I wrote recently about ordering the vermicomposting toilet plans from Biorealis.com. I’ve read through the plans and they are well thought through and use very easily sourced parts. The funny part is that so much of what he wrote about and considered in the design is targeted toward Alaskan weather, so things like heat retention…
The finishing touches on the alternating tread ladder
The workers put the finishing touches on the alternating tread ladder last week. The wooden hand rails are now added. I found that when climbing up, it is easier just to ignore the rails and grab the side of the stairs. But when climbing down, the rails really make it easier to climb down as…
Sand in pond biofiltration zone nearly covered
I’ve been waiting for the rains to fill up the pond. It still has about 20cm left to go, but it has rained pretty hard about once a week or once every two weeks recently. The next milestone is for the water to cover all of the sand. It is now within a few centimeters…
Building the walkway on the other side of the pond
We finished the east half of the walkway back June, and focused on other priorities since then. So we finally got around to building out the west half now. And with our large push cart built, the workers have a much easier time of moving the stones and sand around. The west side of the…
A custom counter top in BaanMae
We’ve been meaning to build a counter top in the indoor part of the kitchen in BaanMae for a while, and we finally got to it. Here is how it looks on the back balcony before we installed it: And here it is installed: The kitchen is fully furnished now. 🙂
Adding hand rails to the ladder
The hand rails have been added to the alternating tread ladder in BaanRimNaam. You can see it here as its metal structure: The plan is to add a wood rail to wrap around the metal for aesthetics. They’ve finished these rails, but are just waiting for the paint on the metal to dry before mounting…
New plans for a vermicomposting toilet
Back to everyone’s favorite topic… toilet sewage! I have previously written about exploring options for a composting toilet in BaanRimNaam. But rather than go with a totally modern (“normal”) looking composting toilet, we’ve decided to build our own. In exploring the Internet, we came across biorealis.com, which has some well explained and thought out designs….
FLAC to MP3 batch audio conversion
After yesterday’s post about a bash script to backup an Android phone, I decided it was time to get around to writing a simple script to convert all of my music CD ripped music to mp3. In order to keep a permanent digital archive of all of my music over the years, I have been…
Phone problems: backing up on Android
Photograph by Rama, Wikimedia Commons, Cc-by-sa-2.0-fr So I had some phone problems last week. Okay, not like the phone shown above. Rather my LG Nexus 5X mobile phone that I bought a while back, running CyanogenMod. I’ve been very happy with this phone. Until one day a week ago Friday it just went dead. Very…
Keeping busy
Things have been pretty busy recently, so I haven’t had a chance to post in a few days. Just wanted to give you guys a head’s up that it will be a few more days before I can post an update. Things are moving along well on the land. But I have a presentation I’m…
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