The Great experiment

Bowing to the book Eaarth by Bill McKibbons we as a family have decided to cut our carbon foot print again by redoing again the Great Experiment. Where we live without lights and light candles. The electricity is still on but we cannot use the microwave or toaster but allow ourselves coffee maker. Computer use is at the library where public access is and cool airconditioned rooms give us respite from not using our airconditioner when it is too hot. We are still installing the laundry line to dry our clothes. We are still using our washing machine to wash clothing and Dryer to do clothes and towels. This is kind of like camping but without alot of the hassle of setting up a tent and bringing the propain or burning wood to cook with.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Day 11


After not getting to the library yesterday, the girls decided to finish a bit later than usual today so we got to the library at 2 PM.

Grandmother taught me what we call snake which is a card game where you need the cards to add up to 10, 20, or 30 three cards at a time. You start on the left and place three cards down from left to right you pick up cards from the end or beginning and discard. There for you lay down a king, 2, and three. You got nothing. add a five and you pick up the two and three and turn over. Leaving the King to be piled upon. Next cards are a ten, one and 10. You pick up the two tens with the king leaving a one, and so on. You should end with only one card. Being tired I messed up a lot but finally did win three games of approximately 10 games. This is what happens when you have no computer.

The evening festivities continue, we have a Green Team meeting tonight and a variance meeting at the town hall tonight so it should be good entertainment either way attending. Green team is a local advisory board to recommend changes to the local government that would be ecologically efficient for the local government to employ to save money and to be more green.

Else looking for 802.11 b access point and router for wireless in the house. We need both to keep the wireless from being an entrance into our Ethernet network run by our current router. I have a Best buy cards and can bring it in for about 100.

I would prefer to have a big router for the many ports we have but a four port will do for now. Computers are off which helped last night as there was a big thunder boomer with rain. We needed a third barrel for water it came down so hard. We are using the barrel water for plants both to get rid of it and not to use the water from the tap as the county is on a voluntary water restriction. Walking around you see green lawns and those that are sun damaged. Vegetables are doing well we might have lost a couple of pepper plants as they were beaten down and we can not stand them up again we will see if they can be saved.

1 comment:

  1. Are your variance meetings regarding your use of barrels for the collection of rainwater? I've been meaning to do the same, but not sure of local regulations. Normally, when we get heavy rain it just sheds down the side yard, driveway and straight into the street. Such a waste.

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