ACTIONS: MONTH #217
"a month still doing a bit of the very short christamas vacation i got from work and then going back working very hard on some tables for the rijks museum using many tools but at last starting to work less and also taking care of my kids occasionally working on the attic at last dropping out of work and fully resuming my life with the kids using mostly domestic tools but also again working along with them on the new attic with my camera now breaking the main button and having to fix it somehow with glue making the button more stiff to press and changing slightly the orientation of my images"
ACTIONS: MONTH #218
"using quite a lot of objects to begin with in the netherlands despite getting back to my life as an unemployed housewife and cooking and mostly taking care of my children with some renovation work in the attic and only later traveling with the kids across europe and during the trip using very little object and mostly my cameras and some devices i bought to measure a forest in my native highland where to possibly locate my cathedral only using quite many objects spending time in our mountain apartment having to take care of the children and my oldest son as well as having to tend to the fire lastly making it to venice to sell my apartment there and staying mostly outdoor exploring the city carnival truncated by the lockdown and not really using much objects"
ACTIONS: MONTH #219
"in italy for the last time staying at our venice apartment before selling it and mostly walking around the old city with myrthe and the kids enjoying the sunny weather also transporting what we could out of the island and up to our mountain village not really using so many tools other than cooking and turning on the fire up there before returning to the netherlands and starting some major projects in the backyard cutting down a wild tree and dismantling my improvised sheds to build a new one yet not really using too many tools always sticking to the same ones for hours such as the neighbour electric chainsaw and also parallely selling our old car to get a more economic one spending several days going around car dealers and not using much objects"
ACTIONS: MONTH #220
"keeping up the building of the path in our dutch garden despite some bad weather keeping us indoor and myrthe not so fond of the idea of a laboratory in the backyard and anyway opting to just buy a small laser machine to etch the aluminum plates of the ark and in the end mostly focusing to make space in the attic creating a corner for it in the weekend while during the week mostly taking care of silvester and then also intensively of livia who got sick and together also taking small journeys to buy or check further equipment taking few pictures then and also few pictures of my right hand driving down south and stopping at florian"
ACTIONS: MONTH #221
"a month started in the mountains really enjoying my time there with much things to do but soon driving back to holland and there starting to produce the ark tags with the laser machines requiring me to make it up to the attic every hour and increasing in this way the amount of pictures taken having to plan my activities to suit this printing activity such as knowing when to mix concrete to make the long path in the garden so that i can also have time to get the laser machine going with new tags and having to also take care of my family all alone with my children sick but also my girlfriend completely unable to do anything running around and doing all the cooking and cleaning until only towards the end of the month the situation got better"
ACTIONS: MONTH #222
"a month wrapping up my work in the netherlands such as with laser printing the ark tags and building a garage in the backyard and then traveling with the children across germany taking not so many photos during the trip but upon reaching our small house in the alps setting forth to use quite many tools at first cutting grass and taking care of the house but then with the assistant of a girl helping me with the children beginning to set up all the work to build the floors of the ark in the end also managing to weld all the metal bars to support the gratings in the first floor"
ACTIONS: MONTH #223
"working hard in the first part of the month welding all the beams to support the floors inside my ark and even managing to put all the gratings in place before going on holiday to the south of italy and there using considerably little object spending the days with the family in one or another wild beach drinking many water bottles and occasionally going also with my oldest son to take walks to the abruzzo mountains still using little objects and returning to the alps with a great heat resuming the work at the ark but then having to slow down with florian coming to visit and myrthe wanting to spend more time together in the end taking walks and reducing the amount of objects used"
ACTIONS: MONTH #224
"mostly taking care of the family and later exclusively of the kids in the mountains managing very little work at the ark but also not wanting to continue that much waiting mostly for the reactions of the angry politicians but either way doing a lot of cooking and household related stuff with less objects used in the day i traveled back with the children and then back to our life in the netherlands resuming all my household work there but also the work with my project often running up and down to the attic to laser print the tags for the ark having to resume my activities for example in the kitchen resulting into more photos throughout the day also getting into baking our own bread given the high prices now in bakeries due to the inflation and the nearby war in ukraine"
ACTIONS: MONTH #225
"embarking quite a project in the netherlands starting to build alone the foundation of a garage in our backyard managing to take care of the children and particularly of little silvester while going back and forth to get concrete bags in the end mixing them all with a shovel and beside that also keeping up the printing of the museum tags having to at ever hour put new ones thus often interrupting other activities like cooking for the children at times making certain days with a lot of pictures towards the end also breaking the button of the camera and for a a few days using an identical camera but likely without a different sensor given that the pictures turned out to be brighter at last however fixing the button but still having trouble photographing with the camera facing me"
