today's reads

Today I'm taking home from the library:

Handy Farm Devices & How to Make Them (A Classic of American Ingenuity)
by Rolfe Cobleigh (a 1996 reprint of the 1909 original)

Continuing the Good Life: Half a Century of Homesteading
by Helen and Scott Nearing (of course)

Trapping: A Practical Guide
James A. Bateman

A Natural Year: The Pleasures and Rewards to be Gleaned from The Good Earth - With Informal Instructions on Foraging for Wild Food, Gardening, Preserving, Bread Baking, Wine Making, and Many Other Family Pursuits
Grace Firth

Practical Blacksmithing: The Original Classic in One Volume
Compiled & Edited by M.T. Richardson (Because it is a veritable tome)

Building & Using Our Sun-Heated Greenhouse
Helen Nearing (Because she wrote it)

Making Authentic Craftsman Furniture: Instructions & Plans for 62 Projects
Articles from The Craftsman edited by Gustav Stickley

Planting Green Roofs & Living Walls
Nigel Dunnett & Noel Kingsbury

Second Nature : A Gardener's Education
Michael Pollan (Because, HELLO)

The above to be thrown at (or quoted from at) Marc, that he may be further educated thereby, and that I may be less irritated at his face hidden perpetually behind a book than I am when the distracting device is the INTERNETS. Because his mind, it doth wander, and it doth seize upon a concept or a task and focus all his efforts thereby until a goal is accomplished. And if that goal be homesteading we shall be thus satisfied, and shall have tomatoes and where shall be the goats?

I shall take to repeating that, in the manner of & CARTHAGE MUST BE DESTROYED. I shall vow to hereby end all paragraphs with AND WHERE SHALL WE PUT THE GOATS?