I believe and have passionately shared my belief that hemp-lime construction is one of the best methods of construction available today (at least in the Romanian climate in which we live). We were planning to build with hemp-lime and our architect designed a magnificent house for us – unfortunately we could not afford to build [...]
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A Frozen World This Morning
This is what our world looks like this morning. Today is the best visibility we’ve had in 4 days!
3 days of freezing fog … no glimpse of sky or sun … today was better visibility … I could vaguely see the line of the hill. I’ve been mostly indoors reading, writing, eating, drinking. When it’s this cold, just keeping the house warm is an ongoing task. It’s beautiful outside – everything is … [...]
Our First Rocket Stove
If you are reading this and interested in the technical aspect of Rocket stoves you may want to scroll down to the last part of the post where there is a description of what we actually built. But first, I do will indulge in some personal reflection about rocket stoves. What is a Rocket Stove? [...]
Today was a rich day … it started off by dropping Andreea off at the village center (after using her Romanian skills to purchase a few plumbing pieces at the hardware store) to get on a bus to Cluj where she will be spending the weekend teaching her first Doula course! With us was our [...]
Today was a cloudy and cold day and so I couldn’t move on with the little bit of finishing remaining for me to complete the kitchen cabinet. So I did all sorts of things started with the chainsaw on more firewood … a bit of woodworking on what I hope will turn out to be [...]
nothing much to tell … woodworking yesterday … great progress. Then Andreea came home and we had to go back to Cluj (arghhh!) because we got word from the bus-service that our packages from the UK were arriving around 11pm … so a long day turned into a long night … we made it back [...]
Yesterday was all finishing day. Some parts were getting finish applied, others were in sanding. I was working both tasks trying to make the best of the day … especially the sun which taunted and tricked me. When it was very cloudy I started applying finish in the barn, when it got sunny I brought [...]
So today was a city (Cluj) day … mostly shopping, mostly for things we still need for winter. We got everything from boiled linseed oil (rapidly becoming our favorite wood-working finishing), rice, cereals (an occasional snack-meal which we hope to gradually replace with home made alternatives … though that may take a few years), tea-bags [...]
Today looked really wintery at first … and though some more light and eventually some sun came through it stayed wintery throughout. I spent the first part of the day with a second-sanding , then raising the grain (since I am using a water based finish) and then another quick sanding. All in all this [...]