You can usually find disused 100 or 200-gallon options by searching online for “Salvage Propane Tanks.” You could even go with an exterior fuel oil tank. Attach some simple plumbing that runs a pipe into the ground, and you can position it just about anywhere near the house. Use a cut...
The country's been an unsung hero of the genre for an age, most notably rising on the Ozploitation crest of the Australian New Wave in the '70s and '80s — after the R rating was introduced in Australia. (If you haven't seen the documentary Not Quite Hollywood, do yourself a favour...
It was an April evening in 1861. The Marine Band was playing a concert on the White House lawn. Mary and President Lincoln had invited many guests, among them Mary Cook Taft, wife of Horatio Taft, an examiner at the U.S. Patent Office. Mary Taft was wearing a delicate straw bonnet la...
I told you there would be a 4 for me to wear my new spring outfit,”she shyly reminded me. “ 5 can play at that game,”I responded.“I will wear my gray suit, my Borsalino imported straw hat and a new silk tie.We will be well 6 .” It was early 7 and nearing dusk as ...
It’s a bit like a gourmet meal run through a blender for consumption through a straw. Much magazine fiction of the time relied on a formula perfected decades before by the likes of O. Henry: characters recognizably based on stereotypes, a dramatic quandary, and a twist. And The Woman ...
I do wonder if this might be the final straw that breaks NPR. For all their many awards, organizational self-regard, and incestuously close connections to the Washington power structure, they have also been hemorrhaging ordinary listeners in Flyoverlandia for years now. I’m one of those once...
Today, I am going to share this simple yet amazingly beautiful Chinese New Year Plum Blossom art. All we need is a piece of paper, some paint, a paintbrush, a toothbrush and a straw. First, drop some black paint or ink on the paper. Use straw to blow the ink to form branches. Use...
“Tell me where I may find the wyrm that I may slay it lest I slay you where you stand in its stead!” For the first time this gesture appeared to affect George’s unruffled composure. He furrowed his brow slightly and waved a hand in a vaguely placating gesture. “Steady on mate,...
There were also fresh fruit juices. One of them was street watermelon juice. As we want to have a taste, we bought it and we drank it directly from the fruit. The fruit vendor will make a hole on the center of the watermelon and we drank the juice using straw. ...
find builders or owner-builders in the part of the world you are interested in living who have done something similar to you, and ask them about their experiences with local officials. If you can't find someone who's built with cob, look for someone who's built with straw bale, or ado...