Look: a cow

[outsidetheparty]

In the car yesterday, I was being kind of quiet, and 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.

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That's sweet :)

I go back and forth between hoping for that, and expecting we're going to have the nerdiest, most withdrawn child on the planet.

Maybe "both" is the way to go.