{"id":366,"date":"2009-07-27T17:27:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T21:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=366"},"modified":"2009-07-27T17:27:30","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T21:27:30","slug":"its-getting-later-and-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/27\/its-getting-later-and-later\/","title":{"rendered":"it’s getting later and later"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think it’s fair to say that I am a bit obsessed with tiny houses<\/a>. I’ve been decluttering a lot, downsized from a desktop computer to a laptop, am checking more books out of the library than I buy, etc. So it makes sense that the tiny house would be right up my alley.<\/p>\n

My daydream is that when we retire we’ll get a bit of mountainy foresty land near a stream and plop down a tiny house. Something like this one, the Harbinger<\/a>, looks like a good fit for us. It’s 300 square feet plus a sleeping loft. Yes, we’d have to get rid of a bunch of stuff. But I’m ready to get rid of most of the knick-nacks<\/a> (and paddywacks<\/a>). By then I will have digitized all of my LPs and CDs so they can go, too. We probably won’t want to part with all of the books, but I bet if we invest in some custom-built shelves and arrange the books by size we’ll be able to get most of them in there.<\/p>\n

What about the kitchen? Will we eat tiny food*? Some of these houses have tiny little kitchens w\/hot plates + dorm fridges, but the Harbinger has enough space for a modest but real stove\/oven + fridge. Yes, we’ll need to go shopping more often, but we’ll be living just outside of a cute little town and I will ride my bike** to the store every few days. Also, we’ll have a (tiny) garden where we’ll grow (tiny) fruits + veggies.<\/p>\n

* On tiny plates! Like in Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Slow-Eater-Tiny-Bite-Taker Cure.<\/p>\n

** Gus + I got bikes! But that’s a post for another day, Pee-Wee<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can add another bedroom onto the back, but I think that instead we should get another even tinier house as a guest room, maybe the Epu<\/a>? Gus should be fine there when he comes to visit. We will probably also need a shed to hold bikes, gardening tools, push mower, cross-country skis, snowshoes + sleds. We’ll have to get a car but it can be small, too.<\/p>\n

After I outlined all of this Jonathan said “so really it’s a tiny compound!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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