Caleb's Bootcamp Experience (BRK)

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Pretty great Sunday.  Some cleaning antientropy, some creation and a little trail blazing and chillin'.  

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Windy weather, boys, stormy weather, boys. When the wind blows, we're all together, boys. Blow ye winds westerly, blow ye winds blow, jolly southwesterly, boys, steady she goes - Storm Weather Shanty Choir - Fish in the Sea

Check out the gams on dem 'maters... <Cat call>

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hella Good (and hard) Work!!!


!!!Most Important Recent Work for Upper Wheaton Labs and Ant Village!!!  

....since the well and cistern installation was done and connected.

Why is this the most important???

Work done towards the Sacred Four (
  1 Shelter
   2 Water
   3 Fire aka energy
   4 Food ),

in that Specfic Order is precious to any human being living in Ant Village.

Any one who has a plot on Upper Wheaton Labs has the Sacred Duty to Create the Sacred Four on their Plot in that order.

Failure to create the Scared Four in this specfic order means failure to create the ability to live year around on your Upper Wheaton Labs plot.

Since each person has the duty to create their shelter on their own plot, what you guys have done is to help finalize the Second of the Scared Four,  !!!Water!!!, for ALL plots on Upper Wheaton Labs.

Why is the Order soooo Specific?

The first question to ask a person with a plot on Upper Wheaton Labs is where is your shelter? If the person can show you their shelter on their plot which heats itself in the winter and cools itself in the summer, you know you've found a person on their way to creating a real and vibrant Village life on Upper Wheaton Labs.

This person now has a location on the Lab where in they will not freeze nor die of heat stroke. From this shelter, they can carry out all other work. Below you will see why it is important to have a shelter on your plot instead of using CC or AA.

Now let us examine what might happen if a person says I do not have time to build a shelter, instead I will do the opposite of this order. I will plant food first.

Since such a person cannot live onsite to protect and nuture their plants, the animals will eat all their plants and such a person will not have enough to make a single meal at the end of each season.  

Such a person also will have no water to provide for their plants (expect water hauled from miles away), and the majority of their plants will die during the 104 to 106F temperatures of summer.  The ones that live will be very small in comparison to those provided with water and will not likely produce edible food. At most, such a person will have edible walking onions and rhubarb. A great deal of work for so little result.

One can easily choose one of the other Sacred Four in the wrong order and obtain failure to live on the Lab.

If you start with Water first, you will freeze to death in the winter and wish you'd died in the baking heat of the summer if you don't get heat stroke. Where will you put your stuff? AA? CC? Where will your clothes dry on rainy days. Where will you get dry?

If you start with fire first rather than Shelter, your fire will not be as effective as it would be inside a shelter and you will work many extra hours trying to feed this fire in the winter. Additionally, you will have all the problems as the person who stared with Water first out of order.

As one can clearly see, the order of the Sacred Four is also sacred to the ability to live.

Thank you guys again for being determined to make a functional WATER source for ALL  Shelters to use!!!

fetching AWESOME you are!

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So the fish that inhabit this pond know the legacy of the bros who made it grow.  

Good to see the hard work of the ditch diggers has paid off. Now imagine the guys who dug this over a century ago:

They say it was done "by hand" but later mention dynamite. Is there organic dynamite that would meet WL standards...?

Coydon Wallham wrote:
They say it was done "by hand" but later mention dynamite. Is there organic dynamite that would meet WL standards...?

The Permaculture Design Manual by Bill Mollison mentions that wheat flour dust suspended in air can be as effective and leaves it to the reader, ( as I will too for obvious reasons), to find a way to implement this information.

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