Wake up to a world full of hope, fun, and a great breakfast in bed. Savor the moments that form the memories of tomorrow in case the days are not as bright then as now, for today is what makes your life incredible as it paves the path to your future. Salvage, Texas is a place where people can come to dream, see the unlimited potential in themselves to heal, and grow a vision into a great life.
Ah, for the bright morning in our youth, the days bright and a future ahead full of excitement, promises, and hopefully fulfillment and happiness. To be young, to be positive, to hold onto your dreams, that is what Salvage, Texas exemplifies, the chance to dream and live to fulfill them to create memories you can cherish, as will others, long after this life is spent.
From the worst looking houses, barns, buildings, and lives, the most incredible things and futures can be constructed. By using the toughest parts that survived the hardships, weathered it out, and this can survive what comes if you construct your home, your life, with the best of parts, the Truths, not lies. Actions stem from thought nurtured in what world… as you perceive it to be… thus the need for perspicuity seldom found in our society.
Wisdom requires experience, yet so many young, barely out of home, think they know all things already. Stay open to learning and be autodidactic. Be positive in the way you see the morning and day evolve and you will find better memories when they are done.
In 11 evenings with no nails, a dream manifested upon a hill, a place to think, to see afar, to look and know just who you are… alone, high upon a hill made by your own hands, a pile of memories you will one day call your life. What does your Ship of Salvaged Dreams look like when you are done living the life here down below?
Thank you for sharing our world of dreams manifested, salvaged from the dreams of others, many fulfilled and lived out, then the creators, the actors in the play of life, moved on. Wii are here to salvage that past many of us want for in this transition from a past no one can return to as Wii move into a World Union of Beings or a prison planet with few choices made freely and everyone wearing masks, social distancing, and throwing millions of masks into the ocean day by day until suffocation follows.
Can you get under the gate when it is locked to the normal person unprepared, to fat to fit in tight places when the time comes to move? Why not prepare for tomorrow today?
It’s time to climb under the gate, get out of the traps of our society, and create a new future, a new America based on the original plan, not the modified plan that communism brings with it. I vote for another stab at democracy without the elite writing all the rules in their favor, sort of like the original constitution allowed for, and was modified accordingly to prevent the abuse of power. Let’s enforce that now and get rid of the corrupted version put upon America in the 19th century. It is not our Truth!
My sister had the hairdoo, my brother cowlicks, and me… geeksville glasses. The drugs were working for mom and life was special…
Darby
Don’t just be a shadow on the shoreline of life. Make ripples dive into the liquid crystal pool of experience, action, and memories to carry with you long after life is spent. Edit
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Understanding that each of us creates our own challenges to overcome in life, the Spirit’s obligations or purpose in life requires forced change sometimes. Wii are all One and the pain as well as the bliss is not distributed evenly but is available for most to choose from, based on their own decisions, perspective, and actions. Wii can empower people, even cure them of disease they have caused themselves, but enabling bad behavior will not stop it… so they have to learn some things by themselves, and then get out of the cold.
Bath in alkali water, breath from the belly, charge the battery at the root of the spine and fire up the Chakras, scalar wave engines that make miracles possible through a vessel Wii are instructed to honor in order to benefit all Wii meet on this journey through life. Grounding with bare feet or leather soles will allow you to move the energies through you and form the flow to create a reality Wii would like to manifest rather than be a victim to the one which others create with the intention of controlling us.
A little here, a bit more there, a spindle or two, a corbel pair, all rare and salvaged, some a century and a half since they came off the buildings or houses that they adorned for a century before they were salvaged.
The trees, such as the Redwoods that formed the blue posts, or the Cypress trees that formed the spindles, corbel, or even the Long Leaf Pine trees that form the floor and much more were all trees that had lived for 800 years before the cut to form such beautiful things.
