This questions would be easy if it was only me. I could most likely live in the woods in a Thoreau cabin, use a outhouse and grow my own food. You throw three others into the mix and you have a different scenario.
The luxury I speak of is a swimming pool. I have tried to justify it to myself several ways, but always had this feeling that I was not being true to the faith.
Here are my justifications:
1. Heat dump for the solar
2. Fresh water storage
3. We don't travel much, so vacation at home
4. Kids will learn to swim (which I never did and to this day sink like a rock)
(I can swim, but have to maintain so much forward speed that I tire out)
5. Great place to hang out and get some Vitamin D (3/4 of Americans do not get enough)
I would go round and round about this. Simple, but it would be nice. Simple, but what would others think. Simple, be a purist.
Until one day someone said the magic words
"Get over it"
As we were building our house we faced many of these same decision points and many times there were no right or wrong answers. I could argue both sides and each side would win and lose. So in the end when faced with this dilemma we needed to just "get over it".
By the way the pool is going in, the kids will be better swimmers that I and you will find us (with friends) soaking up what limited vitamin D the Maine summers have to offer.
Thanks Michael
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essentials facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived" - Henry David Thoreau
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