today, i lamented on my previous productive spaces, and have been going thru and organizing my stuff, wishing i had a productive space...hphhmm..yeah first world problems.. on that note, the gov't shutdown has caused me to put into high gear, research... as well as preparedness.. think: lactofermentation. my new favorite method of preserving...

also, today, i have this wonderul habit of working alot, strenuously, then feeling real guilty about my dogs not being in the sun.. cause they run off, or get in the way.. then i play 'apples' with them.. like 'ball' except apples.. and they wind up eating alot of them, as well as grass and dandelions.. 

  so there i was under the apple tree, stretching my psoas... and looking up at a bird, whose mere repetroit reminded me of this wonderful carolina wren, who was my friend in this encampment in south carolina. the bird, not at all afrais, skittered around my sleeping bag every morning, looking for little bugs to eat.. i just layed there waiting for the sun to warm me.. caus

e the winter was cold, and we were living outside like homebums and even though it was a dirty camp, there was an amazing amount of wildlife..


see, in Columbia, sc.. there are places to fly a sign and make money. We found an abandoned lot between a restraunt and a Pep Boys.. there were owls chasing each other, there was a fox skeleton which i kept, there were tons of starlings(jerk birds).. and the remnants of an old homebum camp hidden in the bamboo forest.. we checked for activity, and when we saw none, we checked for bodies.. nearer to the road was what looked like an old shed, or garage, but more like a shed where someone in the 50's may have fixed cars.. there was no plastic parts. only trash and bottles from homebums.. anyways.. i barricaded, and created a barrier so noone could see our fire, and we had ourselves a camp. it was cold. i heated bricks and put them in my sleeping bag.. they were so hot they burned through the tarp. but my sleeping bag was old too.. 1944.. so cotton and goose down.. heavier but real stuff.. it didn't burn...