Housing – Diesel to prepare the lot where the house is built; energy of many kinds to create and transport materials such as lumber and wiring; human energy to put the pieces together; electricity for lights after it is built; natural gas or electricity to heat the home after it is built...
Proximity to firewood Proximity to your shelter Proximity to water source You should already have your fire. Once you've picked a good location, clear away any brush and dig a pit 4 to 6 inches deep and 3 feet across. If there are large rocks nearby, place them around the pit to ...
If it is to small it will not have enough force to split the wood.wedge: A heavy iron wedge made for splitting firewood will work fine. Alternatively use a old axe and hammer it through the log. Don't use you good axe for that. You ruin the axe that way.Knife: a small sharp ...
WWOOFis a service that matches people looking for work on farms with farmers who are looking for labor. It’s more a loose affiliation of like-minded groups using the same name than one large international organization. In order to become a WWOOFer, you need to sign up for the national or...
but on the outside I am 74. I have not always run at life. Sometimes I stand still and life runs at me. This Blog will be about fear, and excitement and living large and small. It's about the places I've been and the people I've met and the daily passings that wore me down...
large brain in early childhood sets the groundwork for complex learning later in life and thus increases future performance (Kaplan and Robson2002; Kaplan et al.2003). This investment in embodied capital, according to Kaplan et al. (2000), is a driving factor in the evolution of human ...
Our house was of the sort they call an izba [a typical peasant log cabin], if I'm not mistaken. Then, next to the kitchen was the gornitsa [the main living-room in a peasant's hut]. That's the kind of house it was. A large one, and our family was large, too. Around ...
Freshly cut firewood contains large amounts of water that evaporates when stored indoors. Better keep it outside. Keep downspouts and gutters clean. Adjust downspouts so they carry water farther from the house. Restrict watering plants to bare necessity. Prevent water from pooling at and around ...
Seasoned firewood is the best, because it has been left to dry out for months or even years. If firewood has been seasoned properly, it will catch quickly and sustain a nice burn. When outdoors at a campsite or in the woods, look for fallen logs, or find an older tree to chop down...