Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Good water, decent soil, and not too far from civilization (so called) is 
getting harder to find, isn't it? We had the water (best ever) and soil 
(grassy virgin valley) a while back in SW NM but gas started up. We began to 
question our choices when gas rose above $2.00 .....

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 6/20/2008 at 10:51 AM Don  Bowen wrote:

>I have a 98 Dodge pickup fully paid for.  It has 176,000 miles and I
>expect
>at least another 75,000 out of it.  Back when I bought it new, I looked
>for
>the smallest full sized pickup at the best price.  It is a regular cab,
>short bed, with a 5.2 V8 and 5 spd.  If I do everything right it will get
>18
>mpg.  I live in a trailer wandering about from place to place helping out
>on
>farms and homesteads.  Towing I get 10 mpg.  I have already committed to
>help out building a shop in the Ozarks otherwise I would not be going
>anywhere.
>
>This next fall I have to decide to settle down.  More than likely it will
>be
>in the Ozarks where I have access to a place with good water, decent soil,
>and a house with shop.  At that time I will consider what to do next.  One
>option will be to buy something small and retire the pickup to occasional
>use.  Another option if I return to California is to pull an 80s electric
>postal van I know of out of a junk yard and restore that.  In either case
>I
>will be buying a small motorcycle.
>
>Don Bowen      KI6DIU
>http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html
>
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