Since I can't load this as a video...it's as a link and really worth watching for a laugh!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeyHfwCshPk
Friday, October 28, 2022
Monday, October 24, 2022
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Sunday, September 11, 2022
He said he would go down with his boots on!
Orwell days are here...down is up and bad is good. People though are beginning to see through the lies.
From the article above:
‘Astonished’
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., chairman of Children’s Health Defense (CHD) and another person included in the “disinformation dozen,” said the documents surprised him.
“I’m astonished that any elected Democrat would be so estranged from our nation’s history and values as to consider it acceptable for a president to pressure publishers to censor his critics,” Kennedy told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement.
“It’s shocking that a U.S. president would involve the FBI and Homeland Security in efforts to quash dissent. Has no one in the White House read Thomas Paine or Orwell or Huxley or Heinlein or Arthur Koestler or Hannah Arendt or Solzhenitsyn? What do they think the lessons were that we were supposed to have learned from Watergate? From McCarthyism? From Vietnam?” he added.
“The framers placed the right of free expression in the First Amendment precisely to guarantee Americans our sacred right to criticize our government. The First Amendment is not there to safeguard popular speech or government-approved speech. The framers specifically wanted to protect speech that the government finds inconvenient or even detestable. And they included no pandemic exception in the Constitution!”
Sunday, September 4, 2022
Worth a listening to...
Short 17 minute video where he speaks of the document...
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/wildfires-as-a-weapon-us-military-exposed/
Here is where one can get a copy of the document he mentions, Forest Fire as a Military Weapon
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/AD0509724
https://marineindustrynews.co.uk/atlantic-ocean-pretty-much-dead/
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Thursday, August 18, 2022
What the hell happened to civil liberty?
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said:
"Facebook is acting here as a surrogate for the Federal government’s crusade to silence all criticism of draconian government policies. Our constitutional framers recognized this peril of government censorship. We don’t need a First Amendment to protect popular or government approved speech. They incorporated the First Amendment specifically to protect free expression of dissenting opinions. They understood that a government that can silence its critics has license for every atrocity."
Roger Teich, CHD legal counsel for the Meta lawsuit, added, “Censorship is not only unconstitutional, it’s un-American.”
Then the creepiness is getting worse, who isn't involved in Hollywood anymore? I do remember Michael Hastings...do you?
https://cldc.org/who-killed-michael-hastings/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98a7J_dlvbc
Friday, August 12, 2022
Unity...
Sometimes the path is before us and we're shown it in all sorts of ways.
Watching the family episode of Highwire here: led me to this.
https://thehighwire.com/ark-videos/a-family-affair/
led me to this...
https://unityofboulder.com/videos/creating-a-new-world-of-peace-harmony/
Together, we can make a difference.
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
Well Said...
The message doesn't get much shorter than this for those who don't want to spend time reading.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/lnVn7EGZIyCm/
Saturday, August 6, 2022
It's free...why not read?
No harm, no foul. Not sure what one has to lose by reading a bit. Have questions? Why not ask someone who does?
RFK Jr.'s free e-book is a Letter to Liberals...after all he is a Democrat for those Dem's that think he's a buffoon, including some family members! My Mom and Dad raised no fool!!!!
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/ebook-sign-up/ebook-sign-up-a-letter-to-liberals/
Still can buy a hard copy too if you still enjoy holding a book and turning pages...just saying.
So interesting to hear people cry--- Democrat, Republican, Red, Blue...I didn't know science had colors, thought it was based on undisputable facts.
Tuesday, July 19, 2022
Carrying on with another judge....
with Reiner Fuellmich,
https://www.brighteon.com/369e89e6-e4f3-41c0-9dfd-aa5a66ac658d
and...this isn't surprising for many of us.
Sunday, July 17, 2022
It's Good News Week...
NY Gov. Hochul downplays election district court defeat that could cost Dems US House
Listen to the lawyer who won the case!
https://www.brighteon.com/bcb2915c-6170-4775-989e-15ed97d421d6
Thursday, July 14, 2022
This guy is close to home...
Mr. O'Looney speaks of Northumberland and Westminster, been listening to him for over a year...he's getting more outspoken and not holding back, sometimes very emotional and angry.
I can't imagine why?
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Monday, July 11, 2022
Saturday, June 25, 2022
MY BODY, MY CHOICE!!!
Period...no vaccine mandates either!!!!! Can't have one without the other, what is wrong with people, how can you be for NOT "safe and effective" vaccines but taking it to the streets with the same message..."my body, my choice"...goes for both!!!!!
