Inside the studio. The door is very primitive. The other doors I have are two narrow. 

The studio and the trailer. 

The trailer from the SE. The wheel has been removed and the trailer has been put on blocks for leveling. 

The backyard looking to the NE. 

The backyard with the buildings that were here when I came a year ago, plus a lot of lumber lying around. The layout of boards in the foreground was the beginning of a slip form for a concrete building. 

The windmill graveyard. The large windmill in the front, called a jumbo windmill, still works, even though the plastic on the sails has long since blown off. It orients itself to the wind direction and the sails turn on a horizontal axis. 

The top part of the form for the tunnel structure. 

The compost box, in case you were interested. 

The ruins of the tunnel structure, blown over in a windstorm. I dragged it all off to one side. 

The adobe chapel in the foreground with the trailer and studio in the background. Work on the adobe chapel was begun (and abandoned) last fall. It was really fun work but was just taking forever. Also there was some uncertainty about the workability of the design. Sometimes I tell people that it has been there for hundreds of years. It is hard to tell with dirt, how old a structure is. It has survived remarkably well through many rain storms. The most damage was actually done to it by a snowfall last November. The snow remained on it for a while, and kind of softened it up, allowing the edges to slough off. 

The house, camper, & studio from the SW. 

The house from the south. 

The house and other buildings from the SE. 

Studio from the SW. I have plywood and boards leaning against walls everywhere. The door and window on the studio are from the Ox Yoke Retreat shed that we tore down a few months ago, after erecting a new metal shed there. 

Camper, studio, and trailer from the back porch of the house. 

The studio from the NE. The window is in. You open the window by lifting it up from the bottom on the inside and hooking it on a chain. I banged my head on it the other day and the window slammed shut, breaking the glass. This occurred while I was talking on the phone, trying to do some caulking with one hand. I taped it back together (the glass, not my head) after picking up the pieces from the ground outside. In the foreground are some panels from the marine base. I took a number of these apart to get the OSB to sheath the studio walls. OSB means oriented strand board, made from wood chips. Some of the walls also have plywood and the roof is plywood. Most of the lumber is from the Marine Base. Some of the 2"x4"s are from the Ox-Yoke Retreat. The cabinet to the left of the window is from the Marine Base. 

The inside of the trailer. I have done some gutting of the inside. I will need to find doors and window somewhere. 

Tada! This is the triler from the north end. You can see the trailer hitch at the bottom. The asking price was $200 but I got it for $50, since I towed it myself with my mini-van. Supposedly it is around 1938 vintage. The large opening is where it was attached to a shed or something. It will require considerable repairs.  

Here is the house seen pas the water tank, trailer, creosote bush, studio, and form for the tunnel. 

This is the studio from the NW. The sun has just risen. 

Link to Web Site

Here is a link to my main web site, Wave Of The Sea

Photos of House & Property

Below are some photos of the house and property as it was last fall, 2004. I will take more photos of how it looks now, with the yard all full of lumber and new projects. I gave up on gardening. We have our water hauled in here and I was reluctant to use much of it on the garden. Also we had snow last year and some things froze. The main problem was the critters. They ate everything in site. We did eat lettuce, radishes, and turnips. I will wait until I get a better water supply.

View of veggie gardens, 2004. 

View of house from NW--2004. 

West side of house showing carport. 

Back yard 2004 showing veggie garden to the left and new veggie garden center. Both have since dried up and been eaten by critters. 

Back yard 2004. Camper, studio, and trailer are now to the right of the rock pile.