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Post by synergy on Jan 5, 2014 22:11:52 GMT -5
Littleminnie you have the most RADIANT picture for your avatar, just lovely !
What are you Californians doing if every 2 out of 3 years is drought?
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Post by steev on Jan 5, 2014 23:46:15 GMT -5
We didn't use to see 2 of 3 years drought, more like every 10 or 20 years.
Besides, there used to be far fewer people in California expecting to drink and flush from the Sierra snow-melt, as well as far fewer people in the rest of the USA (and the world) expecting to eat California produce.
I doubt that humans are smart enough not to breed up to environmental limits, and then, when times get tough, as they sometimes do, we will make war on one another for resources, because "my group needs this stuff", just as "my group deserves to reproduce". That's fine, though, since the arms manufacturers deserve a sweet profit for providing the means by which each of us can protect ourselves from the undeserving and demanding.
Say! Mikail Kalashnikov died. There's a man who made the world a better place, nyet?
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coppice
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Post by coppice on Jan 6, 2014 6:37:47 GMT -5
Hunt trees and tree seed on the internet for local reforestry projects and Need4Seed. Set up cold stratify pots for tree seed.
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Post by littleminnie on Jan 7, 2014 15:48:21 GMT -5
Littleminnie you have the most RADIANT picture for your avatar, just lovely ! What are you Californians doing if every 2 out of 3 years is drought? Thanks but I would prefer yours. I worked with horses for 10 years and now don't even ride anymore. I did dressage and miss it terribly.
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Post by steev on Jan 7, 2014 22:08:58 GMT -5
Years ago, when my ex was not yet my ex-to-be, we used to ride every week-end on rent-a-nags; it was good; we got the same horses, so everybody was comfortable. I know my lower back would be less iffy if I were doing that to keep my torso toned up.
I like the idea of working with draft-horses; I am ignorant of horse-care, so it's just a fantasy, but I think I'd be stoked to go full-tilt on a draft-horse, even without armor.
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Post by synergy on Jan 9, 2014 0:46:56 GMT -5
When it comes to horses I have been blessed over and over to have the horses of my dreams : ) Very few people get to have a horse of a lifetime and I have gotten to have quite a few really amazing ones . And I have great sons too : ) I ripped apart a knee and while I can walk , I can't ride until I elect to have surgery. I tried and tried but I still get to hang with my horses daily and I love them. I am doing a little winter window shopping on the internet for a new piece of land, looking on Vancouver Island and the Coromandel Peninsula , that will involve selling this farm I have been tending organically for 20 years and I have soil here to die for and so much planted and the way I want it to function but it is getting more and more urban here I am thinking of getting out while we still have some bubble left in our real estate.
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Post by richardw on Jan 9, 2014 12:00:26 GMT -5
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Post by synergy on Jan 10, 2014 4:43:43 GMT -5
Is there another ? Yes, I am looking at property in the Wentworth valley inland from Whangamata
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jan 10, 2014 13:13:11 GMT -5
Normally I stay home during winter snow storms, and for a few days after. However this week a friend needed some company during an outing so I went out in a storm... I found out that I have been missing out on my natural winter job. Small 20 to 50 HP tractors were all over the place cleaning up the snow. What a glorious double use for equipment. Cultivating during the summer and snow removal during the winter.
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Post by richardw on Jan 10, 2014 15:41:39 GMT -5
Is there another ? Yes, I am looking at property in the Wentworth valley inland from Whangamata Have family at Whangamata,spent a memorable few summer weeks there in my teens with some cousins swimming in the harbour,also has one of the best beaches in NZ
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Post by synergy on Jan 14, 2014 21:49:05 GMT -5
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Post by steev on Jan 14, 2014 22:11:24 GMT -5
Sweet!
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Post by synergy on Jan 14, 2014 22:31:09 GMT -5
Even sweeter , that tree line is a drain ditch fed by a spring on the property! 5 miles one way to the beach and a coastal community of 5,000 that swells 7 fold with summer vacationers and less than 1 mile to the the opposite way to thousands of hectares of Department of Conservation bush, camping ground and trails. Maybe its a mid life crisis but I have wanted to live there for 20 years and now my kids are raised.
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Post by templeton on Jan 14, 2014 23:29:06 GMT -5
All that green hurts my eyes... (just envy from the sunburnt country ) Looks and sounds gorgeous Syn, just some cheeky prying, you're in N America, no? So how do you even begin to conceptualise moving to a foreign country on the other side of the pacific? T
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Post by synergy on Jan 16, 2014 4:29:28 GMT -5
Whim perhaps . I grew up on Vancouver Island and the gulf islands so I understand the pace of island culture and I am used to that kind of beauty , we have it here, where we are is emerald pretty much year round, mountains, beaches , forests are like oxygen when you have been raised with it . The principal of the planning consulting company I worked for went back home to New Zealand and I looked it up and just was taken with it and that was 20 years ago . I quit my career to be a single mom and farmer breeding show jumping horses ( a life long passion and i pretty much did everything I dreamed of doing with it ) and had my farm organic and did permaculture type stuff the last 20 years and raised my family . Now I will sell my suburban farm and buy something back on Vancouver Island and go investigate New Zealand because I have always followed what i feel is true to myself, followed my heart over my head, but this time my head is agreeing. Gut instinct along with taking the time to educate myself with three university courses on climate change, I am now enrolling in the World Bank course on living in a 4c warmer world ( and I already know what that means but I learn something new each course) . Some of us here raised here in BC wow, we are not raised like so many others . We learn all our lives to fight for more accountable fishing practices , more accountable forestry. We live all our lives with hydro power and I'd rather go off grid than use nuclear power, we have mountains of uranium and exploration and mining of it is illegal in BC while Canada has decided to outdo Australia to be the biggest source of uranium fuel core material and match Australia's no accountability of how it is used . And here we fight the exploitation of the tarsands refusing a pipeline and new refineries to ship it overseas. We fight to refuse the USA from using our sheltered inside passaged through the islands to ship their oil and we have had a 30 year moratorium on off shore oil exploration even though we know there is oil and have had preasure from the USA to lift it . Then we have the nuclear countries like japan affecting our coast and the USA and I do not think too highly of it. so New Zealand is far from perfect ( DoC poison drops , crooked government policies, now fighting offshore oil exploration like everywhere else pretty much) but it has some integrity left to be non nuclear and against GMO's and analysing from a planner perspective who does not put economic prosperity or career foremost, New Zealand will be one of the most livable countries outside the northern hemisphere with a culture even remotely similar to our own . So I may well go for 6 months in each country until I figure out exactly if I want to be there or here or both and how I will achieve that. To me it makes perfect sense and follows my gut instinct , even knowing I will miss my friends and family is that this is the right thing to at least look into.
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