The more bad news I read online, the less I seem to worry about it. I’m not happy about gas prices, obviously. Food prices aren’t helping either. Still, it looks like the cold weather is leaving slowly. (KATU reports snow level down to 2000 feet this week, just above our heads.) We’ve been able to let both the goats and geese out a bit, although we still need to put in pens for both. We’re planning where we want to put in the new building, whatever it is. I re-read the underground house book and we talked about a place where we can build into the slope. There’s actually a perfect spot for it, already dug out. We’d have to shore up the slope in that spot and it is on the wet side of the place. I still doubt that we’ll build underground, but it’s a spot I hadn’t considered before. The view from that spot is not as nice as up top, but it is a lot more sheltered.
We are getting use of a couple of mountain bikes that were donated to the church several years ago. We can use those to ride over to the place we caretake for the church. We’re getting use of Mike’s chainsaw, the one that Jeffrey moved inside after Abe left it out on a stump this fall. We’ve got the word out that we’re looking for an old snowmobile, which would really make life easier for us in the winter. The puppy is getting bigger and easier to deal with every day. This week, we’ve been letting her sleep on the floor with the big dogs, instead of in the cat carrier. So far, she’s behaved well.
So I guess we need to focus on the things going well in our lives, instead of listening to how bad it is supposed to be. Maybe the problems are being overstated. Maybe it’s those folks out there somewhere, that have the problems, not us in Stabler. Folks in Stabler live in hard times pretty much always. So they have ways to deal with it, mostly sharing what they have and trying to find ways to do without what they don’t have. Things may get worse, but then again, maybe they will get better. Who really knows?
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