Ok this isn't really the image I wanted. Found one that says. " You pray, we dance naked in the woods" had a hippie guy and chick with pentagram.. Oh well Meanings the same.
Just something that cheered me up today..
Helen and I have been having an awsome time. My Dad went to Alaska for 2 weeks and we are house sitting. Ah.. peace/quiet/air conditioning/pool what more could we ask for?
Than and VWC is coming up fast, Yea!!!
Disinformation : false information deliberately and often covertly spread (as by the planting of rumors) in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth.
Merriam Webster dictionaryWhen we first bought our place here it came with cattle. The family who sold it to us had health issues that forced them to move to town and they were glad they didn't have to take their cows to the sale barn. They were members of The Cattlemen's association and recommended that we join. It had lots of perqs like free monthly dinners sponsored by various Ag businesses and free loaner equipment and access to field bulls when needed. We joined a couple of other groups and got our kids in 4-H and found ourselves flooded with magazines and catalogues and listening to various agribusiness speakers.
Before we decided to buy a farm we had done our homework and we had read a lot and we mainly wanted just to feed our family of 5 good healthy organic food. We found very quickly that all the information that was being shoveled our way was giving the same message over and over and it flew in the face of organic. Questions along the lines of anything vaguely green or organic either got us pitying looks, vapid looks or the party line explaining to us why that was nice for our garden if we really liked pitiful looking crops and extra work but to be farmers we needed piles and piles of their stuff. And oh the stuff to be had! The latest feeds, minerals, pesticides, herbicides, sprays, grass seeds, other seeds, on and on it went. And then of course there was all the shiny new equipment and stuff, stuff and more stuff.
Course then you had the agri lenders always happy to sort you out a loan for all that stuff. And everyone was happy to commiserate with all of the farmers on how the cost of farming was so high and the income so low and how terrible that all was. They lauded farmers to the high heavens because they were feeding the world and nobody understood how hard it was and what heroes farmers really are.
Well we tried for a while to keep asking questions and throwing out ideas and eventually we gave up and found some like minded people who understood us and could answer our questions and we found a pretty good sized thriving and growing community of organic farmers. A lot of them were kids who were passionate about farming and they were all starting small and building from there. They were making a decent living at it too.
On the other hand the conventional farmers were up to their eyeballs in debt with all that neato stuff and it finally hit us that the reality was there were people making one heck of a lot of money off of agriculture in America and it was sadly not those farmers. It was the people in agribusiness. All those people handing out those free magazines and bringing those monthly free dinners and mailing out butt loads of disinformation. They were making money hand over fist.
So here is my question for you: why do you believe what you believe about farming? Is it because you are bombarded by people all telling you the same things? Is it possible that they have an agenda? Maybe to have you put in all the blood, sweat and tears and come out poorer in the end so they can sit in their offices and rake in the bucks on your backs?
I hear the same things over and over again: No one can start in farming today unless they inherit land, it is just too expensive. Really? I can introduce you to 15 or 20 young farmers in my area who didn't inherit anything but they are making a good living off farming.
At the end of the year farmers will have spent more than they net in profits. Really? First why would you do that, that is insane? And second again I can introduce you to a lot of farmers who are pulling in way more than they spent.
Kellogg's makes $4 for a box of cornflakes and the farmer nets 4 cents on the corn. Seems to me if you really want to make money you need to start making cornflakes....
reminds me of The Pirate Radio Song by David Rovics. Here's a excerpt from that song:
This is how it started
It's not hard to understand
From coast to coast they're lying
At a CEO's command
From Nationalist Public Radio
CNN and ABC
Big Brother's spewing propaganda
From the Disinformation Ministry
I'll post the article I wrote about food and the like.. as soon as I locate it again. In the mean time, I welcome your thoughts and comments
I've had a few people ask what the blue,red, and black ribbon with the PI symbol represents. So I googled it for an in-depth explanation:
The Poly Ribbon displayed on a website indicates that the owner of that site supports the acceptance of polyamory as a socially accepted lifestyle. It does not necessarily mean that the owner of the site is practicing such a lifestyle, merely that s/he is in support of it. A link to this page serves to promote general awareness of the lifestyle and of this campaign.
The ribbon itself is based on a flag originally created by Jim Evans. A small version of the flag is shown in the border at left. As Jim states, the colors are significant: "blue, representing the openness and honesty among all partners with which we conduct our multiple relationships; red, representing love and passion; and black, representing solidarity with those who, though they are open and honest with all participants of their relationships, must hide those relationships from the outside world due to societal pressures. The symbol in the center of the flag is a gold Greek lowercase letter 'pi,' as the first letter of 'polyamory.' The letter's gold color represents the value that we place on the emotional attachment to others, be the relationship friendly or romantic in nature, as opposed to merely primarily physical relationships."
well I've about got the wiring done (I hope). The walls/ceiling are painted and Helen is working on the cabinet doors!! Looking closer to moving in!!
next will be doing the seat covers/ curtains. still need to seal all the seams, get new tires, check the brakes..coat the roof with kool coat. then get brake controller for the truck... batteries... Yea still a lot to do but its coming together quickly. YEA!! Pictures soon
well we're still slaving to the trailer :) actually kind of enjoying it now that the mouse crap is gone.
Got to make this quick as I'm about out of battery!
water heater/stove/fridge work. Water has a leak but think its a $2 piece!!.. workin on lights.. gack
helen has been doing most of the paint work but I help out a bit when I get razzled on the light thing.
Ok bye bye..
Well sort of. We bought this camper.
Doing a little work on it. It needs new tires, a good cleaning and testing of appliances. Helen and I have been cleaning.. lots of mice bodies and poop.. yech!!
Took me about a day to get the tail/turn lights working. Now I'm working on the dc fuse box. The plug was cut on the trailer. And I had to rewire the plug on the truck.. but thats another story.
We got the fridge semi running. It runs but it's not getting super cold. May need cleaned. Its gas/electric. haven't tried it on gas yet.
it has a stove and heater that are gas as well.. haven't tried those yet either. ah I see a pattern here.
maybe I'm just paranoid but I don't like messing with gas until I'm sure what I'm doing.. ie how the hell to light it.
there is a water leak to deal with.. broken pipe(s) dunno yet. I've also got to do some maintenance on the roof.
Ok so it sounds like piece of work but its really nice. It's a place to start.. stay dry/warm. Plus it's small enough it should motivate us to get started on a house sooner rather than later :)
ok so its a day early but, since we don't have internet at home.. why not
Ah spring is here and love is in the air. Enjoy..
