I see in your post the description of the frenzied homsteader and also the idle city dweller as if, correct me if I have mistook this, those are the opposite ends of a logical continuum. That is, if you
don't opt for the realtively idle city life, you will be running
like the Devil for the setting sun you will never reach.
When I began to suspect there was something amiss with this paradigm and though through my episodes of setting sun catching, I found that it was almost always because I was doing things a far more complicated way than need be. I was constantly doing things twice and thrice, I was spending more time setting up and clearing away for
a task than doing the task itself.
So it isn't a linear progression that I attempt to address of idleness vs industry. But can the homesteader look out over *enough*
produce, *enough* livestock and their products, *enough* fodder, *enough* fuel, etc (usual drill) and say, I don't need any more. I needn't go at a rush for more now because I really can't use it...?
What I found is that once one reaches this equilibrium of need vs industry, there sets in a fine tuning and finesse of the projects that further reduced the frenzy.
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