Here are some of the piles of wonderful woodcut from ancient trees long before electricity, in a day when tokens were given to workers in the lumber industry in Texas, never cash. Truly these knot-free slices of trees that were 135 feet tall, Long Leaf Pine being the hardest, most resistant to rot, strongest, and most resistant to bugs of all the 77 species of Pine in America. To bad, we cut all the mature stock down by the 1940’s and none is due to mature for cutting for another few hundred years. If you want to have it, use it, preserve it, salvage is the only way.I do have a hundred thousand square foot of warehouses full of stock and now that wood has quintupled in value, you can buy good wood at my prices for nearly the same as crappy big box store wood. Why not build a smaller quality wood house instead of a bigger shitrock and vinyl house?
Why do people not want to create with such incredible things as salvage brings into the creative fold for building houses, cottages, and homes for those who roam? It is not the size nor the neighborhood that truly makes a hOMe, it is the place where the heart can rest, dreams flourish with your family best, and love will last to pass the test to be rewarded, thus be blessed. Keep the faith, take action instead of being paralyzed by fear when the stress of change is coming near.
The Bridge Over Untroubled Waters represents what is possible when you leave the past behind and venture into the future without the baggage that holds most people back. See the Ship of Salvaged Dreams upon Miracle Mountain and take faith in the Light you can see up above. One Source of Energy is undeniably there for us to tap if Wii have faith and take action to make our dreams, our visions others think are impossible, yet Wii proceed to manifest them and thus exemplify what Faith can do.Prepare to Light up and lead others, ignite the passion for Truth, Peace, and Unity… so Wii can all be Free.
Micro-Loans at 0% interest for honest people to build homes, businesses, and more out of great materials, human energy, barter, and imagination.
It is the time to get into the business of creating houses out of Salvage. If you do, you will be able to create a life of riches from what others thought was trash. More millionaires are made from Salvage Mining, Building, and reselling than any other industry in the USA. Now it will boom since so many will finally see the value of great wood.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing and caring about the Pure Salvage Living Renaissance… living and being the solutions to what the world needs by the way Wii live and form tomorrow.
Darby Lettick
Salvagetx.com for more information about the BnB and playing in Salvage, Texas. To get inventory for your dream, contact [email protected].
It is not a business that just anyone would want to do… creating housing out of the salvaged materials from past houses, barns, stores, and structures first assembled a century or more in the past. It takes a creative spirit that enjoys taking dissimilar objects from many houses to create one that will be unique, artistic, and last for a lifetime if one takes care of it. When you create a special Art House that is unlike any other, people will take better care of it, as if a giant jewelry box with the greatest of all treasures inside, Peace and Privacy, safety from the storms.
How would you get into the business of building tiny organic cottages if you are not able to go out and buy the doors, windows, flooring, siding, interior skins for the ceiling, walls, bathroom? If you were fortunate and have the cash to go and buy all the materials and then build a house in hopes of living in it or selling it, that will take a good chunk of cash out of your bank account or add a big chunk to your credit cards. There is another way to get started though, for some it could mean partnering up with someone who has a bit of carpentry knowledge, perhaps an old-time carpenter who is wise but arthritic and thus can share experience and advice, the two things most kids do not have to get started.
If you have a place, like a barn or building to create inside of, all the better so you can take a bit of time to build the outside framework and skins, install the windows, and roll it outside to finish while you start another inside. If done right, with helpers who might also then become homeowners when they get the hang of building, get the materials they will need through bartering their help working for windows, doors, and other parts they can not find or afford in the big box stores. Micro-financing the items would make it even easier as most are a bit tight on money in 2020.
Please visit the Youtube channels for Tiny Texas Houses, Pure Salvage Living, and Brad Kittel (artistic or crazy stuff) for more information and images of House Art created in Salvage, Tx. SalvageTx.com for reservations to our BnB. Come see, dream, savor in amazement and go back to change the world and Thrive. 830-875-2500 to leave a message.
To that end, an easy means to finance the bulk of the cost of materials for honest people to build a tiny organic cottage from vintage materials, toxin and import free, all American like me. I am offering up a package of materials and custom designs so that some of the possible Organic Cottage Builders of the future can get started today, learn the loopholes and methods, then soar in a career few are even aware is booming on the horizon as our society downsizes and becomes concerned about living a healthy life.
