Live within your water budget. That was the strongest piece of advice that Christopher’s long-time friend, Brad Lancaster, gave us when he visited this weekend. Brad has written two books on Stormwater harvesting, rainwater catchment, and other things related to water. He is on tour right now, publicizing his second book, Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands [...]
We have started to get advice from local experts, as we are dreaming/thinking/planning about next steps. Below is a bullet point list of some of the ideas we recently got from Jeff Hawks at New Beginnings, a friend who also has redone not only my parent’s house, but several large projects in their neighborhood in [...]
To Fumigate or Not to Fumigate? That is the question these days, as we sit here in escrow, letting ourselves imagine that we own this property even though we don’t yet have the keys. (We are really hoping there is some cool ceremony when we do finally get those keys.) The Problem? Dry Wood termites, [...]