Posted on 04/23/2016 6:39:30 AM PDT by rktman
I got a phone call from my old friend “Jane” this week. Jane and I went to high school together. We’ve kept in touch over the years as our lives took radically different directions. She became a city mouse: got married, moved to Seattle and became very involved in the sustainable movement. I became a country mouse: got married, moved to a small farm in Idaho and helped start a woodcraft business. Jane’s burning ambition is to get me to live as sustainable a life as she does. She can’t understand why I don’t embrace her vastly superior green lifestyle.
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And Mrs. rktman.
More than likely Patrice knows that her efforts would be lost in translation. After all, the “true” greenies are ALWAYS sooooooo much more in tune with what’s “right” than the rest of us rabble. Now, off to “hole” foods to buy some enviro kids cereal. NOT!
I am stuck in the city. This place just went over the 4,000 population mark. There was a big push to ban chicken farming in city limits last year. I hear a rooster crowing most mornings not too far away. Maybe they banned hens but not roosters. Which makes perfect sense.
Have a wood burning stove and burn a lot of scrap from a local cabinet shop and construction sites. Manufactured wood products that really put out the toxic chemicals when burned.
I would love a couple of acres out of town so I could garden and raise some meat animals.
The Louisiana Crawfish Company will ship fresh to you :-)
http://www.lacrawfish.com/Louisiana-Foods-C21.aspx
(I have no financial interest in this company)
Jane would be my ex-friend in a New York minute. I cannot tolerate people who "should" on me.
City? 4000 population? That’s nice compared to a lot of places to live. LOL!
Dude....I grew up in South Louisiana (childhood in the late 1940’s, early 1950’s) BEFORE air conditioning, went to a high school that was NEVER air conditioned (graduation 1965).
I think our family was the first in the neighborhood to have a window AC unit, which was, of course, installed in the parents bedroom, but did a fair job of cooling the house, and, more importantly, dropping the humidity inside.
I’d have to get some folks to chip in to make it worthwhile to do. And, then we’d probably have to hold a class on “How to eat crawfish in 10 easy steps.” There some folks who are trying to get a crawfish business going with local crawfish. They seem tougher to me than the LA crawfish and a different quality for whatever reason. Not enough mud maybe. LOL!
Just call them, “baby lobsters,” and you’ll get some investors, lol.
LOL! The house just south of us has a jumble of solar panels on it. The folks that own it are seldom there but the pigeons have decided it’s a great place for them since there’s about a 9 inch gap between the panels and the roof tiles. We’re talkin’ a LOT of pigeons. That equals a loot of pigeon poop and it will eventually eat through the tiles.
Just looked at the link you sent and my mouth is watering now.
Even if you don’t buy from them and find stuff locally, they have some pretty good recipes on the recipes tab...
The 4 acres of horse pasture behind us helps some. And it looks like my Nanking cherries are going to produce. They froze the last 3 years when in full bloom. My boss raises quail and chickens and shares the eggs. He lives in the big city.
There isn’t much to do here so I go fishing a lot. Got the wife a license this year and got her to go since she says we never go any where and do things together. She has out fished me twice so far so I don’t know how much of that I can take.
I hear ya. Good setup at your place. We are moving out much farther in the near future. Right now we have raised beds and container veggies in the side yard, a small chicken coop off the back deck with our little pals supplying colored eggs everyday and eating the weeds and bugs in the back yard. We keep a helluva woodpile and during the cold months run the fireplace day and night til bedtime which keeps the gas and electric bills down. I make homemade bread which Mr. GG2 dies for and we cook all our food from scratch except for pizza night once in awhile. You do what you can with what you have.
I have never seen the movie, "E.T." I was in my early teens when it came out, and people told me I just had to go see it.
They've been wrong these last 30+ years :-)
> It ain’t even close to Missouri life.
You got that right. Often, lucky to have a week of spring and a week of autumn.
Not complaining!
Patrice to Jane: Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
Somebody has written about the difference a century of progress makes. A millionaire plutocrat in 1916 lived a less healthy, sanitary, and generally shorter life than a member of the entitlement community does today. Even the first class cabins on the Titanic lacked indoor plumbing.
Nowadays in my opinion it’s still possible to live simply & economically - in a city - without making a grandiose lifestyle statement of personal superiority.
Your lifestyle sounds devine. We are trying to get there someday.
drop the top on my Jeep and drive around with my A/C on full blast.”
I have a VW bug and do the same thing. If it’s a little nippy (65 or so), instead of A/C we turn the heated seats on. Picked up my grandson and another kid from high school last week and had the top down-temp was in the low 80’s. Friend commented that it seemed a bit warm and sunny to have the top down - grandson responded that he shouldn’t worry, Granny just turns the A/C on when it’s hot. Friend looked at us like we were both crazy!
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