You can't even get just a simple tetanus shot now -- at least that's the case here in the US, don't know about other countries. It's always combined with one or two other vaccines.
Finished harvesting our tubers here. 300 kilos (!) of sweet potato, and 400 onions. Fall carrots were a wash, maybe 100. Slight rabbit issue... But the rabbits were delicious. Zero success with beets and turnips, its been too dry.
I love the rhythm of the garden. Sometimes it disappoints me, sometimes elates, always surprising. And now it sleeps until March. And we move on to winter projects (but our winter is like a joke).
Looking at that injury, the whole leg will have to go - trust me I am a doctor.. :)
This reminds me of a story about a band aid which will hopefully amuse the audience this Sunday:
Years ago I got a student visa to USA. My language skills were very unimpressive, I would have had an easier time to communicate with a cat or a Martian than with an American at the time. I got a job as a lifeguard in Cedar Point amusement park, Ohio. On my first day my job was to stand in front of some water slide and tell customers it was out of order. Nothing could go wrong... Until a distressed man came with a crying child asking for a band aid. I didn't know what a band aid was so I just politely explained to him the water slide was closed. He looked utterly bewildered and kept asking for a band aid. I kept telling him about the waterslide, in a deadpan manner. Since he never tried to ask the question in a different way or use hands, I calmly and coolly kept giving him my bulletproof answer about the water slide while the child kept crying louder and louder. He only asked about 6 times before he left frustrated. Only later I found out what band aid is, and was truly embarrassed. Hopefully my poor command of English did not cause that American child to bleed to death, on my first day! And if it did, with luck the father got the entry fees back..
We have a genetic slurry now, the foot will be fine. Some chance of heart failure but that can be fixed with a cattle tag and a Sberbank social credit upgrade...
Enjoyed your village stories very much Edward. I find them to be very soothing and comforting while living and contending with this democidal world. You have a nice love and appreciation for animals and the basic, simple activities which constitute our real lives. It gives me great pleasure to read them. Give us more Viktor stories. "A f*****g wolf ate my f*****g dog!" Absolute classic stuff Edward! Thank you.
Even if you have to make them up. More Viktor stories! F**K Victor anyway. He's too drunk to remember what he does anyway. Make up stories so that the local children taunt him for being a weirdo.
Congrats on busting through the digital glass ceiling of censorship algorithms and into a physical publication (that was disseminated to over 300,000 Canadians)!
My pleasure, glad the picture and message found you well.
hmmm manure shoveling, depending on whether that was metaphorical or literal, and depending on what species created the manure, sounds like you may have some solid garden building resources at your disposal :)
I am well thanks, ground is frozen solid right now so we are not planting trees today, just sorting lots of heirloom seeds from my garden to send out to people who buy a copy of my book.
Riley...can't prescribe or tell you what to do...but I will tell you that years ago in my 30s I stepped on a nail here in U.S. My doctor screamed about a getting a tetanus shot. I had become anti-vaxxing after growing up in U.S. military with a father who was stationed overseas and necessitated, according to the U.S. .gov, many vaccines for my safety. One of my arms blew up bright red and flaming hot after one cholera injection. I didn't get the tetanus injection and carefully watched to see if I got any infection or illness. Nothing. Nada. The wound healed swiftly and easily. I think the cleaning route is what works. If we can live with sanitary conditions and basic medical preparations like hydrogen peroxide or 90% alcohol, injuries like yours can heal rapidly and cleanly on their own.
Sorry to hear it Edward dear! Hubby put a knife through his hand a few years back--hospital visit cost $5,000. Robbery. But, they did a great job, so there’s that.
On another note, I was not pleased with your level of nonchalance concerning my Kombucha inquiry. Please, I beg you, find a source! This is not meaning in a yuppie grocery store chain. Go to the village brewers, there must be some indigenous brewers there. I’m sure of it, I had a vision! (Ok, not really, but I read it somewhere long before kombucha was a hipster thing and I know a fermentista who knows a fermentista who might have a contact, so I’m working on that for you now.). 😘
Most people get their tea mushroom (kombucha) from other people with tea mushroom, by taking some of theirs. If you don't know anyone with a mushroom, there's always avito, where you can find people willing to sell you some of theirs pretty cheaply:
Like any other ferment there is a way of initiating a culture but its hit and miss and time consuming. In most of eastern europe they make kvass and various milk ferments, but I have never seen kombucha in Poland. Then again I haven't been since the hipster invasion. The milk cultures like for kefir are quite different.
I learned from a mushroom hunter in Poland many years ago that their traditional herbalists considered the body to be a fermentation vessel and good health very much akin to ‘a good culture’. I’ve been fermenting for several years now--cheeses, ciders, veggies, of course kombucha--it’s been a wonderful learning experience, challenging, you are right, but so very rewarding!
