permaculture

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On 3/6/2013 8:14 PM, Heenan Doherty wrote:
> G'day,
>
> As we are celebrating our 20th anniversary in
> business<http://www.heenandoherty.com/_blog/Latest_News/post/HeenanDoherty20thAnniversary/>this
> week we wanted to publicly acknowledge Lawrence London and this list
> for being here for a large hunk of that time.

Congratulations to you and Lisa and thanks very much for the compliment.
This permaculture list gets better by the month. I am amazed at the 
dialog we see here.

> We remember well the days when a 14.4kbps modem was fast, a 486 was the
> latest and greatest and the interactions we had in our early days on this

This list was started in 1992, pre windows I think. I was using a 386 
and 14.4 kb/s dialup access logging into a Unix host. It was fun using 
trn for news, lynx to browse the early web, ftp and gopher to access 
text information archives.

> Permaculture (and Sustainable AG) listserve, and Lawrence has managed been
> there for all of these years plying away with a lot of energy and most
> important of all integrity.

Thanks so much for saying that. I always held out hope that this would 
be a quality, content-oriented forum that would serve the experienced 
members as well as those who have come here to find out what 
permaculture is all about and learn as much as they can. It appears to 
have also served the purpose of guiding some who seek careers in the 
field toward achieving their professional goals.

> So thanks Lawrence for all of the great & consistently enduring work over
> the years and we look forward to many more to come.

I hope to continue stewarding this list through coming decades and 
thanks for your appreciation of my work.

I have two able assistants to help with list maintenance: Chrys 
Ostrander and Michael Burns.

> Yours & Growing,
>
> Lisa Heenan & Darren J. Doherty
>
> PS. And by the way where do we donate again? Something all those who use
> this list should do when they can.

Thanks for the thought, Darren. I had to delete the PayPal Donate button 
when I set up my online store at Avant Geared with the usual credit 
cards plus PayPal. I would have to create a separate bank account to 
handle donations; I may consider doing this as I really need to upgrade 
my main computer to become a stable platform. I'll email you privately 
with my mailing address in case you feel like sending anything my way. I 
have been considering doing a Kickstarter for less than $1000 to enable 
me to purchase a few components for my best computer, motherboard w. 
onboard video & audio (Intel), ram (8 gigs or more), cpu (I7 hopefully), 
two high capacity (1 or 2 terrabytes) enterprise class hard drives 
(Western Digital). I am down to two old slow computers and really need 
to get a third one up and running. I have no idea whether Kickstarter 
will allow a fundraiser expressly for a computer to help me continue 
maintain and steward a handfull of mailing list: this permaculture list, 
the nafex list (high traffic, international, amazing) and low traffic 
but important ones: seedkeepers, soilecology, marketfarming and a few more.
The reward for donors is subscription to and use of all these lists; 
that's all I can give in return. I would gratefully accept computer 
hardware or money.

I hope to have hand tools to sell through Avant Geared this year;
if I can just "kickstart" _that_ I will have some great handmade,
lifetime implements to offer: hand tools for gardeners and possibly some 
multipurpose tools for gardening, homestead, travel and trekking,
all affordably priced. Most of these will be fabricated from high 
quality new and recycled steel, farm implement parts, an old sewer snake 
tape!, hayrake and hay tedder tines, mower blades, tool steel bandsaw 
blades and more; some  will be multipurpose in that they will have one 
handle with changeable tools/blades that can be clamped into it and some 
will have wooden handles made from locally-sawed walnut or oak.

LL