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Astri Gierut
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Alison and Jay Carroll do everything together. The couple founded olive oil company Wonder Valley, and set up shop in a restored 1940s gas station just off the beloved Twentynine Palms Highway in Joshua Tree, California. They are also both partners at El Rey Court, an 86-room restored motel in Sante Fe, New Mexico, with a swim club and that beautiful bar (La Reina) you keep seeing on Instagram. But their latest project required the most teamwork of all: a once-abandoned homestead the couple converted themselves into a desert dream home.
It took nearly a year and a half for Jay and Alison to renovate the home, and while they worked, they lived in a blue painted vagabond trailer, aptly named Big Blue. The couple uses Big Blue to host extra guests and the occasional Airbnb renter. One guest, friend, and artist, Tom Jean Webb, stayed for a long period of time and in return gifted the couple this mural, with Lefty painted in gold.
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The wood ceiling is Douglas fir that was locally custom-milled. All the wood in the home was treated with a natural tung oil with citrus solvent, which smells like orange rind and is better to work with than most tung oils that are cut with petrochemicals, notes Alison.
Alison and Jay wanted an open kitchen with simple shelving to display their collections of pottery, silver, and objects. To that end, they installed custom open shelving, low-maintenance Richlite countertops, and a unlacquered copper backsplash. Artist and friend Steve Halterman designed the stained glass door based on the Hopi symbol for home.
The home was completely gutted, nine boarded-up windows were restored, doors were stripped, new doors were added, and the only thing Alison and Jay kept was the wood-burning stove in the kitchen. They sprinkled a number of salvage-yard finds throughout the house, like a pair of pocket doors picked up in El Paso, Texas. They add texture to the design and character, while also being affordable," says Alison. "The doors took a while to strip back layers of paint with a heat gun, but it revealed such a beautiful honey-tone wood."
I mentioned last post how I got talked into trying the Hubitat. To be honest, it didn't take too much convincing because the hub works with the old Iris switches and I have several of them. We home automation freaks loved those switches. I hacked into them and made them work without the Lowe's hub and hooked them into my house to measure power and control several things.
Then Lowes dropped support for the devices and closed down their cloud offering leaving everyone that depended on that service in the lurch. See why I don't like to rely on cloud services? We've seen this over and over again for the last two decades. You sucker into a service and then they raise the price, lower the capabilities and finally shut it down. That's happening right now with the ring devices. I have one I got simply as a way to watch my driveway for deliveries. Then I got another for a replacement doorbell. They're fun, but require a subscription and an app.
Ring just announced that they're dropping the Windows 10 App and going to a web site instead. I wonder what they will drop next because they already raised the price on their subscription earlier this year. I really feel sorry for the huge number of people that are subscribing to these services without knowing what will eventually happen. I went in with my eyes open because I wanted to play with the devices, but I fully expect them to be an eventual waste of money.
Back to the Hubitat. This thing worked for the Iris switches I have on the very first try. It was really easy to set up and get going, but it didn't fulfill my needs for monitoring things and storing data long term. No, I didn't hack into it and write code, I didn't need to. The developers made this thing easy to hack into and extend the basic capabilities. They actually encourage this. Yes, you can add source to it and customize the heck out of it, but that will have to wait until I have more time to play with the various nuances of the device.
I started off simply with an Iris switch I controlled, added a clock because it was cool and then my power usage from my fridge in the kitchen.
Since my last post. Did anyone notice?
I've been heavily involved in local politics in my area for over three years now and it finally came to an end. My side lost....
During this time the home automation field exploded. There are things available now for less than $20 that I had to build from whatever was available. Maybey it's time for me to catch up with the world again. So, following the advice of a friend, I bought a Hubitat. "Why that particular hub." you ask? Well, it doesn't require the internet to work; it isn't dependent on some cloud service; and just might fill the bill for home automation out in the sticks where the internet goes away and runs slow. Besides, I don't like the idea of some cloud service having my house data at their disposal.
And, since a subscription isn't needed, it's cheap.
When it arrived from Amazon, it was in a box about 6" square. This thing was tiny. Roughly 2" by 2" and less than an inch tall, it was smaller than a Raspberry Pi and would fit anywhere I wanted to put it. Cool. In the picure below, it's the little thing with the green light.
Ricardo Sanchez and his family were heading to the evacuation center after their home was heavily damaged. He was at work when the fire started, but the rest of his family was home, and he said he felt sick about their loss.
Winding through natural sand dunes and surrounded by an abundance of native vegetation, Desert Dunes is the perfect marriage of links style design and desert golf. Crafted by legendary golf course architect Robert Trent Jones Jr., this course is widely considered one of the best tests of golf in the valley.
