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Was just recently turned onto the “prepper website podcast”. Definitely makes my drive to work more productive. I’m sure some here are familiar but if not it’s worth checking out. Gentlemen essential reads articles from various prepper websites and adds commentary. He had actually read through one of Kens on EMPs that I had just found in the archives a couple weeks back.
I’m also going back and forth with the boycotting of Wally World. Unfortunately there aren’t a lot of other options out by us. Certainly won’t be purchasing any firearm accessories from them anymore.
rb308
Understand that some areas are limited to what they have for shopping. The WM has taken over so well that mom & pop or other stores could not compete with their pricing.
I marked the pod cast to my favorites bar so when acdh has certain tv shows on, I can plug in the ear phones and ignore what he has on..lol.
Years ago, WalMart had folks driving 40-50 miles or more to their store to buy things. Then, after Sam died, WalMart seemed to change. I wonder how many people now drive 40-50 miles or more to avoid WalMart?
I’ve read in the past that WalMart has been up in the top of the list for their transportation fleet size, coming in at number one some years if I recall? I wonder if they have noticed that the general public has also enhanced their own personal transportation system at the same time? Lots of people have lots of new or near-new automobiles and they like to drive, especially when they can hit 3 or 4 stores and eating places in one trip. WalMart customers can drive to shop wherever they want to shop these days. If they don’t feel like driving, they can shop online.
When I drive 40-50 miles to shop, I certainly don’t go to a WalMart. I doubt that I’m the only one.
CD in Oklahoma
Antique Collector
Lol love the idea, I may do the same
Thx Joe c
We’ve got one but it’s a drive.
The slugs were at Bass Pro in OKC. I just looked online and found that you can order #1 buckshot for $6.99 as well as the other slugs and birdshot.
Looks like that will be my next payday order
America commemorates the attacks on the World Trade Center twin towers and the Pentagon today.
MSM headlines “18 years ago today, airplanes built and owned by capitalistic corporations overwhelmingly controlled by white men of European descent, took aim at defenseless Americans, killing thousands”.
MSM brainwashes the ignorant with lies and half truths.
Most of this statement is correct – but just like those scary black guns that shoot innocent people all by themselves, these planes just flew by themselves – we must red flag every airliner out there.
The globalists, socialists, and communists, will never give up the BS until there is enough critical mass of moral people to stand up to the lies. Last night’s elections were a good start.
hermit us,
Exactly. Shift blame from the perpetrators (in this case, Islamists and immigrants) to the tool they used (commercial airplanes) to the ones who made and marketed the tool.
I made the headline up, but the NYTimes this morning did lead with “Airplanes took aim at World Trade Center” but never mentioned islam, muslims, or immigrants in their story.
Thanks Dennis for answering me2
And yes the NYT did say airplanes took aim at the towers.
And yes me2, the far left haters are sure of their control of the American psyche through the school system indoctrination of our young.
Dennis I HOPE you were kidding about that MSN headline for 9-11.
Otherwise the evil ones are totally sure of their control of America’s psyche.
Hermit us What elections did I miss last night? Please expand?
me2,
See my reply to hermit us.
NC had special elections yesterday to fill two House seats. Trump supporting, pro-2a supporters won both seats. (those pre-election polls had one race with a 17 point lead by the democrat, the Republican won that race by 2+ points).
“Yeah CD y’all have been without for a while now.”
We’re still without rain as of today. Maybe we’ll get some Friday. The only thing that I like about a drought is that I can get by without moving the yards for a while longer than normal. Trouble pops up when the neighbors mow their weeds and make mine look really big (would Ya’ll quit doing that???). I don’t think that I’ve mowed since sometime back in July, so it’s probably about time to go take out the tall stuff. The good thing is, I can probably run in third gear since the vegetation is mostly non-existent at the lower level.
My Yoyo is in excellent shape, and I use it regularly to keep myself in shape. (For those that haven’t heard the term “Yoyo”, it’s a hand-operated weed cutter that has a two-sided blade at the end of a wooden handle that cuts vegetation by swinging the implement back and forth in front of the operator. It’s very aerobic, good for circulation, and provides an instant return of success (or failure)).
