{"id":21684,"date":"2022-02-23T10:03:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T17:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=21684"},"modified":"2022-03-17T11:54:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T18:54:39","slug":"feb-23-snowed-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2022\/02\/23\/feb-23-snowed-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb 23 Snowed Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.<\/strong><\/p>\n

H. L. Mencken<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Another winter’s day, another snowstorm. It is good, it means that temps are rising a bit. A bit.<\/p>\n

I just had a fireside bath. Mila Kunis style, pits, tits, holes and soles.\u00a0 Sounds awful, but it’s not.<\/p>\n

I bathed in a gallon of water, heated on my woodstove. Now I am washing clothes in my big bowl heated on the woodstove.<\/p>\n

I know how much water we waste. I used to have a 90-gallon bath every morning heated by an electric water heater.<\/p>\n

I washed my car at the car wash, once a week, even if it didn’t need it.<\/p>\n

When I had a family here we drained a million-gallon pond in less than a summer, having baths, washing dishes, clothes and everything else.<\/p>\n

Pay attention to the droughts. We are running out of water. What I do now is already being done by others that know.<\/p>\n

That doesn’t mean that your efforts won’t be resented. I collected rainwater in a tank out front of my house.<\/p>\n

One day I watered my plants and all my houseplants died. A week later, 6 cats died.<\/p>\n

Only one chemical does that. The same one that the drugstore farmer next door uses. Yes, the same one that has tried to harass and intimidate for 6 years now.<\/p>\n

One word for him, Karma. I feel sorry for him.<\/p>\n

My point is breaking away from the pack has its dangers. Not breaking away means you are following the sled dog right in front of you. That’s a shitty view, but you don’t have to think for yourself.<\/p>\n

I see too many people like that. Then I see the ones that stood up. They are inspiring.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, they will suffer from crab mentality.<\/p>\n