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Rows of trees marked by a cover-crop/food-plot of kale, turnip and radish as well as tall, annual grasses. Notable for how the tops of the rows (best seen in the middle row) show much better growth than bottoms of rows. The two tree trunks that frame the image are Black Walnut.
The bones of an old pear tree that was infected with fire blight is near the upper-right corner of the image.
At the top of the frame is the Old Orchard.
The ground looks mighty green for the middle of December.
A very good post
"How being frugal can save a Marriage"
If you only read one thing from this blog this week, jump over to Rural Revolution and read this post.
Some people deal well with change. Others do not. Life can be bumpy and filled with unexpected and unwanted changes.
Frugality is like having an exceptionally buoyant boat as you float down a rushing river. It eases you over rocks and sandbars. You can sustain water sloshing in, over the gunwales. You can even pull drowning people out-of-the-drink IF you have that extremely buoyant boat.
Lack of frugality is like having a kayak with 300 pounds of bricks stacked on the deck. It might be OK in still-water but will be a disaster if anything unexpected happens.
Good read. My wife and I have been frugal for 32 years, only option we had. But, we don't look at it as a problem. Just what we do - used cloths, used furniture, we rarely eat out (lucky for me, my wife is a wonderful cook & eating at home is better food anyway). Really, in my opinion, creates a "better" life anyway - simple.
ReplyDeleteFrugality is a mindset, unfortunately the masses are consumer driven and some people are afraid to be seen as "different".
ReplyDeleteThank you for the link, ERJ.
ReplyDeleteTo Brian's point above, our society does not reward frugality - and in some ways actively discourages it, in that as a consumer society we are highly dependent on the spending of money by others (especially in a service economy). We are seeing the fallout from that now: when people do get laid off they do not consume. Choices have to be made, so other consumption does not happen and then other people get laid off. A onward movement to automating things, be they general computer execution, robots, or AI, does not help anything.
Frugality is not "fun" unless you have your eyes on a higher prize.