Hi blog readers, First, look at this: http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/mat/4693322196.html Then, read this: I’m selling the sheep wool insulation for the Casita. Those walls will never know the gentle warmth of sheep, unfortunately. As it turns out, I am also selling the … Continue reading
Fall Equinoxish Update
Hello, Readers! Five weeks, zoom. There are actually other breathing human beings reading this thing, zoom. My writing is raw enough and the blog popular enough that some not-so-friendly comments are getting made, zoom! I didn’t see that coming. 😉 … Continue reading
A Tiny Existential Meltdown…
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How can I begin this blog post without sounding horribly fatalistic and defeated? I was going to start, “Tiny house progress continuing painfully along.” or, “Do yourself a favor. Don’t build a tiny house.” or my personal fave, “Casita strangling … Continue reading
Treading Water
Hello, lovelies. If you aren’t connected to Casita Bella’s Facebook page yet, you should be. Extra words for the blog, you may have noticed, have been in short supply. Last summer, as intense as it often was, accumulated a sort … Continue reading
A Turquoise Dream For My Long-Lost Readers…
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I didn’t abandon Bella or you, lovely readers. I just got distracted. 😉 But I’m back on task and the weather is warming, carpeting my field of vision with flowers and fresh buds, dressing up the casita’s landscape to be … Continue reading
The Little Engine That Could
Two months without a blog post? Unacceptable, I know. Good thing there are much more pressing issues in all of our lives much more difficult to accept. Since I left off, I have done very little to the casita and … Continue reading
Flow
I reached a place a few weeks ago in this little house project where suddenly things were moving faster and smoother. There was a distinct ease about the work, and my relationship with it. I had entered some kind of … Continue reading
Siding and roofing hilarity
Hey folks, I wrote part of this and never published it, but thought it might be helpful/interesting to other Tiny Housers: The time has come to make another commitment and buy some house siding. It’s a rare thing in this … Continue reading
Tying it all together
Waaay too much happened in the last six weeks to clue you all in flirtatiously. I’m going to get right down to detailing the business of winterizing this casita from the comfort of my 120-degree bath while Bella shivers around … Continue reading
Clumsy Progress
Erratic sleep schedules, stress levels leading to angry cussing (a rarity for me) and stress headaches, Facebook and sugary treat escapism, feeling like I don’t have energy for anyone else, occasions verging on insanity… it’s all in a tiny house … Continue reading