Ulysses, Pennsylvania

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July/August 1976
By the Mother Earth News editors 
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We're still a little worried about the legality of building that house (our methods probably aren't code-perfect) . . . not to mention the ramifications—legal and otherwise—of living together in this dome. Did you ever try to fit eight souls into a residence that measures only 28 feet in diameter? We've been experiencing the social aspects of that for months! We admit it is sort of cozy . . . and we have become extremely tolerant . . . and the kids love it . . . and it isn't too bad . . . but where the devil do you put a darkroom? (We need one for our newspaper work.)

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Seriously though, after six months of living here we can now honestly say that this is the best damn life we know of and we wouldn't give it up for a million dollars. It was worth all the sweat and suffering and deprivation and tears and pain . . . not to mention the sense of loss we all felt when our 300-pound sow, Christine, failed to survive the trip to the country. At least now we have Pat and Dick—a couple of bull calves—to fill the freezer in a couple of months. (We helped a dairy farmer up the road erect his steel pre-fabbed barn and—as a result—got not only the two calves, but free milk until January 1. And Burdette Cowburn, our neighbor, is giving us all the hay and feed corn we're gonna need in return for our giving him a hand with baling and loading his hay.)

We've had a lot of good luck with the bad, make no mistake. In conclusion, we'd just like to say that it sure is a fine feeling to read THE MOTHER EARTH NEWS® while sitting in a warm dome surrounded by friends . . . and to know that we don't simply read or talk about living the good life anymore. We're doing it!

You betcha! (A little phrase we learned after movin' upstate.)

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