Captain's Phlog                         2020.05.30
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         "Bless me Father, it's been 13
          days since my last phlog post"

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|_| |_|ello Everyone. The Greening is well under 
way here in the valley of the St. Lawrence. As my 
attention is captivated by the waking world I have 
less and less ambition for staring at screens. 
Forgive Me.

My garden is doing well though there is AMPLE time 
for disaster to join the party. Just yesterday I 
spied a radish whose above ground bits were 
suddenly missing...

There was a delightful old rhyme from the UK that 
was first recorded in the 1850s. Like most such 
things it was doubtless around for a LONG time 
prior to that:
              One for the Mouse
              One for the Crow
              One to Wither
              and One to Grow
The notion of course being that only a quarter of 
the seeds you sew will grow into productive 
plants. Don't you find that idea relevant to so 
much more than horticulture? Viva Le Abstract 
Scalability!

The "Big Thing" going on in Meat-Space is that my 
wife and I are closing our current life chapter as 
merchants. We don't buy the whole capitalism thing 
anyway. It's just our 'day job'. With the future 
we see - a long SEVERE and GLOBAL instability only 
accelerated by COVID-19 we've opted to circle the 
wagons instead of riding out the storm with our 
eyes fixed on some bullshit 'new normal' on the 
horizon.

We'll know on Monday if the interested party has 
decided to buy our business or if we'll be setting 
charges and scuttling the old scow. After that... 
we plan on being able to afford one or two years 
of tight belts as we choose...  what...

What will we choose? I'll tell you when we get 
there! I'll post soon on the changes we've made 
/slash/ are making to our finances and our 
lifestyle. For the moment I'll just tease you with 
the statistics that we've generated only 1/2 a 
trash bag of garbage in the last month and spent 
only $15 US on petrol.

Stay safe. Stay well. Stay gopher.

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