At 65 years old and having suffered a life of scoliosis, I have never known such great health, life, or passion. See there is another path and then take it so you can show others that miracle are possible, we can enjoy or later years more than the early ones, as can be seen in Salvage, Texas. Salvage Mind, Body, Home and Spirit
Gratitude for what you have, but if you can not see the opportunity at your fingertips and you miss it, the lack of perspicuity is your problem not the lack of opportunity if you could just see it, take action, and aim for the stars. Then, with passion ignited, nothing can stop you.
We now know the environment, diet, exercise, and attitude are what determine if life is Heaven or Hell for those who suffer from failing to properly care for their vessel, the body that houses their soul. We can make a big difference on our health by removing as much stress as possible, like big payments, utility bills, taxes, and other distractions from being happy. Why not simplify and thrive instead? Be healthy and get younger instead.
Some do not believe in such things but still need housing and an appreciation for the work done by our ancestors to create these treasured stockpiles of incredible resources disguised as derelict buildings, houses, and in need of dismantling so that the parts can be reused to create hOMes. Please consider helping get a young person impassioned with what they could to do to change the world, one house at a time for the millions who will need them as the society transitions from abundance to scarcity for many. More children now live with their parents after reaching adult age than in the Great Depression and it is not getting better soon. Please consider how we can grow this trend in a positive manner and allow for the re-consolidation of family and the creation of new tiny communities for those who have no family to fall back to for help, no support network left but able to help create one that all who participate can benefit from too.
Appraising the wood, the houses, the possible treasures can be done by house inspectors or old guys like me who can see it all on your cell phone from afar and consult without driving into that nasty cold weather you are having up north. Consultation building, designing, and moving can also all be done with the wonders of instant video and pictures in everyone’s smart phone these days so that you can find out if the termites, wood bores, toxic contamination from asbestos, chemicals, or pesticides should stop you from taking a place down.
This can now be done and the micro-financing to help you get started building where you are instead of here is now in place to pay for the most important materials. You would still need some skin in the game by purchasing you own screws, nails, wiring, insulation, house wrap, roof underlayment, but little else if you choose to join and be part of the Pure Salvage Outpost network that will ensure you have a mentor when it looks like you hit a stopping point, a frustration that makes you want to burn the project down, or the people that may cause the same reaction. Don’t freak out, call your Salvage Shaman.
That is enough for this write as it is hard to hold attention for too long these days. If you have more questions and want to get into the Salvage Industry… contact [email protected] or [email protected]
Please visit the Youtube channels for Tiny Texas Houses, Pure Salvage Living, and Brad Kittel (artistic or crazy stuff) for more information and images of House Art created in Salvage, Tx. SalvageTx.com for reservations to our BnB. Come see, dream, savor in amazement and go back to change the world and Thrive.
Here and very much alive…
Darby Lettick
Ghostwriter, Space Magic Designer, Steward for Salvage, Tx.
Once upon a time an open field with nary a tree, 3′ of red clay on top of the ground, and a dream of ponds, caves, and giant rocks came into view.So with such a view and needing something incredible to do for my 64th year on this planet so blue, I decided to dig till my vision came true. Isn’t that what you would do? Along the way a few rocks I display as the product of hours of work, and the water is pure to be so much a cure for the world of great pains and deep aches.
I am Halfway into a dream that never ends, how far is that? I have seen so many things that I have once thought of as fact. I have wondered at the miracles that others spoke of in my life. I have lived some and believe in them thus seldom feel strife.
Some wonder how this land could turn from desolate to fine. How Rocks as big as this can lie so hidden, just to find? How waters come to fill the holes, to make this One you see, The sands now full of life, so green, the nutrients now free.
Fish and frogs, birds and dogs, kids all ages run and swim, walking barefoot, grounding all ways, mud, clean air to breathe. Treat your Vessel as God wanted, grow to be your best, Come and visit Salvage, Texas where the proof is in the test.
Imagination with intention, your focus, and your will combined with action to move forward ever higher still. What can you do? I say to you, see what I’ve done this year. If an old guy does this all alone, can’t others thus see clear?
