I've been working on our original website Oyate Ta Olowan.We've been working on adding digital downloads to the site, but it's still a challenge. Oyate is a public radio series that we did on traditional Native American music. We did 52 half hour shows and traveled over 100,000 miles collecting music from all over the Americas. It was a while ago, but people still seem to love it, so we keep offering the shows for sale. It's all a part of our little press Many Kites Press. Life is so amazing, and so full, but we keep on trucking. I hope things are going well for all of you, and that continue to create wonderful things. Later, Milt Lee
This is the last piece on our first summer of blueberry farming. With the help of Rick Baird, Jamie’s brother, we got our rabbit fence up - literally minutes before we left to come back home for the winter. It was a sad time, but it was also joyous to see such a beautiful fence and the blueberries prospering so well.
Part of homesteading has to be water management. I mean - you can’t take a bath in the lake every single day, and the truth is - building fences, remodeling houses and gathering wood can really be a “strong” experience - if you catch my whiff. So it was clear to me that we needed an outdoor shower. Jamie found this black bag with the shower head attached and it holds about 2 1/2 gallons of water. Then we added a bucket of water and voila! We had enough to really clean two stinky people. Such fun, and of course it’s so private out there that you just want to take your clothes off - really!
After we got the logs, we had to get them on the land. So here it is. And some more information about what kind of logs we are using.
I have several more pieces ready to go too - one on our outdoor shower, one more tour of the land and one on the clay that we are going to be using for the plaster finish on our strawbale house.
We bought our logs the other day. I was truly amazed at what Ken Gerke could do with a front end loader. Now we are still playing with the design but at least we have the logs for us to use.
