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[Jocelyn Clarke <jclarke AT pei.sympatico.ca>]

> oil.  If the time comes (as it is indeed coming) when it is impractical to
> impossible to heat and cool a 3800 sq ft house for two people, it doesn't 
> mean they
> won't have a toothbrush or a brewski.  1200 square feet for 2 people and a 
> dog is practical with wood heat.  Toasty warm all winter.

Power goes out, and still toasty warm.



> All I do is apply that to a lot of other areas.  I know that turning a 20x30
> plot with a shovel isn't really all that much work as people imagine it might
> be.  If you do such things regularly, you get into condition and attitude to
> do them.  The benefits are tremendous, a few hours rhythmic motion that 
> soothes
> the mind and reinforces the constitution.  Yah, you do a one foot strip 
> down the side every time you get a chance and in a week or so, it's all done.

You can even take longer, as you can plant the early stuff in the first 3 
foot strip, then keep turning sod for the next bit as you go.



> But you just saw me.  You were right here.  You see that it was nothing and
> it almost made itself into slaw while we were talking.  Yet those people 
> walked
> away STILL convinced beyond persuasion that to make that much slaw you'd have
> to have and electric kitchen machine or else spend hours in mirthless labor
> doing it.  I hear you.  I make and wholesale soap, nice face soap, by 
> hand.  I only make 50 bars or so in a batch, but 5 days a week makes 250, 
> etc..doesn't take long to add up.
>
> When the notion that a gizmo or gadget will do a better jog is challanged,


No, some stuff is much better made by hand...hand dipped 
chocolates,  grafted fruit trees or nut trees, stroking a kitten...I'm sure 
you could make a machine to stroke a kitten, but it wouldn't be nearly as 
pleasurable to you and the kitten.

Jocelyn