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Santa Rosa's Coffey Park community has resources also, including how they organized to cope with things:
https://coffeystrong.com/wildfire-resou ... -wildfire/

A quick overview for homeowners: https://thebolditalic.com/what-i-wish-i ... 06b1f2382b

It's good for inspiration, sometimes for meeting other like-minded folks, and can be a fun sort of learning vacation. If you haven't physically done anything, a good course that goes hands-on can help you get confident about doing things like building swales. It can be helpful to spend several days ...

Would it be possible to flip the idea of branding on its head? Yes...I would add to some of the other early signals you mention: SDR Traveller (Jan Chipchase), who seemed to grasp this with unbranded bags which were highly coveted. Part of the cachet was that carrying one was supposed to make you l...

I'd suggest Callie Russell: https://www.caprakhan.com/ She was a contestant on Alone, and it was clear during the show that she was playing on a different level that most. IIRC, she was recruited into the show (rather than hearing about it and then doing all of the marketing-type work to get selecte...

The kind of growth that you're experiencing by being able to look back at patterns, recognize them, and also recognize a tendency to repeat them, is very painful. I've experienced some of that with respect to relationship and addiction patterns. That is different in the details of what you experienc...

Somehow I missed your journal earlier, but just enjoyed finding it. I really resonated with what you're saying about putting boundaries around your yoga time. I have always, in the past, let go of those kinds of things as others put demands on my time and energy. I've learned that it's a bad sign ab...

Does anyone else feel about as angsty as their teenage form and then sit sullenly listening to "Cafo" by Animals As Leaders? Does anyone want to cry? Or, is there a real chance, knowing my mental health history, that I just need to take it easy, buy a nice rug to tie the room together, an...

Amazing life! Thank you for sharing it with us!

Very cool! I think it was your posts that inspired me to track down the very first season of Bob Vila's "This Old House". I just watched them pull a wall back in alignment. It's all incredibly fascinating. And empowering, to start to understand how a house actually functions. Thanks for th...

That was a good read. Real life is always messier than The Plan, and yet everything he did before that 5 years of no posts gave him a lot of options and resilience for handling how everything played out during that time. I feel like he's a little apologetic for not doing things according to the arch...

Please bear in mind that I am 56 and I usually date men who are 7 to 12 years older than me. I will have to pack nitroglycerin if I push them past two vowels and one consonant :lol: Oh well...if they die, they die :lol: My experience is that fun with the right ones results in weight almost magicall...

Has anyone tried Mirazyme on fabric that someone used Fabreeze on? Sometimes I buy used clothing online and the odor—I'm pretty sure it's Fabreeze—is nauseating. Searching online for ways to counteract it results in "try baking soda, try vinegar", but my experience has been that they don't...

...the greatest overall expense in life is not getting the little bit of stuff you truly need or uniquely desire; it's keeping the irredeemable crap (widely defined to include stuff like grouchy or dramatic behavior) being created by other humans and living or corporate entities (such as raccoon fe...

I have a sort of hybrid system for hot weather, of minimizing indoor heat and adding outdoor cooking. My little studio is pretty well-insulated, so if I can let it cool as much as possible at night and then close all windows and sun-facing curtains in the morning,it does pretty well. But cooking hea...

You have been busy! And the FlyLady would be proud. I love the conservatory, and every home I've ever dreamed of has a library. LOL on the realtor's suggestion. Blockchain Trash Pandas would be a good band name, though. Seriously, there's worse things than odor in a raccoon latrine. You are undoubte...

Nice mushrooms! I went on a local mushroom hunting foray this week. We didn't find much good to eat; the conditions aren't right, and I was disappointed about how little I learned about ID. Foraging might be an interesting thing to consider for your overall system. Some geographic areas are better f...

I have some project-envy myself, and at the same time not naive about the amount of effort that's going to take. There are some good resources there. You can take some time with the trees. I wonder if coppicing the maple would be useful. You can probably deal with the raccoon without calling in a pa...

How exciting! Will be reading along with interest. In my opinion, making this sort of thing easy to do should be a priority of government, but I know it's an uphill battle to do anything but throw (borrowed) money at things like this. I admire you for taking it on, and seems like you are getting som...

The book also offers a great deal of advice on shopping for a property that would be well-suited for low energy future retrofit and specifics on achieving such a retrofit. Luckily, the property I am hopefully closing on next week did pretty well on his checklist of factors to consider :D Thanks for...