John Tero

Celeste,

I'm flattered you took the time to post and make a suggestion on my thread!

In the meantime I have realized that my priority before new things is to attend to needful things on my current abode.  So that means water and drainage issues.

I lined up an opportunity where I volunteered on someone's property to do some work with heavyish equipment, in exchange for learning how to use it.  I think there is a good chance I can borrow that equipment.

At the very least I will be trying to do some trenching or ditching.  That will give me some spare dirt/soil.  So I will be able to build perhaps a hugelkulture of some sort.

This will accomplish both the needful, plus some personal learning, plus some action towards a bigger vision.

It will also help me see how much one person can really do.  I suspect I will need to get some help one way or another.

I wish to explore the validity of whether or not a "good sweat" is helpful to cleanliness of the body.

Sweating seems beneficial for so many reasons besides body temperature.  It's part of the natural cleaning process for the pores... skin... hair... and while a salty residue is to be expected, I think it should be expected that other unknown-to-me benefits come as well.

I was surprised to learn that going "pooless" and sweating through my clothes nearly every day were compatible.  I suppose it is not much of a surprise that the sweat is not itself odor-promoting and in fact might even reduce it...

Robert Hayes wrote:Or study a few videos about hedgelaying maybe?

http://www.countryside-jobs.com/Training/short-courses/skills

Hedging (1942)  quaint

How to ...Traditional Hedge Laying in the South of England Style

Hedge Laying with bill hook ( 20 or 30 yards per day )

Thanks for sharing.  This makes me think, if starting hedge from seed, how to protect against deer.  I wonder if two phase approach (junkpole while living hedge is growing) would make sense.  Anyway, that's maybe off topic.  The videos were cool though!

r ranson wrote:looks good from my end.

Judith, John?  How does it look to you?

Looks good here!

The poetry in this documentary was worth watching and listening and feeling.  First part was a little rough emotionally and the last twenty minutes was well done.

r ranson wrote:Wow, I can totally see what you are saying.

It shouldn't do that.

Going to light the bat signal to see if I can find someone to fix it.  

I don't have an estimate on how long this will take.

Thanks!  The thing about stuff is that sometimes it breaks.  No worries.

I tried this on two different browsers, from a cached credential to a full logout and login.

When I navigate to this link, I get the below error. https://permies.com/forums/premium/list/300665#mystuff

An error has occurred.

most of the time people get this message it is because your browser has gone wonky and is trying to do silly things. Please try restarting your browser or trying a different browser to see if the problem persists. If you are still having problems, please contact us with what you were doing when the error occurred along with the date and time (Aug 5, 2024 3:30:23 PM).
You can also email us at forums AT permies DOT com

Now, if I know the URL of the content in "My Stuff" I can still navigate to it.  And that works fine.  But if I can't pull it up in my history, I can't view it.  Hopefully this helps  Thanks in advance.

Devaka Cooray wrote:Fixed. Please report if you see this happening again.

Naturally.  Glad to be of service.

Hello,

I attempted to read a few posts and find an error: "Oops! The thread you are trying to view does not exist...".

I have tried navigating to these pages while logged in, logged out, different devices, different browsers.

I started here:
https://permies.com/wiki/261426/Podcast-John-Tero-Consultation-Part

I clicked the "Thought Dump" thread (https://permies.com/t/259720/Thought-Dump-Starting-Georgia) but then I get that error message.

I scroll to the bottom of the forum page for the "contact us" link (https://permies.com/t/49856/tnk/contact-contact-paul-contact-staff) but then I get that error message.

At this point I don't know that posting other "broken" links is helpful but I attempted these two links and neither work: https://permies.com/wiki/34193/, https://permies.com/t/261501)

I thought it was my duty to report the issue and hope I am posting to the right place (pinky promise, I did browse and found a reference that this forum might be the best way to get notice out to staff).  I also recall hearing something about the server being broken and needing help.  So maybe this is already known.

Thanks,
John

You're welcome!  Also it was good to listen to the podcast version of the consult.  I'm not yet in the "nuts and bolts" phase of the site design so the consultation being very "idea" and "feelings" based I think worked out very well.

I've been thinking a lot (and also I've been gone for a week) and so my current planning is I think going to be in stages:

Stage 1 - water diversion from the house.  Currently the slope of the earth is resulting in runoff being directed orthogonally at the front of the house.  I do not know where dirt will come from but I am planning to build a berm-y space in the front which will create a bit of a V or trench of sorts (without digging down so much) to direct the water elsewhere.  I am contemplating making that berm kind of hugel-y because why not (termites I guess).  But also, this area will benefit a LOT by absorbing water.  So more growies and more soil will itself help, let alone the grading/earthworks.

Stage 2 - oh my god the trees.  I am emotionally coming to terms with cutting down trees.  Oh, so many trees.  The good news is that the trees are mostly where I want hugels to be.  So maybe I just cut them down, let them lie, and do the standard "trench" in front of the hugel to layer dirt, then put more trees.  I feel like I should get some hands on experience before doing this myself.  And I need to make a timeline like: week 1 - do the hugel-ing.  week 2, 3, etc. etc., to make sure I understand my time commitment.  I am somewhat afraid of the soil drying out when exposed to much more sun.  But perhaps this is a good winter project (I don't know, maybe cutting trees down in the winter is a bad idea).

Stage 3 - fencing.  I'm hopeful I can make a junkpole fence.  I have a neighbor with bamboo.  I wonder if he wants some free "help" cutting that down.  That's a junkpole fencer's dream!  But I am not so sure about the heat and humidity.  I think "rot season" is really long where I am (ha ok it definitely is).  And I am not sure how to make the bottom of the fence dry.  I would have to bring in rocks or gravel.  Maybe I just use a lot of pine straw that is already here.  And maybe that dries it out some.  I don't know.  I don't even know how big my fence can get (I would like to do 1000' perimeter but that is also a lot of material).

I think probably.......... I should fence after the trees come down?  I imagine an excavator/etc. is going to run the risk of destroying or pushing down the fence if I do that portion first.  And it will be some time before the growies are in serious danger of deer grazing.  Perhaps enough time to make a fence.