we have a truck
our friend alan made the 8 day journey across reno with his crazy co-pilot steven. the discomo is now happily parked in the barn as with her roof rack she does not fit in the garage – to say nothing of still being soaked in playa dust. hopefully the weather cooperates and we can take […]
cult of diesel
So we joined a cult… we bought a diesel car. a vw jetta TDI to be exact. why? well this one gets up to 50 mpg when driven properly. you should be able to run this on bio-diesel which is renewable even with all its byproducts and problems. as joel salatin says, farming is the […]
usps fail
There are some peculiar things you learn about the usps and by extension our government by living in a rural area that you would never think about living in Manhattan. Also this whole “needing” a car thing is a lot more annoying in reality than it is in theory. Last week I ordered a bunch […]
indoor compost, a visit from ARK, and recycling
we took some old recycling containers and used them to get our indoor compost going with the help from some carbon sawdust from the stable. so far we are generating a grocery bag of trash per weekend – not terrible considering we are mid move and unpacking like crazy. ARK came to visit today and […]
Cargo
right now we are shopping in the city and bringing up what we need. i guess backpacks are a regular sight around here with the Appalachian train trail just a few miles away – including its own metro north train stop. this week we came packed with hardware including a 73″ window shade movie screen. […]
FOSSIL FUEL, CARS, and HEAT
so i have been researching cars and the short answer is that we are going to try to do without as long as we can. the cost of owning is just a big money sink. this weekend i drove a uhaul from boston full of second hand scores (another story) and found that we have […]
Shortcut from the train station
The farm is about a mile from the Metro North station. Lewis has walked the road 4 times and says it takes about 25 minutes. Today we took a shortcut through a field and it came out to about 18. For people who are used to walking everywhere in NYC, that’s not bad at all. […]
