Re: Goin' on a Safari
In reply to Taras Vladimirovich Shevchenko (msg # 673):
The elephants seemed bored with Mac and William as well after they walked up, then stopped. But perhaps that was part of the plan?
As for the fort, there were greenhouses set up all over the place in the limited space between the palisades, about a half-dozen. They used transparent plastic sheeting over wood and aluminium frames. Old Willie explained the Fraser Valley had contained hundreds if not thousands of these structures, most larger than the fort, for the growing of berries and fruit, a very profitable cash crop before the war. After, the sheeting and materials were free for the taking. He rigged up rainwater collection, solar heating and drainage. Elephant dung was, of course, extremely good fertiliser! In them he grew a wide range of produce, from strawberries to corn, squash and various herbs.
Otherwise, Willie had the open-air smithy functioning with the forge, and a pump well to bring in extra water.