ACTIONS: MONTH #226
"a month working very hard at our new garage finishing off the floor manually mixing the cement and then spending days transporting the bricks delivered at the beginning of our block to our backyard beginning in the end to lay the bricks and making very little photos of other objects when spending the days only doing that but then also combining that with printing the ark tags in the attic often ending up the day with hundred pictures and often when only taking care of silvester also making quite some many pictures of object used still pursuing the printing of the tags only in the days taking small trips elsewhere taking little photos"
ACTIONS: MONTH #227
"a month working very intensively on the garage building it brick by brick and even when having to take care of little silvester driving often around to buy material ending up using very many objects every day also towards the end of the month working on the installation of the roof but taking it more easy with some sunny days spent taking small walks with the kids trying not to use our gas heater at home to avoid paying high bills and only turning an air conditioner in the living room to get a bit warmer temperature thus photographing often the machine remote control"
ACTIONS: MONTH #228
"a winter month started in the netherlands not so much focusing on printing the ark tags anymore and finishing off the garage in the bachyard before departing with the children for a long journey through europe taking not so many photos stopping both in france and germany and then in the mountains also feeling a bit frustrated of being quite unable to look after my project having to constantly pay attention to the children getting soon however in a good rythm and having more time for myself in the mornings and evenings mostly cooking but also doing a bit of fixing of the children bedroom even setting up a loft bed for them and mostly spending the days walking with the children in combination with fixing up the signs of the ark and only later with the arrival of myrthe also having some days free to begin to work on the idea of setting up the foundation of the project cathedral in one of our fields making use of the warm winter days to dig the northern side and take measurements and also cut small trees at the edges of the field"
ACTIONS: MONTH #229
"doing some last work in our mountain property cutting down some trees growing on the old stone walls and generally cleaning up despite being hit by the covid virus and lastly traveling back up north taking very little pictures but upon arriving in the netherlands taking a lot of pictures having to keep the house heated without central heating but just relying on the fireplace and a small air conditioning unit also having now to take more care of my wife myrthe after she got burn out at work cooking thus for the whole family but in turn having more time to work at my project and at the printing of the ark tags in combination with dismantling the old sheds in the garden having to resume to take pictures of objects in the two different environments making my strings of daily photos very long"
ACTIONS: MONTH #230
"an intense month of quite some work despite a back injury and cold temperatures managing to dig a trench in the garden where to lay the cables from the garage solar panels to the house but also taking care of myrthe and the kids mostly keeping in the neighborhood having still not received our van and thus never driving but only in a week in which august came for a visit taking a lot of trains with him to visit cities together and in this respect taking very little photos but beside this week taking still a lot of photos especially with the almost hourly going up to the attic to put more of the ark tags in the machine often having to interrupt an activity outside to go in to do so like when making the garden very nice for the children after finishing the digging of the cables and building a tree house for them rearranging also the layout of the garden and on myrthe's request also installing a dishwasher thus no longer having to take photos of for example the soap used to do the dishes by hand"
ACTIONS: MONTH #231
"a very rainy month here in the netherlands not really making use of our new van but during the few days of dry weather taking excursions in the nature and other than that staying home now focusing on my project and the printing of the ark tags but also writing almost a whole book about a doctrine i have called anarcarkism this with myrthe feeling quite incapable to anything at home and most burn out especially after traveling to a wedding in scotland myself staying home with the children and building a closet for them generally also doing throughout the month more work in the garden like setting up a ship fence with our autistic neighbour and beginning to pave with old bricks and concrete in front of the entrance of the garage while inside putting electricity with the help of an old dutch man"
ACTIONS: MONTH #232
"a month getting quite inspired to write the anarcarkist manifesto spending all my free time writing it and beside keeping up the printing of the ark tags getting an annoying humming sound in my ear disrupting my sleep but later going camping with the family to the northern coast of france feeling better and happier taking less pictures of objects given the limited equipment in the camper and back in the netherlands keeping up a bit with making the entrance of the garage using old bricks and then departing for italy and making it in one night and once there working quite intensively building ashed using old metal and preparing for many new installations in my fields despite spending quite some time with the family playing with the children and cooking for them"
ACTIONS: MONTH #233
"in the mountains to begin with trying to prepare for more installations like a sculpture based on kaczynsci's cabin and a ferrocement boat but in the end giving up with all the tyrant middle-class old population stirring once again against me and traveling back to the netherlands camping in germany taking few photos on the way spending in the end the rest of the month dedicating daily quite some time to the writing of the anarcarkist manifesto mostly using object to cook for the family and for protecting my ears while printing the last part of the ark tags with also some sunny days coming by and going camping with the family in limburg and dusseldorf once again using very little objects"
