I've got "The Mother Earth News Almanac" from 1973. I don't trust
it. It says you can use a watch as a compass by pointing "the hour
hand of the (correctly-set) timepiece toward the sun and --anywhere
in the northern hemisphere--south will always be halfway between that
very same hour hand and "12" on the watches face."

I don't know the sun was different in the 70's, or maybe watches, or
maybe it was just a misprint, or maybe it only works before noon, or
after noon, but when I tried it, it didn't work.




--- In ajaxsalvage@yahoogroups.com, "isogloss3d" <isogloss3d@y...>
wrote:
> I remember seeing a book in a Whole Earth Catalog a few years ago.
> The book's title was "Mothership earth" or something similar. It
> was a whole series outlining combined old techniques with modern
> technology to become a self-sufficient homesteader.
>
> One book details making the house which was mostly comprised of
used
> tires.
>
> Isogloss3d
>
> --- In ajaxsalvage@yahoogroups.com, "samtheratcat"
> <samtheratcat@y...> wrote:
> > ...- if you laquered a tire?
> > the super-abundance of old tires makes me want to make stuff
> with
> > them - I set some out and put dirt in them and planted iris', and
> I'm
> > pleased with how they look. I will just put flowers in them until
> I
> > find out how safe and stable they are for food crops. I don't
want
> to
> > grow steel-belted tomatoes that say "Dunlop" on them...