Picture Sundays: Backyard, Midsummer

August 10, 2014

...A view of our backyard taken July 1, 2014. The adobe oven is in the foreground and a monster, rogue squash dominates the background. Chicken run is on the left. The flattering viewpoint of this photo obscures much work that still needs to be done!...

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I Made a Little Library

Mr. Homegrown

October 28, 2021

Design

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...id the best I could do to make the little library look like a southwestern adobe. A neighbor gifted me a nice new piece of 3/4 plywood and most of the rest of the components came from scrap wood I had laying around. The universe kinda came together to make this project happen. I used simple rabbet joints done on the tablesaw to create the plywood box. For the doors I used mortise and tenon joints. I picked up some piece of metal flashing material...

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Enzo Mari’s Autoprogettazione

Mr. Homegrown

December 7, 2020

Design

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...ari to Covid-19 in October. Thanks again to Mosscarpet–I’ve already used some of Mari’s ideas to design a roof for our adobe oven....

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Sheltered

Mr. Homegrown

July 23, 2020

Design

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A page from Shelter. Maker, builder, publisher and author Lloyd Kahn left a great comment on my rambling review of the documentary Spaceship Earth. Lloyd said (in reference to the title of Buckminster Fuller’s 1969 book Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth), “In 1973, in our book Shelter, I wrote “Calling Earth a spaceship is like stepping out into a clear night in New Mexico and saying, “Wow, it looks just like the planetarium.” If you aren’t fa...

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