Rename, Republish

A few corrections are in order...

First off, let us correctly identify our last project as the Portable Pedal Powered Pumper. The PPPP is at home in East Texas with Dr. Deb, where we hope she is enjoying the alliterative device (please excuse the grammar-nerd joke).

And secondly, it recently came to our attention that Blogger was missing over 100 entries that were imported from the old blog, but apparently never published. 

This has been sort-of fixed, meaning that all of the old entries are now visible on Blogger, but there will be formatting errors until we have the time to go through each entry and fix the formatting. But at least now the blog record is complete, and readers can go all the way back to our first ever blog post in 2009.

Looking youthful back in July 2010

It's hard to believe we've been at this for three years, already! I hope y'all have enjoyed reading as much as we have enjoyed writing.

Staying warm

Brrr. The winds kicked up something awful yesterday evening, and it sounded like the end of the world most of the night.  We woke up to temps in the 40s, and cold fog sitting heavy on the mountains.

After coffee and morning chores, we loaded up Deb's bicycle-powered water pump for delivery.  She seemed pleased with the end result.  We look forward to hearing how it performs.

While at TFL we also got to see Stacy's rocket stove, which is like a mini-gasifier. By using a metal chimney and a small inlet orifice, you can create lots of concentrated heat for cooking, with just a few twigs.  It makes cooking with wood so much more efficient.  To learn more about wood gasification, follow the link to our website.

la bomba bicicleta

Had a great visit with Dr. Deb and her friend Stacy, who drove out to Terlingua from East Texas.  They are staying at le Chateau TFL, and came by to have us fabricate a bicycle water pump. Got to give them a tour of the homestead, too.  It turns out that Deb's a whiz at ferro-cement, and had lots of questions about the Presidio Gallena.

We recently got this nifty little band saw for cutting metal, and now we don't know how we got on without one for so long.  It makes the whole process more precise and less dramatic (we had been using a chop saw with an abrasive disk).

 

The mercury is supposed to drop tonight and into the next couple days with a big cold front that's moving in, but today was just perfect.