I have always wanted a yurt. I can't tell you how many times I have said.. 'Well, we can live in a yurt!'. Truth be told, that sounded like fun to me. The difuse light, low impact on the earth, hearing the night sounds, close to nature, living simply..
So, when a chance to help a friend by buying his yurt came up.. we jumped on it. Our young friends Jay and Megan, who had lived on our farm a few years back had been saying to us how they just wished they could move back to our place.. They were such great help with the horses.. so Jay and Megan will help us on the farm, and live in the yurt.
It was such fun watching the yurt go up. The hard part was building the platform. Ken was very resourceful reusing some 4X4's that had been used for composting bins in the past, and using salvaged concrete form pannels for the flooring. Nice and stiff, and good slick surface! Those came from cleaning up a dump area on a property we sold.
I love the open weave of the basket that forms the yurt. It's like a giant play pen~!
If the kids are good, we will let them out from time to time!
The first thing on is the roof.. It's like a flower.
Then you wrapped the walls around the frame.. it takes a few hands.
The high side was the most challanging. Must be easier on the Plains of Mongolia, where the land is more level. I do have a thing for those Mongolian horsepeople.. living on mares milk and traveling with their herds. The children riding before they can walk. And those horses.. not pretty and practically wild!
Now the lovely view of the Marsh will only be seen from the windows..
Ken built a sink.. of course no running water, but we will have a tank..and below a bucket!
And voila! A home all set to go!
Now, I wish all our houses were this easy to build!
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