Any of these people protesting reading the latest VAERS data?
Check this out in the latest article on CHD
U.S. VAERS data from Dec. 14, 2020, to June 17, 2022, for 6-month-olds to 5-year-olds show:
- 1,757 adverse events, including 64 cases rated as serious and 3 reported deaths.
- 4 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis (heart inflammation).
- The CDC uses a narrowed case definition of “myocarditis,” which excludes cases of cardiac arrest, ischemic strokes and deaths due to heart problems that occur before one has the chance to go to the emergency department.
- 13 reports of blood clotting disorders.
- Full article here: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-vaccine-injuries-vaers-cdc-safety-signals/
https://ktvl.com/news/local/southern-oregon-leaders-respond-to-scotus-roe-v-wade-decision
When will this nonsense end? Children's lives are at risk for these NOT safe and effective vaccines. Why are some concerned with saving a pre-born life but not after they're born? I just don't get it!
Wonder if ICAN will get a response from this letter to Rochelle Walensky?
Thursday, June 16, 2022
HMMMM....
Interesting comments at the end of this article...did he or didn't he?
Either way...it doesn't look good, oh wait...after vaccine the symptoms are mild, tell that to the many reports on VAERS!
Monday, June 13, 2022
Nowhere to hide
Check this out!
Edward Dowd is laying it out there more all the time now...go for it Ed!!!!
Stock market lost 850 points today according to National Propaganda Radio.
https://usawatchdog.com/cv19-vax-deadliest-fraud-in-history-edward-dowd/
Sunday, June 12, 2022
HE WAS RIGHT!
YEP...ANDREW WAKEFIELD WAS RIGHT, WHY IS THERE NO DEBATE? WHERE ARE THE CAJONES????
https://www.brighteon.com/bfbf6fc6-8712-44aa-afff-ab1b5e683e09
Monday, June 6, 2022
US vs THEM
Seems like once again history is repeating itself...creating havoc between sides.
This is NOT Democrat or Republican, VAXXED or UNVAXXED, Gay or Straight, Black or White, but we may be looking at RICH vs POOR?
So much out there now for EVERYONE to read...if only people did anymore.
IT MAY BE TIME TO SPEAK UP!
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Is the public paying attention?
Puppies...
Reiner Fuellmich...
https://www.brighteon.com/610104a4-ab76-4284-be02-7ed695c678af
Naomi Wolf
https://www.brighteon.com/cf9fdec6-1b73-41e8-a5c2-dbd0aaf3b427
Chris Martenson...remember the 2009 Crash Course DVD?
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2022/05/24/energy-crisis.aspx
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Seems like they have a "game plan"
"What to do with all these useless people?"
Much different than earlier years as Patrick Woods explains here:
https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/shows/chdtv-exclusive-interviews
Monday, May 16, 2022
Win...win!!!!
So our dear friend brought her horses over to graze on the tall grass...no mowing for us and fresh grass for them!
To top the day off...cauliflower from the greenhouse!
That we of course shared with our dear friend!
Sunday, May 15, 2022
Bans off bodies!!!!!
Yep...but all the way round!!!!!
There shouldn't be ANY !!!!
So many coming out to protest this Roe vs Wade which is great...do the same people see what's being taken away from us every day? I have to wonder about this headlines from main stream...oh wait we're talking mostly dems here...what happened to choice, where are the democrats of old? Did they die with John, Martin and Bobby?
"Its literally our lives at stake," over 300 abortion advocates protest Roe v. Wade draft
Wish all these mama bears would take the time to read this also...
Mandating our health and choices are not something we should feel good about ...or even okay!
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Where is the real Mary Poppins when you need her?
This is really atrocious!!!!!
Interesting article here on credit debt:
Monday, May 9, 2022
Not for the weak hearted....
Episode 266:
Geert Vanden Bossche: "My Final Call"
"Our lives begin to end when we become silent about things that matter"
Martin Luther King Jr.
Sunday, May 8, 2022
Feeling loved on Mother's Day!
Nothing gives more than real nourishment from the garden and a loving husband that knows how to cook! Organic chicken nuggets in a garden salad with honey mustard dressing...then there's the asparagus that we had to pick because of freeze watch, what? On Mother's Day?????
For all the climate change deniers, I say wait until there is no fresh food at the farmer's markets...but then again there will probably always be fake, gotta love that corn syrup!
