"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful." ~William Morris

home-making

This weekend we worked on some floors for our tipi. Adam and I gathered wood chips from up the hill, and leveled out the ground inside the tipi. We got some sweet subfloor left over from DA's old dance studio, sort of pallets, yellow pine. Wicked awesome. We laid four down, then Adam cut the remaining two with a chainsaw (watch those screws!) and we filled in the remaining odd spaces. Sort of like a jigsaw puzzle. It still needs work, but it's pretty level. And it really changes the space, makes it feel brighter and more like a home.

Family Spring Outside Tipi Goodness

Rumor around campus is there's a group of little girls, faculty kids, who are obsessed with our tipi. I think they imagine it to have bunk beds, rabbit fur floors, and fairies. We'd love to camp with them, but I bet it will be a bit more rough than they're expecting. And probably not as magical, though we certainly think it is.

Looking forward to sleeping in it myself. Right now all I do is see glimpses of it through the trees, and walk up there once in a while to sit in it. Last night the wind was fierce, and Adam almost went up to check on it -- not that he would have staked it down at 11 p.m. Turns out it survived the wild night, once again.