Believe in You, the miracle that came from your mother’s womb. Don’t let down all the generations once you’re in your tomb. Give your life to making great phenomena appear! Be the One exemplified by what you do while here.
Wii owe it to our Source of Light, our God of many names, to use this time of transformation to set our Spirits free. Unite in our Prosperity simplicity can bring. Ground with our Earth in a rebirth that United Wii can sing.
Grow a garden, grow your food, imagination based on Truth. Grow your children strong and smart, lifeskills leaning to the arts. Grow your mind, self-education to become a global nation of peaceful people freedom bound, with Truth and Honor… Finally found!
Sometimes it is hard to see through the fog, through the illusions that keep us underground.We must keep our vessel in shape, clay, water, and 99% microbes, inside the gelatinous shell we call our body. Is that who you are or the vehicle you drive for a lifetime on Earth.Who would have thought it would be so fun to get to my 60’s. Join me?Pausing to consider, to breath, to savour the moments…
Salvage Mind, Body, and Home in ways few can imagine but You! Do it, not just talk about wanting to. Be what you dream of in the morning.
If you had all the parts and Pieces to create a fantasy town, the windows the doors to opportunity in a warehouse where you could go? What if the land was there to play, to create the solutions you dream of one day? What day are you looking for that will Awaken the acts that make such a future come true? What are you thinking as time passes by, and the future you think of is not gonna fly as the landscape is changing, your life thus renewed, a chance to become what you will be if True.
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Tell me the problem you think is to big and I offer solutions that you to can live. Nothing but action will thus make it so, but if you believe you can do more than grow… bloom and become the Light, then let go. Fly like a lightning bug shining at night. While looking like nothing by day you’re so bright if you just learn to shine with the Light in your sight.
Awake to the sunlight with new dreams to fill. Build your small castle to learn how and then, build them for others and create a new life from the dreams you did not know could come from your Light. Believe in your purpose to share and to grow, not the past that you learned from to be strong here Now! Be thankful for challenges that we have seen, but do not take it with you where you can now see… a future of wonder that will let you Thrive. Believe in the future that you can create and don’t blame the world until you Awake and know that your power is that you decide what each day is part of your life and your Pride.
Remove the old garbage so you can then leap cross the chasm between you last past and what’s You! Leap over all that you once held so dear and you will reach a new level that lets you see clear. Above and beyond, I so hope you will see, enlightenment simply means seeing what’s True. Viewing the world so you can then see the doors that will open with Your Opportunity.
Sometimes its the chicks you keep for company that determines what you will hear back in convesations about the Cosmos and directions we will take next.
Finally we are officaill on Salvage Way… 111 to be exact or 333 will get your letters here to me… once the Post office figures it out. hehe.
Sometimes hitting a wall can be a constructive exercise to build your strength and endurance up, but also for productive reasons, as in creating a new life or place to live where no one before you thought to go.
Imagination sometimes just means carving your your space in a reality that seems concrete but truly is not!
Anyone want to buy a couple of nice sets of racks on a body built quite strong?
The chance is free, the loss is passing it up because you were not ready, could not decide, and missed the synchronicity of life that offers you all you need, if you will just heed the omens, pay attention, and be willing to change. Grow to be all you can be, Free, and capable of doing miracles if you will do the work it takes to get what you can… if you do the work.
I have eaten out of dumpsters to survive at 25.
I have feasted at the 5 star restaurants and known the finest foods.
I have struggled with great pain and been so crippled, bound to bed.
I have climbed back with a body that I never dreamt I’d have.
I have seen the miracles I need to believe in more than most.
I have lived a life with lessons that few wish they had lived instead.
I have walked away from millions and careers most seek to have.
I have been a father, lost a son, and thus been forced to start again.
I have mastered all the work I sought, left it all to see it rot.
I have lived and thus I thought,
In every moment I have caught new lessons to be learned,
The Reality of size is not based on its true size but how the eyes interpret the lines, colors, and shapes in a scene, real or painted, video or picture, each offering different perspectives. In real life, the mind can also be tricked into thinking spaces are bigger or smaller than they really are through the use of techniques that take advantage of what the brain expects normally before analyzing what is really before you to decipher the reality of the moment instead of the past memories you are building upon as you gaze on new scenes.
