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.

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Day 6 - the rain has ended!!

The monster plant in the center of the photo is our tomato plants... six in all planted maybe 8 are there. In the foreground we get cherry tomatoes perhaps 3-8 a day in the back are green tomatoes about the size of a fist that we are waiting to harvest.

The leafy thing on the left, by the gate, is a rhubarb plant that I have almost killed by accident but seems to have taken gigantic proportions with the rain despite the dry spell from a couple of days. We have had a water restriction on where we can only water the producing plants and not the flowers or the hydrangea plants. We have kept them pretty nice so far but the dry spell with the water restriction about near killed the bigger hydrangea.

We have been using our dish waste water to water the hydrangea and keeping a couple of trash bins full of water so that when the rain stops we can water from the run off trash bins the vegetable garden.

Progress is being made with the cloths line, we will hopefully be digging out some holes to plant the poles for the line this weekend. Right now we are cleaning the area so the clothes lines do not interfere with anything that we are storing on the ground.

My Dear Daughter of 8 years is also excited as I will be teaching her how to light the matches at some time today after her chores are over for the day. We still have to do our weeding today, one bucket for each of us, but I am excused as I hurt my right hand digging up some weeds. I will be moving boards to the crawl space to expose the part of the yard that is planned for the clothes line.

The great experiment continues as we have decided to continue indefinately with Sunday being the day of unlimited use of home computers (Libraries are closed). Lights if we want to use them.
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