Every year we see pictures of the ice melting in the Arctic and the left-wing extremists scream «proof of global warming», but in reality we just witness something that is best known as simply Spring. Yes; every Spring the ice melts and big chunks of ice falls off the glaciers. I think it is called «calving».
This year more and more Frenchmen at least realize that the talk about «global warming» is pure nonsense. It has been snowing and/or raining all over France for a long time now, and the temperatures are unusually low. What we enter is not a period of global warming, but another Ice Age. I kid you not; we are entering another Ice Age, and this means – as usual – that most of Northern Europe will be covered by thick ice. Of course it might take some time before it becomes that dramatic, maybe 100 or even 1000 years, but it will happen. Again.
In April the weather is usually very warm and nice here in central France, but not this year, and this explains the wet, dark feel to the photos in this post (save the first one, taken on a Sunny day). As we enter a new Ice Age I am doing my best to become as independent of the consumer society as I possibly can. So (amongst other things, that I will discuss later) I purchased a hens’ house for less than the materials it was built from would have cost me, and then purchased some more materials to customize it and make it suitable for our needs.
Our hens’ house, made from a purchased hens’ house (made by another family father, whose dog didn’t tolerate any hens…), some new materials and what we already had;
We already had an electric fence, made in France (and to quote the salesman; «it is not made in China, so it will last a long time»), so I put that up – to keep the fox out. We plan on having two or three (or four) hens, so this large area in our garden will be more than enough for them. I added some roof tiles (not yet properly arranged on the photo) and shingle (and when I ran out of that; a «beautiful» black plastic garbage bag…) to give the hens a (mostly) dry place to sleep.
The electric fence and the hens’ free space;
Now all we need is to go buy some hens…
So why do we do this exactly? First of all the way they produce eggs today is nothing but mistreatment of animals – or actually torture. We don’t want to support that. Secondly, the price of eggs have sky-rocketed here in France the last few years. Thirdly we never know when the local store will run out of eggs. Finally we tend to always have left-overs after lunch, supper and dinner, and the hens can and will eat most of this – so having hens means we will throw away less food. They love everything from cooked potatoes to bread. (Oh, and in addition to that they eat bugs, even flies, so they will reduce the population of annoying bugs on our rental property.)
The whole «compound» is made so that I can move it at any time, from this rental property to our own property nearby.
This alone is not enough to make us independent, but it is one of the many bricks needed to build our Pagan temple of Freedom (from…). This freedom will not only benefit us, but also harm our enemies, who otherwise would have cashed in on our purchases of eggs. This is in fact a way to resist the genocide on Europe! HailaR WôðanaR!