Paisley or light colored, the difference is interesting in the study of Space Magic Design. One can feel smaller or bigger, feel softer to look at or more balanced and thus fit in differently.
Just a view or two of how the Kidd and Blue Moon look after a cleaning in preparation for new guests escaping the reality of the city to hear the birds, frogs, and other critters of the country… yes others too. Don’t expect to not see bees, bugs, birds, spiders, ants, scorpions, turtles, fish, chickens, ducks, Loons, Cardinals, and so much more, hopefully no fear in case one gets in here… you will be fine.
Live a life of adventure… not fear. Darby in Salvage, Texas
I love the intent of the Core Principles of giant corporations, especially with advertising and slogans, core missions and such. It is what is said, how, and what is not said in that same pitch that can get you in trouble. I suspect they are the well thought out and crafted words of the lawyers and others for the safety of the employer… liability.
From an outside view of the world I create with my life hours, some of the principles and perspectives may seem odd or different.
Hopefully, on an even deeper level, You as you have treasure in children to care for and grow, as people with a future society to form better than the last few generations have done… your job is huge as you attempt to downsize your living quarters in order to escape the debt trap and savour your life with family, friends, and your passions. To teach your children at home perhaps instead of letting their brains be trashed at public schools, for the most part, you are the pioneers of the future who chose to break out of the box of the Great American Dream and slip into the foggy wilderness of self-sustainable lifestyles. We can live a life in Earth consciousness, and with a Spiritual Awakening that you prefer over consumerism, TV, and the Movie theatre to call your life.
It turns out there are many variables to what makes a great place to live, the people you share it with being one of the most important I have found. I plan to pick carefully, if ever more should choose to call Salvage, Texas home, and the limitations have turned out to be many, but foremost the honesty and honour that must be had by all involved before any Love, God, or Community can have any chance of a faithful following that will grow into a positive outcome for all the effort we put into manifesting our dreams as the journey of our lifetime. Who wants a job when we can live our passions instead?
Many people who are considering going to tiny digs for a home are looking for where to go that they will allow you to live in such a home. Few such towns have evolved over the boom of this new industry as the codes, deed restrictions, or the local resistance has made this style of homesteading hard to find a home for. Amongst the startups to solve that: there is a town and I will note it as the question that inspired this essay came from one considering moving there. You can choose as you will, investigate and report back your opinion, but a Google street view will sober you up before the trip to paradise is unleashed on you in real-time. Guess why they were desperate for anyone who would move there and live, pay taxes, and contribute to saving it from blowing away in a storm once fully abandoned? There are some success stories, but the charm is limited.
I am not a big fan of Spur, Tx., which requires the integration of the very old locals and not interested in change crowd no-rules anarchists, the old school genetically connected hold power, own the critical infrastructures, businesses, and given the limited resources available for the locals, thus control development while the appearance of forwarding movement develops. The Lubbock area is appealing for the gas and oil, but little more for me and I started Salvage, Texas where I have for that reason. One needs sources of water, soil, and in my mind, less wind than they will get there, and the society pre-existent will be slow to change I suspect. I spent 12 years in Gonzales, Texas with that same approach to upgrading a community but the forces in place to maintain economic oppression continue as the school system is Common Core for brains no more based as are other Corporate rich prison counties in Texas.
Beginning without Corporate code to build by, the Home Depot approved methods of building with formaldehyde, EDCs, and other products that cost the owners and children their health will not reflect for a few years. Pity, it lasts lifelong but in this day and age of advertising and sales without fact or conscience, it becomes the Buyer who must beware rather than depend on a reasonable effort by the producer to make your home safe from invisible toxins and a short built-in-obsolescence.
