Pearl Sutton

steward & bricolagier
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Chronic reader, creative dreamer, a LOT of hand skills to make things real, intense health issues that limit my activity, but not my creativity or dreams. Moved to southern Missouri with enough tools and junk to build a life that might work well with my health. One of god’s gigglers, I punctuate with smiley faces and exclamation points when I type, and smile and laugh a lot in real life. (Often at things no one else understands.) And I both curtsy at people (even when wearing grubby work clothes) and purr when hugged, both online and in real life. “Normal” is not a word that has ever been used for me.
Been organic gardening all my life, and bought 4 acres that I have designed from the ground up. Making it happen is being the most fun I have ever had in my life, the best 3D jigsaw puzzle ever! Reading Mollison’s Designer’s Manual was like coming home, ah, THERE I am! A reality where I can use all of my multifaceted talents and skills!
Dumpster diver, recycler, second hand store shopper, I tell people I am attracted to rust and lace. I have violated every warranty I have ever met, I’m a tool using animal, and I use my tools to modify everything in my world. And it only gets weirder...
Bricolage: something constructed or created from a diverse range of available things. Adding ier to a french word means one who does that activity. I am a bricolagier, the things I do are all made of a wide range of things that I have acquired from diverse places.
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I'm thinking using it to span a gap as a working platform as you build something sturdy there.
8 hours ago
A self supporting bridge that is easily collapsed

The concept fascinates me... Not sure it's of any use to me, but it's really interesting.



8 hours ago
Canning up squash, as usual, and this one was just very photogenic, thought I'd share  :D
I liked it's shape and the color of it's flesh, and the seeds were just posing so I'd take their picture!
It's about to be canned up in chunks in apple juice with licorice root and Indian bay leaf (Taj Patta) in it.





1 day ago

John C Daley wrote:She has details of the use of solar powered fans


Ah, got it. Yeah, that's a back up plan if I have to, I'd prefer it if it did it on it's own, thus the question about whether air moves in tubes with or without sunlight making a chimney effect.
6 days ago
I vote no also, I'd classify it as a meat, and meat needs pressure canning.
I'd say if you DO water bath it, put it in the fridge and use it very soon.
6 days ago

John C Daley wrote:Look at this girls work
https://www.solviva.com/


I have read her stuff before, it was quite a few years ago, I don't recall any of the info I have read the past 15 years anyplace saying whether the tubing works as circulation too. Did I miss it somewhere on her site?
1 week ago
I remembered what I was thinking, or at least one thing, and sketched it (sorry, this computer doesn't do any graphical anything.  :P    )
My house design has clerestory windows, and light tubes facing the windows that go down to the basement to light it up. The basement is a LOT of thermal mass, hydronically heated and cooled, it's the main temperature control of the house. I'm wondering if it will be a good passive circulation for the house too, if the air will be going up the tubes, and the floor air on the first floor will drop down, and get circulated back up. If so, I'll design in a way to close off the airflow with glass in case I don't want it moving.  

1 week ago
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Depending on their velocity relative to you

(from a random meme)
1 week ago
Update: Mom was cremated right after her death. She told us all long ago she wanted her ashes "everyplace."
At this point her ashes have been scattered:
Arizona
Colorado
New Mexico
Florida
Virginia
Off the back of the USS Midway at San Diego
Hawaii
Wake Island
Guam
Philippines
Italy

Soon Missouri will be added and lord only knows where else we can get her!  Her and dad always loved to travel and raised us traveling when we could and after they retired they did European tours and put a LOT of miles on an RV that went down into Mexico, up into Canada, and into Alaska, as well as all over the country.
She's still going places! That's what she wanted  :D
1 week ago

Leigh Tate wrote:I just tried this and it truly does make a difference!

As soon as I fitted it into the window frame, I could feel immediately that the air below the window wasn't as cold. Definitely recommended!


Yeah, it really does. I have them on every window in this house. I work barefoot, so I can instantly feel the change.
1 week ago