Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Wednesday, July 01, 2015

Innovations done lately

Very happy to report I just got out and did some stuff lately.  Finally made a 'rocket stove' for boiling water quickly with wood fire.  One gallon paint cans cut together to make an L tube, in an old trash can surrounded by old ashes.   Fired up very well on first try.  

I will probably play with it a bit and get the air tube working a bit better. Still, I've been thinking about this for years. 

And, made a outdoor towel rack on a pulley.  I LOVE sun dried towels.  Here it is down:

And, pulled up:

Design Mistakes in my cob house

So, I have long meant to create a list of mistakes I made when designing the finishings on our house.  Now that we've lived in it for a ...