More than just a suite: he's got the penthouse, and took over the downstairs suite, then put in a spiral staircase to connect the two.

Plus, you can use the elderberries and elderflowers to make things like wine, cordials, jam, etc. Everybody wins...except for the AI tech bros.

So dumb...

It's one of my favorites! I was taught how to make the soba noodles and dipping sauce by two different masters while living in Hokkaido, several years ago, but it's hard to find the same quality of buckwheat flour abroad.

Unfortunately it is not a matter of recipe, but a matter of materials. The buckwheat flour used to make soba noodles is very fine, and hard to find outside of Japan where buckwheat flour is much coarser. The only option—that I know of—is to buy dried soba noodles.

Yeah, it's not amazing by any stretch, but at least—if scaled up—it could prevent SOME fossil fuels from getting dug out of the ground...and polystyrene is so easily broken up into microplastics when relegated to the landfill or discarded into the environment, so maybe recycling it in this way would reduce that aspect to some degree. PERHAPS in the combination of these two measures, it could provide a small, but overall positive, effect on the environment.

I've done it twice, and it's a relatively easy climb, just prepare for inclement weather and possible altitude sickness. Both times I have climbed it, it has rained on one of the two days. The first time I stayed in the cabin at the higher elevation, and the most recent time I stayed in Paiyun Lodge. While at Paiyun Lodge, I saw several people who seemed in the early stages of hypothermia (due to the temperature in combination with the rain), and heard about people having altitude sickness and having to descend. I haven't ever taken altitude sickness medication, but know people who have gotten it from a doctor in Taiwan before hiking as a preventative measure. I hope you get to do it! It's pretty awesome!

I have no idea what a peavy is, but overall I didn't feel like I was missing anything in terms of equipment. I wasn't originally planning on using the telehandler but it did make hoisting the longest logs up and holding them in place a lot easier so I could secure them with rebar nails and long structural lag screws. There wasn't much in terms of joinery except for where the logs sit over the door frame, otherwise everything was pretty straightforward.

It's an art installation, and they couldn't take the wind because they were much longer and it was a big wind storm, so leverage was a big factor. They have the support of all of their surrounding logs now and, as such, a much lower center of gravity.

Oh! Those! I considered asking around to see if I could borrow one at the beginning of the project but then just ended up using some long sturdy boards to get leverage.