Steadily Homestead (it begins again!)

WELCOME TO THE NEW HOMESTEAD

Here begins a fresh family adventure in moving our lives back to the land!

It's a young project in which we want to have a large 1-acre garden with orchard - but for now i'm very excited to share my recent endeavors of settling down.

STEP # 1

(the spot)

Here you see a zone on my family's land for my new home. No, it wont be a Earthbag mud-hut DOME (that comes later!)

What i need is something temporary to live in . . . 

. . . . ahhhh, not quite. How about temporary, reliable, and cozy!?

Yessss. Now that's better. Meet GUS (General Under the Sun). Now let's get Gus on the road and to the land.

Lovely! Looking good - you as well, Gus!!!

STEP #2

(make a home out of a vehicle)

The priority here is removing the old and unwanted items then sealing the roof for the coming winter rains.

(DON'T BUY THIS - its crap.  Henry's Tar works better.)

STEP #3

(take a break to hunt some fun Fungi)

 (Cocoli & Witcher's Butter)

Coral Mushroom (we didn't eat the pink one, but yellow were delicious)

(lots of Cocoli/Coccora)

STEP #4

(clean & clear)

After a final interior cleaning and a ceremonial smudging with some San Pablo (thank you Daisy), Gus the big fucking bus is ready to become the greatest domicile since Walt took up non-education recreations. hah! Really though, it's gonna be a home to be proud of.

STEP #5

(saddle up and moovout~!)

 

A friend named Bubba once said, "you should never have more stuff than you can pack into a truck and leave with." I agree and i put it to practice.

Hello KaMuRa and a slow "goodbye" as this great little country acreage becomes a sentimental memory full of adventure and life lessons.

(my sweet dear "Cloud of Unknowing")

(a view from my drive across Hopland Grade)

Jolly jello,

groovy gravy

and

ciao for now.

It's time to relax and listen to the soft rain making love to a hard surface. 

. . . pitter patter . . .

More to come!

At sunrise one must pay tribute to his unfounded Korean fungi lineage (obviously because mushrooms are more related to humans than to other plant life. . . )

Turkey Tail makes a great tea.

. . . sit and rest for a time. . .

i want touchy the turkey tail. . .

Cattle: not funny.

 Indigo variety? If so, it is edible.

(there is an OWL in the hollow of this tree . . . watching me)

Lion's Mane - very edible and delicious! The best catch of the season so far.

And this is the greatest mystery of the season - unidentifiable.

Look. . . a giraffe!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS8TQkc4rHY&feature=youtu.be

My personal BUST (not chiseled from stone, but still . . .    a real bust!)

*http://io9.com/5940434/why-are-mushrooms-more-like-humans-than-they-are-like-plants*

J. Swift!

For your personal entertainment: http://wearevariable.com/portfolio-post/shake/

And for your mind's enjoyment - wise W.T.F. moments from none other than Jonathan Swift:
 
We have just enough Religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

It is unwise to punish cowards with Ignominy; for if they had regarded that they would not have been cowards: death is their proper punishment, because they fear it most.

Reflect on things past, as Wars, Negotiations, Factions and the like; we enter so little into those interests, that we wonder how Men could possibly  be so busy, and concerned in Things so transitory: look on the present Times, we find the same Humour, yet wonder not at all.

Herodotus tells us, that in cold countries beasts very seldom have horns; but in hot they have very large ones. This might bear a pleasant application.

The latter part of a wise man’s life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this infallible sign; that the Dunces are all in confederacy against him.

The Camelion, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, hath of all animals the nimblest tongue.

If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politicks, religion, learning, and the like; beginning from his youth, and so go on to old age: what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last?

The reason why so few marriages are happy, is, because young ladies spend their time making nets, and not in making cages.

While in Oslo - go slow. . .

Hand woven willow tree-cuttings made into what else other than Mario's favorite psychadelic - psilocybin cubensis! (This was for the Oslo Botanic park's 200th year anniversary!)

A wonderful feature at the Botanic park was the on-site displays of Edvard Munch's artwork from the exact stand-point where he created certain paintings. He visited the park from childhood and started by sketching the landscapes and structures here.

 ***My favorite painting was not created during Munch's visits to the park: Old man and Little Boy (1920)

Even Oslo's municipal courthouse was well decorated with art - chilling and creepy however.

The rest of the city was similar with lovely placement of hard metal sculpture erections of characters like the goat-god Pan in central squares or parks. . . eh, suggestively erect.

 

MUSEUMS!!!

Metal Buddha's with Swazis:

 

 

The cultural museum had a booth made for smokers on the 3rd floor:

 *Clearly seen in the top section of this old 7 foot tall rune carvings is an alien "grey" from X-Files. Or its a Martian with a helmet riding the stars under his feet.

 Thor Heyerdahl's own Kon Tiki museum was splendin, but something to see firsthand. So, no pictures.

MILITARY clothing available at the local Pentagon fashion store:

 *Observations in archetecture*

 That's it folks. Goodbye Oslo.

Farewell Norway.

Adios Scandinavia

And Ciao for now. 

I will return.

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