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| Black beans, not fresh but homegrown and dried! |
Nice quote for today on the calendar:
" We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
------ Winston Churchill
Thursday, May 5, 2022
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Oregon Country Fair...you have to be jabbed and/or
Wow...what happened to the non-judgemental?
https://ktvl.com/news/local/oregon-country-fair-returns-to-woods-near-veneta-for-2022
"Please note, to attend the Oregon Country Fair you must provide
proof of vaccination status and/or provide proof of negative COVID-19
lab test within 24 hours of entry," organizers said on Facebook.
The Fair website goes into detail on who needs to have the vaccine booster.
Let the fun begin...hippies for mandates! OMG...what happened to the hippies of old, are the new ones afraid of cooties?
Cool or scary? You decide!
The video title is very interesting....
Mapping Some of The Biggest Vertical Farms: Crops, Investors, Grocers & Locations
Saturday, April 30, 2022
Thursday, April 28, 2022
More methane to come?
They have been warning us for years!
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/
Some new information on more other stuff to come...
https://rense.com/general96/GEERT-VANDEN-BOSSCHE.png
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
More of the real stuff...
Funny how some claim Steve Kirsch a reporter of misinformation, which couldn't be further from the truth. It really does mean up is down and down is up...wish there was an end in sight.
This one is over an hour, interviewing a pilot about another pilot Bob Snow ...hope some have the attention and intellectual curiosity to watch.
This one is with Jessica Rose, some of these truth seekers/tellers are getting angry and how can anyone blame them...can't imagine investigating all that they have!
https://www.brighteon.com/23211d17-e6df-4d76-b023-51037b661a4a
Sunday, March 13, 2022
Let's mess more with the body!!!!
Spring forward and let the times be normal again!
This is quite interesting on substack: 2nd Smartest Guy in the World
Edward Dowd, former BlackRock analyst, & his team just uncovered raw CDC data that Millennials age 25-44 had 61k excess deaths 2021, +84% baseline. They are NOT at risk for PSYOP-19, so it's DEATHVAX™
his interview here:
https://www.brighteon.com/4ddde130-3d66-4d92-a9fd-201c750a8a55
This is really telling that the Defender had this article up in December of 2021, but now here it is after Pfizer has had to release documents by a FOIA request...not sure why we have to get this news this way, why must it be demanded and just not given to us?
Sunday, February 27, 2022
Lines are getting blurred...
never thought I would watch or listen to Tucker Carlson and just as Dr. Malone says he never thought he would be on Glenn Beck...and Tucker communicating with Naomi Wolf?
Wow, truth works in mysterious ways and we all come to terms with it sooner or later...or not.
https://rumble.com/vuo9ki-dr.-robert-malone-on-tucker-carlson..html
Then how bout former Blackrock Portfolio Manager exposing Pfizer and FDA fraud, saying financial collapse is imminent...wow, how the lines are blurring, maybe that inner circle is finally overlapping and we're finding our true tribes.
Friday, February 25, 2022
Thank you Dr. Reiner Fuellmich with all my heart.
I try not to have heroes in my life or people I put on a pedestal above me, but this man has totally won my heart over.
Thank you Dr. Fuellmich for persevering and dedicating so much time out of your life to help others. For those who MUST not sleep at night...hopefully you get not only your sleep but theirs too! Bless you.
https://zeeemedia.com/interview/dr-reiner-fuellmich-update-on-grand-jury-nuremberg-2-0/
Another great person on the list to thank...been following the Trends Journal and Gerald Celente for years!
https://www.brighteon.com/3e2045e5-2a92-4d40-9564-1664e9183222
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
When you can't do anything else...Turtle Forth like Catherine Austin Fitts says.
Sometimes life gets difficult and we get stuck...I remember reading the Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle years ago and being stuck in the mud. Once recognized, you find a way to move.
This article by Catherine is great to think about when you get stuck. My closets are getting cleaner every day.
https://home.solari.com/turtle-forth/
And then there is always great music that lifts one up.
https://www.gregholdenonline.com/home
Kelli Loder is one of my big favorites.
There's nothing like the oldies!
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/turtles/letthecoldwindsblow.html
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
These people who some are calling terrorists are trying to save this....
Thankful for all the people with a conscience who are taking a stand to keep our rights and freedoms as well as all the alternative (truth tellers) news outlets that are allowing voices of those who are behind the lines...our funeral directors and embalmers that are seeing things now after death, that are not being reported by those in power with authority who could be doing so much with this information. One has to ask why they're not!
First is the convoy Freedom Convoy...now that GoFundMe is no longer working for them, donate to GiveSendGo, https://www.givesendgo.com/
Second is something funny before the serious to come:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/WSd9a-kA8Qk/
Did these guys really stand for FREEDOM?
