Babbling about life, December 26th 2023

Tue, 26 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The weather – and gravity of our planning – has me feeling exhausted, so I mostly napped, but I also moved a few bins around down by the 202 Soilworks.
Talked with Zitkato:
- Gave me some tasks I added to the migration plans and living-with-notes.
- Told him about how we brought tree frogs back to the headwaters of Crooked Creek.
- Also shared some photos of our HDPE potato hotbox and our Soilworks.
  - He wasn’t irked by the groundhog aesthetic. “It’s not trash if you use it.”
  - Talked about my ideas for HDPE casting using solar ovens.
- Asked about water: available nearby, walk or short drive. “The people around you will be there to help.”
- Zitkato says, “Jobs are scarce but we are working on that too,” and mentioned a potential food truck. (Could we provide them with microgreens and/or mushrooms?)
- I mentioned Mo and Ari and Zitkato was excited: they’ve been wanting a welder to help make wood stoves.
- I asked if an arrival in mid/late March 2024 was feasible, and he said we’d make it work.
- We talked a bit about how if we do not make opportunities for accomplices to help us, then well-intentioned folk have no option but to support the grifters.
- Zitkato spoke to coming from an orientation of revolutionary suicide.
- We can use his Uncle Leo’s PO box at first.
- He mentioned we’ll be building a buffalo prairie.
- I talked about the cranefly orchid that has come up in the headwaters of Crooked Creek through this winter.
Talked with Ralph McDonald:
- No actions had been taken in actually buying a homestead.
- Their searching had expanded all the way to West Virginia, so wasn’t likely to provide the accommodations we’d want.
- Told him that we had our plan: migration to Pine Ridge and wanted to make sure he wouldn’t feel abandoned if we did that.
- He said he wouldn’t, and would be happy to help with the migration.
- That might solve parts of the issues with the garden relocation: he can take things that we can’t, back to Atlanta or wherever.
Talked with Hannah Kass:
- Explained a bit about the migration.
- They want to write something about it with me, to iteratively document and manifest it.
- I set up #mooneys-island within Turntide Islands for this discussion.
- In that channel I’ve discussed that we’re using AI as part of the Groundhog Autonomous Zone.

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Babbling about life, December 26th 2023