I have the charger on the lawn tractor now. It usually doesn’t need a charge during the mowing season, but it’s been a long while since I used it and it won’t hurt to charge the battery a little. I’m waiting for it to warm up a little outside before I go out. It’s only 93 right now, so it may not warm up much more today. I guess I can suffer through the lower 90s, instead of having warmer 100s. Mowing in hot weather makes the beer taste better! (or, so I’m told).
CD in Oklahoma
Well poo. No mowing today. The tractor wouldn’t fire, and the starter hung up and ran until I disconnected a battery cable. Not good.
The starter has been hanging a bit the past few times that I’ve started the tractor, but in the past, once the engine started, it spun the starter loose and wasn’t a problem. This time it was. I don’t want to spend the money on my old worn-out machine to fix the problem. I bought it used at a yardsale years ago, for Heaven’s Sake!
Time to choose an option on future mowing. I don’t want to do both yards with a Yoyo (although I have a neighbor that cuts his entire large lawn area with a weed-eater), so for me, that leaves buying a new mower or having someone cut it. Mowing lawns, IMO, is one of the largest wastes of money that humans have ever came up with. I wonder what it would cost to pave my entire yard?
CD in Oklahoma
If a man can mow he can fish. I hate mowing lol
I see you got missed just to the east again. Maybe tomorrow man.
Sheeep!
CD
LOL
I always wanted a huge lush lawn. Properly manicured trees, bushes.
Screw that. Mowing here takes three plus hrs. Properly trimmed with a weed trimmer, three plus additional hrs.
Dead battery, sharpen blades, air up another tire, change the oil, buy another weed trimmer, trim the bushes….etc
Sheesh
What a waste of time.
I agree with Lauren:
GOATS
Just watch your step……
Ok
So Lauren said sheeep, not goats….one in almost the same.
I was I a hurry
CD in Oklahoma
Convert that lawn into “Lauren’s Landscape”, pages with instructions available. Right, Lauren? 😇
A whole lot less expensive than asphalt.🤔
CD in Oklahoma
I covered my yard areas with yards and yards of cedar chips – easy to come by in the coastal PNW. Smells nice, keeps mosquitos down, and the dogs, who spend their days on the chips haven’t had flea one. Mowing is firing up the walk behind weed eater and trimming anything that sticks its head up.
It’s soft underfoot which is nice for an oldster with a trick knee.
FYI my local Wal-mart has 16 gauge ammo including slugs and #1 Buckshot.
Also Wal-mart IS restocking 5.56mm and pistol ammo until the warehouses supply is finished.
Still unconfirmed if 300 Blackout and 7.62 X 39mm will be affected?
22 ammo seems unchanged although 22 mag has not yet been replaced after the rush to buy 5.56mm.
Some 200 days until the House’s Universal “Common Sense” Gun control bill must be signed or vetoed. Hopefully will be tabled in the Senate but a lot of RHINO’s seem to have Epstein type skeletons that the Socialists are happy to use on them. If the bill passes as written even giving a family firearm to your children will require use of a FFL person and a “safety” check.
me2
Read today an article:
“New Jersey “High-Capacity” Magazine Ban Took Effect 9 Months Ago — Not a Single Magazine Has Been Turned In”
“MOLON LABE – Kiwi Style: Citizens Disobey New Zealand Gun Ban, Only 530 of 300,000 People Turned Guns In”
Makes a person just wanna smile😁
Joe C your report also makes ME smile. Our ignoring their “Laws” is a problem for the Socialists.
However the Media and False Flag attacks will continue to “Build Consensus” for “Common Sense” Gun Laws. They gun grabbers created the Red Flag laws to take out those that will not comply under “Rule of Law”. They hope the effects of Swatting gun owners via Red Flag laws will cause more on the fence gun owners to “Comply”. They mostly know (some POWERFUL Social-Democrats are delusional) that mass door to door would create a full on war but they also know that we are divided so one family at a time still works.
The Socialists NEED to SHAME US (False Flag School kid killers) in the eyes of the masses, Disarm us for the good of the masses in order to build their rainbows and unicorn farts New Successful Socialism.
