RE: ~ 121 ~ Walk With Me Down the Old Wooden River Road
I love the sound of water. I love rivers especially. I am lucky here at Toad Hall as the sound of the sea is the heartbeat of the place. In fact, I put up with a lot of things in a house I'd normally be annoyed at because of where it happens to sit. The roar of the wave or the more subtle lap and splash on calmer days. It really does feed the soul.
We were down to one car for almost two years, but we could both work from home. Now that @winstonalden is back to the city job he needs his car to drive to the commuter train. Good ole 'merica ripped out all the good train lines after WWII so they could sell us all into being constant car owners. And between insepctions and insurance and fuel costs, I hate car ownership. But, now we are back to two cars again because I need to have one here as I need to get to my cottages in the Summer. Otherwise, we'd be down to one.
We used to live carless back in the day. We had bikes and worked part time at a local coffee shop that we rode our bikes to (about 3 miles one way so I was in MUCH better shape).
In our area it isn't easy living without a car if you are not in the city. However in UK I found it easier to be car-less.
Good luck with truck repair. It must not be easy to not have wheels with three boys, but you seem to be a smart hard-working industrious crew so I am sure you make it work with smiles and determination.
The chickens in the same box, so funny and so true. I'm trying a new in between free range and pen approach with my chickens. This is only week one, but I fence in a small area close to the house where their house in that has good tree cover and I've been letting them out. However as there is not roof wire I hope a hawk doesn't figure out they are there or they might have to go back to simply 'chicken run' life. It's always an experiement with the birds. A fun one, but sometimes a nail biter too. I don't know how you manage to not get your birds attacked by fox and hawks, but then again you have a lot and they are probably better at free ranging then my little bantams who are so friendly they'd probably walk up to the fox looking for a handout.
Aww, good for you for experimenting with them in their new little enclosure, I have my fingers crossed for you, it should be all good, I don't know if a hawk would want to get in that close, with the trees right above the run like that.
The reason we've been so lucky with predators is a bit of a catch 22. It's because we live right on the highway, and there is a factory across the road from us that runs all night, it's got huge fans that turn on periodically and is always lit up too, so I think predators don't find our little stretch very appealing as they can't be very sneaky and they are afraid of the lights, cars and noises.