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butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway · 3 months ago

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Honestly, there's still a lot of things to do around the house before I'm happy with how things are, but improvements are being made, slowly but surely.

My hope is that every step forward makes the next easier. Having the supplies to make our own laundry powder is a big one. I suspect the next will be eliminating our reliance on paper towels and toilet paper (bidet and knitted woolen scrubby cloths ahoy I guess). I also want to make myself a woolen knit wrapped chainmail scrubby for cleaning with. So much easier to wash down the counters and appliances with that then paper towels or cleaning rags. Maybe I'll even get fancy and make myself mopping slippers out of a pair of those panels. I would love to be able to finally abandon the mop and bucket approach.

#I think I might want to reture sooner than expected #just retreat into my forest and write in my spare time #i know that modern conveniences are ostensibly worthwhile but god i have ever missed #the water pumps and the irrigation paths we laid thru the goat fields to grow cacti and citrus apricot trees #the feeling of real wood and stone and clay around me instead of plastic #the smell of pine cones popping in the fire and the squeak of crickets #the world is a different place than when I was a kid #maybe there's room for modernity to enhance

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