Where as that Animal Farm quote goes “All Animals are Equal, Some Animals are MORE Equal than others”. Socialism where the Leaders and their loyal supporters live very well as the rest are “EQUAL” in their rank poverty.
Dark times ahead. Things I am watching out for:
More attacks on law enforcement and soft targets to generate even more pressure as the Make it STOP campaign continues. This puts the Trump Government in the situation of being the Bad Guys for stomping on liberties (2AD etc.) and or leaving the police out in the cold. The Media’s control on the storyline makes it a non winnable situation for Trump.
Also the “Make it STOP” campaign keeps the whole social situation unstable so Trump’s people are very concerned that RELEASING the FISA documents and the arrests to follow would generate Rodney King style riots all over the mostly Blue Cities. The unspoken threat is arrest us and the cities will BURN…
Policemen’s families moved into “Safe Zone Compounds” with their own commissary services. Thus placing them totally above and out of the common herd. Insures their obedience to distasteful laws due to safety of their families vs. the “Us vs. THEM” attitude so many young officers already have.
“Good Citizen Awards for turning in Gun Owners” for better status? Cash?
Loss of Petrodollar status and the sudden flood of foreign debt notes AKA US Treasuries into the USA causing a surge in inflation, unstable stock market, the FORCING of Americans Retirement monies into “SAFE US Treasuries” to “Protect” them from the evil stock markets. This will CRASH the stock market, as a loss of faith in the stock market always does.
The collapse of the stock-bond market leading to a Media driven “It’s TRUMPS FAULT” Campaign to drive the Socialists into POWER. You will see Homeless camps called Trump-towns etc. just like they did to President Hoover with Hoovervilles (shanty towns) and Hoover Blankets (newspapers over sleeping bums) that allowed President Roosevelt to take over for his socialist “New Deal” (Green Deal anyone?) powered by Gold Confiscation in the Great Depression NOW Retirement Savings for the Greatest Depression ™?
Dark times ahead. Be aware of what you shout over the internet as not all eyes reading this are “Patriots” or “Friends”. Be aware your greatest threat is a unhappy person close to you turning you in for the “Common Good” aka Red Flag laws, soon anti-hording laws and so on.
To know a few trusted friends is worth more than gold and silver or even storage foods and such.
now they will be after small folding knives after the event in Florida today… after that will be scissors like in England and rocks…
How convenient that 9-11 happened just after a huge amount of money was “lost” and insurance was quadrupled on buildings that was full of asbestos and needed to be torn down.
I WAS born in the afternoon, but not this afternoon!
CDinOK/Dennis
First and foremost, I’ve read numerous CD posts in the past. CD is not a basher.
I let it go when I first saw the post and just wanna chime in.
CD.
Yep on this board there are many here that I am envious of, there are those here that are are struggling…..those that maybe worst off than me.
It’s frustrating as hell, day in day out. Make ends meet. As of you today, a supposed simple chore takes time, more money, more hours wasted. Welcome to.my world. Day in, day out. My dad was a cobler. This farm is so damned frustrating. Most times, I wanna lash out…..at someone.
I spent my family’s tax return on a 5500 genny, prior to Y2K. Never used it….til years after, as I watched my basement flood. I called.the manufacturer dept. Needed a new carburetor. You would not.believe.the profanity used.
Bought a 2500 back up.genny yrs later on Craigslist….burns oil like gasoline…..
There is damned good people.here. you.know.that as well as I.
Now stand in your corner and count to twenty…….nine.
Take care CD and tommorow is a new day.
Put a new ax handle on the double edge…..after grinding and shaping.
It fits pretty tight, but for a better fit, I’ve read that kerosene or linseed oil will swell the handle and will hold a better shape than a water soak.
A nice, not aged, hickory handle bought at an antique shop…. cheaper than the hardware/lumber stores.
45-70 is more recoil than I want to suffer, so I called a friend who collects guns and has a retail store. He said send him over, so I did.
I know nothing about this weapon, never even seen it, but He got 3 times more than he offered it to me for. Good deal, he needs the cash.
Funny how thing just seem to work out.
I have three generators. A Generac and two Ion Lithium generators. Bought them on credit and paid them off.
