Links for your edification and viewing pleasure
Written by biscuit on July 13, 2008 – 11:58 am -Just a quick roundup of good links before I disappear for the afternoon.
First and foremost, the mother of them all, the one that was doing it when everyone else was buying Enron stock and counting on the equity in their McMansion, the one that was frugal and survivalist when frugal and survivalist weren’t cool (nod to Barbara Mandrell): Backwoods Home, which I’ve been meaning to put on our blogroll for days now.
Maybe if I didn’t have to buy new mowers every time I turned around or work or whatever, I’d get something done around here.
But no matter! Check it out! I’d post the link to The Psychotic Farmers Forum, too, because they’re awfully good, but they’re too wacky even for me half the time.
And speaking of frugal and survivalist when frugal and survivalist weren’t cool — if all the varieties of greenies have been confusing you, here’s a handy guide to their proper names. Celsias also provides a nice greenwashing guide.
If you feel like making your own cleaning potions, this site has a handy pdf guide — scroll down to alternative cleaning solutions and download. I’ve used some of them, and they’re easy and pretty effective. The laundry soap is a bit glitchy. I found that, after 3-4 loads, I had to rewash with a commercial soap. But that can be remedied with a bit of work, I’m sure.
And finally, an entire site about my dream: gray water collection and irrigation. I’ve been threatening to do this for years. Maybe now I’ll finally get around to it.
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Biscuit,
You are doing too much mowing! Why don’t you contact the bad boy and ask him to mow your yard for some $$$$? Maybe shame him into giving you a reduced rate. I had one of those bad boys working for me in my yard when I was getting ready to sell. Money made a difference.
Oh, he’s gone way way too bad for that!
Besides, during grass growing seaso - er, summer
- I’m always mowing. It probably has something to do with my refusal to get a riding mower. 
Maybe you just need to rethink the place…put crops that don’t need mowing.Maybe some food crops even. I hate to see you all red-face and sweaty! You gotta get some of these..http://www.goattrimmers.com/
I had goats for a few years. I also had (and still have) lousy fencing.
I loved my goats! I’ll post a pic of them later tonight.
Oh, and much of the place is in gardens. In essence, I did some rural reclamation there. Long story which I’ll get into someday - I was a wannabe farmer, and I did accomplish quite a bit. But most of it is in pastures, and someone’s horses are on it.
The trouble area right now is right around my place. That’s what I get for not mowing there for three weeks - the grass is thick and lush and 2-2 1/2 feet high. Argh!
I met the coolest brown and white pygmy goat at the Hoh Hum Ranch, she thought she was preggers and she wasn’t, but she still swelled up to an enormous size. If you continually petted her, she was a sweetheart, but she just bleated if she was left alone. I wanted to put her in the back seat and bring her home!
Oh god, I love those pygmy goats.
There’s a yard right outside city limits with three nice fat pesky little pygmy goats. I love going by there and seeing what they’re up to. Their latest adventure: they’ve discovered a very large tree stump that they can lounge on. They look so proud up there!
Oh, please take a picture of that and post it. That sounds sooooo cool!
I will - they’re darling!
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