It never fails: when something bad happens, it’s on a holiday weekend. We’ve seen this often enough to be prepared for it. Whether it’s a dog getting caught on barbed wire (Pioneer Day, 2007) or gashing herself on a piece of ice (Christmas 2007), or a goat with a torn ear (Colombus Day, 2009), it [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Self reliance’
Ranch Picture of the Day
(DJ Mitchell Photo) On January 25th I posted about the strong winds that bent our wind turbine http://jackrabbitcheese.com/2010/01/25/ranch-picture-of-the-day-12/ Since then the wind turbine has been brought down. This picture shows the top of the wind turbine (working). The pole is now laying on the ground and this top part is in the barn. We have decided to [...]
Ranch Pictures of the Day
(DJ Mitchell Photo)
(Brigette Adams Photo)
With one anchor wire already broken the strong winds last week bent our wind turbine. We will have to bring it down. We can’t bring it down if it is windy. We will need to get the guide pole that we use to lower it off the roof of the barn were [...]
Vegetarian Times available free online
Google Book Search, a database of over 10 million printed works, offers magazines for reading online. Included is Vegetarian Times, the classic journal for vegetarians. (When I was vegetarian, I subscribed.)
Issues available range from 1980 to 2004. They are not downloadable, but they do offer online browsing– and you can save links to pages you [...]
www.selfreliancewiki.com
Our new project, the Self Reliance WikiResource, now has its own domain:
www.SelfRelianceWiki.com
Come visit! Better yet, add a page.
Heating with wood
We’ve given up propane in favor of wood for heating. This three minute video follows wood from mountain to stove.
Self Reliance WikiResource
Cindy47452 photo: An Amish barnraising.
We’ve started a Wiki: the Self Reliance WikiResource. It will cover such topics as:
Renewable energy
Self employment
Gardening
Making cheese
Preparedness
Cooking & recipes
And more…
It’s not exactly an encyclopedia, because it will contain personal experience as well as facts. So we’re calling it a resource.
At present it only has a few pages. I’d like to invite you [...]
