Anita and I spent the morning sawing logs. On the mill. We made a couple tapered colums for an arbor I'm doing for a neighbor. I like the way we can take our own Doug fir trees and make things out of them that ordinary mills just can't do: tapered work, for instance. Try getting something like that from the mainland and it will cost you a fortune. I usually use them for gate posts or columns for arbors. More and more of my landscape construction work uses my own wood from my own property. I like that better than the old days of giving my money to the lumberyard.
This afternoon we went to the meeting of the Seed Coop to hash out an order for next Spring. It looks like there are more local seeds available, and we had a few new people participating this year.
The successful people in America moving forward will be those who attach themselves to cohesive local communities, places with integral local economies and sturdy social networks, especially places that can produce a significant amount of their own food. James Howard Kunstler, 2009
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