ACTIONS: MONTH #234
"a summer month with little objects used being almost always on the road traveling at first with the family camping once again in limburg and then with august traveling to sardinia and going on a road trip through the island with my friend davide and august and then with the latter making it back to holland and traveling with our van and little silvester along through germany camping there before reaching florian's house using a bit more objects there helping him out with the cooking and later camping in switzerland mostly using my cameras to film and the debit card to buy food"
ACTIONS: MONTH #235
"a month spent entirely in the mountains working very hard welding up a fence in our new parking lot with silvester playing by himself and then picking myrthe and livia up from the airport stopping at garda lake for the night and back in the mountains working hard cutting grass and plastering and fixing the wood shed i built and then installing a veranda for the vine plant taking many photos of objects also later installing the floors of the ark but then in the end only focusing on attaching the tags there using my angle grinder and the glue gun and a little brush to clean the dust and the many spider nets resulting in very little objects used throughout the day especially later also when alternating days taking walks with my family and then using very little objects"
ACTIONS: MONTH #236
"wrapping up my work in the mountains finishing to glue the tags on the middle floor despite later being left alone with the children and with the children also taking many small walks later traveling back to the netherlands stopping in beautiful austria and in the dull german landscape taking not so many pictures when traveling and also later when reaching the netherlands hosting my old friend davide and spending most of our time outdoor not really using that many objects either but still keeping up my routine of bread making especially with also silvester now starting school preparing their little lunch boxes in the morning and food for them in the afternoon other than that mostly focusing on getting more focused in the digital production of my project as well as in my reading of both memoirs at night and libertarian theory texts during the day"
ACTIONS: MONTH #237
"getting adjusted to life back in the netherlands with its routines such as bringing the children to school and baking bread daily for them and generally try to be cheap only at the beginning going camping and for the rest of the month taking more bike rides enjoying a hot weather at the lake taking little photos of objects when spending the day outdoors but also indoors focusing mostly on writing and editing my project also not really doing any carpentry with little silvester still only going half day to school"
ACTIONS: MONTH #238
"a month working extremely hard editing and my project and writing essays to be included in it still taking full care of my children bringing them to school and picking them up and cooking for the whole family also taking a one week little holiday in the south of the country babysitting the dog of myrthe's big brother having to get used to cook in a modern kitchen even bringing my baking equipment there to keep up making bread every day and back in our outdated little house also resuming a bit some carpentry tasks but generally spending most of the time the children spend in school working on my project and during their free time trying to being them outdoors for excursions despite the weather being quite rainy"
ACTIONS: MONTH #242
"a very rainy month spent a lot indoor trying however to make it out in the nature at least once a day taking care of my children bringing them to school and picking them up and every evening making bread for them now using the more laborious sourdough technique using more objects to do so having to also feed it and also this month starting to build the interior of our garage turning it into a workshop building large and robust closets along an entire wall finding a good balance with my otherwise very intellectual work of just writing and editing for my project also in the end with all the rain getting the camera i use to take films with and do street photography completely out of order staying without it in the last part of the month and reducing thus the amount of objects photographed while going out"
ACTIONS: MONTH #242
"a month working very hard on my project and the two books i am developing out of it spending quite some time in the attic writing but also taking full care of the children with myrthe resuming her role as course leader after her burnout and getting in the habit of baking ever day but also try to go for walks despite the rainy weather and doing a bit of carpentry in the garage building the closet for my tools and finally getting a used camera to resume my street photography and videos using it especially after making it to our mountain village for the christmas holiday and there stopping all my writing activity and mostly focused on taking walks with the children before getting all very sick and unable to eat anything having to lay in bed all day to at last resume some strength and beginning to even to some work out in the valley below my ark"
ACTIONS: MONTH #242
"starting the new year in the mountains with our nice little life there rying to do a bit of work cutting wood and clearing around the ark but mostly focusing on the family and on my friend davide coming to visit us later making back to holland and with the very cold weather thinking my camera stopped working trying some of my spare cameras but finding the last batch i bought in the states all faulty with some issue in the sensor making the central part of the photos too bright at last finding a way to keep on using my old camera and later beginning quite a renovation project moving our bedroom in the attic and leaving the two rooms in the middle floor to the children working daily on them using many tools but mostly building the frames for a new wall closet in livia's room"
ACTIONS: MONTH #243
