It has been a long while since my last post and so much has happened both in the big world and in our own little world. The big thing is the oil “spill” in the gulf. In my house a spill is when you accidentally knock over your milk, and we know that there is no sense crying over that, but when you purposefully drill a hole in the bottom of a perfectly good cup, insert a straw, then that straw breaks and the milk leaks all over the place, that’s something to cry over.
I wrote a talk recently about how I was the cause of the stock market crash. (I being the collective I and not the personal I). When the first reports of the spill came out, I was taken back and reminded that we all shoulder a little blame for this spill. Everybody is going to sue BP over this and the fingers are already pointing both directions in the circle of fault. We all have contributed to this problem by demanding cheap oil. We have created a demand in which it is now profitable (subsidized) to drill in water over one mile deep. Had this leak been on land or in shallow water this thing would have been stopped the next day. What we are witness to is two things. First is another example to support the end of easily obtainable oil (peak oil) and second is that once addicted the addict will increase risky behavior to get a fix. Why else would we drill for oil in a place that we cannot even shut off the valve? Over and over just like the addict we ignore the warning signs and then when it is to late we wonder how we got into this mess. Enough about the bad and onto the good.
Our house has been published in a magazine called Design New England.
The article is well written by William Morgan. Although there are a couple of minor technical errors, over all it is a really great article. The other good things are the garden is going in, blueberrys, elderberrys and asparagus are planted and it is almost building season again. This year’s projects are a garden fence, small woodworking shop and small barn for goats. We had the sawyer back and sustainably harvested 1500 board feet of pine. I will post some progress photos as I get going. In addition I have several speaking engagement in the works and will post these once I have more details.
Hope the world is well
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