Now comes the hard and serious...a US embalmer speaks out, interviewed by Steve Kirsch:
https://www.brighteon.com/3549d11f-d7d7-4327-94dd-8a7b98a68cb3
This one is the one he spoke of showing pictures, Dr. Ruby done on Jan.26 2022
https://www.brighteon.com/4b6241f6-e863-4303-a39d-a151b621e80c
How is it that some still cannot see and why are we not all questioning those in power? Is it not everyone's responsibility to question? I was 18yo when I had to bag my first corpse, being told as a nurse's aid not to forget the toe tag.
I took her down to the hospital morgue by myself and will never forget seeing my first dead body in what I thought was going to be my career as a nurse. I can't imagine what these funeral directors and embalmers must feel like...it's heartbreaking.
Sunday, January 30, 2022
This is not about right, left, religious, non-religious, vaxxed or anti vaxxed...this is about our rights as human beings.
The job of our media is to report the truth, period.
There are no extremists when it comes to truth, there is no worry about having to cover up and/or remember the last lie...and there is no judgement.
These are people of all backgrounds and the last time I checked firefighters don't care what color, race, religion, you are when they rush into a burning home or building to save lives...much like a doctor should be. Let those who are willing to save lives do so.
I heard a father speak recently about his 8 yo daughter, when she told him she couldn't remember what it was like without masks...we all need to stop and think about this message. His daughter was 6 at the time, she and many others will never get this time back. Our children depend on the decisions that we adults make and we all need to ask ourselves if we have answers to the questions they will have for us later?
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
One needs to listen to more than "sound bytes" that our presstitutes are delivering
Full article here from John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead, John is a constitutional lawyer,:
Truckers have a convoy headed to Ottawa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoQL4gcBrHo
Stew Peters interviewing one of the truckers in Canada---
https://www.brighteon.com/0e0465a8-02cb-479a-b55a-bb9b9e7f240f
Monday, January 24, 2022
Heartfelt
Only wish some more elected officials were holding round tables like this. Not sure what it says ...if you don't shed a tear while listening,
Friday, January 21, 2022
We CAN change the world---WATCH LIVE ON SUNDAY, OUR ALLSTAR TEAM!
JOIN THE MOVEMENT! This video says it all.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/child-health-topics/health-freedom/worldwide-walk-outs/
Participants from all walks of life will be attending, regardless of political affiliation, race, ideology or vaccination status. We will gather to peacefully protest and march together in unity to restore democracy, reclaim our civil liberties and say NO to mandates.
Speaker highlights include Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Del Bigtree, Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Pierre Kory, Dr. Paul Marik, Dr. Ryan Cole, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, Steve Kirsch, Dr. Christina Parks, Dr. Paul Alexander, Dr. Richard Urso, Attorney Tricia Lindsay, Kevin Jenkins, Rev. Aaron Lewis, Rabbi Epstein, Tramell Johnson, Jo Rose (Jo Speaks Truth), Lara Logan, Angela Stanton King, Chris Martenson, Kwame Brown, Trahern Crews and many more!
Comedian JP Sears will emcee the event.
Musical performances will also be a part of the event, featuring Jimmy Levy and Hi-Rez the rapper, Five Times August, and Matt Brevner.
Thursday, January 13, 2022
Being a child all over again...would you in today's world?
Yes, exactly...be curious
Isn't Israel our canary in the mine?
This one is so appalling...children are being hurt in so many ways.
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
We can only hope...
Alarming but hopeful?
Quote for today:
Too many folks go through life running from something that isn't after them.
---anonymous
Monday, January 10, 2022
Reading RFK Jr's book...
Kudos to those brave individuals that have tried to reach their peers.
This video shows the emotional strain put on those with a conscience. It's only 8 minutes long but powerful.
https://ratical.org/PandemicParallaxView/IICC-DrTessLawrieSpeech-042521.html
Can't listen to this enough...about US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwvSSwpVqkc
Saturday, January 8, 2022
If not now...when?
Hard information to digest but for some it may be worth knowing rather than not knowing.
Once again if you don't or can't take time to watch it all...the 50 minute mark has charts that eye opening to those who are looking.
https://www.brighteon.com/930be50f-7865-4cba-8967-b6334f2ab1d3
I always thought the judges of the Supreme Court were "well read" but this is really hard to digest!
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/live-supreme-court-weigh-biden-vaccine-mandate
I guess that's the direction they want us to go in...machines are the future when us humans will be gone.
Wow...then on our very own local news...mainstream...
