tumbleweed

No, not that kind of tumbleweed.

This kind:
www.tumbleweedhouses.com/



The Tumbleweed Tiny Home company has plans for, as you might guess, tiny homes.  The sizes really are small, from 65 to ~850 square feet, but less can be more.  Check out their website--there are some beautiful examples of their homes. 

We are building a tiny home, using Tumbleweed plans that the homeowner chose.  Starting with whole, living trees, we felled and sawed the trees, and the lumber is drying in the solar kiln. 

Stay tuned for more pictures of this really interesting project.  We plan to mill all the wood needed for the little house, including hand-split wood shakes for the roof!

the spring picture

I'll blame a squirming, blabbering three-year old "helping" on my lap for deleting this picture from the previous post.

up with kale

So we try to grow our own here at Barred Owl Builders.  Kale, that is.  And a lot of other stuff.  We experimented this year with some tiny hoop houses for our greens.  It only took about an hour to make these covers, and they lasted through a pretty cold and snowy winter.

They were an unqualified success.  Not only did we harvest all of our greens, all winter long, but it is mid-April and they are healthy and flowering.  We saved seed last year, and will do that again.  And we have the new spring sowing of kale starting to come up.  Have I mentioned we like kale?  Kale for us is like spinach for Popeye.