Pedal Power

is bad ass.
Earth Day is coming. Here's a tribute to sustainability, simplicity, energy conservation, and exercise.

Water pump

Circular saw

Threshing rice

This next one is infinitely useful. The bike generates electricity to charge that fat battery. This is used in some rural school overseas somewhere where 32 children pedal for 15 minutes a day and give uninterrupted power for their classrooms. Sweet! It uses a stationary bike rather than a mobile one.


This next one really interests me cause it's one that I could use on a regular basis to conserve energy (or expend energy, which every way you look at it). I don't think you'd have to use one of those front loading ones, any old machine would work.

So here's the best set-up i've seen. It's (of course) Job Ebenezer's. It uses a second chain connected to the front of the bike, this way you are facing your work as you pedal, rather than having to crane your neck around to watch what's happening. You can hook this up to absolutley anything. And you can see it's on a small stand that you can fold up and then ride your bike back home whenever you're done. so cool.




I hope you've all been encouraged in efforts at sustainability.


Shalom

hoity-toity

is a terrible and wonderful game- terrible in its ability to turn even the smartest of my peers into dumbfounded idiots, and wonderful in that the heartiest of laughter commences. Alas, I cannot share it with you as the co-creators have yet to gain a copyright/patent/whatever you need to get for a game. It's something you really must experience anyway. We're playing at the farm at 8:00. Don't miss it.


...
I too line dry. And this puzzles me: It could be the drastic difference in our humidity and rainfall from that of the sandbox (and thus it takes 3 days for my clothes to dry) or maybe my personality is such that I am simply too easily irritated and too difficultly (?!) pleased, but I just don't seem to have the same child-like joy as I hang them as you do. God, grant me simplicity of heart- that I may seek and find joy in simple things, and not merely in the hanging of clothes on a wire, but in all the beauty and nuances of Your kingdom and presence in my daily work, duty and leisure.

oh, and thanks, You, that I live in a place where friends continually spur me on to love and good deeds.


shalom