Monday, January 3, 2022
Worth taking a gander at...even if you're not interested.
News is all around us and what you choose to read is your choice, however...this is going to affect us all in the long run.
Don't know how these companies will get by without passing the increases on...
This is a long watch...if you can't watch all of it at once break it down into parts and if you can't do that, the last 30 minutes is a "must see and hear" ...whether vaxxed, unvaxxed, democrat, republican, christian, atheist of any color, we need to find the middle of the circle, "common ground" to unite in coming together, no man or woman is an island. And...thank you Joe Rogan and Dr. Robert Malone for all that you both do and for continuing to try to bring people together. Our children and grandchildren will be thankful for this to happen.
https://www.thethinkingconservative.com/the-joe-rogan-experience-1757-dr-robert-malone/
Then there is this from Craig Paardekooper (Kingston University, London)...
https://hillmd.substack.com/p/vaccine-batches-vary-in-toxicity
This is really sad, how will our children accept this? I can't believe the world I'm living in.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jan/5/dogs-to-dispatched-to-massachusetts-schools-to-sni/
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
Thursday, December 16, 2021
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
We all rely on nature.
Take back what is ours and protect what we had before. Nature is counting on us.
I'm in the process of reading Robert Kennedy Jr's book, The Real Anthony Fauci and it's hard...it's hard knowing the lies that have been told to us. If you have ever believed in true democracy now is the time to stand firm and know that our true heroes such as RFK Jr. and Julian Assange have our best interests in their hearts.
Paul Craig Roberts said this on his site today, mind you he was in Reagan's administration...this is not republican or democrat anymore:
Article title: There Comes a Time when there Is No Alternative to Fighting for Your Life and Liberty
This last paragraph says so much:
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Jullian Assange are the two greatest persons of our time. The totally corrupt and utterly evil American establishment intends to destroy both of them. Support them or you will go down with them. Now is the time to fight or to kiss freedom and liberty good-bye.
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
Sunday, November 28, 2021
Friday, October 29, 2021
History Repeats Itself
Such a bigger picture unfolding before our eyes, we were warned about this type of tyranny 58 years ago and the person that warned us was murdered.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvSD6If3zds
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., CHD Board Chair and Lead Counsel:
“No government in history has ever
surrendered power in the absence of a demand. We need to tell these
governments and their friends in the technocracy, the Silicon Valley
billionaire boys club, the mainstream media, and the pharmaceutical
industry that we will no longer tolerate their trampling of citizens’
rights.”
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/child-health-topics/health-freedom/worldwide-walk-outs/
https://www.globalresearch.ca/worldwide-walkouts/5760145
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Revisited...Off the sidelines and in the game
This was written 12 years ago and thought it was pertinent yet today.
When we embarked on this journey six years ago, I never would have believed how difficult it has been to network with people considering the amount of resources we have to work with. We have tried for the last five years to work with people in our community, well over 100 and the list is growing.
When we talk to people about peak oil/peak resources, climate and ecosystems collapsing, collapse of the financial system and our infrastructure, we find people think we’re nuts. Some are aware of these things, but they’re not concerned because they think they won’t be around to see it happen. Others know it but just won’t do anything and are too lazy, and then there are those who are in it for the money (capitalism with a smile).
It is strange to me if I was to preach hatred and bigotry I would be a valuable commodity and have people flocking to my doorstep. However, offering people a chance to live self sufficiently, responsibly, peacefully in a sustainable manner is more difficult to accomplish. The latter requires hard, physical work -- something most people don't know how to do.
Even though we expected this to be our last move, now after retirement at ages 52 and 50, we are once again thinking the unimaginable, relocating. We know that with our skills and dedication we would be a welcomed addition to someone who is trying to accomplish what we have failed to do.
We must begin to build avenues to connect people with certain skills and assets; trying to educate people is not enough. Like the documentary Power of Community states, what happened in Cuba in the ‘90s was not so much technological change as it was human. Sharing responsibilities and costs will be very important in our future, as well as utilizing our resources wisely.
We have not been farmers all of our lives; we are somewhat new to this. Our lives have been nothing like the stereotypical American way. We were married at the ages of 21 and 19, not out of necessity, just young and in love. We had our two daughters five years later, and our roles have been reversed most of the time. I was “Mister Mom.” We lived on one meager income because childcare in this country is deplorable. It was our responsibility and no one else's to raise our children.
