Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Google Monster
I am one big researcher. I alwaysend up reading tons of stuff about the things i plan to do in the future. Just like the way i do with knitting. Or with my travels. I like to get informed. I like to lay out my options and find solutions to the possible future problems. I do google every little detail. Now i got bitten by the farm living bug. I search for the perfect locations on real-estate listings. I try to find the perfect most modest house plans. I even joined homesteaders group on ravelry. I read the topics to absorb the information. I am like this. I hate to be left uninformed. While i was browsing through, i noticed that this farm/village living is never a one side thing. It is not a daisy patch. If i want to be able to self-sufficient one day, I have to prepare myself with the very idea. However i know my limits, i know what i am capable to and i know some things cannot be changed no matter how hard i try. There are some things that are not in my "dough". I raised in the city, I never hand washed big pile of lundries. I hate doing the dishes. I cant imagine myself without a vacuum cleaner. I can't handle matches and lighters (unless they are those long kitchen lighters). I don't even think dealing with mouse traps and whatnot is in my personal skills. Seems like a bit too ironic? But i do not think that we have to give up on every little luxury modern ages gave us. We can have a modest life with those privilages too, no?
2 comments:
You might be surprised at how you enjoy dipping into self-sufficiency. I have always imagined living in the "olden days," and I am learning all kinds of new things living where we do. It wasn't enough for me to read about how butter was made. I had to make it. Now I want to try growing wheat, just enough for a little flour. What a process! But I have to know.
That need to know that you clearly have needs to be satisfied and the difference between researching it and doing it is the satisfaction you get by the physical accomplishment. Exhausting, dirty, work is not really my thing, and I am no great housekeeper, dish washer, or bill organizer. But making a pie with apples from my back yard? Priceless. :-)
it is funny that only limit i set myself on going extremely d.i.y is to grow wheats for the sake of flour. i am thinking, i can barter/sell things to buy flour.. but your idea make me want to research on how-to's.. lol
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