Arnold, CA…Not so many years ago this was the primary fuel processing facility for cooking your meals, baking your bread, washing your clothes & staying warm in winter. It also served as a fuels reduction tool in forested regions.

Not only that if you kept up the pace it doubled as cardio. All of the “improvements” of modern life are wonderful but according to many studies our peak happiness as a society was 68 years ago.

Now we have much easier physical lives yet we are less happy and our life expectancy is actually going down.

Maybe all that old-fashioned stuff was better. Harder? Undoubtedly! Better for us and better even for the planet? Probably!