While at home I grew some of our food, did fundraising for kids activities and field trips at school, volunteered in the classrooms as well as coaching boys and girls basketball and girls soccer. Because of living on one income, I learned to barter with men 25-30 years my senior in Rogue River, Oregon where we lived at the time. One example: I roofed and painted my friend’s house and he and I built a 20’ by 24’ recreation room from start to finish. No money changed hands, just good times and friendship.
Up until six years ago, most of my life I was what one would consider a “Jock.” I loved sports, mostly hockey, football and basketball. I knew all of the stats and trades, I watched for over 40 years of how championships were won. I saw many types of styles and philosophies of play come and go. They were always in the context that you are only as strong as your weakest link. The teams' success depended on each individual player giving his or her maximum effort, and no one player regardless of how great can win by him/herself.
After 911 something changed in me and I gave up my addition to sports. In the past seven years I have read hundreds of books by authors such as Vandana Shiva, David Korten, Arundhati Roy, Kevin Phillips, Michael Rupert, Eckhart Tolle, George Monbiot, James Lovelock, Richard Heinberg, Matthew Simmons, James Howard Kunstler, Wendell Barry, Barbara Kingsolver, Howard Zinn, Daniel Quinn and Kurt Vonnegut.
I realize now that we were lied to. As George Carlin said, they call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it. All this and more caused me to take direct action.
We downsized to one car, paid off our mortgage, turned off the “idiot box,” installed an indoor clothes dryer (made by a local artisan that works with iron), and our garden that started out for fun and food became much more of a purpose and a way of life. We have hauled in tons of manure and organic compost to build up the soil creating a working system based on raised beds, crop rotation and cover cropping. We now have fifty 4’ x 26’ raised beds and a 10’ x 15’ greenhouse allowing us to do starts and grow more than enough food for three or four families, plus rows of berries as well as fruit trees. Currently we grow and process 60% of our food.
We knew all along that we would never be able to learn everything that was needed as well as do all the work ourselves. That’s why we have tried to partner up or find other like-minded people to begin together the hard work ahead of us.
I remember Richard Heinberg saying that some figured there was 1% of the population who was woken up and they had hoped to wake up to 5%. He also stated that we needed 50 million farmers for the long slog ahead.
I feel blessed that my wife of 31 years and I are on the same page. We had always planned to work together after her retirement knowing that we needed to have some income. We enjoy being around each other. We believe that in this day and age when people are losing their homes, in debt, bankrupt and pensions disappearing, we can and should be able to find partners that are hard working, in good health and have some valuable skills/resources that would help us become a complete team together. There is so much to learn and adjust to, as climate change alone is already affecting the way we grow food in Oregon.
Last year at this time, I processed well over 500 lbs of tomatoes, drying and canning. As I sit and write on this Labor Day, I have not canned one quart of tomatoes -- not many in the area to be found. This is one of the main staples in our diet.
We would like to have partners living on the property that can help make this work into a functioning way of living, saving resources and growing food for five or six families. We would also like to incorporate livestock, and renewable energy. But attracting willing partners has been most difficult, to the point that we despair and might move away. Neither of us wants to leave what we have built thus far, but if we can't find others who can help, then maybe it's time for a different arena with some new players who wants this team.
As life as we know it begins to collapse, we need a prototype system that can be easily duplicated to show others how to grow, process and store food. People will begin to act irrationally when they or their families have little to no food, so I would like to give them a choice on how to feed themselves without the violence.
In all of my years of watching and playing sports, I have never felt the sheer joy and fulfillment that I do while working in the garden. Watching a butterfly as it lands on me or feeling a hummingbird zing past my ear. The great wins I chalk up now in the CHAMPIONSHIP column are at the end of fall when cupboards are jammed to capacity, standing room only with filled canning jars, the garage walls draped with garlic and onions, and the freezer stuffed full with berries and nuts. What a SWEET VICTORY! It is time for us all to give up our additions, and live the life we were meant to live.
I have no illusions about saving the world. I would just like to be able to have a chance of living in peace and sharing before Mother Nature kicks our ass.
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Ideas to ponder
Connecting people that have different assets:
1) Resumé Bank of people's assets, skills, knowledge and ideas.
2) Such as:
- Land, money, water, resources
With people that don't have this but have technical knowledge
- Such as:
Knowledge on farming, solar, sustainable building
3) People moving from one area of the country/state
- Such as:
A person moving from metropolitan area wanting to relocate to an area that's more sustainable, trading work for his or her stay.
4) Sharing tools/resources
5) Sharing skills such as:
- Preserving of food, cooking, sewing, repairs (home), survival skills
Investment
1) Such as:
- Someone with money that they would like to get out of the stock market/retirement funds and invest in local businesses, someone starting a business, solar energy, alternative energy and farming and manufacturing.