I am not building houses to ship around Texas anymore, in fact not really out to build them to ship anywhere but here in Salvage, Texas. My goals achieved for proving we could build without imports or toxins, I have moved on to creating the examples of permaculture, societally driven homeschooling that takes kids to new levels of empowerment thus upwards instead of breaking their thinking capacity, questioning and thriving on learning in trade for conformity… I am not a fan of limitation education. Docile prisoners is not a goal of mine but our Texas School systems seem to be in lockstep with the corporate prisons housing 50% kids who used pot… for $50,000 a year each. We can do better.
Oh yes… had to modify to Salvage, Tx. Standards.
I love the intent of the Core Principles of a company I reviewed, and suspect they are those of the global corporate employer crafted by a giant agency to look goo. I was never a giant employer… nor will I ever be but hopefully for the ethos on an even deeper level that takes into consideration the living treasure in children we must as a society, care for and grow better than we are in America with our school systems today. I am opposed to the Common Core Curricula being pushed on schools, the corporate for-profit “Dumbing Down Kids” program offered these days around the world. Instead, I offer up a different set of core principles for business.
Core Principles
1. Safety Will Not Be Compromised thus simplicity first, reduction of the risk factors to near zero… but how far into the future do most entities go when they let the real story of the product life go. From its birth to its passage, the truth is what I want to know. Like Methanes ugly secret it the losses on the way to the final user… it will go on for the volcano does not care or have such limits or testing and in one blast… dwarf the annual output of any city on the planet. Still, I would not add to any problem but make life better if my product and my ideas are sound for the planet and mankind.
Safety is a matter of being able to anticipate the unimaginable and escape harm when it happens. Having a few Guardian Angels on hand helps most of all and mine have spent a busy life nearby. Do what you dream of and fear not of the consequence of your failure lest you plan to fail, but instead focus on what it will take to succeed at your dreams and then do it, all of it, with the passion of your Heart and your Truth to lead you Home.
2. Environmentally Compliant & Responsible Operator… not just compliant… be a leader in the idea that a house can cost less than living in it as the energy to create a Salvage built home can be as little as 20 gallons of diesel fuel, imagination and ingenuity… (energy from Spirit), human action for energy to assemble, and if designed right, very little energy to heat or cool for the life of the house, longer than your own if done right. Why do people prefer the alternative Walmart mentality for housing? The use of substandard health factor materials in building today Baffles me… sheetrock, vinyl, plastic, particleboard, latex paints, EMF fields blasting from every wall at the level of your head at the wall when asleep, your gut when sitting… when it does not even have to be there if you build knowing it is a hazard to your health.
Imagine the ranches growing cows, taking this much water to feed each one each year until at 6 times this they would be slaughtered for a meal. Imagine instead all the berries and grapes, the fish and the fowl, the creatures that live of the water all gone… for one cow… to piss it out and you to eat him one day.
3. Ethics and Integrity Why do people ignore the new science that says a cell phone, a router, a wireless house phone, and the electric in appliances, LED lighting, and more can affect health. As you downsize, this is even more significant yet no one talks seriously about these things in the industry that builds them for a profit. Why would they admit to knowing what they are doing to the buyers of their products? I respectfully ask the manufacturers to consider the health of the children and elderly who do not understand the differences in their constitution and why they are more susceptible to these agents than 20-40-year-olds… though the effects on both are indubitable.
If only we could put Global Corporate Leaders behind bars for the many things they do in the name of profits for the shareholders that cost the public life, health, and limbs… but that would be a dream… ???
4. Commitment to Employees and Resources Supporting the tax system by making people employees instead of teaching them to form tiny businesses taking down trash/salvage for example, to create millions of jobs, houses, and careers is one way to look at that. They could write off the tools, trucks, education, and much more to pay instead for the kids to have all that and learn how to build homes from salvage, thus always have an occupation and home. People will always need new housing after catastrophic events, floods, storms, etc… and knowing how to build with salvage makes one the best builder on the scene when needed most.
Creating a million new Tiny Home Creators who love to work with Salvage Mining, Salvage Building, and thus create empowering business models that inspire industry, living style changes, and the healthier America we all want to see, less dependent on imports and more Utility of our treasures at our fingertips, instead of in Japan.
