheathing”/tarp “wrap-around”/etc. to hold heat (SAFE fire) IN and Snow/Rain OUT.

Thought I’d pass this possibility on to you as a fun backyard possible project for a Garden “shed”/”Tent”/etc.    GB   re

(WS)

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The Dome Report: ‘Scaping Your Land

Filed Under : Alternative Living,dome home,Gnome Home,Hobbit Hut,Mother Earth,Natural Living Tips,Nature,Skydome,survival skills by Whale Sister
Nov.13,2009

Not at all sure any here will be interested.  As all know, I’m building a mini “hobbit hut.”  I still have lots of “stuff” to go on and complete more…such as another hut with bathroom, etc.
Still, “stuff” about.  HUGE STUMPS, STONES, etc.  These I intend to incorporate into the wall of #2.
Our property here is DRY.  Sage country. Water hard to come by.  Aho?
I came across an article on a gal (landscape designer) in California.  She too has “problems.” NOW DOESN’T!  Has made a “Magical Meadow” by using rocks, etc. AND IT LOOKS GREAT!
She’s “right up my alley” in REASON of doing.
She DOES have water and now uses Far FAR LESS. Now a “backyard Paradise.”

With my mini in THIS type of setting….WOW!  And I do NOT NEED water to do so.  NOR the MONEY she used to do so.  YOU CAN TOO!

When I started building I started with stone steps up the slope to the entry.  WITH LANDSCAPING IN MIND, as I could.
Her doing on her land an INSPIRATION to me.

With SALVAGED Material and Time…if interested, YOU CAN TOO!

Due to water unavailability I long ago decided to “plant” Plastic “Flowers,” tucked here-n-there in stone “piles.” Wanting to turn a mystical area between Freeway and Side Road.  Getting rid of the “junk” as I go.  This li’l Earth Dome in “her” type “setting” will, in time BE DONE. (My intent anyway…and always  has been).  Aho?
Anyway,  http://www.susansilva.com   if interested.  GB   re

(WS)

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