2) People with money who want to set up old style mercantile involving local farms and artisans for manufactured goods, clothing, etc.
3) Advising people on how best to utilize their land/resources.
When we embarked on this journey six years ago, I never would have believed how difficult it has been to network with people considering the amount of resources we have to work with. We have tried for the last five years to work with people in our community, well over 100 and the list is growing.
When we talk to people about peak oil/peak resources, climate and ecosystems collapsing, collapse of the financial system and our infrastructure, we find people think we’re nuts. Some are aware of these things, but they’re not concerned because they think they won’t be around to see it happen. Others know it but just won’t do anything and are too lazy, and then there are those who are in it for the money (capitalism with a smile).
It is strange to me if I was to preach hatred and bigotry I would be a valuable commodity and have people flocking to my doorstep. However, offering people a chance to live self sufficiently, responsibly, peacefully in a sustainable manner is more difficult to accomplish. The latter requires hard, physical work -- something most people don't know how to do.
Even though we expected this to be our last move, now after retirement at ages 52 and 50, we are once again thinking the unimaginable, relocating. We know that with our skills and dedication we would be a welcomed addition to someone who is trying to accomplish what we have failed to do.
We must begin to build avenues to connect people with certain skills and assets; trying to educate people is not enough. Like the documentary Power of Community states, what happened in Cuba in the ‘90s was not so much technological change as it was human. Sharing responsibilities and costs will be very important in our future, as well as utilizing our resources wisely.
We have not been farmers all of our lives; we are somewhat new to this. Our lives have been nothing like the stereotypical American way. We were married at the ages of 21 and 19, not out of necessity, just young and in love. We had our two daughters five years later, and our roles have been reversed most of the time. I was “Mister Mom.” We lived on one meager income because childcare in this country is deplorable. It was our responsibility and no one else's to raise our children.
While at home I grew some of our food, did fundraising for kids activities and field trips at school, volunteered in the classrooms as well as coaching boys and girls basketball and girls soccer. Because of living on one income, I learned to barter with men 25-30 years my senior in Rogue River, Oregon where we lived at the time. One example: I roofed and painted my friend’s house and he and I built a 20’ by 24’ recreation room from start to finish. No money changed hands, just good times and friendship.
Up until six years ago, most of my life I was what one would consider a “Jock.” I loved sports, mostly hockey, football and basketball. I knew all of the stats and trades, I watched for over 40 years of how championships were won. I saw many types of styles and philosophies of play come and go. They were always in the context that you are only as strong as your weakest link. The teams' success depended on each individual player giving his or her maximum effort, and no one player regardless of how great can win by him/herself.
After 911 something changed in me and I gave up my addition to sports. In the past seven years I have read hundreds of books by authors such as Vandana Shiva, David Korten, Arundhati Roy, Kevin Phillips, Michael Rupert, Eckhart Tolle, George Monbiot, James Lovelock, Richard Heinberg, Matthew Simmons, James Howard Kunstler, Wendell Barry, Barbara Kingsolver, Howard Zinn, Daniel Quinn and Kurt Vonnegut.
I realize now that we were lied to. As George Carlin said, they call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it. All this and more caused me to take direct action.
We downsized to one car, paid off our mortgage, turned off the “idiot box,” installed an indoor clothes dryer (made by a local artisan that works with iron), and our garden that started out for fun and food became much more of a purpose and a way of life. We have hauled in tons of manure and organic compost to build up the soil creating a working system based on raised beds, crop rotation and cover cropping. We now have fifty 4’ x 26’ raised beds and a 10’ x 15’ greenhouse allowing us to do starts and grow more than enough food for three or four families, plus rows of berries as well as fruit trees. Currently we grow and process 60% of our food.
We knew all along that we would never be able to learn everything that was needed as well as do all the work ourselves. That’s why we have tried to partner up or find other like-minded people to begin together the hard work ahead of us.
I remember Richard Heinberg saying that some figured there was 1% of the population who was woken up and they had hoped to wake up to 5%. He also stated that we needed 50 million farmers for the long slog ahead.
I feel blessed that my wife of 31 years and I are on the same page. We had always planned to work together after her retirement knowing that we needed to have some income. We enjoy being around each other. We believe that in this day and age when people are losing their homes, in debt, bankrupt and pensions disappearing, we can and should be able to find partners that are hard working, in good health and have some valuable skills/resources that would help us become a complete team together. There is so much to learn and adjust to, as climate change alone is already affecting the way we grow food in Oregon.
