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user-inactivated  ·  1597 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 13, 2019

Charity

Team Trees is at 15 million. When the whole thing first started, for the first couple of days, they were getting about 2 million trees a day. It's slowed down to the point where now it takes a week to get that much. That honestly makes the whole launch that much more impressive to me, the burst of enthusiasm and support everyone showed. I think they'll still hit their goal of twenty million trees by 2020, but at this point, everything could stop today and I'd say they did a great job.

Houses as Playgrounds

I pass by sometimes a farm house that is currently undergoing repairs. It has a new roof and siding and it looks like the work has started going on inside. For a few reasons, I'm pretty certain it's not being fixed up for sale, and even if it was, I don't think Dala and I could afford it or find it practical. Being about 800 sq feet, the house itself is too small to be practical and being on farm with a barn and a field or two and all, there's also too much property to manage to be practical. But man, I was thinking if we were rich, that would be the perfect kind of getaway place. Imagine being able to stuff that house with bookbinding equipment, sewing equipment, etc. plus having a barn to do whatever with plus more acres of land than anyone really needs. I mean, the imagination runs wild with ideas after a while.

Sewing

Working hard on some projects. I'm probably looking at 100 plus hours on things when everything is said and done and one of my friends recently said "that sounds like too much time and work" to which I say it isn't. It's a hundred hours of meditation and mental stimulation, a hundred hours of learning and creativity and art appreciation, a hundred hours of couch time with the wife and dog, and a hundred hours of fruitful fun all at once. It's a really efficient use of time actually. That said, I recently looked at a corner of the living room and though "I bet if I got rid of a few things, I could fit a loom there." Unfortunately, that's pretty impractical. Unless I had a get away farm house with a loom inside . . .