I agree with all of this, especially that planet earth I'd due for a rest. Also, did you know that, we're using the world's resources at 1.5x the rate that they're being replenished. It's not going to take long to "run out".
Sounds fantastic! I'd like to teach my kids the difference between necessities and luxuries that way, but DH is kind of partial to the luxuries (indoor plumbing, sure conditioning, etc). Eh, such is life.Happy Sunday Morning everyone!!!Boy you have been a chatting flock while I was away
Sorry about all the dry stuff to Alaskan and everyone in California. What horrible fires!!! Glad you are getting some good soakers Perchie
You are not giving your age away BTW. We had a wood cookstove and furnace (by choice) on our little farm in the late 70's/early 80's when I was teaching my youngin's where food should come from and the real difference between what is a necessity and what is a luxury. (Example; water a necessity, coming out of a faucet, luxury, etc.) we also were on the very last party line in the state of Wisconsin. It was a pretty big deal when the last real switchboard operator retired some years earlier. A network news show came and filmed our telephone system with all the switches and levers clacking away and the guy stared at it like he was witnessing the dying gasps of a woolly mammoth!
Everyone laughed and wondered if he would have a heart attack if he had seen some of our tractors. It was kind of sad when a big phone company came in and literally hauled off our little phone company off to a museum. Got to say I did NOT miss the party line tho. Never did find out exactly who it was on our line that kept picking up on our calls and that was a bit creepy. Speaking of old things. We went for a ride on a train pulled by a real wood burning locomotive yesterday. You hop on at an original old wood construction train station then travel thru the woods to a real logging camp that has been in continuous operation since the late 1800's. It's mostly a big logging museum dedicated to the Connor's (the original owners of the camp and still a huge logging presence up here owning thousands of acres) but it's very well done with the blacksmith shop still in operation making horseshoes and tourist stuff of course. They've managed to keep it toned down with all original buildings (an original country store from the nearby town was added 30 or so years age when it was saved before it was torn down) and not allowed it to get turned into a little Disneyland. The train ride was just fast enough to kick up a nice breeze and so very enjoyable. Great way to spend an otherwise hot and sticky afternoon.
Aren't there monkeys that "lay" the most expensive coffee beans in the world? Never mind, you're right, chickens are way better than monkeys!!!