Most of us here are mid income folks, we work hard, and we take care of ourselves and others. We always hope for things to better take care of ourselves. Also others.
We should not fight among ourselves, as everybody tries to trash our happiness. We need to spot trolls that want to cause dissention among us.Good luck with that! The world did not give us our work ethic and the world can not take it away from us.
Our life styles are diverse, but we find commonalities that tie us together. We know we must strive for self sufficiency. Time is coming when all we have is knowledge of how to survive. And hopefully a little ( or lot) of tangibles.
That is our common goal, to make it in spite of a world gone mad.
MSB family, we have a job to do. Survive together.
This is the stuff bad dreams are made of.
There exists a database of Americans, who, often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be incarcerated. The database can identify and locate perceived ‘enemies of the state’ almost instantaneously.” He and other sources tell Radar that the database is sometimes referred to by the code name Main Core. One knowledgeable source claims that 8 million Americans are now listed in Main Core as potentially suspect. In the event of a national emergency, these people could be subject to everything from heightened surveillance and tracking to direct questioning and possibly even detention.
Main Core is the code name of an American governmental database that is believed to have been in existence since the 1980s. It is believed that Main Core is a federal database containing personal and financial data of millions of United States citizens believed to be threats to national security.
Make your own conclusions.
Well, here we go….our own little database of 145 CEOs from corporations around America who have decided that they will petition Congress to change our laws and modify our Bill of Rights.
These Fascists are attempting to alter our 2nd Amendment Rights by putting pressure on our Senators. So here their request: “..we urge the Senate to stand with the American public and take action on gun safety by passing a bill to require background checks on all gun sales and a strong Red Flag law that would allow courts to issue life-saving extreme risk protection orders.”
Organizations with more than 500 employees:
Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, Head of Community and CEO , Airbnb KeithMestrich, Presidentand CEO , Amalgamated Bank John Connaughton and Jonathan Lavine, Co-Managing Partners, and Josh Bekenstein and Steve Pagliuca, Co -Chairmen, Bain Capital Ethan Brown, Co-Founder and CEO , Beyond Meat Peter T. Grauer, Chairman , Bloomberg LP Ric Clark , Chairman, Brookfield Property Group Fritz Lanman, CEO , ClassPass Roger Lynch, CEO , CondéNast Ken Lin, Founder and CEO , Credit Karma Edward Stack , CEO, DICK ‘S SportingGoods Tony Xu, Co -Founder and CEO , DoorDash Doug Baker, Chairman and CEO , Ecolab Richard Edelman, President and CEO, Edelman Julia Hartz, Co-Founder and CEO , Eventbrite Art Peck, CEO ,Gap Inc. Eddy Lu, CEO GoatGroup Ben Lerer, Co -Founder and CEO, Group NineMedia Yannick Bolloré, CEO, Havas Group BillKoenigsberg, President, CEO and Founder, HorizonMedia Patrick O . Brown,MD, PhD, Founder and CEO , Impossible Foods MichaelRoth, Chairman and CEO , Interpublic Rob Frohwein, Co-Founder and CEO , and Kathryn Petralia, Co-Founder and President, Kabbage Inc. and Drum Technologies Chip Bergh, President and CEO , LeviStrauss & Co. Logan Green, Co-Founder and CEO, and John Zimmer, Co -Founder and President, Lyft Dev Ittycheria, Presidentand CEO , MongoDB, Inc. HowardMarks, Co-Chairman, Oaktree CapitalManagement Todd McKinnon, Co -Founder and CEO, Okta John Wren , Chairman and CEO , Omnicom Group