Notebook

So, I started my "Hippie House" Notebook today. I am going to (in theory...) keep ideas and plans and dreams, etc in it. We'll see. I have, thus far, printed my ideas, pics, and plans for how to recapture the washer water, and the kitchen sink water. I took pics a while back. I am not planning to do any of these things until Spring. There is no real point now; I need to take measurements, plan shopping lists, etc. Plus, things will just freeze in the winter. I still have to figure out how to get the hoses out of the house without leaving doors open. The washer water, in the garage, no biggie, we leave that side door open, security screen stays closed, but there is a small dog door, so it can run out of that, or even a small hole drilled higher up, to encourage complete drainage would be fine. And once I figure out how to get the sink water out of the house, no problem there either, since there is a slope to what I plan to water with that water...

So, I started...small steps. I would feel much better about it, except for the fact that I don’t feel well tonight. Other than that, I would be jumping up and down!

One of the projects that I want to work on for the winter is a passive solar heater, I saw a really awesome instructable on it, and I bet I could adapt it for my home. I have ideas on how to do so, I did not add that to my notebook however, because the print out is at the house, and that makes little to no sense to reprint, just to have instant gratification. If you know me, you know that is a HUGE personal step! Ha-ha! Same thing for my composting ideas. I am not sure however if that should be in the Hippie House Notebook, or if it should go in the garden notebook (Sorry, it doesn’t have a snappy nickname yet...)
I also want to “grow” worms, or raise them, whatever… I think that will tie into the compost thing, and since the compost thing will be OUTSIDE, I think that goes in the Garden Notebook (Still no snappy nickname…).

So, that is where I leave this entry. I have done as much as I want to in my Notebooks. I don’t feel well, as I said, and I don’t want them to ever be associated with anything but happy thoughts, so I will put them away for tonight, and work on them in bed this weekend while my awesome Grrrl takes care of me! I’m so lucky!

I do have a crochet project I could probably get done tonight… I didn’t say that out loud, so as not to anger then calmness on the ICU Gods… He!

Good night all, more later!