I hope you have plenty of hydrogen peroxide (перекись водорода) to clean the wound, and, at least, it's not the heel. Heels take forever to stop hurting.
That was my impression at first, as well. But a second look - and the bandage is covering the toes. Poor lighting / awkward camera angle. Neither the cat or dog seem upset - that's a good sign. If the fever had come on, they would be.
Perhaps we will abandon the confounded stupidity, of building non-weather proof houses, for the weather to destroy.
Surely after generations of experience, we can do better than timber and nails.
Stone buildings. Homes carved out of solid rock faces. Many nations have examples. Earth covered homes - the roof may need maintenance but the rest is protected. Like English and Scottish stone cottages with thatch roofs.
OZ is a vast, largely pastoral nation still, with many sandstone homesteads. Churches too. They do tend to crumble eventually, but not for generations. There are also underground homes and towns, carved into the rock, to avoid the extreme heat.
Hey! I like timber and nails! In the northern climes, timber is the building material of choice (until you hit the coastal Arctic), and for good reason. But there's a huge diff between well-built and shit-slung in everything, including homes made of shit:
All life eats life. I'm sure the life I consume to survive, be it animal or vegetal, would prefer I not interfere with its life cycle, but such is life:
Also, plenty of old trees die and fall of their own; plenty of good timber to harvest there. But I'd happily replace nails with a good hand drill for making peg holes, although the word "crucifying" is, in this context, sensationalism.
P.S. Properly done, wooden structures last for centuries. Modern nail-gun building industry Legoland construction techniques technically employ wood and nails, but do so via processes callously destructive of living beings and their respective ecologies, and produce structures with only nominal relation and superficial resemblance to what our ancestors did with wood. For example:
I've been a builder in the Pacific Northwest for most my life. I always used the best methods for eliminating water absorption and leakage. Homes I've built or remodeled on the Oregon coastline are still doing fine 30 years later. In my advanced age I've taken to using discarded materials to build interesting structures. I love taking old glass and wood from dismantled homes and recombining them into works of art. In case you are interested in seeing what is possible, here are a few images in my disjointed Substack presence;
Just remembered the complicated Japanese woodwork from the vid and after rewatching learned about the design topic. Discussions in the comments are worthwhile too.
Really looking forward to more "village" stories Riley. Love the cat in this post, funny how animals are all the same the world over isn't it? I love cats, have seven. Hope your foot is better.
Ugh yeah it's happened to me. Rusty nail, but instead of running to get the somewhat toxic tetanus booster, I read up on tetanus.
Turned out it was a big issue before they cleaned wounds, like during the civil war.
The cause was not a pathogen, but having foreign debris decaying in a wound, causing toxins.
So Riley, stay away from the tetanus shot and keep the wound clean!
You can't even get just a simple tetanus shot now -- at least that's the case here in the US, don't know about other countries. It's always combined with one or two other vaccines.
Yep they’re not even trying to hide the BS any more.
Homeopathy works and doesn’t kill you unlike the DTaP shot
Finished harvesting our tubers here. 300 kilos (!) of sweet potato, and 400 onions. Fall carrots were a wash, maybe 100. Slight rabbit issue... But the rabbits were delicious. Zero success with beets and turnips, its been too dry.
I love the rhythm of the garden. Sometimes it disappoints me, sometimes elates, always surprising. And now it sleeps until March. And we move on to winter projects (but our winter is like a joke).
https://substack.com/profile/50161533-dieter-honboffer/note/c-43532085?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=tv4vx
Looking at that injury, the whole leg will have to go - trust me I am a doctor.. :)
This reminds me of a story about a band aid which will hopefully amuse the audience this Sunday:
Years ago I got a student visa to USA. My language skills were very unimpressive, I would have had an easier time to communicate with a cat or a Martian than with an American at the time. I got a job as a lifeguard in Cedar Point amusement park, Ohio. On my first day my job was to stand in front of some water slide and tell customers it was out of order. Nothing could go wrong... Until a distressed man came with a crying child asking for a band aid. I didn't know what a band aid was so I just politely explained to him the water slide was closed. He looked utterly bewildered and kept asking for a band aid. I kept telling him about the waterslide, in a deadpan manner. Since he never tried to ask the question in a different way or use hands, I calmly and coolly kept giving him my bulletproof answer about the water slide while the child kept crying louder and louder. He only asked about 6 times before he left frustrated. Only later I found out what band aid is, and was truly embarrassed. Hopefully my poor command of English did not cause that American child to bleed to death, on my first day! And if it did, with luck the father got the entry fees back..
We have a genetic slurry now, the foot will be fine. Some chance of heart failure but that can be fixed with a cattle tag and a Sberbank social credit upgrade...
