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William Guppy's avatar

I'm going to grow a garden, Randy. With potatoes and chickens.

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JunZi's avatar

I kept chickens for a while, went to war with the rats that inevitably showed up to eat the feed from the mess the birds made. It was as many as 10-15 dead in the traps I set up all around the house. Eventually moved the chickens to my brother-in-law's because he wanted to build a coop. Declared victory and let the rats take what was left of the feed. Saigon in miniature.

The thing with growing your own food and up-keeping your own home and community is, it's a real full-time job. Not much attention left for Netflix shows or Youtube vids about inter-dimensional MK ULTRA psychic queens and time-traveling lizard people and Antarctic Nazi bases... Instead you have to look for what's entertaining about the current narrative you inhabit, aka existence.

The crummy part is the CG's not as good. The nice part is that it's real, aka the Truth.

The challenge of these post, post-modern times is not to simulate hardship while simultaneously trying to maximize ease and comfort, it's to love the real, boring hardship that comes with real life.

Love the whole process.

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