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Scaling the Peak: Torrents of spring
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A blog about Peak Oil and a family attempting to cope. Tuesday, April 14, 2015. Yesterday the temperature rose up into the 50s, and spring erupted. Spring appeared like a translucent flame, flensing snow into mist. Frozen ground appeared, dirt, rocks, and old leaves with exhausted grass. The top of the earth churned into mud. So much snow melted that creeks supercharged, rising and raging in their beds. Such a brutal shock is spring here, confusing our bodies' rhythms and expectations. Dust in the Wind.
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Scaling the Peak
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A blog about Peak Oil and a family attempting to cope. Friday, July 17, 2015. For fun, here's a different look at our homestead. Google has an interesting artificial intelligence project, where they let a program interpret photographs. It's kind of like watching an app daydream. Google released the code for this, so that people could play with it. This site. Lets you upload photos so the software can interpret them. Remember that photo of a deer in our back yard. Here's a machine dreaming version.
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Scaling the Peak: New fencing
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A blog about Peak Oil and a family attempting to cope. Friday, May 14, 2010. We now have an electric fence. It's portable, solar-powered, and aimed at corralling the goats. Hopefully we can haul this fencing around to different areas, giving the goats new places to graze. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). It's really very simple. Dust in the Wind. Demon Lords come from us. The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future. The Oil Drum writers: Where are they now? Peak Oil: Life After the Oil Crash.
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Scaling the Peak: A summer storm versus a fence
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A blog about Peak Oil and a family attempting to cope. Sunday, June 28, 2015. A summer storm versus a fence. Rain and unusually high winds battered the mountain last night and this morning. When we woke up and walked around, we found leaves, tiny branches, and shallow puddles dotting the ground. Below the house, bigger trees pieces had fallen. The biggest was this birch bough, actually a major chunk of a tree, which fall onto an old fence we're using to grow berries:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Scaling the Peak: New potatoes
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A blog about Peak Oil and a family attempting to cope. Monday, July 27, 2009. Our first potatoes, fresh from the soil:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Doug Fine: Author, Journalist, Adventurer, Goat-Herder. Hemptsy Is Open For Business. It's really very simple. Beat Your Buddies at Golf with these Guidelines. Goats, Gills and Guts: Animals in the News. Dust in the Wind. Demon Lords come from us. The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future. The Oil Drum writers: Where are they now?
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Scaling the Peak: More compost and more time
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A blog about Peak Oil and a family attempting to cope. Monday, July 12, 2010. More compost and more time. We continue to grow our compost. Here's one part:. That's our "lower pile", located below the new plots below the house. The framework is based on the Nearings' model, a series of (mostly) straight stick sticks stacked up to make a wooden cage. Each stick is around 4 feet long. Heaps of compost from another location, the "upper pile". This stuff is 1-2 years old. On top of that (literally), there's t...
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Scaling the Peak: A summer chill
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A blog about Peak Oil and a family attempting to cope. Wednesday, July 15, 2015. It's July, and after several warm weeks we turned autumnal, here on the mountain. It's 56° F right now, halfway between dawn and noon, according to our thermometer. 53°, according to Wunderground.com. It's an obvious thing to say, but true, nonetheless: winter is always present for us. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Doug Fine: Author, Journalist, Adventurer, Goat-Herder. Hemptsy Is Open For Business. Dust in the Wind.
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Scaling the Peak: Summer visitors
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A blog about Peak Oil and a family attempting to cope. Tuesday, July 7, 2015. There aren't a lot of people in our town, and no neighbors visible from the homestead. But we do get frequent animal visitors. This week one of the deer made an appearance in daylight. This is below the house, just past our new potato patch:. She allowed me to get close enough for several photos, before bounding into the deeper woods. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Doug Fine: Author, Journalist, Adventurer, Goat-Herder.
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Scaling the Peak: Hacking the homestead
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A blog about Peak Oil and a family attempting to cope. Thursday, June 21, 2012. Here's a fine article. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Doug Fine: Author, Journalist, Adventurer, Goat-Herder. Hemptsy Is Open For Business. It's really very simple. Beat Your Buddies at Golf with these Guidelines. Goats, Gills and Guts: Animals in the News. Dust in the Wind. Demon Lords come from us. The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future. The Oil Drum writers: Where are they now? The cost of too much rain.
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Scaling the Peak: The cost of too much rain
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A blog about Peak Oil and a family attempting to cope. Tuesday, June 30, 2015. The cost of too much rain. Our town has been absorbing a lot of rain this past week. Too much, in fact. We started seeing signs of it on our land. Our biggest apple tree, which started bearing some promising fruit, suddenly started heeling over to one side. When I felt the ground around its trunk, the earth was sodden, squishy, too soft to support a heavy tree. So I propped it up with a piece of lumber, at least for the night:.
