r ranson

If you live somewhere with rain at least once a month in the growing season, you can minimize water needs with healthy soil.  Really healthy soil would probably be fine without irrigation as we go 4 or more months between rainfall and a large amount of our fruit and veg are grown irrigation free.

Whoever is saying you need a lot of water is probably gardening the hard way.  That high irrigation method was very popular in the 1970s and 80s.

She builds a truely amazing art studio for en plein air painting, on a bike trailer.   I wants one!

Oh, and it makes coffee!

As of today, I'm phasing out all of my other social media accounts.  They'll remain "active," but primarily to serve the purpose of funneling my online engagement towards one central place: here.  

Why?  

PSM 401: Permies is manageed and moderated by real, living-and-breathing flesh-humans.
PSM 401b: Ergo, Permies is resiliient in the face of corporate influence.
PSM 402: Permies is broad - you can talk about anything you want, as long as it's in the right place and your have the proper post-history.
PSM 403: Permies is focused - you can talk about anything you want, but it's undergirded by a set of ecological values and fosters kindness and open discourse.  (Where else on the internet can you find that?)
PSM 404: I like you guys.  
PSM 405: I don't really love the anonymous mob on the rest of the internet.

In a nutshell:

permies: the only nice place left on the web

I made this post a wiki so we can grow this list.  

Why are y'all here instead of darkening some other seedy underbelly of the internet?

A tough one.

Shouting is my choice.  My gag reflex is extreme and can be triggered by regular humans.  People get upset if one throws up on them.  With shouting, at least I can stuff something discretely in my ears.

Easy processing.   Harvest comes at the time of year when it's too hot to do anything, especially put the stove on.

Watering, I can do after the sun goes down and my chores are finished.  It's amazing how much the land has to teach us after dark. Where the dew gathers, early frost patches, and places that warm up before sunrise which would be perfect if we ever kept bees.

Living a long life seems like a horrific punishment, especially if we don't know in advance to invest in gold or whatever so we don't have to work if we don't want to. All friends and family dead.  The world changing and what was polite behaviour seems to flip on the head every 50 years.  No, I don't think I would enjoy living to 100, levelon a thousand.

Being healthy, I wouldn't mind finding out what that feels like,  sounds nice,

Have animals behave. Most of ours do, except ducks at bed time.  Fixing that would be lovely.

Teleport doesn't appeal to me as I like the exercise while I still can.  And I almost always enjoy the journey more than the destination.

I don't think I want to live without house plants, so every room.  It's just most of the rooms don't have enough light, so I would have to rig up lights or something.

Yep, every drain is unique.

We lived in the house for nearly 10 years, clearing the drain manually at least once a week.  Plumbers said it was a rough part of tne cast iron pipe and we would have to dif up the house foundation to dix it.  So we just kept going as snaking a drain was better than the alternative.

Then someone moved out, and suddenly the drain didn't clog.  Who knew being lazy and letting the dishes build up would be the solution for our drain?  The plumbers said never do that.

This one sounds like air can help.  They sell something innthe shops here that looks like a can of compressed air and a plunger had a baby. Put the plunger end on top of the drain and press down really well.  It shoots air into the drain and bingo, no more clog.  Good for ones just past the bend.  

I wonder if there is a more affordable version one can make at home.  It sounds like it would do the job but without taking the pipe apart or risk getting bad air in the lungs with a hose.

He says he the internet vacation went so well, that he's thinking of doing it again this winter. Do we want to watch his prime tv for 4 to 6 weeks again?  (Same terms as last winter, doing download extra like yt or go off the specific profile he set up for us)

Sure, why not?

Winter is dark this far north.

So the big question is, how do I find out what to watch?