john giroux wrote:you used to be a 9 to 5 ish person, now you are a wheatonite living off your land
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Leila Rich wrote:
john giroux wrote:you used to be a 9 to 5 ish person, now you are a wheatonite living off your land
I've never been any of that![]()
My background is, shall we say, 'unconventional', so if I'd gone off the rails, maybe I'd be in banking...
As it is, I've been filling my houses up with handy jars, fiddling with plants and lusting after free mulch for a looong time!
john giroux wrote:That is where I am at. I live on an acer that I thought would be great 5 years ago..HOA says no chickens...who wants chickens I thought then...little did I know. Now I am feeling a bit trapped in a small neighborhood with very traditional neigbors and lots of lawn trucks. I get into more arguments with my wife about "weeds" in the yard...even though she is onboard with most of this. Started a small garden and now have 2 big gardens with food interspersed in the landscape. I started beekeeping this spring with no objections from the HOA. I get a bit worked up seeing the ineffective sysem we have for everything, or overwhelmed, and how little good all this work seems to be doing when the Jones's next door just pored more chemicals into their yard than I care to think about. The more I learn the harder it gets to just keep on with the status quo. A big part of me wants to quit my day job, cash out my 401k and buy a big plot of land, build some big thorny berms and life off the land. So little by little will get me there too ...maybe eggs for the HOA will be even better than honey.
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