Ben Silbermann, Co- Founder and CEO, Pinterest Bastian Lehmann, Co-Founder & CEO , Postmates Hamid R . Moghadam , Chairman and CEO , Prologis Arthur Sadoun, Chairman and CEO , Publicis Groupe Steve Huffman, CEO, Reddit Richard Fain , CEO , RoyalCaribbean Cruises Ltd.ScottRechler, Chairman and CEO , RXR Realty Jon Oringer, Founder and CEO , Shutterstock , . Jack Dorsey, CEO, Square and Twitter Anthony Casalena, Founder and CEO, Squarespace Zander Lurie, CEO, SurveyMonkey AriannaHuffington, Founder and CEO , Thrive Global Blake Mycoskie, Founder and Chief Shoe Giver, and Jim Alling, CEO , TOMS Jeff Lawson, Co-Founderand CEO Twilio DaraKhosrowshahi, CEO , Uber Mark Read CEO, WPP JeremyStoppelman, Co-Founder and CEO, Yelp
(continued…)
The continued list of 145 Fascist CEOs from corporations around America who have decided that they will petition Congress to change our laws and modify our Bill of Rights:
Organizations with fewer than 500 employees:
Kevin P . Ryan , Founder and CEO , AlleyCorp Travis Truett, Co-Founder and CEO , Ambition John W . Rogers, Jr., Founder , Chairman and Co -CEO , and Mellody Hobson, Co-CEO & President, Ariel Investments , LLC Mike Steib , CEO , Artsy Sean Knapp, Co-Founder and CEO , Ascend Andrei Cherny , Co -Founder and CEO , Aspiration Abdur Chowdhury , CEO , Aura Fahim M . Aziz , Founder and CEO , Backpack Abrams, Chairman and Co-CEO, and Katie McGrath , Co-CEO Bad Robot Ari Paparo , CEO , BeeswaxIO Corporation Ryan Block , Co -Founder, Begin John Borthwick , Founder and CEO , Betaworks Raphael Crawford -Marks, Co -Founder and CEO , Bonusly Darren Lachtman , Co-Founder , Brat Trevor McFedries , CEO , Brud Sameer Shariff, Co -Founder , Cambly Analisa Goodin , Founder and CEO, Catch & Release , Inc. Andrew Feldman , Founder and CEO , Cerebras Systems George Favvas, CEO , Circle Medical Alex MacCaw , CEO , Clearbit Tyler Bosmeny , CEO , Clever MattMartin , Co-Founder and CEO , Clockwise Othman Laraki, Co -Founder and CEO Color Genomics Jager McConnell, CEO , Crunchbase , Inc. Apu Gupta , Co-Founder and CEO , Curalate , Inc . David Oates , Co-Founder and CEO, Curtsy Brian Ree , Founder and CEO , DAILYLOOK Saurabh Ladha, CEO , Doxel, Inc. Andy Coravos , Co -Founder and CEO , Elektra Labs Laurene Powell Jobs, President, Emerson Collective Pradeep Elankumaran , Co-Founder & CEO Farmstead Desiree Gruber , CEO , Full Picture Jared Hecht, Founder and CEO , Fundera JudeGomila , Founder and CEO , Golden Rick Nucci, Co-Founder and CEO , Guru Kara Goldin , Founder and CEO , Hint, Inc. Jeff Sellinger, Co -Founder and CEO , HipDot Prerna Gupta , CEO , Hooked Cyrus Massoumi,Managing Partner, humbition Kristin Savilia , CEO , JOOR Pierre Valade , CEO , Jumbo Privacy William Martino, Founder and CEO , Kadena Jake Perlman -Garr, CEO , Kanga Warren Shaeffer, Co-Founder and CEO , Knowable Jack Altman , CEO Lattice Aaron N . Block , Co-Founder and Managing Director,MetaProp . Afton Vechery , Co-Founder and CEO ,Modern Fertility Dan Parham , Founder and CEO , and Tee Parham , Founder and CTO Neighborland Shafqat Islam , CEO , NewsCred Sarah Friar, CEO , Nextdoor Athan Stephanopoulos , President, NowThis Varsha Rao, CEO , Nurx William E . Oberndorf, Chairman , Oberndorf Enterprises Steven Rosenblatt , Co-Founder andGeneral Partner, Oceans Nick Huzar, Co-Founder and CEO , OfferUp James Segil , Co -Founder and President, Openpath Jordan Husney , CEO , Parabol Doug Aley, CEO , Paravision John Milinovich , CEO , Plato Design Rajat Suri, CEO , Presto Christopher Gavigan , Founder and CEO , Prima Adam Regelmann , Founder and COO , Quartzy Nate Maslak , Co-Founder and CEO , andNate Fox, Co-Founder and CTO , Ribbon Health Zachariah Reitano, Co-Founder and CEO , Ro Gary Beasley , Co-Founder and CEO , Roofstock Stephen