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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] 100 Thing Challenge
  • Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:03:48 -0700 (PDT)

Sandy, are you in a desert, proper? Do you all well-share; or is water not a
real problem? just curious.....my thermostat out front reads 109*
(west)......bobford


--- On Sun, 6/15/08, Bunjov AT aol.com <Bunjov AT aol.com> wrote:

> From: Bunjov AT aol.com <Bunjov AT aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] 100 Thing Challenge
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, June 15, 2008, 4:50 PM
> Ahhh. That's cutting it a bit close (heh heh).
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> Mea culpa. I was not attempting to beard the lion in his
> den-stead.
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> The more I think about the 100-Thing list concept, the less
> I see the point
> of it. Gene is correct wuith more-more-more. James is also
> correct (although
> that doesn't bespeak half of what I'm getting as
> his total philosophy - that's
> a whole other line of thought - sorry, James, you indeed
> an exotic bird
> amongst us).
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> Back to the beards - OTOH, even at age 65, I still do go
> for those bad boy
> biker homesteader types...and I jest not - they're out
> there! Check 'em out if
> you're ever passing through Littlerock, or Pearblossom
> (CA). Freezers full of
> meat and fish they've caught / killed themselves and
> sheds full of staples,
> and gardens full of vegetables-in-season.
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> Kinda like here (east of Barstow), where we'd be
> totally isolated if The Big
> One hit. We've formed committees to deal with the
> isolated folks, and older
> folks, and especially large animal rescue, and divided our
> Silver Valley up
> into quadrants, whereby neighbors can see to neighbors in
> the event of a
> disaster.
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> There's a CERT training session planned for next month,
> but there we go
> again, leaning on the dreaded Big Brother. Good stuff to
> know, but don't expect
> anyone but YOURself to help you. We had CalTrans out to our
> last meeting, and
> they do have a plan, but are terribly under-manned
> (translate to
> under-monied).
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> We all have, or are working on, the equivalent of a
> 100-thing list - mine
> includes dogs and...goats and chickens. I s'pose
> that's viable.
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> I've probably said all this before. There are free
> cellphones available,
> that will only dial 911...I think they should include GPS
> capabilities, but
> then, I'd have to start dealing the the bureaucracy.
> Ptooey.
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> And - since there are lots of places that don't
> actually have roads or
> addresses, there are porch lights that will continue
> blinking on-off until our
> volunteers arrive.
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