Not to bore you w/more pics of wall work today---here's a sketch of the future to be:

Here's how coffee gets brewed here on route k-after a couple cups of green tea. No plastics involved.

I'm going through Walden (Thoreau) and the first chapter, called "Economy", is so current w/these times we're in. Folks ought to read/re-read it. It ties in so well also w/the small house movement-build your own house using salvaged materials as much as you can. In Walden Thoreau also writes a bit about his wild food foraging- but My Side of the Mountain is better as far as that goes.