Exactly, sir. It is why I cannot stand to be as involved in politics as I once was. I still love policy, but hate politicians.


I am now doing something that we spoke of years ago. I have obtained a few acres of lovely rolling meadow on an abandoned dairy farm in a remove valley. I am having an energy-efficient house built at the crest of a hill with the basement half buried in the ground and a full open walkout on the back, with R40 insulation between 2x6 studs, with soil tested as "sandy loam" down to 61 inches (the maximum test depth) on all thirteen tested sites on the property. I got a 100 foot wide easement back to the property and have put a road in the center of it and will line its full quarter mile length wiht a corridor of fruit and nut trees. The house has been mostly framed this week and will be finished framing by next week ... and we should move in by October first.


Within five years, we should be virtually self sufficient in every major way. Then the HELL with the insanity that passes for a government here.


Yes, I am really doing it. If worst comes to worst, when I am in I will pass you and John my address. If the sh!t ever really hits the fan, Suzanne and I would welcome you and another set of willing hands to make this work! I think that we had ALL best have an escape plan. This is mine.


Edited 1 time by gwhit715 07/07/07 22:27.