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  • From: Jocelyn Clarke <jclarke AT pei.sympatico.ca>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Riot for Austerity! 90% Reduction Emissions Project
  • Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:02:36 -0300



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







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