Self-sufficient Soul Prints

"He says he's not running away. . . he's just going off the grid."

"He's his own best friend."

"Teach a man to fish, and he'll know how to fish."

Social distancing

Eagle (The Divine Comedy).

I really think I can handle this date on my own. Lemme ask you something. Would you trust me alone with a ybot 340? An Xbox 360? They changed the name? Okay. But you cannot hit on my date. I'm only here to help.

"I wanted to plant my own food, but I couldn't find bacon seeds!"

Thrift: New way to eat eggs (avoid needless transport costs).

'Don't worry about your job at the office, Sweetie. They declared bankrupty today.'

"Just a couple of ninety cent seed packets, and you can have fresh garden vegetables for heaven knows how long."

'He said he wasn't good enough for me, so I married him because he's the first man to realize that.'

"I can't make it out - on the packet it said radishes."

I wonder what they're moaning about right now?

Global Warming.

"Only four more weeks before school is out...and then we're free for the time of our lives!"

"I knew it!"

"To heck with a husband... just help me find a dependable electrician."

'And this is the secret of how our company gets through hard times: we grow all our own food!'

"Living underground is not what it used to be."

Middle Distance Runners

Give a fly a bowl of soup and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to use a crock-pot and he'll eat for a lifetime.

Akron, oh, you're on Ask Sadie. What's your problem?! I'm thinking of not signing up for health insurance this year. Good idea. In my day, there was no such thing as health insurance. If you got sick, you paid for it with either money or chickens. That's if you were a lily-livered coward who just had to see a doctor. When great-great-grandmother Cohen had her sixth heart attack, she just applied a poultice made of chestnut leaves and flour and kept on plowing.

"It's okay. I'm still ranked at the top of my class in self-esteem."

"Well, now that you mention it, my philosophy has ALWAYS been to live every day as if it was my last."

"They say walking can change your life. Bye!"

Echo Chamber Canyon

The Garden

"I'm going off the grid with the option of grid-binging whenever I want."

"Ah! What a glorious day to be dead!"

"We're tolerably self sufficient. Alistair, for example, makes all our own petrol."

"You name it, and he had a donor card for it."

Look Enlightened - Here comes the Guru.

DIY helpdesk.

"Thanks for the interview. And, you're definitely on my shortlist."

'This year I'm celebrating Valentines Day by myself, I have to economize.'