welcome to SS from mid-Michigan :)
nothing wrong with Hugelculture, but pretty much it needs to be adjusted for your climate (wet or arid) and it is likely best done when you have a big enough amount of wood to bury and plenty of dirt to go over it. on the whole, i think it is a lot of work...
yes, most of that sounds about right to me. the other point is actually deciding what it mean to be content (not letting others run your life) and also defending your time, space and energy as there are so many things that want to pull you away into whatever and at times that's fun, but i'm not...
true. but i could also argue it on the basis of various physical theories that include clouds, energy waves, uncertainty and whatever quantum BS you'd like to try to figure out let alone the various string theories and dark matter angles...
yet that would all be useless quibbling instead of...
i could get out today and it was nice enough to even break a sweat! :)
did some weeding and gravel picking out of a garden and buried some chicken bones and a bag of bean pods and then tried to get the poison ivy out of some bushes but i couldn't find any of it at all.
we had freeze last night of 25F with windchill down to 15F.
tonight it looks like we avoid another freeze.
too early to plant much here, but peas and early bean experimenting is often possible starting about here. i'll hold off and see what the forecast looks like for a bit yet.
i was reading up on it after a previous mention, i would probably like it as i've had some pretty crazy teas that tasted like all sorts of things (many that i won't mention in polite company).
as for your comment about liking to drinking it black to avoid the calories i can do that for weak...