Look: a cow
Apr. 28th, 2008 11:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
outsidethepartyIn the car yesterday, I was being kind of quiet, and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
squirrelhaven asked me what I was thinking. And I realized that I was thinking about how much work it was going to be to clear the extra land around our house so we'd have room to raise some crops, and how I might be able to improvise a fence using the branches from the dead wood I've been clearing lately anyway, to pen in some grazing animals -- probably goats would be manageable -- would the lawn and be enough of a food source or would I need to clear more land for them, too? A lot of ferns grow in the woods here, can goats eat ferns? And if we stopped chlorinating the pool would it still stay clean enough to be a safe water source for the animals? because the stream at the bottom of the hill is much too far away, and it might be a good idea to get started on all of this sooner than later before it becomes impossible to rent a tractor, because if I have to try clearing those stumps by hand we're going to starve to death for sure.
I traced back through the chain of thoughts that had led to me spinning out this little apocalyptic peak-oil narrative to myself, and it turned out to have been triggered by this: I saw a cow. That's all it took.
It's possible I need to start being a bit more mindful of where I let myself drift.
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Edited to add: This, of course, would be the same car ride during which she was planning our baby's pirate / ninja upbringing.
We're going to have one weird-ass kid.
squirrelhaven asked me what I was thinking. And I realized that I was thinking about how much work it was going to be to clear the extra land around our house so we'd have room to raise some crops, and how I might be able to improvise a fence using the branches from the dead wood I've been clearing lately anyway, to pen in some grazing animals -- probably goats would be manageable -- would the lawn and be enough of a food source or would I need to clear more land for them, too? A lot of ferns grow in the woods here, can goats eat ferns? And if we stopped chlorinating the pool would it still stay clean enough to be a safe water source for the animals? because the stream at the bottom of the hill is much too far away, and it might be a good idea to get started on all of this sooner than later before it becomes impossible to rent a tractor, because if I have to try clearing those stumps by hand we're going to starve to death for sure.I traced back through the chain of thoughts that had led to me spinning out this little apocalyptic peak-oil narrative to myself, and it turned out to have been triggered by this: I saw a cow. That's all it took.
It's possible I need to start being a bit more mindful of where I let myself drift.
--
Edited to add: This, of course, would be the same car ride during which she was planning our baby's pirate / ninja upbringing.
We're going to have one weird-ass kid.
