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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

I have never been happy away from the land and decided about 12 or so years 
ago that come hell or high water, back to the land it was going to be.  DH 
is a city boy (raised outside Boston, MA, can't get much more city <g>) and 
it has been a gradual thing.  Small steps and lots of saving and acquiring 
"stuff" that would be needed when we finally got here.  Kinda aclimatizing 
him to the whole idea <g>

Seems to have worked pretty good because he can't beat a path back here 
quick enough even when the only time we spend in the city is the once a 
month grocery shopping.

In fact, I've made such a convert of him that he refuses to buy anything 
until he has investigated every which way of reusing or scavanging or 
building from something else first.  Absolutely nothing is thrown away 
anymore and that is amazing in someone who was totally raised in a 
disposable society.

Today he found a dead tree and was in hog heaven.  He came in to tell me 
that we wouldn't have to buy any lumber for adding a couple of more raised 
beds.  This dead fir was perfect to make at least four 2x12x16 for the 
sides.  Then the kidlet found a space down near the creek where the leaf 
mulch is so deep you sink in it and they have decided that a load of that 
will be the basis for the two new beds.

Oh, and he's going to use the narrow end of the tree to add to the wood he 
is saving up to put a pergola on the east side of the house which is an 
absolute oven in the summer.

At anyrate, he is having fun and doesn't consider any of the continual work 
to be work!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw AT chilitech.net>
> To you wannabees....make sure your spouse really wants to do this!!! If a
> homesteader starts resenting the 'sacrifices' they have to make to
> homestead, and doesn't see the beauty and fun in it, it's the beginning of
> the end.