Into the Great Unknown of 2022

By the time you read this it may very well be the 10 or 11th day (if not later) of January, 2022. Happy New Year!

We would have got here sooner but frankly we were hiding in our bunker, unsure if we should peak our head or not. Sue and I caught what we thought was the common cold around the end of the Christmas Holiday and it stuck around. Two, thankfully negative, Covid tests later and we are ready to enter the world once again.

However we are flying blind here. Normally we have a goal, a sure plan on how to attack it. This year we have a vague idea of where we would like to be and a even vaguer idea on how to obtain those goals.

Sue somehow found a job cleaning some buildings every night which, while not particularly hard, does take up some time and is paying what debt we do have down drastically. Well I'm thankful for that, it cuts into the time I have to work on other projects, such as this blog.

We are still planning on put up a small container garden this year, and I have already started gathering some good containers, we are also getting estimates on things like new windows, updating the bath and kitchen, painting and adding a two car pole garage to the home.

So things are moving forward....in a nebulous way.

She agrees that her diet needs to change as well, so we should be exploring a few more plant based recipes and other options. I've not made cheese in forever. So I hope to explore that a little further as well.

If things seem up in the air...it's because they are. There are still to many unknowns to deal with at this time.

We will find our way, we always do.

Comments

What all the cool kids are reading.

Paradigm shifts and Project 2040

In 1906, Alfred Henry Lewis stated, “ There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy. ” His observation has been echoed by people ever since and changed a bit over time, but has remained a stark warning. Only anarchy the way most people think of it rarely occurs. We have found that people are more likely to band together when their communities face some sort of disaster, be it from war, plague or natural disaster. We are all too familiar with pictures and videos of communities digging through the rubble of bombed buildings searching for survivors...but how many of us remember the moments during the Covid epidemic of people singing from their balconies? When you have a community; people will always help people. Despite these bleak times the things that make us human - our compassion - will see us through. Recently my life changed due to issues with a car . While, in the scheme of things it was a minor crisis it did make me think if things coul...

Want a greener and technology advanced future? Look to the Amish for guidence.

Years ago when I lived in Charlotte, North Carolina I was teaching 7th and 8th grade science. One lesson in particular I remember very well. It was on the uses of technology and I hoped to impress upon those kids one thought and one thought only. Technology is neutral; it's what you do with it that matters. At that time there were no computers in the classroom and cell phones were still big bulky devices. However these kids would be one of the first generations to deal with the technology we now take for granted. So it was important that they at least an inkling of the promise of technology, and how to deal with those consequences of technology. I still have my concerns about how we as a society approach technology and what, if anything, we have learned about it. We can learn from the past of course, but that's always jaded. If only we had a real world example in the here and now that could serve as a guide on how t...

Hallowed grounds

September got away from me it seemed, A lot of personal things happened in the last month which made me question a few things, including if it was worth continuing this blog; considering how my readership is so small. In the end however I decided it was. Rome, as the saying goes, was not built in a day. I can already feel the winds of the coming winter starting, our garage is all ready full of three tons of wood pellets for our stove and yesterday was the first day we lit it. It was not a bad or particularly cold day but we had a chill in the house that caused my hands to be ice cold, and lighting the stove helped chase that chill from them. Soon it will be time to work on winterizing the home. First however, we had one last trip that Sue and I had wanted to make; or more of a pilgrimage of sorts. We were going to visit the National...

The City Mouse in the Country

Search This Blog