| This is a picture of the first loaf of bread Dave ever made. It was a little spongy but tasted pretty good. |
| This is a picture of the first loaf of bread Dave ever made. It was a little spongy but tasted pretty good. |
| Our friends, painters Cristina Toro and Ulysses (yu-li seez) Jackson, came to visit us this weekend. Ulysses works at Golden which is one of the biggest acrylic paint companies and does research and development for them making new kinds of paints so Dave asked him to give us a color demo. Ulysses taught us how to mix paints to make them the colors you want, how to match colors, and what the different paints can do. |
先週、1トン分の木材チップがデリバリーされ、デイビッドが地下室に積み重ねました。
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Where we moved, the average temperature in January is minus 5 degrees Celsius. So heating the house is of great importance.
The house is heated through radiators in each room that are filled with hot water that comes from a boiler in the basement. My friend who owns our house replaced the oil burning burner with a wood chip boiler. We have to fill the boiler twice a day with bags of wood pellets. Last week we had one ton of pellets delivered which Dave stacked in the basement. It's interesting how much more I think about what I consume now that I've moved. In the city, the cost of our heat was included in our rent so I never thought much about it. As much as I dread the heating bill this year, I am appreciative in gaining back the knowledge of what the material cost of heat is. |
| Today is election day. When I was walking to the office earlier this morning there were two children near the subway station giving out flyers. As I got closer the smaller of the two, maybe he was around 8 years old, handed me a hand drawn flyer and said "Please don't forget to vote!" (Insert flyer drawing) He and his sister had drawn stacks of flyers not promoting any candidate in particular but promoting the act of voting. It brought tears to my eyes. I don't think I've ever witnessed so much enthusiasm about an election, ever. As I type this, they are slowly announcing the tally of each state with 3 more hours before the last states on the west coast close their polls. A lot of people have voted today. In New York City, there were long lines at most polling places. (Insert two pictures of long lines) David and I have decided that if Obama wins tonight we will clean and scrub the whole house as a celebration tomorrow. Funny way to celebrate but we figure it's like a cleansing of all the badness that has happened to this country over the past 8 years under Bush. |
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ハンナ・フシハラ・アーロン
ショップ“HaNNa”のクリエイティヴ・ディレクター兼バイヤー。夫と1匹の犬、3匹の猫とともにNYに暮らし、自宅の一部を“Little Cakes”という小さなギャラリーとして開放している。アート、色、工芸、動物、自然、環境保護に興味がある。万物は見えない力で繋がっているのだから、自分たち以外のものに対しても責任を感じるべきだと信じている。
