Papercreters: [papercreters] Re: Pump up Papercreters.

Saturday, March 10, 2012

[papercreters] Re: Pump up Papercreters.

I would tend to agree with both of you. Clearly as far as building construction goes, papercrete is a fair weather activity. At the same time, during winter or bad weather, is the time to work through plans and hopefully share them on the internet with other papercreters.

If you think about it, the weather is becoming nearly ideal right now in the US desert Southwest, where the highest density of papercrete structures exist today. In the blazing heat of the dog days of summer, the smart people in the desert southwest are hunkering down in the shade trying to stay cool through a large portion of the day. Right now temps are reasonable. As spring blossoms and moves into summer, budding papercrete buildings will tend to blossom in areas further north and east, just like the flowers. Beauty rising from the earth every year, except beautiful papercrete structures don't wilt and die back late in the fall. They may not be growing much during the winter, but they stand strong, tall, and proud all through winter awaiting the next spring as fresh budding buildings begin to grow anew.

Be still your sad hearts, Papercrete enthusiasts, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow made it clear that even during the sad dark days, that the sun is still shining:

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the moldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary.

My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
My thoughts still cling to the moldering Past,
But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast
And the days are dark and dreary.

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.

A papercrete structure, by any other name, would it smell as sweet?

--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "kjtbeskimo" <vickeym@...> wrote:
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> We figure Winter if for planning,learning, and for those of us new to PC...some small practice or test pieces. Then when summer gets here, its full bore trying the things we have learned, planned, etc.
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> In Alaska we are used to things working this way. Winter is too long and often too cold to do much of what we want to. So we plan, we make little things, we decide what and how and where we want to do the bigger things and weed out the things we have thought of that do not seem to fit our choices, needs or capabilities with the returns we hoped they would. Then when it is finally warm and the sun stays out all night (this is the land of the midnight sun) we get our tails outside and get busy!
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> Vickey in Alaska
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> --- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, Ron Richter <ronerichter@> wrote:
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> > JayH,
> > Papercrete, by its very nature is a summer activity in most parts of the US.ï¿½ If you look at the frequency of posts to the group you will see it pick up as soon as the weather warms.ï¿½ It isn't that most members aren't interested in what goes on here but most are doing very little to talk about during the winter.ï¿½ It was 12 degrees here this AM and it looks like below zero for the next few days.ï¿½ Spaceman says it has frozen some of his triangles to no ill effect and I buy that, however I can't get water to stay wet for another month at least.ï¿½ I suppose if everyone had a warm building to do the whole process in it could be done this time of year, but that is what most of us are doing is working on that building (or dreaming about it).ï¿½ You seem to have quite a bit to say and most of us are happy you are giving us so many new avenues to look into - thanks.
> > Ron
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