By Elizabeth Enslin on February 19, 2010
Tomorrow, we drive to NE Oregon to spend a week or so in our yurt (and a few other places). The creature I fear most on this trip is not the cougar, wolf or porcupine. It’s much smaller. Most females and the younger males of the species could fit into the palm of my hand….
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Posted in Recent, Species of the Week, Yurt Living | Tagged archaeology, climate change, Homesteading, mammals, wild
By Elizabeth Enslin on December 18, 2009
I have a new essay published in The Smoking Poet. It’s new in the sense of being recently completed and published but also in the sense of process….
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Posted in Publication, Recent, Yurt Living | Tagged creative nonfiction, Writing, yurts
By Elizabeth Enslin on October 31, 2009
One of the things I loved best about teaching high school social studies was shaking up students’ perceptions of history. And one of my favorite lessons was in Ancient History. I’d bring in a a jar of beans and a potato with so many sprouts it looked like an octopus (the fact that I always found one in my cupboard could have doubled as a cautionary lesson in the domestic arts)….
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Posted in Politics and History, Sustainable Food, Sustainable Gardening, Yurt Living | Tagged ancient history, anthropology, archaeology, Homesteading, patience, Sustainable Gardening
By Elizabeth Enslin on August 30, 2009
It’s easy to be impatient at the pace of progress of in our yurt living adventure. We still need indoor plumbing, shelving, walls on the porch….
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Posted in Recent, Yurt Living | Tagged Homesteading, patience, photography
By Elizabeth Enslin on August 20, 2009
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Posted in Poetry, Yurt Living | Tagged Homesteading, Poetry, solar energy, wordplay, yurt
By Elizabeth Enslin on August 20, 2009
Okay, I’ll admit we had some electricity before. With Jerry being an electrical engineer, we’ll always have electricity. But we’re enjoying major improvements now: bigger solar panels and a more centralized system with wiring (still pretty funky) into the yurt. We even have a light switch (more on that in another post)….
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Posted in Yurt Living | Tagged Homesteading, patience, solar energy
By Elizabeth Enslin on July 28, 2009
I’d like to keep this a family friendly blog, but what else should I call it? Feces? Excrement? Waste? Poo? They all sound too distant, clinical or childish. It’s so easy to refer to it in euphemisms when clean water washes it far away, into rivers, oceans, or sewage treatment plants. But when you have to figure out how to deal with it yourself, it turns to shit….
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Posted in Homesteading, Sustainability, Yurt Living | Tagged books, off-grid, Sustainability
By Elizabeth Enslin on July 27, 2009
The dilapidated house is home to many packrats, a frog that lives in the old stove, a few birds, and many wasps. But the phone line goes to the house (and thanks to Jerry’s engineering now goes to the shady side), so that’s where I do my online work. It’s a lovely quarter mile walk from the yurt….
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Posted in Homesteading, Social media, Sustainability, Yurt Living | Tagged blogging, Homesteading
By Elizabeth Enslin on June 24, 2009
Living off-grid in a yurt is mostly wonderful, at least this time of year. I know that spending time in such a beautiful place is a luxury not everyone can afford. So please understand, I’m not complaining….
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Posted in Homesteading, On Blogging, Species of the Week, Yurt Living | Tagged beauty, Homesteading, patience, species
By Elizabeth Enslin on June 5, 2009
This is part of I and the Bird No. 102 at Birders’ Lounge.
While
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Posted in Biodiversity, Homesteading, Seasons and Rituals, Wildlife Encounters, Yurt Living | Tagged nature, wild
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