Couple launches completely clear 'bubble' tents in secret secluded locations

Daily Mail ^ | 19 November 2017 | Laura House

[mairdie]

>>wait until you have the wash the windows

The mind boggles.

[mairdie]

You are funny.

[mairdie]

Thanks a million. I’ll think of you if I wake up with nightmares tonight.

[ETL]

Thanks a million. I’ll think of you if I wake up with nightmares tonight.

Lol! You won't be sleeping in one of those see-thru tents in bear country, will you?

[TheNext]

Invented by bears. Better to find you in the woods.

[mairdie]

No, but I fear dreaming about your large furry friends.

[ETL]

er, what sort of dreams are you referring to? :)

[TheNext]

One Dentist’s business card reads,
“Give me the tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth”.

[William Tell]

ProtectOurFreedom said: "... but the air in the bubble would go really stale really quickly ..."

Not necessary at all.

Assuming that the "bubble" is sufficiently leak proof, it would only be necessary to provide a controlled opening matched to the pump providing conditioned air to get all the air changes one would want.

The biggest problem I see would be preventing condensation on the inside of the bubble due to the cold outside. There would also be considerable heat loss through the material of the bubble. Air changes? Not a worry.

[mairdie]

Grandfather wrote a 1904 article in Outdoor Life on the killing of a killer grizzly bear. That's a PDF. It got republished in 1998 in The Best of Outdoor Life. Scary stuff.

[mairdie]

BRILLIANT!

[mairdie]

I take it you never had dreams as a child of big white polar bears looking for you in the backyard? Mother came home with a white fur trimmed hat and explained she’d caught the bear, turned it inside out and presented me with the trophy. Today I’d say YUCK!

[ETL]

Wow! Nice place you have there.

Got room in the basement? I may be looking for a new place to live soon. :)

[TheNext]

Looks great. Are they single or double pane insulated windows.

[ETL]

I take it you never had dreams as a child of big white polar bears looking for you in the backyard?

No, can't say that I have. But I did have one where one is looking for me in the front yard.

[mairdie]

Double paned.

You wouldn't enjoy my lack of housekeeping.

I can't draw without being smudgy, so the house is my form of being an artist. It's sort of like standing in the middle of a sculpture instead of creating something you stand in front of. Took about two years to do. Really hard educating the crew that it wasn't doors and windows, it was horizontals and verticals. Lots of inventing, which was incredible fun.

They swore you could only paint poplar, but I found the most incredible pieces in the back of the wood bins, so I worked out a way to keep the grain and to get a good color on them. Drove all around the area searching out strange colors and patterns. Got the crews to slice the best boards down the 3/4 middle so we had 1.5/4 boards. Then we'd glue junk up to make up the full 3/4. Where I needed to cover the joins, we used walnut. Not expensive when you're just using it for decorative edges. Couldn't find closet doors 10' high so we built them and numbered all the boards like a jigsaw puzzle. I'd work into the middle of the night finishing the wood in this bare room. I still have a basement room filled with finished poplar we didn't use.

Library

Bathroom

The bathroom was iridescent glass with a nightlight sink cabinet built into a 1900s griffin trimmed fireplace mantle and storage being an 1830 high relief corner cabinet.

For some strange reason, husband won't let me loose on any more construction projects. So I'm forced back to music videos.

[mairdie]

>>one is looking for me in the front yard

My heartfelt sympathies.

[shibumi]

They are a lot more scary when they are *not* furry.

[mairdie]

What is that????? Can it be a bare bear?

I had an Irish Wolfhound with generalized demodectic mange. For some reason that reminds me of Cory.

[mad_as_he$$]

I am out at night “camping” a lot. I would guess that I have spent as much time in the open, either on the ground or the back of an open pickup bed as I have in a tent. I have been awaken by range cattle surrounding the truck or wandering through camp more than a few times. Love it.