Sunsaver, Livining Off-Grid In Suburbia- Happy Taconight America!

[sunsaver]

Today was more just a day of pure frustration. At least i managed to shake the sad feelings i was having yesterday. Im hoping i can do a semi-bonsai to the avocado tree and buy this semi-dwarf avocado tree that i saw advertised as a house plant that produces real avocados indoors. I might have to eventually put them in the ground and build a large cold frame around them. Whatever i have to do, avocados are definitely part of my ss vision. My little avo tree is almost two feet tall now, and growing well in filtered shade under one of my massive pine trees. Everything is growing good after that 2 inches of rain last week and a shower today. Tomorrow i'll fix the truck and pull some weeds, and hopefully the sun will come out and charge up my solar battery bank. I'll have plenty of hot and have a nice ss day!

 

[Marianne]

Hang in there. I just finished up three weeks of craaaap...or was it four? Argh. Anyway, it's over now!
My new hens recently started laying, so I took some new potatoes and a couple dozen eggs to my neighbor. She gave me two really good canteloupes from her garden. In spite of the crap we get, life's still good.
You can come to our place to have a drink but it's kind of a long drive for ya.

 

[Denim Deb]

Especially since he's having truck trouble.

 

[dragonlaurel]

Today was more just a day of pure frustration. At least i managed to shake the sad feelings i was having yesterday. Im hoping i can do a semi-bonsai to the avocado tree and buy this semi-dwarf avocado tree that i saw advertised as a house plant that produces real avocados indoors. I might have to eventually put them in the ground and build a large cold frame around them. Whatever i have to do, avocados are definitely part of my ss vision. My little avo tree is almost two feet tall now, and growing well in filtered shade under one of my massive pine trees. Everything is growing good after that 2 inches of rain last week and a shower today. Tomorrow i'll fix the truck and pull some weeds, and hopefully the sun will come out and charge up my solar battery bank. I'll have plenty of hot and have a nice ss day!

Ooooh! Who carries semi-dwarf avocados? That could work!
Sounds like you could use some chocolate therapy.

 

[sunsaver]

Off-grid and broke down in suburbia. Hooray! The vodka is working it's magic and i feel better already! As soon as find that dwarf avocado, i'll post you a link, DL. Still waiting for that fan belt! Maybe OFG can chopper one in for me. I could just see my neighbors freaking out when a chopper lands in the middle of the street and a dog comes running out with a fan belt in his mouth!

 

[Denim Deb]

Especially since the dog would be wearing a tiara!

 

[sunsaver]

Ha! Ha! Forgot the tiara! That's a good one, DD! Well i got the belt put on, after cussing for thirty minutes, and manage to get decent tension on it. So the fan and power steering are working again. Now if i had some money, i could actually go places and do things. Looks like you folks are stuck with with me. It's stay at home and be ss today. I washed a load of clothes and broke the wash board again. Guess that glue wasn't as strong as i am.
Got plenty of sun today, and i expect my little solar system will be fully charged by this evening. That means plenty of free TV viewing from my massive 13ft wide roof top antenna. There's only two things i like to watch on Saturday evenings: Britcoms on AETN and LPB, and SNL on NBC. One of my favorite Britcoms is called "The Old Guys" It's about two retired guys who are room mates, and they are both in love with the woman who lives next door. Watching them fight for her attention is hilarious!

 

[sunsaver]

A Tale of Fiction:

The free man dragged his legs through the swamp. Sometimes up to his waist and often just puddles of mud that clutched at his feet: the brown water was an alligator infested mine field. Miles of nothing but dark water, bugs, and massive cypress trees with trunks that looked like wrinkled gray elephants, blocking his way and making him walk twice as far going around. He had seen elephants one time at a circus, when he had to clean the defecations from their cages, and he remembered looking into the eyes of one old buck. 'Help me?' The giant animal had asked.
'There's nothing i can do!'He thought back.
'Leave the door open on your way out.'
'Then what? Get arrested for letting a wild animal loose on the streets? Where would you go? No. I'm sorry, but i can't help you!'
It was a disturbing, imaginary mental conversation with an intelligent alien from some other world called "Africa". He shuddered with the creeps as his skin crawled up into goose pimples, invisible fur standing up on his back and spine. Do animals have "souls"? It was a bizarre irony that he would remember that old elephant, especially considering everything that had happened to him since then. Was this divine irony, or just some odd twist of fate. He started praying in his mind, as he stubbed his toes, over and over, on hidden cypress knees beneath the murky waters of the swamp. ' Dear God, give me the strength to...'
Slowly the land began to rise. His fear of gators had proved unwarranted, as there were little prey available in the oxygen deficient swamp, but things changed when he came upon a small bayou, running west to east. A dozen turtles and at least two gators splashed into the water as he came crashing loudly through the brush like a frightened deer. He started to remember other strange and horned animals from the circus. Antelope heads, monkey heads, gorillas and other strange trophies. He had spent his entire life in cotton fields. He had no idea what evil creatures might lay in the woods beyond. The forest was suddenly a primal and terrifying place filled with unknown monsters, bears and wild cats, killer hogs. It was the first time in his life that he was truly afraid.
But he soon pulled himself together. He had a mission and a goal, and the bayou was in his way. He backed up, took a long run and jumped as far as he could. To his surprise, he landed only ten feet from the opposite shore, and was able to stand on the muddy bottom of the shallow stream. He ran through the muddy water like trying to run in a nightmare. It seemed to take forever to reach the other bank, and crawling out of the muck, he collapsed from exhaustion.
His mother came walking out of the house, carrying a freshly baked pie. His whole family was there, celebrating some occasion that he just couldn't put his finger on, some national holiday, but it didn't seem to matter. The smell of good food was surrounded by an overwhelming sense of peace and love, as if he was in heaven. 'This is the best!' He thought.
Then he heard a squirrel barking. Suddenly he was wide awake, and the events of the last couple of days came crashing down on him like a cut tree that had twisted in an unexpected way, cutting off his legs. Wide awake and alert, he jumped to his feet and held his breath, as he listen to the sounds of the forest around him. His heart was racing in a sudden panic, and time seemed to come to a complete stop.

 

[dragonlaurel]

You're a good writer!

 

[Denim Deb]

You left us hanging again!