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Posted on 12/01/2006 12:55:15 PM PST by ecurbh
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
All you have to do is convince some rich old person to make you their heir and die. Problem solved.
Err...
What? I think it's a great idea.
I am glad I don't have any life insurance ;-D
What are you implying anyway? *pout*
It wouldn't do me any good for you to die and leave me rich, what use would I have for money then?
Yeah, that's the big hurdle in our quest to 'get rich and go be hermits in the woods somewhere.' Good thing is that you don't have to be filthy stinking rich to accomplish it... just rich enough. We're still working on that part.
I wish there were really, truly jobs that could be done remotely that I'd be good at.
If I could have that, I could do something like get a house on a lake somewhere with a view, where I'd be snowed in four months out of the year.
If I was actually a good writer and could keep up a good work ethic where writing was concerned, mebbe. But I ain't. So I have to make money other ways, and so far...I've just not had a lot of opportunity to salt lots away. And unless I change what I'm doing, I dunno that I ever will.
The scale model that they built floated just fine, but it wasn't completed until late in 1944, so it was determined that it was too late to try to actually build any for use. The one they built sat on a lake through the winter, spring and into the summer of 1945, with NO refrigeration going through it, and it only melted near the end of the summer. That's almost a year it took to melt the thing!
That rolling bomb thing was a hoot! Reminded me of Catherine Wheel fireworks.
See, if'n y'all had some computer type consulting jobs, or some online something or the other, it wouldn't matter WHERE you lived! Wonder where y'all could get one of them!
Something online would be nice. If'n I could think of something to sell on eBay. I've always been intrigued by those drop-shipping outfits, too.
Bottom line is I don't think I could, with my current skill set. And I'm not sure that's going to change. Not without going into debt enough that I'd not be able to afford to live off the grid.
So I'm stuck dreaming.
Then you're just going to have to find and marry a nice Catholic guy who wants to be a 'country doctor'. ;o)
Evenin' folkses...
[sip]
Man, oh man... I had a meeting this morning, at 9am. I ~thought~ it was just an hour. Wrong. No... it was an all-day marathon.
My brain is a blood-soaked sponge.
[sip]
"Living off the grid" entirely isn't practical. Having, say, a well, and septic, and growing a lot of your own food, that sort of thing, is doable. Electricity's the big on the grid thing you'd be stuck with and honestly, if the electrical system goes down permanently, you'll have more to worry about than power.
You may not be able to move to Montana in the short run but I bet you could get a little more away from it all if you wanted. Not that it wouldn't be challenging...
I didn't really mean it literally. Just got carried away. But I would like to live more like where I grew up. Good sized patch of land off the beaten track, and some means of making a living that doesn't require going to *town* everyday.
Like I said, I can dream.
I'd love to live off the grid.
There's a woman on the horse forum that is. She lives off the grid on a little Island on the lee side of Vancouver Island. She has horses, a cute little dome house, and internet access. What more does a gal need?
Lot of people living off the grid in Vermont, too. The downside is that if you *do* want electric power, you have to deal with a generator.
And there's my gas phobia in the way of that. ;-)
If'n I met someone who was willing to deal with the generator, and had a way to get Internet...I could live off the grid pretty happily. After all, we had only wood heat at the house growing up. I know how to keep a wood fire going and that you can do a lot of cooking with just a wood stove.
Just Once (!) read through the following and count all the F's. Write down your answer and then highlight the spoiler font here--->There are six. You probably saw three or four. There really are six!>
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT
OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...
More spoiler font: Supposedly you probably didn't count the "F" in the word "OF". Supposedly there's some brain cramp we all have that prevents us really counting "of" as a word.
Total weirdness.
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