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["roxann" <roxann AT ancientearthwisdom.com>]

because of our inexperience (and often ignorance) we are still having to 
infuse a lot of cash to keep it going. but the direction is toward 
self-sustaining. if we didn't have the cash, i don't think we could survive 
right now, let alone sustain, lol. unfortunately, it is this very difficulty 
that convinced my husband that homesteading is not for him. i am much more 
stubborn than him and am determined to keep at it until i reach that level of 
sustainability which does not require so much cash flow and yet offers the 
few comforts i do require...warmth during winter being one of them. 

Roxann, NW AR
http://blog.ancientearthwisdom.com (Ozark Musings from the homestead)


 -------Original Message-------
 From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
 Subject: Re: [Homestead] Cold,cold weather
 Sent: 22 Dec '08 18:09
 
 
 > > Right now, all of our wood is rotten, old, and damp, and it is very
 > difficult getting enough heat from the burner with that old wood. Chalk 
 > this
 > experience up to a learning homesteading type of lesson, one I do not want 
 > to
 > repeat.
 >
 
 ..... Good firewood and burning marginal wood using coal is my paradigm of 
two
 proposals for homesteading:  One is to economic self containment  of the 
esentials
 (good, dry, hardwood), the other is to keep the homestead going by continuous
 infustions of cash (the damp wood kept ingited by the coal).
 
 James