Little Yurt on the Prairies
September 14, 2009 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under miscellaneous
What would you do if you had a herd of goats, a horse or two, and not so much wood, and were in need of a house?
copyright Noreen Crone-Findlay
And, what if you wanted to be able to
pick that house up and take it with you
when things in your life decreed that
moving quickly and efficiently would be
a very good idea?
Well…. I am willing to bet that you would
look at your goats and think…
hmmm…. nice fuzzies! and start stomping.
I bet you’d make yourself some fine felt,
and embellish it, and I am also willing to
bet that you’d come up with a fairly clever
system of interlacing your precious few pieces of
wood to make them sturdy, light and moveable, and I think that, given a few thousand years, you’d come up with a pretty fine looking
home that you’d call a ‘Ger’ or maybe ‘yurt’.
And, if you didn’t have your own personal herd of goats, and a broad expanse of Mongolian Steppes to race across with your magnificent horses, you would probably do some googing and find nifty websites like this one: Yurts
If you happened to do a little yurt search on YouTube, you’d find a lovely video showing how some folks built themselves a yurt without felting the fuzz from their goats:
Ah, yurts! I want one. Or two. Or three…..
We recently had a visiting American dinner guest who lives in a yurt. She loves it. She has three yurts, and she’s named them all: Gurt, Burt, and Yurt.
Oh how neat! I would love to have a yurt or 3! How lucky for her!
a yurt might be a tad cold for your winters
Hi Jorel
They have winterized versions of them. And, Mongolia is right nippy in the winter LOL!
Seriously, they are using yurts in ski lodge settings. Apparently, they need warming systems to run when people are away, but then, so do houses…..