weeeellllll …

the chicks in Bedford, New York, May 2014

Home-ownership: now there’s a neoteric self-deception for the life-long tech-no-mad. Unless perhaps that we are speaking about a yurt. That would perhaps represent a forgivable deviation.

However, it’s no yurt — except for @ Hawk Moon Ridge (unfortunately sold to another lucky human) — rather it’s a somewhat structurally deficient cabin-in-the-woods needing some sweat-equity-building sustainable modifications: replaced galvanized plumbing for PEX; a trombe wall on the south face, along with one or two sliding glass doors, some tiling there for thermal mass; removal of several dangerous Ponderosa pines (including one whose roots are heaving the carport-cum-airbnb-room about 5 degrees off level and another heaving a retaining wall that is supposed to keep runoff out of the garage); mitigation of monsoon rain drainage impinging on the house front; perhaps some additional floor-supports in the crawl-space; fixing a bathroom wall where the tub has been overflowing; replace old metal single-pane windows; add a wood stove; gray water recycling system, what else?

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