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ebenacea; diospyros virginia

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the potentiality of the eigenstate containing the occurence in which this (pictured) is a persimmon continues to increase.

it becomes increasingly likely that persimmons grow like weeds here at ulinawi.

but i'm not making any bets. which is a lie, i've spent at least fifty hours searching the landscape, cutting back honeysuckle and multiflora rose from the precious (potential) persimmon, coming home and washing of the poison ivy, leaving my clothes out to bake in the sun, then going back out the next day to cut back the sweet gum and winged elm.

yeah. i'm a rock and roll star.

the long view

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chicken tractor. (or more accurately chicken tiller, as it provides no traction, which is central to the function of a tractor.)

easy to build. seriously easy.

chickens? not so easy to manage.

central to the issue: is this wire cage safe? from predators? from escape? from rats?

if not, must they be put in the heavily fortified coop every night? why isn't that as easy as it's supposed to be?

who ever told me this would be easy and why can't i go back in time and throttle them?


people keep complaining to me that we can do anything we want, iff we will only expend the effort.

absurdly, they're always really talking not about OUR effort, but really about MY effort.

sorry dude, i burn 2000 calories/day just thinking-planning-designing.

please, silly anarchists, just do what i tell you.

no running water, no electricity

is it hard?

fuck yeah it's hard.

is it harder than working all your life for invisible moniez, shit you dont need, and dying early from laziness and toxins?

no.

ohyeah.

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cruising again.

it's not the style, it's the comfort. that's what i look for in bikes - i want a big cushy seat, splash guards, and to sit upright.

six speeds of comfort, whitewalls and a bike rack for $30. what more can a guy ask for.

seriously natural building.

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you cant even find grass mats in america. you cant buy roundpole timber!. you cant build with mud unless you do it under the rainbow.

why do i live here, instead of thailand, costa rica, or somewhere else, cheap, tropical, and permissive?


mostly because i feel responsible for what america has become.

how protestant of me.


meh.

dispatch from intraliminal america

go out to steward the land and the land bites back.

newsflash: chiggers suck.

DONT SCRATCH.

they will test your will.

i have become a stronger, more irritable person.

i hate blogging.

dear me.

what to do.

checkcheckitout

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massiv phot dump into flickr, finally got my thailand/cambodia/angkor wat pix up.

tool massive install 6

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salvaged fan belts make a wheelbarrow into a two man contraption, capable of carrying more, uphill.

tool massive install 5

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smith corona and carrying case.

i can't even begin.