did i mention we love our new (sustainable off-grid) house? it actually works the way we designed it: it doesn’t need much heating in winter (the wood heater is enough) and no cooling in summer – solar passive indeed. the photovoltaic system is mostly bored; that may change when we trade up to an electric…
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that is one of the most important rules in fast skiff sailing: the flatter the boat, the more effective sail area, the faster the boat. this is why the fast skiffs generally have at least one person out on the wire: to use the weight to counterbalance the power of the sail, and make the…
200 mm in 12 hours, or in other words: a third of st helens’ average annual precipitation in half a day. this is what that looks like on the rain radar: and this is what that looks like on our property: a meter deep washout. we got quite lucky: the road itself didn’t take damage,…