5. Customer Service & Fiscal Responsibility What would happen if all this occurred at local levels? The Pure Salvage Outposts set up with the tools, elders to teach, the space to build, the warehouses in the old now-vacant buildings that is pulled from the old houses and structures that need to be taken down. Indeed, the solutions for small downs are there, the need for a great transition from devastation to thriving locally, not dependent on big corporation is vital. The more skills that are added for the people who live there, the re-utilization of resources that do not have to be imported thus local dollar leaving. Education of locals to salvage mine and build is vital to creating jobs for the many in houses showing economic disparity that must have jobs to cure, but more than jobs, vested players in the revitalization of the community. If you focus on the manifestation of new communities created from the treasures of the old that could not survive then you can turn around rural areas by creating local jobs, networks, ways to downsize for the elders, stay in the town as the kids build a new less utility and import-dependent businesses, permaculture to support local food needs instead of depending on transport from far away places. Teaching and empowering customers to become stronger better people is the best we can hope to do in life as a business.
Global Corporations may not have the same goals in mind!
6. Quality Focus: 4 decades of Research and models, examples of what does and does not work. The transition from building to modern code for America has led to corporations selling their products through force rather than product efficiency, lifespan, or environmental merits from birth to death, disposal, and the health of those exposed from its manufacturing to its demise. These are quality issues that get ignored as they are out of the view of the study the producers and government wish to have examined thus the conclusions that your health is violated by the toxins you breath remains obscured, though available. The RV classification of houses on wheels by the Feds is to limit them to 48 hours of living in them for your health… yes. More is bad for most people, especially once they contaminate them with the mold and cleaners, cats, etc. that eventually become part of the mix inside the Tiny Boxes on Wheels. Finally, the issue of air quality must be considered and given few understand you breath 500 gallons of air per hour each, just sitting calmly talking, more if excited, and the limits of a tiny house that is airtight and heated for the winter is called Hypoxia… the lack of air, in this case caused by being in such a box. You will need 4,000 gallons of fresh air per calm person per night with only about 6,500 gallons available in a tiny house on wheels that is 8x12x20 inside with stuff taking up airspace. Make love at 2,000 gallons in an hour (Nice memory) and you will exhaust the air supply faster, add a second person, two of you (even better, hehe), but you will use up so much air in an hour that your morning will be a groggy one rather than an energetic celebration unless you open the door and windows to get some fresh air. Oh yes, 2 yr old jr. sleeping downstairs, well, yucky heavy air hangs near the floor where the kids and pets get cancer faster than adults. Wonder Why?
Nuff said… the article of the day inspired by a single letter referring to a town that has a great advertising video or two but a poor track record for integrating happy families into the new world of tiny houses. I can not say I would build one to send there, that they would even allow it to happen, as they got code, and an inspector to enforce it. So it goes.
I do hope that you will get a chance to visit, to consider buying the materials it would take to build your tiny home where every you may choose to settle. I would even love to sponsor the right people to open Pure Salvage Outposts with inventory to build houses closer to where they need to be put… but only to honest impassioned people. Such are few and hard to find, but if they show, I will know and help them on their way to becoming as rich in salvage, friends who want to know and grow with this industry rather than perpetuate the consumerism of imports alone.
Thank you for taking the time to consider these many facets of thinking of living tiny in a day of focusing on the important part, the journey and the people we share it with, the quality of the life, not the goal… for it is what we need for the future to grow bright again.
Add to this the avoidance of paid advertising so that industry develops on its merits, not its legal lies, few would use this for a business model.
After decades in Pure Salvage Living Designs for houses, offices, and Tiny Texas Houses, I have taken to writing and hoping others will be inspired by what can be done without imports, toxic manufacturing of new materials to build with, as well as conserving space, energy, and yet having our personal spaces seem luxurious. I suppose the idea is to go with the Dollhouse, Jewelry Box Cottage plans that captured the world’s eyes.
Tiny Texas Houses was a research and development cycle of intent to prove out the concept of building with 95% Pure Salvage, no imports, toxins, or built-in-obsolescence that would be energy efficient too. The houses were eventually designed to allow airflow to reduce the heat using the Venturi Principle, the lofts that have lots of headroom but are considered storage for property tax purposes. Space is a perception of ours that is influenced by lines, colors, and details. At some point the view alters the reality and the feeling becomes more important than the actual sizing.
