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.

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Sunday the day of electricity

You have to wonder what it takes to make a cloths line... well you need to find some hooks and some bolts.

Next you dig a hole very deep and then sink a post fill the tube with cement and you have a wonderful clothesline in a week. You have to have wife with power tools, mother-in-law with left over cement and wood, and daughters ready do dig. This was the weekend project of our clan.











Sunday was a wonderful day of air-conditioning except when I came up from the basement I turned off the emergency cut of at the top of the stairs. Go figure that I could not get through one day of full air.
My contribution to the cloths line was that I would make salad from the garden and tote the 100 bag of cement up the stairs from the crawl space. Wife mixed the morter and made summer squash lasagna. Daughters dug the hole and set the pole in the cement.
Anyway the Great Experiment continues by again pulling the plug on Monday with a few alterations of the rules. Night lights for the bathrooms, we were going through too many matches. It really makes you think about computer usage and to use the time that you are on them with better fore thought. Though the internet is a grab bag of everything, sometimes having it in little slices is better than not at all or at all hours.
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  1. RadioNedJuly 19, 2010 at 1:50 PM

    Kudos! great pictures. I may want to adapt your clothes line into posts for our Upside-down tomato plants. Peace.

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