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January, 2012 Issue
#128
KICKIN’ OFF
ANOTHER NEW YEAR
Many of our
friends made it over for a lucky bowl of rice and beans on the first day of
2012. Jill and Tami shared a good belly laugh and we also caught Sam, Carol, Glen, Chris and Andy having
a good time. For more pictures, check out: Third Annual Hoppin’ John Party 2012
FIRST RIDE
OF THE YEAR
Sharon and Barbara
with Peggy tucked in there somewhere as seen through Hailey’s ears.
Barbara on the ground, after checking out a small bleeding foot on her horse
Joker. Peggy’s horse Simon is snuffling Barbara
for the carrots he knows she carries. Sharon is laughing, as per usual while Hailey and Mingo have silent
words with each other. Notice the absence of blaze orange. Deer hunting season
ends on January first, a date all non-hunting woodsy types look forward to eagerly.
LUCKY
BREAK
This is what
happened when Camille punched Hailey for kicking at Joker and Barbara when they
walked up alongside them on the trail. She smacked the horse with enough force
to break the fifth metacarpal neck in her right hand. More on this on our blog.
THE JENNY
Life has been a
little livelier since Jenny joined Tami and Camille at the Abundance Foundation.
She rides her bike to work, laughs easily and isn’t afraid to take her shoes off
and wade across icy Robeson Creek on the cross country commute
to town from Oilseed. Tami took this picture of Jenny and Camille in front of
the grain silos at historic Lindley Mills in Graham, a family-owned mill that
has been in the family for one hundred years and grinding flour for thirty-five
years.
ADVENTURES
IN TAMI-LAND
Tami usually
swirls around us like a tornado – a force of nature who is never in one place
too long. On this day both Jenny and Camille hopped onto Tami’s roller
coaster car for the day. We started at Link and Hannah’s, applying paint to the
exterior of their new home, then on to Burlington for a meeting at Company Shops
Market and a memorable stop at Lindley Mills for four twenty-five pound sacks of flour
and wheat berries on the
way home.
BREAKFAST
AND DINNER
Well, we
haven’t gotten tired of eating yet. Nor of taking pictures of our food. For
breakfast, fried potatoes and ketchup, tofu scramble and browned seitan
sausage slices. For dinner, pan fried Quorn Chick’n Patty, mashed potatoes,
vegan gravy and braised greens.
MORNINGS
Mornings are made
for sitting in the sun or working, depending on the day and who you are. Scott
and Rachel’s cat, Orange Ligons
hangs out in the sun with Spot on another impossibly bright Friday morning. Bob
brews beer with the precision of a Swiss clock maker on a Sunday morning.
MOVING
Molly and Shane
found a cute little house on five acres to rent and are leaving the farm. Bob helped disassemble the
very bed frame that bit Shane’s foot. With the help of Molly and Garth the frame
and box spring were loaded on Blanche for the ride to the new place. We’ll miss having Molly
and Shane next door but are excited about the move. This will be the first time
they have lived in their own home without roommates.
DAIKON OF
A DIFFERENT COLOR
A hybrid happened
in the fields next door. Seed was saved and this year we are enjoying the subtle
colors of the purple daikon.
FLUFFY
Fallen branches grow moss, especially during a wet and mild winter. Glen took this picture of
Camille and the decorated branch while sharing a walk together through Tami and
Lyle’s woods.
FUELING
AROUND
We finished off
the month by burning some biodiesel driving over to Asheville for a couple of
nights. Bob went to attend a Grocery Coop workshop and Camille went along for
the ride. We stopped at Dana’s home for a tasty brunch and got to meet some of
her super fun friends and get caught up with Matt before making the three and a
half hour drive back to the flatlands. Naturally, Bob brought an extra five
gallons of biodiesel along so we wouldn’t have to buy any of that nasty
dino-fuel.
THIS MONTH’S QUOTES:
“So the current crisis
really began in the 1970’s when the wages stopped rising, but it’s effects were
postponed for a generation by debt. By 2007, however, the American working class
had accumulated a level of debt that was unsustainable.”
“The amazing thing about the
last thirty years is the collective self-delusion in the U.S. You cannot keep
borrowing money if your ability to pay it back – i.e., your real wage – isn’t
going up. You don’t need a PhD in economics to understand this.”
“If you go back to the end
of World War II, for every dollar that Washington got from American taxpayers,
it got $1.50 from corporations. >snip< In 2011, for every dollar that the
federal government gets in revenue from individuals, it gets twenty-five cents
from corporations. Corporations have lobbied successfully to shift the tax
burden from themselves to wage earners. That’s class warfare.”
“Much of the rhetoric in the
Right is less an ideological debate than it is a thin fig leaf for private
business interests. When the Right says it wants the government to “create
jobs,” it means it wants subsidies for private business and bigger defense
contracts, but not higher taxes to provide funds to hire government
workers.”
– from “Capitalism and
its discontents, Richard Wolff on what went wrong” in the February issue of
The Sun Magazine
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