• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
permaculture forums growies critters building homesteading energy monies kitchen purity ungarbage community wilderness fiber arts art permaculture artisans regional education skip experiences global resources cider press projects digital market permies.com pie forums private forums all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
master stewards:
  • Nancy Reading
  • Carla Burke
  • r ranson
  • John F Dean
  • paul wheaton
  • Pearl Sutton
stewards:
  • Jay Angler
  • Liv Smith
  • Leigh Tate
master gardeners:
  • Christopher Weeks
  • Timothy Norton
gardeners:
  • thomas rubino
  • Jeremy VanGelder
  • Maieshe Ljin

Signs

 
Posts: 55
Location: Lake Arrowhead, CA
10
  • Likes 7
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Our lovely young volunteer Bella was quite the talented wood burner. Not as in combustion for heat, but inscribing flat sections with a magnifying glass. She burnt a handful of beautiful signs for us during her stay.
KIMG0069.jpg
[Thumbnail for KIMG0069.jpg]
KIMG0070.jpg
[Thumbnail for KIMG0070.jpg]
KIMG0071.jpg
[Thumbnail for KIMG0071.jpg]
 
steward
Posts: 485
87
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Justin Jones wrote: inscribing flat sections with a magnifying glass.


Hadn't heard of such a thing before!

Justin Jones wrote:
She burnt a handful of beautiful signs for us during her stay.


Those really look beautiful and incredible, given the way they were done.

 
author and steward
Posts: 52415
Location: missoula, montana (zone 4)
hugelkultur trees chicken wofati bee woodworking
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I think Bella's mom drew these out and Bella burned them.

 
pollinator
Posts: 202
Location: Ontario
60
  • Likes 1
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Sometimes labeling is important. Sometimes it's directional, and sometimes it's mostly for fun.
This thread is for signs. All kinds.
'round Wheaton Labs.

Please feel free to post lots of pictures of birds as we head out of winter.
 
Olenka Kleban
pollinator
Posts: 202
Location: Ontario
60
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
spring signs:

http://www.zoo.org/view.media?type=flash&id=4295

can you find the steller's jay? i saw a bunch in front of the tipi the other day. i've never seen them before, blue cardinals of the West.
 
author & steward
Posts: 7151
Location: Cache Valley, zone 4b, Irrigated, 9" rain in badlands.
3342
 
Olenka Kleban
pollinator
Posts: 202
Location: Ontario
60
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Yes, yes. no spray.
 
paul wheaton
author and steward
Posts: 52415
Location: missoula, montana (zone 4)
hugelkultur trees chicken wofati bee woodworking
  • Likes 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
When you arrive at ant village:




A carboard sign appeared here last year and evan needed it to be wood:




A sign appeared one day on my little flatbed cart:




And then evan made a sign for where I park it:




Carol Anne made oodles of signs. This one is from the house to the turtle lot:




Tony's bee hut:




Submarine access road:




Dances with pigs meadow:




When you arrive at our southern border:




We found that roads needed names so we can talk about where we saw a deer or something:




Allerton Ave naturally takes you to allerton abbey:





Not sure if this counts as a sign, but a three log bench has been enhanced:




The shower shack:




My favorite sign so far. The big parking lot is lots of sand ....




For the voltswagon!




There are some other signs around. It would be spiffy if we could get those pics here too!

Here is a list of signs yet to be made. Bounties for all of these:

lower sherwood road
upper sherwood road
raspberry rock
emily's tipi
holzer road (to the lemon tree site)
the clay pit
the near-cob pit
the solar leviathan
the willow candy warehouse
volcano road (submarine leg)
volcano road (turkey leg)
volcano road (raspberry leg)
volcano road (caldera leg)

Any others?
 
paul wheaton
author and steward
Posts: 52415
Location: missoula, montana (zone 4)
hugelkultur trees chicken wofati bee woodworking
  • Likes 1
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Once we get something going that resembles a creek it will be "Lawton Creek".


I need a beautiful piece of paper. And with all of the people here in full scramble on projects, I thought maybe this could be something that the larger audience could try and send in. This would include a bounty.

I need a single side of a single sheet of paper (although I suppose it could be burned onto wood) that would persuade a person taking a shower to consider going poo-less.


On that note, here is the note that is inside the willow feeders. It is a single sheet of paper that has been laminated. We used to refer to willow feeders as "wheelie bin poopers", but I now like the term "willow feeder" much better. Perhaps somebody could have a go at creating an updated document?

 
paul wheaton
author and steward
Posts: 52415
Location: missoula, montana (zone 4)
hugelkultur trees chicken wofati bee woodworking
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
fred took this one

 
Posts: 9002
Location: Victoria British Columbia-Canada
707
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
The Five Man Electric Band, sang about plain, generic, scenery blocking signs. Had they seen these artistic ones, I'm sure they would not have been so harsh.

Here's the first line of the song SIGNS --- And the sign said, "Long-haired freaky people need not apply"... Judging from many of the group photos, it's safe to assume that the lab has no such rule. ☺
 
paul wheaton
author and steward
Posts: 52415
Location: missoula, montana (zone 4)
hugelkultur trees chicken wofati bee woodworking
  • Likes 1
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Evan is now putting signs up on volcano road. The road is divided into four pieces (or "legs):

- submarine leg
- turkey leg
- raspberry leg
- caldera leg

 
paul wheaton
author and steward
Posts: 52415
Location: missoula, montana (zone 4)
hugelkultur trees chicken wofati bee woodworking
  • Likes 1
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
The "poop sled" has been renamed "willow candy warehouse"

Sign by sharla:

 
steward
Posts: 6593
Location: Everett, WA (Western Washington State / Cascadia / Pacific NW)
2165
8
hugelkultur purity forest garden books food preservation
  • Likes 3
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
This is another Carol-anne sign I think. On the Chateau de Poo at the lab.

Sweetness.

chateau-de-poo-rise-again-20150820.jpg
[Thumbnail for chateau-de-poo-rise-again-20150820.jpg]
chateau de poo - we rise again
 
paul wheaton
author and steward
Posts: 52415
Location: missoula, montana (zone 4)
hugelkultur trees chicken wofati bee woodworking
  • Likes 3
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
mad skills

 
pollinator
Posts: 590
Location: Near Missoula, MT
388
3
hugelkultur hunting books wofati chicken fiber arts bee building sheep rocket stoves homestead
  • Likes 4
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
2019 PEP1 event. Big thanks to Nancy!!!





 
steward
Posts: 21553
Location: Pacific Northwest
12040
11
hugelkultur kids cat duck forest garden foraging fiber arts sheep wood heat homestead
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Kyle Noe posted some epic sign-work in his Wheaton Labs' Bootcamp thread!

woodburned sign saying teepee
sign for the rocket mass heater tipi


woodburned sign saying Allerton Abbey
sign before you enter the Allerton Abbey plot!


woodburned sign saying Ant village
I love this sign leading into the Ant Village!


woodburned sign saying Cooper Cabin
Cooper Cabin's entry sign


If you're wondering where all these are, Davin Hoyt made some awesome maps of Wheaton labs HERE. And more details about each place can be found HERE.
 
paul wheaton
author and steward
Posts: 52415
Location: missoula, montana (zone 4)
hugelkultur trees chicken wofati bee woodworking
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Marking where the septic tank is:

 
Stay foolish to stay sane --Maxime Lagacé ... foolish tiny ad:
GAMCOD 2025: 200 square feet; Zero degrees F or colder; calories cheap and easy
https://permies.com/wiki/270034/GAMCOD-square-feet-degrees-colder
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic