Archive for July, 2008

Draft Horses at Stone Horse Farm

I’ve always wanted to get to know draft horses better, and maybe learn how to work with them. After a lot of searching, I found a farm just down the road from us in Sebastopol where one can actually take lessons in driving draft horses. I got up the nerve to contact them [...]

Water-Savvy Stars of Sebastopol

On Saturday we took a tour organized by the great folks at Daily Acts. The tour was called “Water-Savvy Stars” and featured sites with interesting and smart water usage, as well as a stop at our beloved Laguna. Update: Steve also has a good post related to the day.
The day started at the [...]

Book Recommendation: Querencia

There’s the delicious experience of reading a book about a subject you know you’re going to love. That’s the experience I had reading Stephen Bodio’s Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia (reviewed on Critter Geek).
But then there’s the experience of reading a book about something you might not normally choose, but [...]

Mongol

Wow, did I love this movie. It’s got everything: a great story, beautiful visuals, yurts, wolves, horses, wonderful costumes (omg, the jewelry), and achingly beautiful landscapes. What a feast.

Parts of the sound track reminded me of the Gyuto Monks “Tibetan Tantric Choir” from the late eighties. This is the second time that [...]

Notes from Permaculture Class, Part 2

Here’s another group of notes from the permaculture course I took. These notes concentrate on the concepts, rationale and philosophy I picked up; we got lots of practical and how-to information, too.
This set of notes has lots about water and soil, recurrent themes throughout the course. (See Part 1 of my online notes [...]