We’ve pondered for a while over whether we should post this list and how to do it so that you guys aren’t like, “Oh, hey! Another list of books! Yay!” Well, after much thought we’ve concluded that there isn’t a way around that. Sorry.
So, we’ve put together this short list of books that we keep around. It isn’t a complete list, just the favorites of our collection. I thought about breaking it up into reference and non-reference or something like that, but then we’d just have two lists that we don’t know what to do with and that doesn’t really solve any problems. Instead we’ve got one list made into two, my favorites and Cody’s favorites. We’ve both included regular old good reads and some reference books that have been important to us.
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Eve’s List of Favorites:
1. A Countrywoman’s Year by Rosemary Verey
2. The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
3. Make Your Place by Raleigh Briggs
4. Chicks With Sticks Guide to Knitting by Nancy Queen and Mary Ellen O’Connell
5. The China Study by T. Colin Campbell, PhD and Thomas M. Campbell II
6. Handmade Home by Amanda Soule
7. Secrets of The Baby Whisperer for Toddlers by Tracy Hogg with Melinda Blau
What I didn’t include: Jane Austin. Her stuff is so warmly domestic and fantastically subversive at the same time…But I have trouble reading it before bed, since I tend to put off the whole sleeping part of going to bed until I have completely exhausted my eyes and brain. So, I don’t often read Austin and didn’t think I should include anything of hers…Although, I kinda just did.
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Cody’s List of Favorites:
1. Gardening When It Counts by Steve Solomon
2. The Modern Survival Manual: Surviving the Economic Collapse by Fernando Aguirre
3. 1984 by George Orwell
4. The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
5. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
6. The Wealthy Barber by David Chilton
7. The Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening by people who do things like write encyclopedias. How’s that for citation?
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While you might not return to this list again, there is a chance that we’ll add to it. We are, after-all, in the midst of a shake-up around these parts and anyone who knows us knows that any shake-up in our lives will require A LOT of reading.
“You don’t need to see his identification … These aren’t the droids you’re looking for … He can go about his business … Move along.”
I wanted to start this post with “Tom and I want to try something cool!”, but then I realized that’s not quite right. Actually, I want to try something cool and poor Tom is just an innocent bystander caught in the insanity. He knew the day would come when he’d regret that beer brewing hobby.
Here’s the idea, tell me if you think it’s nuts:
1. Cody and I grow a small patch of grain (barley? wheat?) and 1 or 2 vines of hops somewhere in our yard.
2. I do a heck of a lot of reading on the art of brewing beer from my own harvest.
3. We beg, borrow, and steal our way into beer brewing equipment. Equipment that we then set up in our guest room.
4. Let the brewing commence (this is the part where Tom winces).
Me Eve. Me make beer. *grunt*
There’s an alternate plan brewing in my head (pardon my pun), that doesn’t involve the growing of a beer patch in the backyard, the sizable equipment investment, or the help of Tom.
Country wine.
Yes, fermented fruit. You can find it in Kentucky. The best part? We can still make it in the guest room.
Tom is totally not disappointed right now.
According to Dale C. Carson, former Miami cop and FBI agent, criminal defense attorney and author of Arrest-Proof Yourself,
[I]f you want to avoid encounters with police, a gray Honda carrying two passengers dressed preppy and listening to National Public Radio is the way to go.
The most unfortunate thing about this statement is that I drive alone in a beige Honda, in business attire and I’m a self proclaimed NPR addict. This would most likely explain why I’ve driven for four months with expired tags without event.
