Thursday, November 25, 2010

Thanksgiving 2010: Woodstove



One year ago, we bought our house. We finished the second building (office, guest house, etc) and are living in that while we re-do the main house. Today we installed our woodstove in the main house. First steps were building the hearth from slate we found in the yard, and constructing an air tight metal face also from found aluminum sheeting. The stove is the same model we had in our other house. We loved it so much, the moment we saw it on craigslist, we grabbed it.

for the video geeks- this was made on a Panasonic GH-1 with a 20mm pancake lens. i am still learning how to use it and i didn't have my external mic on, so you hear the auto focus a bunch. next time it won't happen, i swear.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Videoblogging Week 2010: Thursday


everyone in europe who couldn't get on a plane today because of Icelandic volcanic ash should be jealous.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Videoblogging Week 2010: Wednesday


checked out the house today. plumber is coming back next week. main house floor is opened up. madness.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Videoblogging Week 2010: Tuesday



when you live in a rural place, you drive a lot. it's 7 miles to the nearest town. but it's totally beautiful, so that's ok. the purple flowers on all the trees are my favorite.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Videoblogging Week 2010: Monday


did some work at the house today. went to a thrift store. typical day. we do a lot of things in one day. i only notice how many when i video and then share.

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Videoblogging Week 2010: Sunday


today was a glorious sunday. we are packing up to move to our new house (this is our old place). lots of work got done, but in such beautiful weather, it doesn't really feel like work. VB week 2010. can't believe it.

Saturday, December 05, 2009

House Tour



Jay and I bought a house. Now the real work begins.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Kangaroos


adrian miles and seth keen took us for a walk. we saw a "mob" of kangaroos. it was fascinating! they are like deer but they will totally kick your ass if you get too close. i could not stop staring, they are the coolest animals i've ever seen.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Rural Broadband


this is my rural broadband story. things i talk about in this video include page county virginia, hughesnet (check out their service plans and bandwidth limits - top tier service which allows a whole 500mb a day for $350 a month, no joke), highspeedLINK (our new local provider who gives us unlimited bandwidth hurray!). if you or someone you know does not have access to broadband, check out WeNeedBroadband.com and sign their list.

if you would like to share this video, here is some embed code, just copy and paste:

<embed src="http://blip.tv/play/g5Ne+dx3AA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="390"></embed>

Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Hypocrisy


gotta love those chevron ads. they're so funny they make me laugh.