Enjoyed your village stories very much Edward. I find them to be very soothing and comforting while living and contending with this democidal world. You have a nice love and appreciation for animals and the basic, simple activities which constitute our real lives. It gives me great pleasure to read them. Give us more Viktor stories. "A f*****g wolf ate my f*****g dog!" Absolute classic stuff Edward! Thank you.
Even if you have to make them up. More Viktor stories! F**K Victor anyway. He's too drunk to remember what he does anyway. Make up stories so that the local children taunt him for being a weirdo.
Hi Man! I'm waiting for the episode, "Viktor and the F..K digital F...K ruble"
By the way, because you love learning foreign language, in French, we say "putain de" ( whore) for F...K.
Greetings from Canada my friend!
I hope you are healing up well and finding unexpected ways to enjoy the village life.
I just wanted to swing by and let you know that our local Druthers Newspaper printed some of your excellent material.
Here is a pic of the article in the paper on my kitchen counter: https://archive.org/details/img-1617_202311
Here is a link to a PDF of their Newspaper online : https://druthers.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/druthers-november-2023-resized.pdf
Congrats on busting through the digital glass ceiling of censorship algorithms and into a physical publication (that was disseminated to over 300,000 Canadians)!
I also noticed my friends over at Global Research had re-posted that same piece earlier. Incase you missed it: https://www.globalresearch.ca/putin-cahoots-globalists/5836121
Take care buddy!
Hey Gavin! great to hear from you! and thanks for sharing that Druthers Newspaper clip. very cool indeed, I'm flattered.
Foot is fully mended, back to manure shoveling!
Hope you're doing well my friend,
riley
Hey Riley
My pleasure, glad the picture and message found you well.
hmmm manure shoveling, depending on whether that was metaphorical or literal, and depending on what species created the manure, sounds like you may have some solid garden building resources at your disposal :)
I am well thanks, ground is frozen solid right now so we are not planting trees today, just sorting lots of heirloom seeds from my garden to send out to people who buy a copy of my book.
Have a good one my friend
-Gavin
Riley...can't prescribe or tell you what to do...but I will tell you that years ago in my 30s I stepped on a nail here in U.S. My doctor screamed about a getting a tetanus shot. I had become anti-vaxxing after growing up in U.S. military with a father who was stationed overseas and necessitated, according to the U.S. .gov, many vaccines for my safety. One of my arms blew up bright red and flaming hot after one cholera injection. I didn't get the tetanus injection and carefully watched to see if I got any infection or illness. Nothing. Nada. The wound healed swiftly and easily. I think the cleaning route is what works. If we can live with sanitary conditions and basic medical preparations like hydrogen peroxide or 90% alcohol, injuries like yours can heal rapidly and cleanly on their own.
I hope you'll be able to visit us, let me know by email.
Sorry to hear it Edward dear! Hubby put a knife through his hand a few years back--hospital visit cost $5,000. Robbery. But, they did a great job, so there’s that.
On another note, I was not pleased with your level of nonchalance concerning my Kombucha inquiry. Please, I beg you, find a source! This is not meaning in a yuppie grocery store chain. Go to the village brewers, there must be some indigenous brewers there. I’m sure of it, I had a vision! (Ok, not really, but I read it somewhere long before kombucha was a hipster thing and I know a fermentista who knows a fermentista who might have a contact, so I’m working on that for you now.). 😘
Most people get their tea mushroom (kombucha) from other people with tea mushroom, by taking some of theirs. If you don't know anyone with a mushroom, there's always avito, where you can find people willing to sell you some of theirs pretty cheaply:
https://www.avito.ru/all/produkty_pitaniya?cd=1&q=%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9+%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B1
Here's how to take care of one once you have it:
https://kombucha-interkvas.ru/text-articles/chajnyj-grib-kak-uhazhivat-i-upotreblyat/
Thanks for info!
Like any other ferment there is a way of initiating a culture but its hit and miss and time consuming. In most of eastern europe they make kvass and various milk ferments, but I have never seen kombucha in Poland. Then again I haven't been since the hipster invasion. The milk cultures like for kefir are quite different.
I learned from a mushroom hunter in Poland many years ago that their traditional herbalists considered the body to be a fermentation vessel and good health very much akin to ‘a good culture’. I’ve been fermenting for several years now--cheeses, ciders, veggies, of course kombucha--it’s been a wonderful learning experience, challenging, you are right, but so very rewarding!
I hope you have plenty of hydrogen peroxide (перекись водорода) to clean the wound, and, at least, it's not the heel. Heels take forever to stop hurting.
If you stepped on a nail, why is the bandage on your ankle? 😁
That was my impression at first, as well. But a second look - and the bandage is covering the toes. Poor lighting / awkward camera angle. Neither the cat or dog seem upset - that's a good sign. If the fever had come on, they would be.