Last year at this time, I processed well over 500 lbs of tomatoes, drying and canning. As I sit and write on this Labor Day, I have not canned one quart of tomatoes -- not many in the area to be found. This is one of the main staples in our diet.
We would like to have partners living on the property that can help make this work into a functioning way of living, saving resources and growing food for five or six families. We would also like to incorporate livestock, and renewable energy. But attracting willing partners has been most difficult, to the point that we despair and might move away. Neither of us wants to leave what we have built thus far, but if we can't find others who can help, then maybe it's time for a different arena with some new players who wants this team.
As life as we know it begins to collapse, we need a prototype system that can be easily duplicated to show others how to grow, process and store food. People will begin to act irrationally when they or their families have little to no food, so I would like to give them a choice on how to feed themselves without the violence.
In all of my years of watching and playing sports, I have never felt the sheer joy and fulfillment that I do while working in the garden. Watching a butterfly as it lands on me or feeling a hummingbird zing past my ear. The great wins I chalk up now in the CHAMPIONSHIP column are at the end of fall when cupboards are jammed to capacity, standing room only with filled canning jars, the garage walls draped with garlic and onions, and the freezer stuffed full with berries and nuts. What a SWEET VICTORY! It is time for us all to give up our additions, and live the life we were meant to live.
I have no illusions about saving the world. I would just like to be able to have a chance of living in peace and sharing before Mother Nature kicks our ass.
- - - - -
Ideas to ponder
Connecting people that have different assets:
1) Resumé Bank of people's assets, skills, knowledge and ideas.
2) Such as:
- Land, money, water, resources
With people that don't have this but have technical knowledge
- Such as:
Knowledge on farming, solar, sustainable building
3) People moving from one area of the country/state
- Such as:
A person moving from metropolitan area wanting to relocate to an area that's more sustainable, trading work for his or her stay.
4) Sharing tools/resources
5) Sharing skills such as:
- Preserving of food, cooking, sewing, repairs (home), survival skills
Investment
1) Such as:
- Someone with money that they would like to get out of the stock market/retirement funds and invest in local businesses, someone starting a business, solar energy, alternative energy and farming and manufacturing.
2) People with money who want to set up old style mercantile involving local farms and artisans for manufactured goods, clothing, etc.
3) Advising people on how best to utilize their land/resources.
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Hump day, Trump Day
Well thank goodness that the election is over and the mighty fine people of this country got who they voted for. I'm sure glad our votes were included in the 1% for Jill Stein, even though I was told today, "it was a wasted vote". I looked at the person and said "it's my vote, my choice and never again will I vote for the lesser of two evils." Michael Moore talked me out of voting for Ralph Nader and after voting for Kerry...I said never again.
A friend sent me this video and it's definitely worth the few minutes that really tells it like it is.
A friend sent me this video and it's definitely worth the few minutes that really tells it like it is.
Fall is definitely here, time to curl up next to the fire and knit something beautiful from my handspun...this time from our own sheep.
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| Vera Smiling for the camera |
Thursday, July 28, 2016
Vote your conscience...we did...Green again...
It's that busy time of the year again, but didn't want to wait to post this picture...
I'll be writing soon. Watching...http://www.jill2016.com/live
JILL NOT HILL...JILL NOT HILL...JILL NOT HILL...
I'll be writing soon. Watching...http://www.jill2016.com/live
JILL NOT HILL...JILL NOT HILL...JILL NOT HILL...
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| JillnotHill
I know it's been a long time since I've written anything, so it goes...
We've been busy with "sheep people" in our lives and no they're not stupid, actually they're smarter than many people. Ellory our ram has been painted for breeding and the girls were bucking heads today, we're thinking we're all going to get f*$#@^& tomorrow!
  What a 3 ring circus it's been, anyone sane would vote for Jill but then again is there many sane people left in this country? I've listened to this speech so many times over the last few months,
and can't believe what we had going for us then...until...
it's all so sad.
What the hell happened to all of us? Have the powers to be rendered us useless in this day and age? Or...are we just so over entertained with everything now even the election has to be full of drama for us to pay attention? I'm hearing Barry McGuire singing...
Our ballots have been cast but for all practical purposes I do feel hopeless in seeing real change as the system is rigged, but...at least we voted our conscience, too bad we didn't get to see Jill in the debates as I think many more would agree that she is our best choice.
Vote Green Party!
P.S We've been listening to the audio book by Gary J. Byrne, Crisis of Character, We highly recommend listening or reading the book. It's pretty entertaining going down memory lane with the Clinton's. |
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