This video shows a quick and easy way to get up on stilts, fast.
Here is a recipe for extra fancy stilts with shoes attached. Probably for a more advanced "stilter". Via the Internet Juggling Database, high grade stilts.
Try this video if you are a more visual learner. Make Stilts.
First U.S. rehab for Internet and online video game addicts opens in Washington state
According to reStart's Web site, current research suggests anywhere from 6% to 10% of the online population is dependent upon one or more aspects of cyber technology and the Internet - with multi-user gamers like World of Warcraft among the most addictive platforms.
Compulsive gamers, texters and Web browsers trade instant messaging and conquering fictional galaxies for bottle-feeding baby goats and building chicken coops on the five-acre Heavensfield Retreat Center.
"It is about helping people addicted to technology get through the withdrawal and help their brains get wired back to normal and connected to the world in a positive way," said Cash.
The live-in retreat is not cheap. The 45-day digital detox costs $14,500, plus cash for daily expenses like renting camping gear for wilderness adventures.
ReStart subscribes to a 12-step program, similar to drug and alcohol abuse and schools residents with a series of social skills workshops to reenter the real world.
"The typical gamer is somebody who has fallen way behind in social skills and lacks confidence," Cash explained.
Besides teaching conversation skills and how to read body language, reStart says that videogame addicts also typically need to be reprogrammed to be conscientious about everyday habits such as bathing, cooking and household chores - not to mention dating.
But the program's first patient seems to be doing well. He's discovered a love for animals while caring for a puppy, baby goats and chickens.
"He is thriving and his social skills are improving by leaps and bounds," said Cash. "He is finding himself very successful with the young women he encounters."
On May 21, 1968, Proenneke arrived at his new place of retirement at Twin Lakes (a different cabin than shown below). He remained at Twin Lakes for the next 16 months, when he left to go home for a spell to visit relatives and secure more supplies. He returned to the lakes in the following spring and remained there for most of the next 30 years, coming to the lower 48 only occasionally to be with his family.
Please take a moment to see the beginning of Dick Proenneke's video "Alone in the Wilderness". His ability to flourish and build his cabin in the wilderness is astounding. He only uses hand tools! This is a true gem for anyone interested in preserving a simple life. You can see more episodes on YouTube, or buy the complete set at www.dickproenneke.com.
Eating well is long forgotten part of daily life in America, for some folks. Check out how to make fresh mozzarella in this video. It is fun to watch, but Ricki the Cheese Queen can give you the actual ingredients and recipes.
Answers:
1. Green leaf lettuce
2. Hericot vert
3. Sage
4. Lovage
5. Zucchini squash
6. Coriander
7. Romano pole bean
8. Red russian kale
9. Artichoke
10. Beeplant
11. Sunflower
Your Score:
9 to 11 correct: survivalist level
5 to 8 correct: let your plants go to seed more often
1 to 5 correct: get a pot and start planting food. See for yourself.
Seed saving is becoming a lost art for the average citizen. Seeds can now be acquired at a super market, and it is convenient, but the quality is usually suspect. Also, many gardeners today prefer to have everything look good year round. When plants die, it is a special beauty not fit for all.
I have chosen to save my own seeds year after year. It is best to save the best looking pods for genetic strength. You are probably wondering where the original seeds came from. I got them from a seed company with a good reputation and mostly organic farming practices. It is important to research your seed companies and check the seed viability and fertility. Some seed "manufacturers" design seed that will not reproduce so you are required to keep buying more seed year after year. It is a travesty of the plant kingdom and human civilization.
This is why at the Institute, we will record and preserve ways to save seed and we will stock viable seed for future generations.
In order to get better acquainted, take today's quiz!
For each photo, name the plant that is beginning to die and turn to seed. You can score 1 to 11.
Answers will post later.
f*la·neur
Pronunciation: flä-'n&r
Function: noun
Etymology: French flâneur
Date: 1854
: an idle man-about-town
In "On some motifs on Baudelaire" Walter Benjamin creates a new concept, le flaneur.
"The greater the sum of those who use any urban space, the more offensive the rude indifference for the others seems to be" The mist-space is itself a protective place.
"Le flaneur" (the wanderer) passes by with a certain skill in the human rumble of the metropolis. His
attitude is the opposite to that quoted above. He is fascinated by the other show performed and forgets
himself. His person is not the most important, as the blase's, but the possibility of anonymously
hiding in the crowd and of abandoning himself to its fascination.
"The street becomes a dwelling for the flâneur; he is as much at home among the facades of houses
as a citizen is in his four walls. To him the shiny, enameled signs of businesses are at least as good
a wall ornament as an oil painting is to the bourgeois in his salon. The walls are the desk against
which he presses his notebooks; news-stands are his libraries and the terraces of cafés are the
balconies from which he looks down on his household after his work is done."
I read recently that the tradition of strolling around Paris has been in serious decline due to automobile and truck traffic. I am going to try it anyways in December.
Strolling around San Francisco is rarely fun due to cars rolling through stop signs and trying to get ahead of pedestrians. There is plenty of impatience.
