How did we ever build anything before the industial age, before machines?
Before we had great big machines, we built so many amazing wonders and have no idea how some of them were created.
Ok the first wonder we typically think of is in Egypt... I've never been there, not yet. I'm sure it's amazingly beautiful but I have seen Machu Picchu and other sites that were built with incredibly large stones, sometimes harvested from a very far location. Can you imagine the treacherous paths they had to go through?
This summer we had the opportunity to have a dozen chickens, already grown and laying plenty of eggs...
We failed miserably, broke a friend's heart and lost the chickens to the forest!
Through misunderstandings between myself and my friend (who was moving to California and giving us his chickens), the chickens who were already roaming free took it upon themselves to search for food further and further away from their coop. No one was feeding them and they dicided to fend for themselves. Pretty clever little birds they were!
By the time I could finally get the birds, my friend had moved, his roommates had stopped taking care of them and the chickens had gone completely feral... not even coming back to the coop. Perhaps they were eaten by predators but rumor is there's a flock of wild chickens running around somewhere deep in the forest! I hope so for them, but I do feel bad for misunderstanding our arrangement.
But we will be ready next spring for sure!
My friend gave me his forgiveness and said he would have more soon again as he's moved back to town. California really wasn't his thing and we knew it!
We went one last time looking for signs of birds but there was none. We did grab an old coop to use next year, this one I built with my friend a few years back. Funny how things sometimes cycle back 😊!
How did we move this heavy chicken coop across the forest floor?
BALLS!!!
We found the balls to move the coop with, laying there, on the forest floor a few feet away.
We tried to lift it and knew right away this wasn't going to happen. We were ready to give up and drive back home with this trailer of ours that isn't street legal because it's not registered, every trip must count!
We flipped the coop on its roof and started thinking hard.... couldn't we flip this thing end over end until we got to the driveway? Ok that was the plan and then these three bright white marble balls jumped out of the forest screaming Hello, Hello, use me!
Ok so that worked really well, it reminded me of the day we had to move a tree by hand that had fallen on the drivway before our off-grid home was delivered!
Lifting one side wasn't a problem and with a partner or two to put the first ball under the upside down coop it was easy as cake!
And just like that we pushed the chicken coop, the ball started rolling and we put a second one in front of it to keep the momentum going and a third.
When ball number one came out of the back we moved it forward to continie rolling. The great thing about the sphere is that you can not only move something heavy in a straight line but you can also turn it however you need with very little effort.
I am so greatful for having seen the little marble wonders who offered themselves to help our cause. I am not sure if we could have made it this easy otherwise... even with a few more hands. It really was seamless.
I hope you will find inspiration in this post for creating a system when there isn't anything available... When there's a will there's way!
If you don't like your surroundings, change them
If you don't like your situation, change it.
If you don't like your decisions, make different ones.
All of this leads to the life that YOU want to lead, not the one others want you to lead.
Life is like chess, always try and think at least 5 moves ahead, and if you can see the dead ends you can avoid them.
