[Cob] Official friendly notice: Charmaine & dirtcheapbuilder books

[Charmaine Taylor]

Hello all you lovely cobbers and those with mud twixt 'yer toes!

This is a bit off topic, but please allow me to  announce  this one
time...I am officially retired from  running my bookstore on 1-21-10.

Like our venerable  list manager "Cob Kahuna" who often goes  on
walkabout.. I too have planned to do my OWN "middle-age walkabout"
this year,  and next, and come visit many of you whom I talked with
over  the last decade!

and Dirtcheapbuilder books will  add more useful books.....

A wonderful green builder, and decent human being, Tom Elpel, is
taking over and running the DCB store from his  own hand-built stone
home in  Pony, Montana. Pop. 83,   you can visit his  "Green
University" now at www.hollowtop.com
Pony MT  is so small he  bought the local Post office and general
store in Silver Star MT, so he is also the postmaster too.

  Tom is not active on the elists as he spends time building, writing,
raising 4 kids with his wife Rene, and recently did a one month  stone
age living program, with other anthropologists/archaeologists who
study how people lived/built/survived in primitive times.

Tom has done a ton (really) of work on  creating low cost and natural
homes, and also used recycled and salvage materials.  He writes his
own books on botany, living in the wild, primitive living,  how to
live sustainably without Money as your God, and also his "Living
Homes" book- about stone and papercrete, and how to do the
rest-plumbing, solar, roofs, etc.,  and DVD on building a stone home
DIY.

I will  be here, as a private citizen and  active builder, and hope to
contribute  with  more dedication now that I have  time to
experiment; especially with paper cob and paper lime plasters, and old
world plasters of lime.

I will list my  own authored 25+ booklets and  Resource Guide CDs
online (see my signature below) , and as usual I don't push or promote
selling anything, but I DO point to good resources, books, educational
and  DIY materials, and any FREE books   you might want to know about.

I actually have the heart of a research librarian, and I love getting
muddy!! so  I hope to offer tips and time savers from experimenting
and testing materials.

all my best for a healthy and productive new year  for you all....
-- 
Charmaine Taylor Publishing
charmainertaylor at gmail.com
http://www.amazon.com/shops/humboldtcoast
Search Amazon.com books  for “Modern Pise”
DCB Tel: 406-287-3605  for Tom Elpel

MISS getting the links to two books FREE online??   -Earthbag
Building-$29., and -Appropriate Building Materials-$33.??  just email
me directly here:  charmainertaylor at gmail.com         and I will send
the links list.