Most of the plants in this room are succulents, which means they are adapted to retain water, thus having the ability to survive long periods of drought conditions. Some succulents store water in their roots, others in their stems or leaves. Although the plants here share an adaptation to a desert environment, this room does not reflect a real desert. There are plants in this room from Africa, Asia, the Americas and all over the world that, in nature, would not be growing side-by-side or within such close proximity to one another.
The home is built with prefabricated technologies in a factory. Using steel framing, twelve feet wide modules can extend up to sixty four feet in length and use any type of cladding, including metal, wood, or glass. The Desert House is built with three types of basic modules: interior modules comprising the living spaces, exterior modules defining covered outdoor living areas and sunshade modules providing protection from the sun.
The design of the home employs passive and active solar technologies as well as sustainable design concepts. Solar panels provide power used by the house. Sunshades on the south and west facades minimize the impact of the harsh summer sun. In the colder months, concrete floors provide passive solar heat gain.
null was designed to be unlike any funeral home you've ever seen; it's truly a one-of-a-kind place. We invite you to come in and see for yourself how we're revolutionizing the way you think about funeral service.
Desert View Memorial Park is a tranquil cemetery and an oasis in the desert. The largest dedicated cemetery in Victorville, it comprises 14 developed acres and 38 acres awaiting development to meet the future needs of our growing community. The park offers traditional ground burial (interment) as well as above-ground mausoleum entombment. Cremation options are also available.
Desert View Funeral Home has a spacious and comfortable foyer that leads to our chapel, which seats 200 guests. Our visitation stateroom provides a casual and comfortable atmosphere for families to visit with friends and family. Additionally, our Victorville funeral home has inspiring works of art.
Our welcoming Victorville funeral home staff invites you to tour the premises and see our level of commitment to compassionate care for yourself. Please contact us for more information about funeral services in Victorville.
Desert View Memorial Park responds to the requests and needs of the community. The cemetery has a Veterans Lawn to honor veterans while the funeral home helps military families plan services that commemorate their sacrifices.
Finally, our Catholic Lawn was dedicated and blessed in 2004. With a focus on Catholic traditions, it is home to the Holy Family statue, Our Lady of Guadalupe statue and Sacred Heart statue. Future plans include adding a cremation garden to this section of the cemetery.
Desert View Memorial Park is home to the Garden of Eternal Pet Memories. Developed in 2009 to give people a place to memorialize their animal companions, the pet cemetery is our way of ensuring that furry friends are always remembered.
Desert Lawn Funeral Home & Cemetery-Proud to be afamily owned and operated funeral home and cemetery since 1964. Serving San Bernardino and Riverside County since 1964. Funerals, Cremations, Burials, Private Estates and Preplanning. Call (909) 795-2451 for a free consultation.
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It took nearly a year and a half for Jay and Alison to renovate the home, and while they worked, they lived in a blue painted vagabond trailer, aptly named Big Blue. The couple uses Big Blue to host extra guests and the occasional Airbnb renter. One guest, friend, and artist, Tom Jean Webb, stayed for a long period of time and in return gifted the couple this mural, with Lefty painted in gold.
a home in the desert game download
Download https://t.co/gZdoG1vMIV
The wood ceiling is Douglas fir that was locally custom-milled. All the wood in the home was treated with a natural tung oil with citrus solvent, which smells like orange rind and is better to work with than most tung oils that are cut with petrochemicals, notes Alison.
Alison and Jay wanted an open kitchen with simple shelving to display their collections of pottery, silver, and objects. To that end, they installed custom open shelving, low-maintenance Richlite countertops, and a unlacquered copper backsplash. Artist and friend Steve Halterman designed the stained glass door based on the Hopi symbol for home.
The home was completely gutted, nine boarded-up windows were restored, doors were stripped, new doors were added, and the only thing Alison and Jay kept was the wood-burning stove in the kitchen. They sprinkled a number of salvage-yard finds throughout the house, like a pair of pocket doors picked up in El Paso, Texas. They add texture to the design and character, while also being affordable," says Alison. "The doors took a while to strip back layers of paint with a heat gun, but it revealed such a beautiful honey-tone wood."
I mentioned last post how I got talked into trying the Hubitat. To be honest, it didn't take too much convincing because the hub works with the old Iris switches and I have several of them. We home automation freaks loved those switches. I hacked into them and made them work without the Lowe's hub and hooked them into my house to measure power and control several things.
Then Lowes dropped support for the devices and closed down their cloud offering leaving everyone that depended on that service in the lurch. See why I don't like to rely on cloud services? We've seen this over and over again for the last two decades. You sucker into a service and then they raise the price, lower the capabilities and finally shut it down. That's happening right now with the ring devices. I have one I got simply as a way to watch my driveway for deliveries. Then I got another for a replacement doorbell. They're fun, but require a subscription and an app.
