S10 E7: Stop Being Comfortable with Michael Easter

[@LOTRLVR]

Really enjoyed this. I grew up camping, hiking, riding horses, going to outdoor summer camps. Very different from what I see suburban kids doing nowadays. I live in a hyper-competitive, hyper-educated area that is full of helicopter parents. We tried very hard not to be like that. Our kids are now 20 & 23, and when I see their peers, I tell them “you guys will be fine.” 😆

[@mooselodge3881]

This was really fabulous and I loved the words the timing to follow along. So insightful and thought-provoking

[@oliviatyrrell4122]

Really enjoyed this!! It’s reminding me to keep on keeping on and embrace the discomfort of my current situation: living in an unfinished house with no kitchen (for 3 years so far), almost no furniture and no storage space. But I love the feeling I get when I put a beautiful meal on the picnic table that I cooked over the open fire, and my husband and I will feel so accomplished when we’ve finished the house on our own, with no debt (and built our farm in the process)

[@rosemountfarms2897]

Wow, did that hit home ! Loved this discussion so much ! Now I understand the difference in peoples reactions, this explains a lot to how we think Thank you

[@kiwik2951]

Thank you for this. I really needed to hear this conversation.

[@janebadon3988]

I needed to hear this! ‘Have always been outdoorsy and worked extremely hard. BUT the 2nd knee replacement hasn’t been ‘right’ and it has kept me from doing things I used to, or had to. And now that I’m retired I’ve just plain gotten SOFT. Along with that I’m feeling less confident and more fearful-thanks to your example, I now know why and what to do about it!

[@mbmiller1956]

Well done! So much good food for thought!

[@mcelder3739]

Surprising to me, I really enjoyed this conversation and the thoughts behind it! Thank you!

[@kiwik2951]

I lived in Italy for a couple years, we had no air conditioning. It was hot and humid, so if we wanted any relief from the heat we got our asses up early and went to the beach, or up into the mountains.

[@marklambert4793]

This is very interesting. And I wholeheartedly agree! Thank You for this 👍

[@earthmamma85]

This was needed. Thank you.

[@jenniepelc4290]

Fascinating information! It really got me thinking

[@KHomestead]

Loving this season!

[@mpat23]

I have great sense of accomplishment after doing something that was hard for me, or took a long time to do.

[@AnneMowat]

Thank you, Jill, for this podcast. It does align with our choice to leave the “comfort” of the city and undertake a more demanding permaculture life in the country. To minimize our consumption of fossil fuel-based air conditioning, we built a straw bale house with roof overhangs to the south. This keeps ambient indoor temperature comfortably cool in 30+ degree Celsius Summers. Visiting friends will ask to borrow sweaters when the temperature is 35ºC (95ºF) outside! My point here is that home design can go a very long way to keeping our indoor environment at a healthy temperature without fossil fuels, even with a warming climate.

[@AngieRichmond]

Great podcast!

[@annking1576]

Here's a little help with keeping warm & fed this winter in case you missed my last post - Get a Hydroponics set up for indoor winter gardening with grow lights or tape an emergency blanket to a large piece of carboard with the reflective side out to redirect suns rays to plants & move as needed thru out the day / Put a tent in your livingroom to live in / sleep in to retain heat in a small area / drop plastic to keep a smaller area of home warm / 8 hr candles in a clean paint pail or similar can with terra cotta pot on top - I would put bricks around it to help stop anyone from bumping it. You'd have to figure out something else if you have small kids or playful pets / wrap copper tubing around stove pipe & drill holes to put tubing to other rooms for heat & wrap 1 around water pipe to stop pipes from freezing - & you may have to turn water on & off while soaping up in order to get enough warm water for a QUICK shower. God Bless Us All!

[@glendabyford8074]

Love this pod cast.

[@kiwik2951]

So true on the brown fat thing. My daughter is part Iñupiaq and she is never cold. Her father was the same way, and was naturally very thin.

[@charitykamau1320]

Jill good work on that podcast

[@ceralamken6138]

Jill, perhaps you’re aware and it’s by design…why are the drops for your weekly podcasts not synced between KZbin and Apple Podcast? The podcast player is a week behind 😕. I really love listening to the podcast while being out working on the farm and always look forward to Monday morning chores with Jill’s awesome podcast! Thanks for all you do and sharing your journey. I wholeheartedly appreciate you!!

[@khaas1658]

I never understand the people who are driving past a farm to go to a gym. Pay money to exercise. You could be helping that farmer & the benefits would be so much more than exercise.

[@householdsix1307]

We call it Farm Fit 101!!!!

[@mysticmeadow9116]

Most of us (older) homesteaders would even provide a meal and the tools to use for your help. But, nobody wants to volunteer anymore.

[@happyfrog29]

In the town we live in the older farmers would rather have the children sit in front of a tv than let them help.

[@gendeb9666]

While I don’t go to a gym, I do go to yoga classes in the summer and water aerobics in the winter. Farming can be deafening lonely and I do it as much for social interaction as much as for forcing different parts of my body to stretch.

[@khaas1658]

@@mysticmeadow9116 Thank you. Yes a person would gain so much more than physical exercise.