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12/02/07 - The Lord's Day - Late Afternoon. Greetings y'all. We had a great Sabbath and a great Lord's Day fellowship. Last night, after Q&A, we watched THE EARTHLING which is on our "must watch" list if you watch movies. I watched this movie for the first time with a group with which I was in fellowship in the mid '90's. It really was one of the biggest influences on me and on my teaching style and training style. I thought we had a review of this movie on BiblicalAgrarianism.com, but I just looked and could not find it, so I might do a review this week. Anyway, it fits right in on what I have been teaching about the disordered colonized mind, and also hits some other areas that are regular staples of the teaching around here. Check it out if you can get a copy, though as far as I know it has never been available on DVD. We got our current copy used at Amazon.
Today we had our fellowship singing and meal over here at the cabin, and then a bunch of us went over to our friend Homer's ranch and picked pecans. My family picked up about 50 lbs. of pecans in a couple of hours. We hope to maybe pick up more next week. I suppose we will be canning some pecans this week, as well as turkey.
On the fifth and sixth day, we finished the entryway down to the root cellar, and on the sixth day I finished the door (albeit in a temporary way). All that is left is for me to formulate the door opening counterweight, and to put about 3 inches of gravel in the floor of the root cellar, and to build two lofts in there to help get a bunch of stuff up off the ground so we can all fit down there come tornado season. Then... after all that, I will begin work on our second root cellar (if the Lord wills, of course). This next root cellar will be a different sort, more of a basement and cool living area and dry storage. It will not predominantly be built to store fresh or preserved foods. It will be a part of our "staying cool in summer plan", and will be incorporated with our Roman Air Conditioning idea/plan.
Of course, we will have to be preparing and expanding our garden for spring pretty soon.
Right now it is 72 degrees here on December 2nd, and it was in the high 60's last night. We picked pecans in the sun in short sleeves today. It might get cooler tonight and tomorrow night (low 30's), but the prognosticators are saying we are in for mostly 60's and 70's in the day for the next week or so. So, we'll enjoy it while it lasts. I love fall and winter in Central Texas.
Peace ya'll,
Michael
Today we had our fellowship singing and meal over here at the cabin, and then a bunch of us went over to our friend Homer's ranch and picked pecans. My family picked up about 50 lbs. of pecans in a couple of hours. We hope to maybe pick up more next week. I suppose we will be canning some pecans this week, as well as turkey.
On the fifth and sixth day, we finished the entryway down to the root cellar, and on the sixth day I finished the door (albeit in a temporary way). All that is left is for me to formulate the door opening counterweight, and to put about 3 inches of gravel in the floor of the root cellar, and to build two lofts in there to help get a bunch of stuff up off the ground so we can all fit down there come tornado season. Then... after all that, I will begin work on our second root cellar (if the Lord wills, of course). This next root cellar will be a different sort, more of a basement and cool living area and dry storage. It will not predominantly be built to store fresh or preserved foods. It will be a part of our "staying cool in summer plan", and will be incorporated with our Roman Air Conditioning idea/plan.
Of course, we will have to be preparing and expanding our garden for spring pretty soon.
Right now it is 72 degrees here on December 2nd, and it was in the high 60's last night. We picked pecans in the sun in short sleeves today. It might get cooler tonight and tomorrow night (low 30's), but the prognosticators are saying we are in for mostly 60's and 70's in the day for the next week or so. So, we'll enjoy it while it lasts. I love fall and winter in Central Texas.
Peace ya'll,
Michael
posted by Michael Bunker at 12/02/2007 02:10:00 PM
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