Ring just announced that they're dropping the Windows 10 App and going to a web site instead. I wonder what they will drop next because they already raised the price on their subscription earlier this year. I really feel sorry for the huge number of people that are subscribing to these services without knowing what will eventually happen. I went in with my eyes open because I wanted to play with the devices, but I fully expect them to be an eventual waste of money.
Back to the Hubitat. This thing worked for the Iris switches I have on the very first try. It was really easy to set up and get going, but it didn't fulfill my needs for monitoring things and storing data long term. No, I didn't hack into it and write code, I didn't need to. The developers made this thing easy to hack into and extend the basic capabilities. They actually encourage this. Yes, you can add source to it and customize the heck out of it, but that will have to wait until I have more time to play with the various nuances of the device.
I started off simply with an Iris switch I controlled, added a clock because it was cool and then my power usage from my fridge in the kitchen.
Since my last post. Did anyone notice?
I've been heavily involved in local politics in my area for over three years now and it finally came to an end. My side lost....
During this time the home automation field exploded. There are things available now for less than $20 that I had to build from whatever was available. Maybey it's time for me to catch up with the world again. So, following the advice of a friend, I bought a Hubitat. "Why that particular hub." you ask? Well, it doesn't require the internet to work; it isn't dependent on some cloud service; and just might fill the bill for home automation out in the sticks where the internet goes away and runs slow. Besides, I don't like the idea of some cloud service having my house data at their disposal.
And, since a subscription isn't needed, it's cheap.
When it arrived from Amazon, it was in a box about 6" square. This thing was tiny. Roughly 2" by 2" and less than an inch tall, it was smaller than a Raspberry Pi and would fit anywhere I wanted to put it. Cool. In the picure below, it's the little thing with the green light.
Ricardo Sanchez and his family were heading to the evacuation center after their home was heavily damaged. He was at work when the fire started, but the rest of his family was home, and he said he felt sick about their loss.
Winding through natural sand dunes and surrounded by an abundance of native vegetation, Desert Dunes is the perfect marriage of links style design and desert golf. Crafted by legendary golf course architect Robert Trent Jones Jr., this course is widely considered one of the best tests of golf in the valley.
Most of the plants in this room are succulents, which means they are adapted to retain water, thus having the ability to survive long periods of drought conditions. Some succulents store water in their roots, others in their stems or leaves. Although the plants here share an adaptation to a desert environment, this room does not reflect a real desert. There are plants in this room from Africa, Asia, the Americas and all over the world that, in nature, would not be growing side-by-side or within such close proximity to one another.
The home is built with prefabricated technologies in a factory. Using steel framing, twelve feet wide modules can extend up to sixty four feet in length and use any type of cladding, including metal, wood, or glass. The Desert House is built with three types of basic modules: interior modules comprising the living spaces, exterior modules defining covered outdoor living areas and sunshade modules providing protection from the sun.
The design of the home employs passive and active solar technologies as well as sustainable design concepts. Solar panels provide power used by the house. Sunshades on the south and west facades minimize the impact of the harsh summer sun. In the colder months, concrete floors provide passive solar heat gain.
null was designed to be unlike any funeral home you've ever seen; it's truly a one-of-a-kind place. We invite you to come in and see for yourself how we're revolutionizing the way you think about funeral service.
Desert View Memorial Park is a tranquil cemetery and an oasis in the desert. The largest dedicated cemetery in Victorville, it comprises 14 developed acres and 38 acres awaiting development to meet the future needs of our growing community. The park offers traditional ground burial (interment) as well as above-ground mausoleum entombment. Cremation options are also available.
Desert View Funeral Home has a spacious and comfortable foyer that leads to our chapel, which seats 200 guests. Our visitation stateroom provides a casual and comfortable atmosphere for families to visit with friends and family. Additionally, our Victorville funeral home has inspiring works of art.
Our welcoming Victorville funeral home staff invites you to tour the premises and see our level of commitment to compassionate care for yourself. Please contact us for more information about funeral services in Victorville.
Desert View Memorial Park responds to the requests and needs of the community. The cemetery has a Veterans Lawn to honor veterans while the funeral home helps military families plan services that commemorate their sacrifices.
Finally, our Catholic Lawn was dedicated and blessed in 2004. With a focus on Catholic traditions, it is home to the Holy Family statue, Our Lady of Guadalupe statue and Sacred Heart statue. Future plans include adding a cremation garden to this section of the cemetery.
Desert View Memorial Park is home to the Garden of Eternal Pet Memories. Developed in 2009 to give people a place to memorialize their animal companions, the pet cemetery is our way of ensuring that furry friends are always remembered.
Desert Lawn Funeral Home & Cemetery-Proud to be afamily owned and operated funeral home and cemetery since 1964. Serving San Bernardino and Riverside County since 1964. Funerals, Cremations, Burials, Private Estates and Preplanning. Call (909) 795-2451 for a free consultation.
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