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I’d love pictures of your yurt sometime! I’m weirdly infatuated with them. Also, how’s the chimney been giving ya issues?

oh gosh, i’ve posted a bunch here over the years. somehow i can never really get photos to convey what it’s like in there! I’ll have to hunt up some old ones. 

Mine’s not any kind of traditional yurt, and it’s much smaller than a normal one, I had a friend build it for me. (In. hmm. 2015? i bet 2015.) This friend is an SCA re-enactor type and had looked up Mongolian yurts on the Internet, and he and some friends had come up with schematics, and so it’s plywood and lath, and has for the crucial tensioning band around the top a length of metal garage door opener cable, because this friend in a former life was a garage door installer. It’s held up great though I’ve replaced every single lath slat and the side pieces of the door frame, and am considering replacing the roof rafters when I replace the canvas.

(I would dearly love a real proper honest Turkic-style one, like the bozh ui we saw in Kyrgyzstan, with the steamed willow bent pole rafters and the curved-lattice tundyk roof rings, but those are several tens of thousands of dollars and would have to be shipped from central Asia so I might as well build a house for that kind of money.)

The chimney was giving me trouble by just straight falling off– the segment that goes through the roof to the interior didn’t fit properly into my box-style spark arrestor, and so if I moved wrong or the wind caught it, it’d just tip over and yank itself off the connection, and then I’ve got an indoor chimney, which is not optimal. So I had to run outside in the dark and stand on a chair with a towel and stick the chimney back on. No bueno. Lots of adrenaline for 10pm on a work night. I’m going to smell like a campfire at the gala dinner I’ve got on Thursday night because well, my dress was hanging inside the yurt along with everything else I have here. 

(Oh, I should air it out. It’s a nice day. Good thinking, me. D’oh. I’ve got a laundry line right there.)

Here are some old photos of the yurt I just found on my hard drive:

This is from last summer, with a fisheye lens so it’s distorted (the rafters are not curved). It looks about like that now. I’ll try to remember to take more pictures of it this year. I’ve got a whole Highlight section in my Instagram stories that’s all yurt things, from the last couple of years, here: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17857342393250137/

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A sight for sore eyes #yurtlife
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Woke at 5am to sound of cat puking, have not yet found result. Thanks, Whiskey. Am attempting to write a to-do list but when she sees me writing she remembers that I have hands, and some and mashes her face against my pen. So, to-do list on phone it is! #yurtlife

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#yurtlife I mean. It’s a temperature differential, and don’t get me wrong, I appreciate that, but. It could be a bigger one. This warm week has made me lazy about finishing my ceiling quilts. Time to get to work if I wanna stay out here until turkey processing!

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Guess it’s really too dim for the camera. Birdsong, raindrops on canvas, wind: sunrise, and the roof didn’t leak after all. #yurtlife

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It is 3am and I can’t sleep and I can’t find a flashlight so I lit a candle and looked over and why is this dude in my bed. Buddy you do not belong here this is not a frog-safe space. Don’t look at me like that. #yurtlife never a dull moment.

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#yurtlife pic no.1 is my tiny cat bro Whiskey, illuminated in the light from my newly-improvised window– wall unhooked and covered in Ikea net curtain. No. 2 is the view thru said window, and no. 3 is the view at sundown last night through the roof hole. Back to indoors job for a week, but then I’ll be here nearly a month! :)

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What makes a yurt a home? Why, a roommate. My sister’s cat Whiskey is delighted to find that this new little house in the woods contains not only a bed, but a pair of hands that can be induced to provide petting. She lives here now, which pleases my sister, as Whiskey’s former preferred nightly ritual was to sleep on the baby’s changing table and be In The Way. #ger
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