>Good luck on your new digs.I hope you find them inspiring and that >they bend to your will > >Rico
Thankyou Rico - other way round though, it's us who'll bend to its will. "Man's work with nature that furthers nature's aims is the work that rewards him the best," says the I Ching, very wisely. However, discerning just what nature's aims might be isn't always so simple. It needs an empty mind. >Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Many thanks for your good wishes, Luc, Brian, Jorge and all. >Especially since I was expecting a thumping for neglecting the list >maintenance. But we got it all installed and set up last night >without any problems or delays, not like last time (18 months ago) >when we were offline for most of a week. > > >May your move be pleasant, and without incident. May the birds greet > >you with cheer. Fresh mountain air, good to keep the cobwebs out of > >the mind :) > > > >Luc > >Thankyou! Yes, all that and more - very fresh air, crisp and clean, >birds everywhere, really peaceful and quiet. Visitors said that about >our last place, but there's no comparison, this is much better. It's >pretty round here. I'm sitting at my desk with the screens open and >all I can see is wild green stuff, starting 10 feet away, beyond that >forested slopes and blue sky. It's great! The mind is sort of >hopelessly cobwebbed beyond all remedy but the spirit soars. On the >other hand the wild boar are a problem, so are the deer, if you grow >stuff, and we've seen a few weasels, the chicken hutch (the end bit >of one of the sheds) is currently being turned into Midori's version >of Fort Chicken. The chooks have got a whole field to run on during >the day though. > > >Sounds like a positivie move. Hope all goes well. I'm hoping I get > >to move somewhere more mountainous soon. > > > >Brian > >It's only about an hour away, so no need for an everything-one-time >move, much easier. Still a lot of chaos and a lot of stuff yet to be >moved, but the rest is quite easy. We were cooking on biodiesel last >night and this morning because the gasman messed up, but he's here >now connecting it all. We'll still use the biodiesel though, and >we'll replace the gas with biogas eventually anyway. Lots of work to >do getting the land in condition for crops - we've got a tractor and >a rotavator, both diesels (and a few other diesels, including an old >250cc Yanmar, interesting), and there's a few tons of compost to be >brought from the old place and so on. I'd like to get some pigs to do >the ploughing, they're much better (and you can't make biogas with >tractor-manure, nor do tractors make good bacon). Mountains though, >yes - Mountains Are Good For You. A couple of years in Holland >convinced me of that, and I was born on one after all. I do notice >though that the more mountainous we get the less we use our bicycles. > > >Moving? I know what you mean....I move from the states to Honduras > >10 years ago I'm a lot of stuff get lost,broken or just missing...I > >hope it won't be your case...happy moving!!! > > > >Jorge > >Thankyou Jorge, we should be okay, I don't think we'll lose anything >this time, touch wood. We're quite good at this, we seem to do it >about once a year, which doesn't make it any less of a PITA. > >Best wishes > >Keith > > > > >--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello all > > > > > > Apologies in advance... We're likely to be somewhat chaotic over > >the > > > next few days or so, or rather even more chaotic - we're moving > > > house. Actually we're moving not only house but also Journey to > > > Forever, the complete catastrophe, and all the fish. Well, > >chickens > > > and so on anyway, plus all ongoing projects, gear, large dead-tree > > > library, loads of TEJ (Totally Essential Junk without which life > >is > > > hardly possible), etc. Especially etc. So list admin. is likely to > >be > > > even more all over the place than usual. We're going here, if > >you're > > > interested: another 100-year-old farmhouse up in the mountains, > >but > > > in much better condition than this unfixably decrepit old wreck > >we're > > > in now. Better place all round, more land too. > > > http://journeytoforever.org/tamba.jpg > > > > > > Best wishes > > > > > > Keith Addison > > > Journey to Forever > > > KYOTO Pref., Japan > > > http://journeytoforever.org/ > > > > > > Biofuel list owner ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. 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