I just caught a glimpse of a wonderful bookcase in the video Paul shared here of the recent permaculture symposium event in Spokane. Harmony woods retreat have a wonderful round meeting room with an elevated bookcase on part of the wall.
Harmony wood retreat round book shelf
Now I'd probably want it all the way round with one or more moveable ladders (I'm not sure how Harmony woods access their books).
I'm a bit of a book collector, mostly from my youth, but I'm still collecting useful non-fiction at the moment. My main book shelf takes up one wall of our 'study'. This photo is from when it was just finished and the books weren't overflowing quite so much...You can see they were mostly double stacked already!
book shelves in study
My youngest sister has a really cool book shelf that is built into her stairwell. Her house goes over three stories with a stair that sort of spirals up. The bookcase is double width so she can access books from either side. It isn't quite like this one but gives you the idea perhaps.
bookcase on stairway wall
I'd love to see other cunning bookshelves. Do you hide your books or have a great way of displaying them?
I think it depends on the dog and the sort of walking they do and what they walk on. Our labrador never seems to need his nails clipping, they must wear down on the rocky paths just enough. Della, the mastiff, had problems with her nails splitting. They either grow faster or, because they are narrower they are not as strong and break rather than wear. We ended up buying a small pair of nail clippers for her and just do a nail or two when they seem to be getting a bit long.
It might have been these ones from wahl which are not very expensive. They have a guard which you can leave in place so as to not take off too much and damage the quick of he nails. They've lasted well - at least 3 years so far.
About once a month sounds reasonable, but as we do individual nails rather than the whole paw, I'm not really sure how often we cut them.
No I didn't bother with a guide. Since the net is not structural I just judged the size with my fingers. I think if I were making a net from scratch I would need some sort of gauge to get it fairly even or it would end up too baggy. But for this repair I just used a standard darning needle, with as long a piece of yarn as I could manage, and just made lots of knots!
Those TPS potatoes are gorgeous Christopher! It's fascinating to see the different colours and shapes! I'm growing some potatoes from seed this year, but I'm not expecting a big harvest unfortunately, although the ones that survive will be slug resistant
I think the 'carbon footprint' and online calculators can be a useful tool for people who wish to contribute less to the CO2 in the atmosphere. When I've tried them myself I'm less than convinced they are accurate, which is a slightly different matter! They still give an indication of directions to look at.
There are as many ways to reduce personal CO2 emissions as there are people on the planet. All I can do is what I can - think about where my money goes and reduce my consumption / make/grow it myself / buy local / buy organic and facilitate easy choices for other people as much as I can.
A graduate scientist turned automotive engineer, currently running a small shop and growing plants on Skye: turning a sheep field into a food forest.
They are a bit expensive though.
