livin like it's 1899! or at least not 2009.

for the last 11 years my husband has wanted the world to "come off its wheels."  he only says that because he has some serious need to go back to the old ways of living.

he wants to live off the land. i almost think i would like it too....BUT.......

he wants me to grow a garden (i have and i do it well).  he wants me to can and preserve my bounty (i have and i do it well).  he wants me to milk a cow (i can do it).  he wants me to wash clothes (i do lots of that). BUT....without electricity?  what? 

no electricity? no garden growing, canning, milking, or clean clothes!  "but kev, we HAVE to have electricity!!"

"well we could have electricity, but where we gonna get 1200 dollars and thats if we just use it a little?"  "uh duh kev, we like sell a cow or two?!" 

(BTW, that's always my answer.  we need money for vacation?  we need to pay for the kids college?  we need to have work done on the farm?  we need to do blah, blah, blah.....sell a cow.  WHEW!  thankfully he doesn't listen to me.  we wouldn't have any cows left on our farms.)

ok, back to muh story......

so he brings this up from time to time and he even gives it some thought.  he goes through the "how" we would make it work from every angle.  and i am like uh huh and yes because although i think it would sorta be cool and i am pretty sure that we could do it and probably do it well....its NEVER going to happen. 

anyway, tonight he stumbled accross this show on National Geographic called Alone in the Wild.  its pretty cool.  i am enjoying it.  so is he, but i know he's thinking he could do it better.  "dead eye" as his grandpa Paul Williams called him could deliver on the hunting.  he's not really scared of bears, it seems, so i know he would totally enjoy trading places at the farmer's co-op with the fellow who's scared almost to death out there in the Yukon!

so as he watched this show tonight he began his grand plan....hmmmmmmm.  it sounded nice, but i just said, "well lets think about it some more and write out a plan."

he said we would never do it because we'd be to scared to totally let go of our current day to day!  i am mainly just scared of not being able to get nice sharp razors.  these legs grow forrests and for that reason alone...i am not sure it will ever happen.

wait.....we will need lots of razors?  we could just sell a cow?!  :) we could totally do it.........

i will let you know. 


p.s i love this man!  did i say that yet?!?