doc watson

Shifting to one child families would get the human population down to a sustainable level in a couple of generations -- especially if less consumptive lifestyles are also pursued. So that children can experience having 'siblings', families can band together in communities so that kids have 'soul siblings' to play and grow with.

My heroes are the men who have chosen to have vasectomies after producing that one child, and the men and women who adopt war orphans and others in need of a family.

Dead babies are mostly caused by an over-exploited earth -- and the resulting wars, climate change, water shortages, pollution, etc. People choosing smaller families and adoption is what saves babies.

The internet says that Kaia means many things in many different languages.
She can take her pick.
https://momlovesbest.com/kaia-name-meaning

I don't expect many trick or treaters this year, and don't plan to turn on the porch light.
I'll just give the following to the neighborhood kids I know --
 dried apples from my tree in little ziplock bags and
 a little clementine mandarin orange decorated to look like a little jack o lantern.

Since the little clementines look like little pumpkins, a sharpy marker can turn them into a jack-o-lantern.
I usually give each kid 2 -- one decorated and one not, so they can turn one into a jack-o-lantern .

Raven's wringer washer looks like the one we used on our family farm in the 50's, 60's, and early 70's (in the Texas blackland prairie). Washing clothes for 5 kids and 2 parents. All the water used was then used to water trees around the house. The garden was a bit too far to haul the water to, and there was concern about whether the soap would affect the garden soil.
In the 70's my mom started working in town to supplement our farm income, and she took clothes to the laundromat since she was already in town. But she still brought the clothes back home to hang on the line to dry.
We also only washed clothes when they were visibly dirty or smelly. Plus we did lots of handwashing.  I still follow these low energy/low water techniques.

This concerns the earlier discussion about growing year round in Missoula.
A few years ago, some students in my applied ecology class decided to see how long they could grow greens in one of the PEAS farm green houses if they put cold frames inside the green house.
On the last day of class in mid December, they treated the class to huge salads of greens they had just picked.
As I recall, they said they continued to have greens until mid January when extremely low temperatures finally caused a freeze inside the cold frames in the green house.