Loving Life…..Yay! … for a good visit with medical friends. You showed them wood stove skills and capabilities. They showed you medical stuff. Overdue for global infections?…I’ve been hearing that. A late friend of mine was born in 1918. Her dad lived in barn cuz he continued to go to work and didn’t want to infect family with THAT flu if he caught it. Her mom, older sister, and aunt delivered baby [her] …then hollered the news out the window to her waiting dad. She told me many stories of Hard Times. But she lived well into her 90’s.
Muffy…. {hugs} …seemed like you needed one! We don’t have to be stellar EVERY day. ….today was NOT stellar for me either. [check my January challenge report..ugh!]
MollyM….I love old houses/buildings [but they do have surprises]. The stories the walls could tell. A closet door to Narnia, huh? 🙂 You’ve got us all waiting to see what your former [deranged] owner did to those shelf supports. You’re making good progress.
And I did some more research on the ‘ice age’…. Followed the topic down many rabbit holes! The thing is, I began on one website and I’ve been trying to confirm the validity of his data. I’m cross-checking with Wikipedia, etc. He’s got a LOT of history data on what happened in many places during former times of colder/wetter conditions. His website is filled with links to elsewhere. Some are PDFs that I wait to download until I’m up and alert between 2-7AM. Doesn’t count against our data quota.
From what I’ve read so far….much concern was with inability to bring grains to completion before frigid temps killed those crops. Crops grow more slowly with overcast skies and lack of true heat. They also got flooded out in unusual areas. Secondly, concern with being unable to dry forage [hay] for animals to winter over. Specific problems with those time periods:
1) Cold more intense and longer 2) Big increase in precipitation – rain/snow 3) weather much more unsettled – storms, flooding, and irregular patterns 4) agriculture needed to take place further south (or north in southern hemisphere) and at lower elevations
Link to a report of: The “Old Fashioned” Winter of 1917-1918. 101 years ago. If link doesn’t “click” ….you can copy/paste. It’s a first hand account.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/207470?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
This is the link to the guy who’s writing about solar minimum, etc. So far tho, I’ve found a minimum of data about this era’s posibilities for agriculture. We do have options like hydroponics/aquaculture [together they are ‘aquaponics’]. But then there is usally at least some energy needed to run lights and pumps…and for heat.
I do not know enough to endorse this site or not at this point. There are a LOT of interesting links at his site. He’s got some beliefs/agendas but those don’t necessarily negate his findings or ideas. {shrug}
OldMtWoman …G’nite all
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