Well, here I am. Opening my life to the general web and that audience that mostly pursues porn and cute cat pics. None of that here, ...well, mostly. The purpose of this blog is to discuss matters of great insignificance. In reality, there are four lines of prose i want to follow; 1) my response to my wife's embracement of a new, green way of living life, 2) my skeptical response to interesting but scary notions of life and conspiracy, 3) moments from my own life and how I have changed, 4) some of my hobbies and my progress in them. Digging A Green Life is a blog my wife started to record our progress in..., well, living a green life.
I introduced my wife to the British series The Good Life, known in the US as Good Neighbors, back in the 90s, although the show is from the 70s. Basically, it revolves around a married couple that adopt a self-sufficient lifestyle much to the chagrin of their conventional neighbors. They turn their front and back yards into gardens and eventually introduce animals to their home in suburbia. Each week saw them attempting to solve conventional suburbia problems using their simple, self sufficient philosophy. Katherine and I really liked the idea of 'getting off the grid'. This show, perhaps inadvertently, supported our idea that it could be done. Well, we are far from being at that same level but Katherine did turn half of our front yard into raised gardens while I was away for an extended period of time. I was very unhappy that I wasn't consulted about this at the time but have come to really enjoy growing some of our own food. We have received several compliments from people walking by and this helps to re-affirm that it is a good thing, a "Good Life" if you will. More recently Katherine has been dropping hints that she wants a goat. I'm not so sure our neighborhood is zoned for that sort of thing. I did have a week-long reprieve from this after we went to the Virginia State Fair and Katherine started thinking along the lines of Alpaca. To be honest, Katherine would be just as happy if I got her a couple of otters, but that's not gonna happen either.
I introduced my wife to the British series The Good Life, known in the US as Good Neighbors, back in the 90s, although the show is from the 70s. Basically, it revolves around a married couple that adopt a self-sufficient lifestyle much to the chagrin of their conventional neighbors. They turn their front and back yards into gardens and eventually introduce animals to their home in suburbia. Each week saw them attempting to solve conventional suburbia problems using their simple, self sufficient philosophy. Katherine and I really liked the idea of 'getting off the grid'. This show, perhaps inadvertently, supported our idea that it could be done. Well, we are far from being at that same level but Katherine did turn half of our front yard into raised gardens while I was away for an extended period of time. I was very unhappy that I wasn't consulted about this at the time but have come to really enjoy growing some of our own food. We have received several compliments from people walking by and this helps to re-affirm that it is a good thing, a "Good Life" if you will. More recently Katherine has been dropping hints that she wants a goat. I'm not so sure our neighborhood is zoned for that sort of thing. I did have a week-long reprieve from this after we went to the Virginia State Fair and Katherine started thinking along the lines of Alpaca. To be honest, Katherine would be just as happy if I got her a couple of otters, but that's not gonna happen either.
2 comments:
This week I'd like some chickens. And we are zoned for that! What do you say, shall we place an order? ;)
We're zoned for chickens? ...crap.
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