[WyoDutch]

This week, I harvested the last of my garden... 50 pounds of spaghetti squash... 10 pounds of late onions... 75 pounds of taters. Then, I turned part of the turkey flock into the area to fertilize it until Spring.

This week, I stacked the last of the 5 cords of wood I cut and split (by hand) in the woodshed.

This week, I adjusted the thermostat in the pantry to maintain a 45 degree temp for the winter.


Today, a storm is blowing in from the North and snow is forecast.

Coincidence? Or something more?

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mrsea', 'W')hy the fear? Our President said we will come through this ok.

Perhaps you should consider getting a dog.

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', 'H')ow much longer will "regular life" exist for me? Will it be gone in a virtual instant in the course of a day or two, a week or two, or will it take months or even a couple of years (I HOPE!) to spin down here?

[lper100km]

You’re becoming too isolated RE. Relax, whatever is going on, it’s just coincidence and maybe not even that. Two years ago, we had a 100yr wind storm that ravaged the local coastal forest lands and parks. And this is in and adjacent to a city. Not even a coincidence, just an unanticipated long shot event, and a real costly mess.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', '
')RE, we haven't conversed much but when you fist joined you added much with your knowledge and research capability.

Doom is a fun diversion and a good tool to imagine scenarios for which we might need to prepare but like many things to which I can attest, it can become addictive.

Take a break and enjoy what you have.

[happychicken]

Reverse engineer

I understand exactly where you are coming from.

I had a strong urge several years ago to start growing vegetables and keeping chickens before I really became aware of peak oil. Maybe it was my age? But I don't think so.

"Coincidences" happen for me all the time.

I'm feeling more and more in tune with nature and feel like I'm almost evolving into some sort of hippy eco-warrior that maybe was always under the surface, but is becoming me more and more every day. I too am "highly educated". I have a vocational university degree. I keep thinking maybe I'm going mad. But actually it seems more like the whole world's going mad.

Yesterday I had a big row with one of my partners at work - I rarely fall out with people. I work in a professional occupation. I had been very happy in my job, but now I have a very strong urge to leave and I'm starting to look for another job. I feel like I need to find a job closer to where I live. There are other issues behind the job situation too mind you. I "bought in" to the property and now have a large debt which I'd like to get rid of, but it will probably leave me with negative equity if I sell now. Nonetheless I feel I have to do it, to get out now.

Have to see what next week brings.

happychicken

[Ludi]

RE, I hope you'll learn to not worry so much about circumstances you can't control. Worry is very bad for your health.

Take care.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'R')E, I hope you'll learn to not worry so much about circumstances you can't control. Worry is very bad for your health.

Take care.

[Ludi]

Believing in zombies is bad for your health also.

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', 'R')occ gave you plenty of grief,

[Tex]

Hello,

I woke up in the middle of the night and realized we are in big trouble.

Web search brought me to this website.

What do we do?

[Quagmire]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')'m still trying to reconcile in my mind uncanny coincidences, including tonight's powerful windstorm here. I have been living up here on the Last Great Frontier around 2 years, and NEVER in all that ime was there a windstorm of this magnitude. Its blowing outside like you would not BELIEVE.

I did not PLAN to move here, what seemed to me to be bizarre circumstances of my life led me up here ever so gradually, moving ever outward from the center of civilization where I was born, New York City.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Quagmire', 'W')hat a beautiful post, RE.
I've always found your posts to not only articulate, but poetic.
This sounds like the opening of vast novel, and the style reminds me of Poe.
Please write more!
quag
.

[tex123]

I have had many times in my life where there seemed to be "something in the wind". I don't know what that is, but to me it has always been indicitive of a big change. I don't know if it some kind of nearly lost instinct, my subconscious, or maybe god trying to get my attention.

I don't believe in coincidence.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('tex123', 'I') have had many times in my life where there seemed to be "something in the wind". I don't know what that is, but to me it has always been indicitive of a big change. I don't know if it some kind of nearly lost instinct, my subconscious, or maybe god trying to get my attention.

I don't believe in coincidence.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', '
')Look at your Hand. There are 5 Fingers on it. Look at a Maple Leaf. There are 5 Points on it. In both cases, connected to the central core of the organism by a 6th link. This is how organisms develop, around a circle. and if you play with circles you find they fit right around each other in sixes.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '
')Golem reincarnated?

[Quagmire]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'L')udi wrote:

Golem reincarnated?

[Quagmire]

.
Just to clarify, I wasn't inferring that Golem was the baby's bathwater...
Being close to the far end of the Magical Thinking spectrum doesn't negate the value of his viewpoints.
The main difference between him and joe6pack is that his filters are much more porous. It doesn't mean that everything is not connected, because it is, but having to deal with that fact on an intimate and constant basis can make life difficult. Still, there is much to learn from those out there reporting from the "edge"!
quag
.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Quagmire', ' ')Open your eyes, and don't throw out the baby with the bathwater!.