The Geography of Happiness

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

i liked you link to the shed working and it reminded me of something i found last year that i would love to have for a work/potting shed! a vardo or gypsy wagon http://www.daphnescaravans.com/
http://tinyhouseblog.com/tiny-house-concept/gregs-gypsy-bowtop-caravans/ my favorite ones!
http://www.wildhorsebooks.com/Plans/Thompson/Reading.JPG
http://www.wildhorsebooks.com/Plans/Thompson/Romany-rose.jpg
http://www.wildhorsebooks.com/Plans/Thompson/Bow_top.JPG
http://www.gypsyvardo.com/VardoImages.html this is a close second place for what i'd like! btw, this is the one that was used in the Pee-Wee Herman movie with the circus!
for those of you looking for plans or a kit to make one http://amvardo.com/
http://tinyhouseblog.com/yourstory/keras-tiny-fortune-cookie/

 

[digitS']

Moxies_chickienuggets, that would take a lot of moxie to stand outside that lighthouse during a storm!

Chickie'sMoma, you want a horse-drawn tiny house!



Steve

 

[Smiles Jr.]

Here is my contribution http://www.jean-guichard.com/

OMG those pics are breath-taking. I'll have to show DW as she loves the seafarer's lights. Thanks.

 

[canesisters]

i liked you link to the shed working and it reminded me of something i found last year that i would love to have for a work/potting shed! a vardo or gypsy wagon http://www.daphnescaravans.com/
http://tinyhouseblog.com/tiny-house-concept/gregs-gypsy-bowtop-caravans/ my favorite ones!
http://www.wildhorsebooks.com/Plans/Thompson/Reading.JPG
http://www.wildhorsebooks.com/Plans/Thompson/Romany-rose.jpg
http://www.wildhorsebooks.com/Plans/Thompson/Bow_top.JPG
http://www.gypsyvardo.com/VardoImages.html this is a close second place for what i'd like! btw, this is the one that was used in the Pee-Wee Herman movie with the circus!
for those of you looking for plans or a kit to make one http://amvardo.com/
http://tinyhouseblog.com/yourstory/keras-tiny-fortune-cookie/

These remind me of a Redwood Log home/camper that was at the state fair a year or so ago. I couldn't find a picture of it but it was a huge log that had been hollowed out and then completely finished and furnished inside. Of course, it was NOTHING like the craftsmanship and amazing detail that is in the gypsy wagons - but it was pretty cool to walk through.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

Moxies_chickienuggets, that would take a lot of moxie to stand outside that lighthouse during a storm!

Chickie'sMoma, you want a horse-drawn tiny house!



Steve

most of these trailers are designed to be pulled behind a different type of horse. one with much more more horses to be exact! it was something i had come across and thought would make for a really neat travel trailer/camper but then i saw some being used as work/potting sheds. a neighbor down the street from me has a caboose in his backyard! but his is for the chickens to use and can be moved around if he needs to.

 

[Just-Moxie]

Moxies_chickienuggets, that would take a lot of moxie to stand outside that lighthouse during a storm!

Chickie'sMoma, you want a horse-drawn tiny house!



Steve

I have loved "Phare de la Jument" since I discovered it online just a few years ago. I have always wanted to be a lighthouse keeper..(one of my dreams)...and la Jument would be ...breath taking!! Can you imagine the waves thundering against the walls and floor as you snuggle up for bedtime? Or greeting the morning waves with a hot cuppa cafe' au lait?

 

[digitS']

I wonder what "Phare de la Jument" means.

Microsoft doesn't recognize an English meaning and only claimed it is French. I also tried it in Spanish & Portuguese since I'd already mixed those 2 up this morning .

The only thing that would "sustain" me in a building where ocean waves reach to the roof -- would be knowing that the building had been there longer than I've been around!

I sort of knew a lighthouse keeper once. Actually, he had "retired" from that service and moved inland from the BC coast. He was a gardener and shared seed and knowledge. He lived not all that far from me and we shared a little of our experiences in similar environments. I think he was very interested in being somewhere that had some sunshine and garden warmth during those years of his life. He seemed to take an awful lot of pleasure from gardening.

Steve

 

[Just-Moxie]

The information I learned on it so many years ago....

"Phare" referenced to "pharoah" .... Lighthouse in ancient Alexandria Egypt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_of_Alexandria

jument; http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/jument


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Jument

Ju"ment\, n. [L. jumentum a beast of burden: cf. F. jument a mare, OF., a beast of burden.] A beast; especially, a beast of burden. [Obs.]


Etymology
From Latin pharus, itself from Ancient Greek Φάρος (pharos).


Noun
phare m (plural phares)
lighthouse
lantern in a lighthouse
headlight (of a vehicle)
(figuratively) beacon, luminary
(nautical) the set of sails on the mast

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phare

Origin
Three-dimensional reconstruction based on a comprehensive 2006 study.
Pharos was a small island just off the coast of the Nile Delta's western edge. In 332 BC when Alexander the Great founded the city of Alexandria on an isthmus opposite to Pharos, he caused the island to be united to the coast by a mole[2] nearly a mile long (1260 m) called the Heptastadion ("seven stadia"a stadium was a Greek unit of length measuring approximately 180 m). The east side of the mole became the Great Harbour, now an open bay; on the west side lay the port of Eunostos, with its inner basin Kibotos, now vastly enlarged to form the modern harbour. Today's city development lying between the present Grand Square and the modern Ras al-Tiin quarter is built on the silt which gradually widened and obliterated this mole, and Ras al-Tiin represents all that is left of the island of Pharos, the site of the actual lighthouse at its eastern point having been weathered away by the sea.


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Lighthouses in the Storm
by Jean Guichard


http://www.alphapix.com/jument.shtml

 

[digitS']

I wonder if that coastline has anything to do with the fact that a Celtic language, Breton, survives there.

I mean, it is as Celtic as Welsh and Irish but there those folks are, speaking that language, on the European mainland.

By the way, and by that - I mean on the island of Jersey, in the English Channel , one can take Google Streetview for a drive along the lanes and past the "croft" houses.

Edited to add: Oh hey! That's true with Bretagne - Brittany, France, also! Now if we could just figure out where that lighthouse is, we could drive by .

Steve

 

[Just-Moxie]

Which one? Phares del la Jument? I know where it is...but I don't think it is a "drive by".