Netzingers -- Explicit coquina que est optima medicina.

The story of a lifetime, coming soon: 

http://brighthouseproject.com/

Seed Saver's has a webinar series coming up here.  The teaser looks great, I can't wait for the real thing.

Lunchmeat is risky business - better cook it along with your lettuce, jalapenos, and spinach. http://goo.gl/Cch35

Meat makes you sick, literally, according to the top 5 causes of lost income and quality of life years (QALYs):

1. ca m p y l o b a c t e r in Poultry costs $1.3 billion and causes a loss of 9500 QALYs
2. to x o p l aSm a in Pork costs $1.2 billion and causes a loss of 4500 QALYs
3. liSt e r i a in Deli Meats costs $1.1 billion and causes a loss of 4000 QALYs
4. Sa l m o n e l l a in Poultry costs $700 million and causes a loss of 3600 QALYs
5. liSt e r i a in Dairy Products costs $700 million and causes a loss of 2600 QALYs

From http://goo.gl/1kfgD, the Emerging Pathogens Institute of the University of Florida. But seriously, you get toxoplasmosis from pork? Who knew? 

Think that an economic recovery means more jobs?  Just the opposite- businesses are getting better at doing more with fewer and fewer workers. 

A wiki with all the stuff that is kicked out of Wikipedia.

Here it is.  The homesite is going to be where the notch in CR16 is, between the two creeks and above the clearing by the road.  We have bids out for clearing and levelling.  Nothing firm yet, just waiting for everyone to recover from the weather.

With the snow and ice of the past week, it is hard to imagine a sunny warm day like today.  The project won't really get moving until March, when my schedule opens up and I can devote all my free time to moving it forward.  

We are thinking of building a work house out there, a one-room shack we can use as a weekender.  It would be cheaper than a trailer in the short term and give us an outbuilding to use later. 

Here is the account of making our mountain homestead.  What we have done so far: we bought a plot of land outside of Three Brothers, AR.  Part of the purchase was getting a perc test (septic system test).  That is pretty much all of the actual work done.We have a lot of plans, an unrealisticly tight budget,  a friend who is a builder, and absolutely no idea of what we have gotten ourselves into.   All that we do know for sure is that we keep dreaming about the mountain.