That is my bedroom heater.
I woke up cold at 5AM and felt sorry for myself, how dare I - I thought at 9AM. It was my "own fault" as I had not been out at night to bring in more coal, and me, yes me, I had not chopped enough wood yesterday to last me through the night.
You have to own your own mistakes.
I have to admit I am going to be of little use today for myself, I split my thumb open yesterday and I know it will take a day or two to heal but hey we get another day above ground all the same.
A lot of things in my life are old, the farm, the barns - me.
Old does not have to be bad though, anything can be fixed if we try.
I am off grid again, even google maps has not driven past my farm, you can get an aerial view, not a street view, and it is not in my name, I do not exist, perfect.
My internet is mobile, a set up we worked on a few years ago, it is international now.
I can hook up and release from it as I wish, and I do. Reliance on anything is fragile, so I try to rely on nothing but myself at times, even then I let myself down, like at 5AM this morning.
It is roaring now.
What is it lunatics in power want?
I must admit I awoke thinking about this at 5am.
If you have food, heat, another day what more do you need?
I have a car, my wife has a car, she does not want to move to the farm and I say fine, up to you, we all have a choice in life.
My basic lifestyle is I guess what she does not like, offgrid, no running hot water, I have to heat it on the open fire, not everyone's cup of tea, but it is mine.
It takes effort, it really does and a lot of it, but it pays dividends in abundance.
@practicalthought try it, you will like it.
The older I get the more effort I want to put into life.
I can sit in a heated apartment in town, all mod cons, superbly fitted with everything you can and would need, but where is the fun in that? It just makes me lazy.
When you get cold put on more layers.
What 5AM made me realise is all I have to do is finish my HH0 heating system and then I do not have to wake up cold at 5AM, not that it bothered me that much anyway as I needed a pee. 😜
So with my split thumb and with 5AM still fresh in my mind and me being of little use to me today outside I shall try to perfect the heating via HHO and when I do you all get the plans online and for free, no patent and no charge.
Life is for living - sharing - caring - the lunatics that run the asylum simply put forgot that.
As my buddy on facebook states via a meme below.
I am off to catch some breakfast, starving now, but worth waiting for, you enjoy it more when you have to earn it, trust me.
Back to basics folks, it is the way to live. Get growing your own food and enjoy eating it.
Breakfast today shall be fine. Have a superb weekend. Enjoy.
Wow
I guess I'd get a bedroom heater here too
It's really nice
Cheers.
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I was watching some videos last night as I wonder how to transition with so much debt and so much lack of money, hahaha.
I have no direct access to land, so will need to plan something that is not traditional. I'm not sure how effective the strategy in this next video I watched last night is now that Blackrock and Gates have been driving up land to insane levels of value by overpaying for property though.
Superb videos buddy.
I've been wondering if you have no been making any progress on the HHO. Yeah been planting more fruit trees and some passion fruit vines and more to do.
Massive progress bro, found new nozzles to make it work better, the sort you fit to LPG cookers, less diameter, keep planting bud, the rewards are great.
Are we psychically connected or what? I was wondering if I could get away with not lighting the stove last night as it had been so warm. Then at about 9 I realised it was freezing so I did my daily routine to light the old stove and within 10 mins it was roaring. The woman who lived here before me hated the stove (which I bought new and had fitted for her). She swore it was useless. I found out why when I took over and she had never ever used it correctly or cleaned it properly. I love my stove and it works beautifully if I give it some TLC. If I woke up at 5am tho and was cold I'd just cuddle up under the duvet with the cat till the sun warmed up.
Yes I remember those cold mornings as a kid before getting the wood stove started. Nothing better than wood heat when it is cold though.
True that buddy.