We do live in extreme times and it seems to be getting worse. Today I received an email contained a link to a Fort Worth (Texas) newspaper, they wrote an article about modern day survivalists, it included a blurb about Bruce Hopkins, the owner of https://www.internet-grocer.net/. Of course the article contained more, and I am conflicted about its contents. https://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/1299768.html…
It’s been a while since I’ve written an update on what we are doing on the cabin, so this time I’ll write about concrete, or more accurately soilcrete. What is soilcrete? It’s nearly the same thing as concrete but using local materials instead of using purchased materials. We use local dirt, gravel from the creek, portland cement and of course water. This makes a strong and inexpensive concrete/soilcrete to make walls and such.…
Getting the trailer up the hill and past the boulders and trees was more challenging than we thought it would be, but when you have to do something, then you figure out a way to do it.…
This week, the X Prize Foundation announced a pair of California students won the $25,000 prize for their crazy green idea, an …
It seems that "someone" is trying to prove that free range chickens are no better or possibly worse than caged chickens. …
It took 3 days, lots of sweat, nerves of steel, and a lot of that Archimedes factor to get a small travel trailer from one side of the creek to the other. Should be easy… that’s what I thought!…
BBC screens one of the worst eco-series ever to appear on TV…
Caretaker of a small Island near the Great Barrier reef, 12 hours work a month – and its for real…
…it’s coming to a station near you.
I’m not one for doom and gloom, though anyone starting a sentence with “I’m not one for doom and gloom…” probably has a bit of it on the brain. I don’t have a TV therefore I get very little in the way of news and such. A good thing as far as I’m concerned, who needs it! It’s generally full of D&G, dozens or more channels telling us how we evil humans are destroying the planet, global warming, bovine flatulence and such, while bombarding us with commercials and infomercials on the latest fashions, diet adverts and penile enhancements……
The Gas grid across large areas of Europe could fail to meet demand this week , due to aggressive Russian use of western dependence on its supplies…
Homemade pasta, it’s easy, it’s cheap, it’s tasty, did I mention it’s cheap? I had found several recipes on line for homemade egg noodles, I had a pasta roller that I had purchased many years ago, I had the ingredients I needed, so why not give it a try? …
