Back In Action

While spending some time on a distant island with some friends I discovered a new type of architecture - Tropical Spartan? -

While this works in a tropical climate, I had a feeling this might leave much to be desired in a New England climate - so I'm sticking with the original design, for now. However, I was inspired a bit by this guy's house -

He always has a place to stay, wherever he goes. He never has to worry about returning to where he woke up. He can just walk...and who knows where he'll end up. I wonder what a human version of this would look like. I drew out some sketches and ended up with a bent plywood piece of furniture I would like to build - more on this when the house and shower situation is sorted. I did invent and implement a new type of clothes rack technology -

I thought this looked like a commercial for a product claiming to smell like this so I had to add it. The clothes did not smell like the meadow when dry.

I was surprised how many new things there were after being gone for only 3 days. Leaves are coming out of their buds and with the help of a friend discovered some new PR species I was unaware of. A cherry tree, in bloom-

A wild strawberry -

A toad (not frog) -

Violet-

And some moss (which looks amazing up close). I'm going to try to cultivate this moss into a type of 'lawn'. And blanket a whole area with it. This will take time-

Also, getting closer to a water/shower solution. Now the plan is to keep a large reservoir of water perched on Reliance Rock. It will supply needed pressure, collection and filtration and also add a waterfall shower feature. Check it out -

This is the northern wall of the rock. It is a sheer face, and the surface on the top is such that it channels water over this face like a showerhead. It took an observant FOPR to notice this feature. Another benefit is that the water catchment will double as a shelter around the fire if it were to rain.

Also, the birds weren't around the feeders and I noticed they ate all the black seed until the corn clogged the feeder, and then gave up. No more corn in bird feed.  

Back to work tomorrow - roof rafters and gardening...