"beside working on the children's new bedroom and working on my project beginning to work at a bakery and getting trained in distributing the bread in racks and keeping a list of them prior distributing them but also doing the cleaning afterwards and taking only a few photos of objects later on with august coming to spend some time with us and with the children home from school taking them with their big brother for daily excursions in different parts of the netherlands always carrying the bread i had myself baked"
ACTIONS: MONTH #244
"taking little pictures at first with my old brazilian friend mario coming to visit us with his family later doing quite some work so as to get started with the welding of the inner part of the ark moving things out of the garage and using old wood to build a little veranda for the grapevine and a shed for wood and gardening tools but often feeling quite exhausted working now two full mornings at the bakery having to catch up with my project in the afternoons and beside that often being locked at home with bad weather outside and silvester not willing to go to school nonetheless maintaining my discipline with my project"
ACTIONS: MONTH #245
"not taking too many pictures when working at the bakery also feeling quite exhausted to pick up any job during these working days but in the other days feeling quite energetic and trying at last to put up a fume aspirator for welding in the garage but in the end failing to do so because of an issue with the engine feeling quite frustrated about having to search for a new one to fit inside and otherwise taking care of the children at times feeling a little locked due to the many days of rain almost daily doing quite some writings and in the more sunny days going with myrthe and the children for a walk often driving longer distances in the end also making it to italy ad resuming there my work installing tags inside the ark"
ACTIONS: MONTH #245
"a month started during our spring holiday in the alps still gluing the tags inside my ark and then oiling but in general using not so many other object spending too many hours in a row inside it and letting myrthe taking care of the household late also traveling back to holland and having to readjust to my life there getting back to work at the bakery not using that many objects there but the van keys and the trays of pastries slowly however getting back to doing more carpentry work cleaning up the garage and building in the end a roof over our garden entrance and beside that often being engaged in cooking for both the children and some occasional guest like our greek friends and myrthe's mother"
ACTIONS: MONTH #246
"almost having a quasi rhythmical layout of my activities determined pretty much but my weekly work at the bakery with little objects being used during these days but otherwise with some sunny weather managing to accomplish quite a few things such as repainting the windows outside of livia's room and the bathroom but also getting quite far in welding the joints of the time capsule i will be mounting inside the ark and also baking almost every day and at times preparing food for guests and taking full care of the household with all the cleaning and laundries while also being diligent with both updating my project and writing almost daily a section of the practice and theory books i am preparing as part of it"
ACTIONS: MONTH #247
"spending a few last weeks in the netherlands still working at the bakery but also preparing for our summer in italy finally going there at times getting very much to work cutting grass and mostly welding the staircases inside the ark and the time capsule but also often going for walks with myrthe and the kids and not really using that many objects a few times also getting up early in the morning to combine both working at the ark and going for walks with the children taking photos of the objects used still with the sun yet to rise resulting in total dark photos which i anyway get when photographing inside the garage"
ACTIONS: MONTH #248
"a month spent to begin with in the mountains giving up all the hard working on the ark with also the coming of my oldest son august from sweden and focusing on taking walks with the family resulting in days with not so many objects used only at times making up the ark to oil it in the end finding a quicker way to do it diluting the oil and just using a spray finally slowly traveling back to the netherlands using very little objects while keeping at my uncle in switzerland and later with my friend florian in germany and in the netherlands feeling rather spaced out but slowly getting back to my taking care of my project getting back to my daily discipline but still enjoying the summer weather taking walks and often going to the lake to swim beside also resuming my work in the bakery with almost no objects used there but the pen to mark the amount of bread loaves"
ACTIONS: MONTH #249
"landing back to our life in the netherlands enjoying t first still a sunny weather making an effort to bring the children to swim almost every afternoon and using little objects during these days but with the weather getting colder and grayer spending more time indoor not really picking up any carpentry work but doing the usual cooking and cleaning and also wasting at first time to try to promote the ark on the internet getting soon fed up with it and just building a whole new interface for my website making at bit of my drive in life to feel it up with content despite the regular interruptions of the quite physical work i do in the bakery also resulting in days with not so many objects used and photographed"
ACTIONS: MONTH #250
"a rather quiet month focusing on sleeping properly and trying to keep outdoors walking not really picking up any carpentry work beside in the end helping a carpenter friend putting up a ceiling in an attic he was renovating and mostly keeping up the usual routine taking care of the children and bringing them to school and cooking for the family and cleaning up the house every week also being quite disciplined with my project updating it and drawing and writing as part of it even when going to work in the bakery also putting quite an effort to do a lecture on hunter-gatherers taking little pictures of my right hand during the day of the lecture and later also while attending another lecture"