"A what?"
"A Teeny Tiny House, a piece of our art work, an opportunity for me to learn more wood working and construction from you.... We finished building the darkroom last week, New Project!"
"ok! I've got lots of pallets of wood for us to have plenty of free wood" he said with a smile and no idea from either of us what we were getting into.
We began searching blogs, pintrists and craigslisting for trailers.
With our promise to a seller of a couple of of John's sheep and $1,200 I had a trailer, a DIY trailer ... We were going to build!!!
Our strategy for the environment and my pocketbook was to utilize as much rescued materials as we could. A huge amount of wood and other things go to the dump each year, each day. We are constructing the house out of as many things we can that would be discarded otherwise.
As an adjunct photography professor and an artist, my income leaves much to the imagination. My parents were both Gypsies in their own right. My father's home is still a converted school bus, as it has been for a majority of my life. My mother and I moved over ten times before I was 8, drove across country often, lived in tents for some months and always had a passport handy for any last minute travel arrangements. That was normal to me. My father continues to travel to set up kitchens for disaster relief, for activism and for native american ceremonies. My parents have taught me that a transient life in a small space gives great potential for freedom, from bills and from holding on to tightly to anything and becoming stagnant...
I welcome you all to follow as I learn and we build and we make, hopefully not too many, mistakes...
Cool!
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