You don’t have to be trapped into the bigger is better or newer is nicer traps.
This unique ethos in construction that gives extra value to the many items created long ago by our ancestors at a time when they were off-grid all the time… as in no electricity. The resources like trees were virgin and of incredible quality not to be found in newer building supply stores.
SalvageFaire is the land of imagination in a box, created from the parts and pieces of a past few know existed when 12 year olds pulled coal from the mines to run the forges, sharpened the blades of giant saws, and all for tokens, never cash or real money. Once upon a time in the not so rosy past, a story that could have been lost, but now perhaps could last. 30 houses gave their parts to build this stair so fine, yet it would not pass code today so it is Art Devine, a standing installation like few others of its kind.
This is the tribute to M. C. Escher who drew the many stairwells that led to where they started from but always appearing to never end… like my imagination as it rises up and bends.
Once this was the ticket window for the Halletsville Southern Union Train Station in the days when the Blacks and the Whites had separate ticket booths, bathrooms, and seating in Texas. Much has changed for the better and yet much has been lost in forgetting all the blood, sweat, and tears that went into making our country great for the many and not just the few… a task still not completed but still going for what’s true… Unity not division and Wii can Win, based on Truth.
My Chick and I agree as we discuss these concepts under a cup of morning coffee.
Thanks for joining me in this Sunday message to share the great wonders of Salvage, Texas manifesting day by day now that I have again, found my way.
These guys scared us by disappearing for a day or three, then with great glee, returned one after the other, great friends reunited.
Darby Lettick
Ghostwriter and Chick Magnet
OH YES… and occasional promotional guy…. Check this OUT!!!!!
HOLY Cow, 18′ long slabs of Virgin Long Leaf Pine knot-free, hole-free, 500 year-old when cut , very Rare offering of a few of these incredible 18″x18′ long slabs, only a few for sale. [email protected]
Lloyd Kahn wrote this book in his 70’s & inspired me to aim for much more as I aged. I hope to share this platform to share the solutions millions can grow careers, hOMes, and a future from a past our ancestors treasured for the sake of the families they loved.
We have had this house in our BnB selection for several years, but out on the highway. Time to move her back into the woods, perhaps in the shadow of Miracle Mountain.
This is a decorated interior version, as each person puts a personality to a house to make it a home. So many things to see, to feel, to touch and take away. Dreams manifest easier once you see it can be done and how your success will feel when you manifest your version of a Salvaged Icon you can live in for the rest of your life too.
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It is not just the investment in a Tiny Texas Art House Icon, for the value is in being able to come play, to be a part of the manifestation of many more houses for those who want to take them away, to display their talent, have a getaway, or just a place to stay. Many reasons to be a part of a permaculture manifestation created out of pure salvage… on or off the grid a great way to live. NO new construction outgassing but the goal is to show what we can do with our imagination and the past in the form of what think is trash. Fewer imports, more sustainable and energy-efficient than any other way to build from scratch using mostly human energy, not fossil fuels to ship, stock, or support global corporations… just local benefits, and the world.
Built without a nail, using an impact driver inserting screws, a circular saw, imagination, trash, and human energy. No level, plan, from the first 6 holes with post put in and concreted, Organic sustainable Artforms from the highest point in Texas to the Gulf of Mexico 140 miles away. Who says one old guy can’t change the world, haha, at least a tiny little piece of it for a while, and would you believe it has withstood a tornado less than a mile away, other storms that did not blow it away, and every day a proof of miracles you can meditate upon with an endless view all around as far as you can see… like the birds of prey, no one will stay, for the visions you have will last for the rest of your life.
For more information about how to invest in the Red Mascot or other aspects of Salvage, Texas… contact [email protected] Likewise, millions in dollars of inventory hidden away in massive warehouses… to be invested in large chunks or take away… to build houses, communities, and other dreams best-assembled where they’ll stay.
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