I'm reading Tree Crops, written in the 1950s, which goes deeply into the advantages of using trees for fruits and nuts rather than basing agriculture on annual crops. Especially on hilly land, the tilling required for crops is devastating for the soil.

It's basically all about time preference.

"When the Corsican starts a crop, he does it by planting beautiful trees whose crops he and his children and his children's children will later pick up from year to year, decade to decade, generation to generation. When the American mountaineer wants to sow a crop, he must fight for it.. first he cuts and burns forests… in a few seasons the mountainside cornfield is gullied to ruin, and the mountaineer, the raper of the mountain, must laboriously make another field.

There is one argument for corn. It is a great and destructive argument. The plant is annual. The labor of the husbandman is quickly rewarded. The ruin of his farm comes later."

#perennials

#permaculture, #permies

#homesteading

#timepreference

#soil

It's such a different viewpoint than we would see now - what I think of as true environmentalism (health of soil, land, people, animals).

Most of the trees he explores are for animal fodder (e.g. pigs eat the acorns, we eat the pigs), since he points out - rightly - that growing grain for livestock is ecologically ruinous and far less productive in the end.

Also with trees you can explore "2-story" agriculture - something grown on the ground later beneath the trees.

Of course permaculturalists will point out that we can have 7 layers in our forest gardens, but Smith is exploring tree agriculture on a larger scale - acre of chestnuts, oaks, hickories, persimmons, etc. Personally I think that focusing on scale is part of what got us into such a mess in the first place (@`jackspirko` has a great episode on the USDA "go big or go home" campaign) but rows of nut trees and productive ground layer would be a dramatic improvement on the monoculture disaster that we have now.

To keep off the barbarians of course. Why else?

Chicken. Whole.

Yes, I will make myself tea. nostr:note1wy2k2kt7jvm52pmyrwuge54sx403lfr86ggxdu68ak5zan22ymgq3wf2qc

Dark chocolate is anabolic.

Once forgiven of our sins, going forward we should not fear that every fault or sin makes God angry and quick to send us to hell unless we re-repent, as if we have an unsure, on-again-off-again relationship with a moody Jesus. (Of course, for our good and for the sake of justice we should repent of our sins daily. Jesus tells us to pray, “Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.”)

We need not have an ongoing anxiety attack, afraid God's finger is always hovering over the "smite" button. We know Jesus always loves us and will see us through this life’s journey.

But that’s not to say even a single “mortal sin” won't send us to hell. We should feel guilty if we knowingly and willingly commit a serious sin, and we should not feel settled until we repent and receive absolution. Mortal sin is the kind that is a full rejection of God’s grace, and it's how we choose hell unless we repent of it before we die.

For the Catholic, repentance of mortal sin includes going to Confession. It is Jesus’ gift to us, because he knows we are capable of mortal sin even after baptism.

Now if someone is a non-Catholic Christian who genuinely doesn’t know he should be Catholic and go to Confession, then he would need to make a perfect act of contrition, which is much harder. It’s the purest form of repentance which involves perfect sorrow -- not out of fear of hell or the loss of heaven, but purely out of offending God, who is deserving of all our love.

Today, on All Souls Day, let’s pray for all who have died — and for all those we love who are still living — that God would free all from the sin that separates us from him.

Of course! Running a household is too much for just one person to do, even for a stay-at-home housewife.

As a husband and leader of my little household, I view my responsibility as primarily to be a servant leader. So my wife and I will divide responsibilities within the home, but I'll happily step in to fill gaps if she's overwhelmed, and likewise she'll do the same for me.

When we have kids, I'll want to teach them the same ethic. Everyone helps out in making the household work.

Thank you for sharing. So even if your wife will be housewife without children you we do some household cleaning? 🤔

#asknostr

So, I tried the new trend of putting olive oil in coffee. Why? Does anyone know why this became a thing? Help me understand the youth. 😕. ☕💋

Regarding tasks, I think it's up to a couple to divide the labor of the home according to their situation and skills/predispositions.

As an example, my wife really enjoys cooking, and she currently works part time (though she'll probably be a fully stay-at-home mom once we have kids), so she does most of the cooking.

I, on the other hand, usually clean the bathrooms, just because I most often remember to do it first, and because I often like to have something kind of mindless to do right after work.

A housewife/stay at home mom will usually end up doing more of the household chores, just because she has more time to do so, but I think what exactly the balance or division of labor looks like will vary from couple to couple.

Discussion thread 🗣

I have few question/thoughts and I would like to know your opinion as well (or maybe it is just I do not know friend who are willing to talk about it).

❓What qualities/behaviours should housewife have? Pretty, cute, hardworking, responsible, kind..?

❓What tasks should she be doing at home?

❓Should it be wish of woman to become housewife? Or man or both wish?

❓Is housewife considered to be housewife if she living in flat? Or it only counts when it is in house, homestead?

#asknostr #housewife #randomthoughts

I think it’s possible that you and I disagree on many things outside the foundational truth that Jesus Christ is Lord of all. Which in the end is the only truth that matters

You get it. Told my normie friend we were in WW3 in 2020. He said that's not what he imagined it to be. Also, WWII didnt end, it was rebranded as the Cold War and we havent seen a day of peace since.

Ive been thinking lately that alot of America still thinks of war in an antiquated way. Like Hollywood WW2 movies. Like two good ol boys from the 1950's squaring off in a parking lot and fighting until one wins. Then they shake hands and move on.

It hasnt really reached their understanding that some of the people who want them dead dont think like this. The dont understand that non-State actors, corporations, proxy wars, immigration, social engineering, and event propaganda are the very real battlefields of now.

That's not the same thing and you know it. LOL