I find the below photo very interesting. (I have no idea if it's accurate. Guess I could have looked it up, but...)
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| Photo found on the Homesteading/Survivalism Facebook page |
I'm always so curious about farming and what it would have been like living without modern conveniences. Which is probably why I love to write stories set in a time period other than my own. The research is fascinating!
I don't know...what do you think? Could you have survived if you had to wander out to your field to scrounge up every meal? It's funny to think about, but come on...play along for a moment. If supermarkets suddenly disappeared, would you be able to survive? What would you miss most about your local grocery store? And what, do you suppose, would you enjoy most about living off the land?
Happy almost Friday! :)
**I devoured Submerged, loved it! And can't wait to share my thoughts!
Well, most of me wants to say, "I'm screwed." But if that was the ONLY way I'd ever known then I'd probably survive since I hadn't been spoiled to anything else.
ReplyDeleteMy personality says I'd probably whine about it regardless and say things like, "There's got to be a better way!" LOL
I think I could survive. I grew up in a country home with a 1/2 acre garden, apple orchard, pond to fish in, cuttin' wood for winter, bow huntin' in the fall, type-of family. And my DH and I go camping for a relaxing vacation... and not in a camper but in an actual tent or sleeping in the flatbed of a truck. And considering I know how to make good coffee in a pot over an open flame ... yeah, I'd be good. And just think--putting on a baseball cap and no makeup - SAWEET. Gosh. I'm such a redneck.
ReplyDeleteI'd probably just ask my friend to show me how to garden, if I absolutely had no other choice. But yeah...glad I do have a choice! Ha!
ReplyDeleteI think I'd do fine. We had four kids so we could make them weed the garden and move the lawn. HAHAHA! Kidding. It wouldn't bother me to live on a farm and grow everything. I'd probably pass out without the internet though....
ReplyDeleteYep, definitely. Faith in Jeeesis. You gott Jeeesis, brudda?? If you dont and you plan on NOT deleting this life-giving, magnificent-post, follow us...
ReplyDeleteIf 'freedom lies in being bold' (Robert Frost), doesn't pushing-the-envelope also result in the Elysian Fields of Utopia? If I'm the sower, we plant the Seed; if I'm an artist, we RITE the symphonies heard Upstairs ☆IF☆ we accept His lead withe orchestra...
Wanna find-out the fax, Jak, in a wurld fulla the 'power of cowards'? Wanna wiseabove to help a 'Plethora Of Wurdz' [POW!] which are look'n for a new home in thy novelty?? Yay!
Q: But [gulp] can anyone tell me the difference between K2/IQ? A: Nthn. In Heaven, we gitt'm both for eternity HA! Need a few more thots, ideers, wild wurdz (whoa, Nelly! easy, girl!) or ironclad iconoclasms?
VERBUM SAT SAPIENTI (Latin: words to [the] wise): As an ex-writer of the sassy, savvy, schizophenia we all go thro in this lifelong demise, I just wanna help U.S. git past the ping-pong-politixx, the whorizontal more!ass! we're in and wiseabove to 'in fine sine fine' (Latin: in [the] End without End -Saint Augustine).
"This finite existence is only a test, son," God Almighty told me in my coma. "Far beyond thy earthly tempest is where you'll find tangible, corpulent eloquence". Lemme tella youse without d'New Joisey accent...
I actually saw Seventh-Heaven when we died: you couldn't GET!! any moe curly, party-hardy-endorphins, low-hanging-fruit of the Celestial Paradise, extravagantly-surplus-lush Upstairs (awww! baby kitties, too!!) when my o-so-beautifull, brilliant, bombastic girly passed-away due to those wry, sardonic satires...
"Those who are wise will shine as brightly as the expanse of the Heavens, and those who have instructed many in uprightousness as bright as stars for all eternity" -Daniel 12:3, NJB
Here's also what the prolific, exquisite GODy sed: 'the more you shall honor Me, the more I shall bless you' -the Infant Jesus of Prague.
Go gitt'm, girly. You're incredible. You're indelible. Cya Upstairs. I won't be joining'm in the nasty Abyss where Isis prowls
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PS Need summore unique, uncivilized, useless names?? Lemme gonna gitcha started, brudda:
Oak Woods, Franky Sparks, Athena Noble, Autumn Rose, Faith Bishop, Dolly Martin, Willow Rhodes, Cocoa Major, Roman Stone, Bullwark Burnhart, Magnus Wilde, Kardiak Arrest, Will Wright, Goldy Silvers, Penelope Summers, Sophie Sharp, Violet Snow, Lizzy Roach, BoxxaRoxx, Aunty Dotey, Romero Stark, Zacharia Neptoon, Mercurio Morrissey, Fritz & Felix Franz, Victor Payne, Isabella Silverstein, Mercedes Kennedy, Redd Rust, Phoenix Martini, Ivy Squire, Sauer Wolfe, Yankee Cooky, blessed b9... (or mixNmatch)
God blessa youse
(trustNjesus)
-Fr. Sarducci, ol SNL