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  • From: Bunjov AT aol.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Positive thinking is going on, too.
  • Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 17:45:54 EST

Just catching up on posts - every time I go into the hospital the inbox gets
full and all I can think of - lying in that horrible adjustable bed is -
what am I missing!!!

Anyway -

Hard at work on the Newberry Springs Property Owners newsletter. It now
includes news from Yermo and Daggett. We are the "Silver Valley", in the
triangle, coming east out of Barstow - between the 15 and the 40. Don knows
exactly
where we are.

Here, where I'm renting a bungalow on part of twenty acres (can see my own 5
acres up the road but can't afford to build on it - Grrr!) - the neighbor on
the other side of the lake took me up on my idea of buying a communal
freezer. Said and done. He is going to convert what was once a garden area -
fenced
and roofed in chain link - into an area for chickens. An area behind his
trailer will be devoted to vegetables...he's done this before, and is good
at it.

My little side yard, originally constructed for Blackjack Joe Daggett (my
late and beloved German Shepherd) would be ideal for goats. Landlord Jon
approved the goat idea in December of '07 when I moved in. He's in Hawaii
until
April, but when he comes home we're going to investigate how to make cheese -

yum!

I have a friend to the east, and neighbors across the road, and the
management at the nudist colony next door to the west who have assured me
that they
are there for me should I need emergency medical treatment, or
transportation,
or food and shelter.

All of this is great comfort to a 66-year-old single woman of the
homesteader / survivalist mentality who has great aspirations but no hands-on

experience. I don't care if my goals are surreally fuzzy on the horizpn, or
that they
don't appear to be getting any closer...every step toward that horizon makes
my heart glad. My SO, who will be 83 on our mutual birthday in July, left on
Monday - having spent a week here.

His mindset has always been that 'roughing it' is when room service is late.
And when I convinced him in '05 to sell his house and head north to San
Carlos to help care for his mother (who will be 107 next month) it hurt me to
my
heart, but I had to come here. And let him go.

This trip, however, he said he was 'relaxed', and he listened to my ideas,
and I explained to him what a 'ramada' is, and we drove around both the lakes

and I showed him the smaller upper lake where I'd like to put a mobile
home...I can pirate in the electricity, and water's not a problem. I figure
that
would free up the bungalow so that Landlord Jon could get another tenant,
and
more income. Jon might be a bit bizarre, but he's beautiful, and he deserves

every good thing he can get out of this life.

He left me - yet again - to care for his cat. The cat was here when he got
here - 10 years ago - and wasn't 'cuddly', so, for a long time, he didn't
know
about its gender...hence the cat's name is "Butch" - works either way!

We share here. We are geeky Bohemian.

Sandy



In a message dated 2/4/2009 8:02:33 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
genegerue AT ruralize.com writes:

Regarding the fate of the future, The NYT has a pertinent piece,
titled Saving the Suburbs, by Allison Arieff. The second segment is at:
http://arieff.blogs.nytimes.com/

Here are the last two graphs:

In keeping with this apparent new era of personal responsibility, the
only-slightly-tongue-in-cheek collective Wannastartacommune.com
started by Stephanie Smith, Buckminster Fuller-acolyte and founder of
the green design lab, Ecoshack, gives a new attitude to an old idea,
urging residents of cul de sacs or condos to come together with their
neighbors to share resources. Suggestions for collaboration include a
shared compost pile, weekly potlucks, neighborhood recycling programs,
barter services and shared childcare. Their pilot project,Cul-de-Sac
communes, is already underway.
This tendency — let’s call it extreme neighborliness — is so old-
fashioned as to seem innovative. Startlingly basic and wholly
actionable, it’s a bright spot in a dark time.

Gene GeRue
www.RURALIZE.com




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