No no, not a yurt shaped like a pentagon!

This morning I was thinking about yurts again. (For those of you that are relatively new to my blog, I do that occasionally.) The new train of thought started at the dog run a few evenings ago. An acquaintance was talking about buying land upstate and building a cabin. I said build a yurt!!!

That got me thinking about the fact that I may never live in a yurt because I may never actually leave New York. My NYC dream used to be to build a house on top of a building. A little house with a white picket fence and a yard. That’s what a real penthouse is, you know… a house built on a roof. I’ve only been in one real penthouse so far, but it was quite nifty. Anyway… I’ve combined the old dream and the new dream and now I want to build a YURT on top of a building in NYC.

Now, I just need to be wealthy enough to buy some good roof rights and then have a yurt made out of some sort of sound blocking material. Cool.

PS I’ll let go of the Alpaca idea if I go with the pentyurt.

OK, so my sister thinks we should buy Alpacas to roam around on the land she is buying (where I am fantasizing about building a yurt). How cute are these things???

The other night she pasted the following into IM from the site she was reading:

• Alpacas are never bathed, and they still have no odor. Alpacas dung doesn’t even have an odor.

This seemed too good to be true, but THEN she said:

• They also tend to all poop in the same spot in the pasture/paddock, making it easy to clean up after them.

And followed that up with another copy/paste:

• Alpacas are not aggressive animals, they are easy to raise, very hardy and require minimal shelter. They are earth friendly animals with clean habits and a wonderful natural curiosity. Alpacas make a variety of sounds such as clicks and snorts but are best known and loved for their humming.

Add all that to the fact that she told me a week or so ago that they have soft padded feet (instead of hooves) and I have a hard time believing these animals are REAL.

So, if I eventually live in a yurt, maybe I’ll get an Alpaca. hee hee

Alpaca photo borrowed from alpacainfo.com.

I wasn’t serious when I said Maybe I Will Live in a Yurt, but believe it or not I’m actually considering it now.

T & I have been thinking of leaving the city for a little while. (And, NO, I haven’t heard anything regarding the contract in Virginia.) One of the places we consider when we periodically discuss escape is Indianapolis, because my sister lives there. And we love her. Even though she never updates her blog. (hint hint)

So, she’s buying this house on a big piece of land. And I’m in need of some relaxation and a NEW JOB. And T wants to change schools. Maybe I will build a yurt on her land and we will live there for a couple years. When we move back to NYC, she will have a nifty guest house!

Of course, T said she was so not living in a yurt, but she is changing her mind. We were designing circular floor plans a few days ago.

So, it COULD happen.

What? It could happen! http://yurts.com/