Friday, March 28, 2008

Monday, March 24, 2008

big love to SF

stuffwhitepeoplelike

happy easter



This year, an annual easter hunt uncovered a veritable treasure at Ron's antique shop around the corner on Main st.
The bottle in this picture is inscribed DAIRYLEA Dairy Men's League.
According to Ed who has lived in town "a long time", the Dairy Men's League was the name of the creamery where I have now set up camp. This was a cooperative established circa 1907 by a group of dairy farmers in order to increase their marketing power in the area. Ed talked of a friend he made in the creamery who would sneak bottles of chocolate milk out the side window that Ed and his friends would drink behind the train tracks. One bottle has been returned.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

and now a word from our sponsor...


It may look like I'm about to spit at the camera but really the nuns were just cracking me up. It was easily the most honorable and surprising experience to spend the night with a couple of radical Buddhist nuns from Nepal.
Now, in return I would like to take a moment to promote their most nobel cause. These two nuns, Venerable Molini and Venerable Dhamma Vijaya, are building a school in Kathmandu to provide education and shelter for females at risk of becoming victims to human traffickers who sell girls, as young as six, to the sex trade in India: http://www.dhammamoli.org
I might exchange my pellet stove for a new wing at the school...or at least a few extra beds.

Sunday, March 16, 2008

O-B-A-M-A



viewed this on an old friend's blog and felt it would just be wrong not to share...

Saturday, March 15, 2008

chamfers



Finally warm and sleeping restlessly.
I had the stoves installed yesterday after long cold winter, but was up half the night worried about chamfered corners on this ugly pellet stove. I am allergic to chamfered corners. While defending my thesis in 1993, the main critique by a prominent architect boiled down to "too many square corners for an elementary school." Say WHAT?
Rudolf Steiner had some good arguments for curves in schools, but I was not designing a Waldorf school and this guy was suggesting castrated corners! Weak. I must have had a great project.

Someone tell me the chamfers are o.k.

lit my fire.

Sunday, March 9, 2008

Ceci n'est pas un lac.


If this looks like a tree farm under water, that's because it is.
After a torrential downpour yesterday, this poor farmer on rte.209 was flooded by the Rondout Creek (well situated across the high road from the Creamery).
The creek was moving fast today. If the We-no-nah ultralight was equipped for white water it would have been an interesting day for a paddle ...with many potential new detours.

confused dog

"I'm pretty sure lunch is in there..."

Sunday, March 2, 2008

snowed in

(check windows)
I got a bill from the snow plow guy. Apparently he had come six times to shovel snow into my door and expected to be paid before continuing to do so.  The softy that I am, I asked him to clear it away this time so I could get in and then negotiated half price for the previous visits. Although shoveling is great exercise and reminds us that global warming may be slightly slower north of Westchester, this Sisyphean task also seems illogical. My sister says to leave it, it will eventually melt.