For the first time in, like, a year, we’ve enjoyed adequate rain. It’s cool but well above freezing (except maybe tonight), and small effort has been required on the gardening front other than to sprinkle a little supplemental water on the newest rows of beets and spinach, while coaxing yet another salad from the various [...]
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I wrote the below post two years ago and, very unfortunately, hardly anything has changed. This time, grill some burgers, raise a glass of beer and drink a toast to Laborless Day, in honor of the 10% to 20% of the American workforce who cannot find work, or anything meaningful that pays a living wage. [...]
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Homesteading in 21st Century America, as I’ve postulated before, mostly involves learning and practicing skills that lead to self-reliance. While I am perverse enough to believe that learning to be self-reliant is actually fun, recent events also suggest that for most of us it may be essential for our survival. In the midst of a [...]
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We interrupt your regularly scheduled harvest for a brief news flash from Washington, where Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, with whom I have disagreed often in the past, has uttered one simple truth-filled sentence that the Republican congressional caucus and those Tea Party followers capable of reading really ought to attempt to grasp: The debt limit [...]
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Last Saturday, regular unleaded gasoline here in the petrochemical heartland pulsed through the pumps at a mere $2.969 per gallon, but by Sunday the service station owners finally heard about Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and all the turmoil sure to break out around various Mideast oilfields, and so when I filled up after church, [...]
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A ribald economic discussion erupted over Paul Krugman’s recent attempt to define monetary supply, the upshot of which made me realize: Money does grow on trees. Out in my back yard. Krugman readers noted that the definition of money simplified is “that which is a medium of exchange.” Dollar bills are one such, of course, [...]
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This morning I let Bosco run down along the river while I picked three fat, black figs from a tree providing a surprise third crop, and then shelled a couple of handfuls of pecans for a spartan but very tasty breakfast. I picked up another half-basket (2-3 pounds) of pecans, then came inside to find [...]
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