Up here folks are getting invested in something called the Sandpoint Transition Initiative. Here's a vid from my new best friend Suzan . Everyone's talking about permaculture and community gardens and being able to eat and heat next winter. One acre per person, half for food, half for fuel from ethanol stills, derived from jerusalem artichokes.
I seriously wonder what everyone else is gonna do.
Here's my life in a nutshell. I go back and forth from Holly's Place to Common Ground, then Perky Mama's. I know, that's the immediate image I get too. Still I've come to rest at Perky Mama's in the afternoons. I can sip wifi for a Total Cost of Ownership of $3 including a dollar tip. Shot in the Dark is what they call espresso in drip here. There's a guy in here I call Crazy Guy. He's all about charting the statistics on prices of Credit Default Swaps in relation to bankrupt companies and countries. Swears the price of CDS's for T-Bills is gonna go 'vertical' sometime between April 15 (his revenge on the IRS, I suspect) and Sept 1. So, what...happens then, I ask him. Well, there's no more credit. So we're in a cash economy. In You I Trust.
The Transition is talking about a home-grown currency. Barter. Sharing. Like one hour in the community garden would yield one meal at the organic vegetarian restaurant, or maybe all of the restaurants. They would get the veggies they need from the gardens. Sounds like a plan! Now, I just have to figure out how to get my coffee addiction taken care of...
I tell Crazy Guy about watching a couple of real estate salesmen working feverishly to sell a property once valued at $399K now selling for $249K. And there'll be way too many ritual ceremonies with dead chickens, what these loathe men call 'chicken dinners,' before any kind of sale happens. I say smugly, the only kind of house I would buy now would have to be made out of 50lb bags of beans and rice, so I could eat through the R-value. Ha-ha, as if I could afford enough bags for a kid's fort right now. Crazy Guy says the cheapest food comes from the animal feed store, 50lb bags of rolled oats for animals, poured from the same bin as human, but without all the FDA approved poison. Make sure, he says that it comes without the animal meds as well, unless you want the animal meds.
And anyway, since we're going into a deflationary spiral, we should just keep our cash, for tomorrow it will buy more bags of beans and rice and oatmeal.
Nyc Labrets, from NY City, now living in Germany, promises to never be boring. See if he keeps that promise.
Mar 30, 2009
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