Comments on: Solar Supper Update

By: Keeley

Keeley — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:38:41 +0000

Haha, love your soldiers! =)

Bummer about the dinner flopping; but now you know, and we can learn from your wisdom. =)

Here’s what I’ve gathered thus far:
Make solar oven.
Works better in sunlight.
Use a dark dutch oven inside.

Thanks for the tips. =)

By: MotherHen

MotherHen — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:22:00 +0000

Ooooh! Very good idea! I’ll fling that one out at dinner tonight and see what the men folk think! Thanks, Cyndi! (btw~ we are the opposite here. Mr. Cowboy is all about “preparedness” and I am trying not to wig out over thoughts of standing an armed guard over my veggie garden. These projects will keep my mind occupied with productive pursuits instead of the alternative thoughts haunting my days and nights.)

By: Cyndi Lewis

Cyndi Lewis — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:20:45 +0000

I'm right there with you. But I'm trying not to freak out the DH. If I start talking "world as we know it ending" he thinks I'm crazy. If I leave it at "just in case" he can handle it. I try to keep my "doomsday" feelings hidden under "isn't it great to learn a new skill!" lest anyone send me off to the crazy house. What I'm really thinking, besides self-sustainment, is income and trade possibilities if need be. Solar ovens would be popular among other things. Cyndi Lewis’s last blog post..Silly Me...

By: MotherHen

MotherHen — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:29:10 +0000

Well, Cyndi, I think the options bit is a good place to start. But, if confronted with economic collapse, cooking without coal or wood OR electricity will be quite the skill to have, won’t it. (Can’t say where I’d get anything to put in it in that event, but, none the less, it’s free energy.) Also, there is the safety aspect. Although I proved yesterday that burning ones self using the solar cooker is a distinct possibility, I could hurt myself much worse with an open fire. And then there is the flexibility offered by the solar cooker, truly a set it and forget it kinda thing.
More on this train of thought in a future post.

By: Cyndi Lewis

Cyndi Lewis — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:42:15 +0000

When I showed my DH your solar oven entries he asked "why?". I said, "So we have options." He said, "That's what fire is for." None-the-less, I convinced him it would be a great family science project . So I think we will be learning solar cooking and over the fire cooking. (I also want him to build me an outdoor brick oven.) Cyndi Lewis’s last blog post..Silly Me...