Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Carbon credit?

Here in Yambio all of our electricity comes from a generator. So, in an effort to conserve fuel, the schedule for when the electricity functions goes like this:
8am to noon: ON
noon to 2 pm: OFF
2 to 5: ON
5 to 7: OFF
7 to 11 pm: ON
11 pm to 8 am: OFF

Then again, there aren’t any blow dryers, curling irons, televisions, stereos, air conditioning systems, heaters, water heaters, washing machines, or dishwashers. There is a freezer, but we only store water in it. Basically, its enough to ensure that we can charge our computers and see at night before bed-time.

Also, everything I eat is locally sourced, totally organic, grass fed and hand-made. No processed foods, sugar, caffeine etc. Its probably one of the world's shortest food chains. This kind of living would normally be something that I'm a huge proponent of...

On the other hand, every day for the last week, I've eaten some combination of goat, rice, ugali and greens and oddly, I am also starting to smell distinctly goat-like...

For anyone who has ever read Tim Robbins "jitterbug perfume" you know I should be worried about that goat smell :)

*note: what's Ugali? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugali

1 comment:

  1. No caffeine?!? Like...at all???
    ~the Librarian
    (I was posting under my google account before, but apparently you know a lot of Jennifers)
    ;)

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