Hej,
I thought Hobbits has hairy foot... What a deception... Or maybe Riley had to shave.
Lol, that’s how I saw it too - even though it would have been odd to have such hairy feet. 🤣
Keep us posted on this "mere flesh wound."
Russia. Full of tilted old buildings and rotting wood with nails poking out everywhere - and beautiful forests waiting to become ...... the same.
Perhaps we will learn to build without nails.
Perhaps we will abandon the confounded stupidity, of building non-weather proof houses, for the weather to destroy.
Surely after generations of experience, we can do better than timber and nails.
Stone buildings. Homes carved out of solid rock faces. Many nations have examples. Earth covered homes - the roof may need maintenance but the rest is protected. Like English and Scottish stone cottages with thatch roofs.
OZ is a vast, largely pastoral nation still, with many sandstone homesteads. Churches too. They do tend to crumble eventually, but not for generations. There are also underground homes and towns, carved into the rock, to avoid the extreme heat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glyZE6SA-S0
Hey! I like timber and nails! In the northern climes, timber is the building material of choice (until you hit the coastal Arctic), and for good reason. But there's a huge diff between well-built and shit-slung in everything, including homes made of shit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_dung#:~:text=In%20several%20cultures%2C%20cow%20dung,interior%20hygiene%20and%20repel%20insects.
Follow your passion with all your heart!
My life and resources are too precious, to invest in building and trying to maintain structures not meant to last, due to weather vulnerability.
Turning a glorious tree into timber, then crucifying it with nails, is not a desired path.
All life eats life. I'm sure the life I consume to survive, be it animal or vegetal, would prefer I not interfere with its life cycle, but such is life:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brian-Shuter/publication/299475819/figure/fig1/AS:345716103893005@1459436550786/Big-fish-eat-little-fish-by-Pieter-van-der-Heyden-1556.png
Also, plenty of old trees die and fall of their own; plenty of good timber to harvest there. But I'd happily replace nails with a good hand drill for making peg holes, although the word "crucifying" is, in this context, sensationalism.
P.S. Properly done, wooden structures last for centuries. Modern nail-gun building industry Legoland construction techniques technically employ wood and nails, but do so via processes callously destructive of living beings and their respective ecologies, and produce structures with only nominal relation and superficial resemblance to what our ancestors did with wood. For example:
https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/chinookan_plank_houses/
While we're virtue-signaling about such things, let me toss my hat into that ring with this song:
https://youtu.be/ReQDNItw39g
I've been a builder in the Pacific Northwest for most my life. I always used the best methods for eliminating water absorption and leakage. Homes I've built or remodeled on the Oregon coastline are still doing fine 30 years later. In my advanced age I've taken to using discarded materials to build interesting structures. I love taking old glass and wood from dismantled homes and recombining them into works of art. In case you are interested in seeing what is possible, here are a few images in my disjointed Substack presence;
https://davewise.substack.com/p/healing-sanctuary
Beautiful! And looks perfectly at home in situ ❤️
Add some stained glass and you have a horticuoltural cathedral.
You might like these one, there are so many regions in France where stone houses have been standing for centuries:
https://www.agencecevenole.com/public/img/medium/DSC0853HDTV720JPG_5d3329f27fff9.JPG
Stones on roof, you noticed?...
http://www.auvergne-centrefrance.com/geotouring/curieux/ferme-perrel/ferme-perrel-max.jpg
Japanese don't need anything else:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UAsN9wvePE
Thank you.
Very interesting and valuable input.
Just never know what you might learn from Riley & Co.
Just remembered the complicated Japanese woodwork from the vid and after rewatching learned about the design topic. Discussions in the comments are worthwhile too.
Searched herbs for tetanus here are my results
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5667273/
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jsicm/24/2/24_24_121/_article/-char/en
https://patents.google.com/patent/CN1106272A/en
https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/condition-2351/tetanus
re the last, probably a bunch of vit C which I would get from rosehips
if I didn't have a store to buy it.
Best from ORegon, hope you can avoid a tetanus shot.
Apparently they last longer (in years) than most docs understand.
.....they use vodka. For everything.
...and very warm epsom salt soaks.
Riley, by his age, and as breed in the West, have enough Tetanus vaccine in his body to fight that possibility.
We are extravaccinated for Tetanus during our childhood and younger years, now it is understoood that with 5 doses in whole life is quite enough...
Yikes!! Did you pee on it? Or vodka on it?
I stepped on a nail as a kid in suburban Chicago. Would not recommend.
Really looking forward to more "village" stories Riley. Love the cat in this post, funny how animals are all the same the world over isn't it? I love cats, have seven. Hope your foot is better.
Kind regards,
Owen.