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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

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). 
>  
> Mea culpa. I was not attempting to beard the lion in his
> den-stead. 
>  
> 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).
>  
> 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. 
>  
> 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. 
>  
> 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).
>  
> 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. 
>  
> 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.
>  
> 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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> Sandy
> Mid-Mojave
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