Yay! Faith in Blogger is mostly restored; there were some humans in the loop after all, and though I've not received any other notices from them at this point, the blog is unblocked and apparently functional again.
And a good thing, too! We've got guinea and dog news out the gazoo!
Working on it. Need some video to go along with it, I think... haven't shot it yet.
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I was wondering what was happening - could get into my own blog okay - but couldnt get several other peoples. Sorted now by the look of it.
Have found this blog and have been lurking for a while. have you any pics of your log home. I would love a log home small and rustic but hubby isnt too interested unless its a mcmansion log home ! Love what your doing, as we make the journey back to the land I will be checking here regularly for hints and inspiration. Cheers Cherry
It's a play on Grandpa, and green, as in environmentally aware, and Pa, as in ... Pa. An actual grandpa twice, and a Pa three times.
68, kids from two marriages, currently with a 12 year old zooming around the house. The house is as advertised, a very small log cabin in the woods. Tiny. It's like living on a yacht; no closet space, which is maybe half of why #1 went away.
I've been living "ultra" green for 40 years. Off the grid always, business too. Electricity from solar; and a little gas backup in winter. Composting toilet, heat with wood. Not vegetarians; hunter/gatherer/gardener. Not opposed to people living in cities.
Good health; bad health. Good times, bad times. Poverty, intentional and not. Great friends. Unfriends.
The good news: STILL living Ultragreen. It can be done. I'll talk about how here; including towns and cities.
Education: MS and an "ABD" (all but dissertation of a PhD), in Biology. Focus: evolutionary ecology, botany, genetics, parasitology, mammalogy, behavior, ethology, psychology, language,... marketing...metallurgy... No, really, and I left some out, because you won't believe me anyway.
1) Off the grid. 38 years. Solar electricity 2) Limited power- house electricity has 4 golf cart batteries. 3) Composting toilet. Outside. (eew, you do that indoors!?) 4) No road to house. You gotta walk. 5) No running water in house. Water pumped by wind. 6) Showers solar heated; outdoors. 7) Heat with wood. One stove in house-.. 8) Cook with wood 8 months, propane in summer 9) Most of our fuelwood now is from trees we planted 10) No refrigerator. 40 years, now. You don't need one either. 11) Big garden. 12) Eat locally when possible, not obsessive about it. 13) No pesticide use ever, gardens or crops; not even organic (ok, except a little in the outhouse and the greenhouse...) 14) Earth sheltered solar greenhouse (aren't they all solar??) 15) Shut up about it. Nobody likes preaching. 16. These are our choices- yours are yours.
1) I do not have time to dig out all the references for you- if you doubt something I say here, google it immediately- and don't bug me if I'm off by a couple of degrees. 2)"Eat compost and die" type comments will cheerfully be deleted. They won't even tick me off, I just feel pity. Really. So if I were you, I wouldn't bother. (Note to other bloggers- this requirement for basic politeness works- total # of mean comments deleted by me so far ~ 5; spammers deleted ~ 10) 3) Long comments on posts are quite welcome; don't worry about it. 4) I WILL try to answer questions, but it may take me a while to get to them.
5) I don't do memes. Sorry- fun, I know, but I really don't have the time.
6) I can't do email, either; I'm already drowning in the stuff from my other life; and I can't get into giving personal advice. If you want to contact me, just make a comment with your email address in it; I'll get back to you if I can.
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I was wondering what was happening - could get into my own blog okay - but couldnt get several other peoples. Sorted now by the look of it.
Yaaaaaay. I'd miss you badly if you got stomped. This is one of my favourite blogs - I always go here first if I see a new post.
good luck
viv in nz
Have found this blog and have been lurking for a while. have you any pics of your log home. I would love a log home small and rustic but hubby isnt too interested unless its a mcmansion log home ! Love what your doing, as we make the journey back to the land I will be checking here regularly for hints and inspiration.
Cheers Cherry
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