So far, this winter has been defined by shorts, t-shirts, bare feet and
sunburns. Although we're practically in drought conditions, we're
definitely
not complaining - last winter was really cold. Here are a few photos we snapped during the winter of 2010-2011 to illustrate.
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| Should we call it snow? |
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| Maia is happy to hide out in her pup-tent next to the warm fire, thank-you-very-much. |
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| Hmmmm. High winds. |
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| Someone told us to "let the shower drip" to avoid pipes freezing. Obviously, the pipes still froze, as did the shampoo, and we created a shower-stalagmite! |
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| We'll call it snow-in-training! |
2 comments:
Whao! ? So I think the biggest thing all new young yurt enthusiasts are wondering:
Yes the stove keeps your yurt liveable in the winter but does it stay cool in the summer?
I live in the southwest.
Fun blog , btw, y'all are exciting :)
The only way we found to keep the yurt cool on really hot days is to open the dome. I believe this is an 'add-on' feature from Colorado Yurts, but it's well worth the extra money. Also, we would keep both doors wide open to allow for cross-ventilation. Any way you look at it, it still got quite hot in there, and also quite cold in the winter, and we live in a pretty temperate climate. Living in the yurt takes a lot of monitoring - we had to monitor the frost advisory predictions on the internet pretty regularly during the winter - and also opening things up in the summer before it got too stifling and the plants all died!
The standard insulation package add-on from the company was great, but not enough to insulate the yurt to a high degree. If you're really interested in a well-insulated structure it's my understanding that you'd have to make your own modifications to the existing insulation (re, add more).
Thanks for the comment!
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