Ehikian , Co -Founder and CEO , Ruist Brian Schechter, CEO , SelfMade Olga Vidisheva , Founder and CEO , Shoptiques Inc. Dan Doctoroff , CEO , Sidewalk Labs Jason Tan, CEO , Sift Matt Cooper , CEO , Skillshare Grant Jordan , CEO , SkySafe Josh Guttman , Co- Founder and CEO and Florent Peyre, Co-Founder and President , Small Door Michael Carvin , Co Founder and CEO SmartAsset Aaron King, Founder and CEO , Snapdocs , Inc. Neil Capel, CEO , Solve. io Ben Hindman , Co-Founder and CEO , Splash Evan Beard , Founder and CEO Standard Bots Stanlee R . Gatti, Founder, Stanlee R . Gatti Designs Bradford Oberwager, CEO , Sundia Corporation Ross Feinstein , CEO , Sunlight Health Paul Budnitz , CEO , Superplastic Ron Conway , Founder , SV Angel HeidiZak, Co-Founder and Co-CEO , and David Spector, Co-Founder and Co- CEO ThirdLove Yashar Nejati, CEO , thisopenspace inc . Joshua Kushner , Founder and Managing Partner, Thrive Capital Chris Wang, CEO , ThunderCore Inc. Corbett Kull, CEO , Tillable Meghan Jewitt, CEO , Uniform Teeth Nicholas Goldner , Co- Founder and CEO , and Christopher Bulow , Co-Founder and COO Viosera Therapeutics Ken Chong, CEO Virtual Kitchen Co Irv Remedios, CEO , Voxer Oliver Cameron , Co-Founder and CEO Voyage Chase Adam , Co-Founder and CEO , and Grace Garey , Co-Founder and COO , Watsi Liz Wessel , Co-Founder and CEO , WayUp NeilWaller, CEO , Whalar Bismarck Lepe, CEO , Wizeline Dennis R . Mortensen , Founder and CEO , x .ai, inc. Geoff Ralston, President, Y Combinator Shan -Lyn Ma, Co -Founder and CEO Zola
These two comment “lists” are amazing. Would you care to share a source? (Not that I don’t believe it, but I may take this wider, as far as exposure).
Came from a marketing site, Heisenberg Report (a dot com).
Article, dated Sept 12, 2019, is titled “145 CEOs Demand Congress Act On Gun Violence – Read Their Letter” (filed under the politics subject).
You know I can’t post the full link…see how well you trained us 🙂
If we have to be careful about what we say, then there’s no 1A.
Sure wasn’t easy for the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Wonder if any of them thought ” don’t make the same mistake I did” ?
Dennis,,,,,
You just described how everything on this farm has happened. I did “without”. Eating out, new clothes etc.
Many times it takes sacrifice to arrange finances to work for us long term. Our circumstances can not be much like the every day person, who reads and contributes to this site.
We see what is coming and pray over our finances to stretch across “the plan”. Just ordered olive barrels and bulkhead brass faucet head w/ hose hookup. If I like them, I shall order more. Do not like rain barrels recut, may or not want everything hooked to downspouts ( in my case they are 3″ round down spouts.) So I can cut to fit needs.
Future requires cutbacks to provide for the future need.
Another day in the 90’s here; just checked and filled water containers for livestock.
God be with my MSB family and our future.
Sage as a FYI a friend of mine had the neatest drip irrigation system. Couldn’t afford some gadget that keeps the pressure the same as it drains from the water tank so he put TWO faucets one half way up and the second one at the bottom. That way the pressure differential was not an issue with the simple slit hose drip irrigation tubing system they installed. Also at the end of season he can flush the drip lines of debris and hang them to dry out to avoid freezing.
They found they saved water and evened out the irrigation thusly. Otherwise from just the bottom faucet they had a much faster drip action until the tank used up half the water.
Simple is good!
BTW did you look up that Crimean Oven heating system at No Tech Magazine webpage? If it worked in the Civil war to keep drafty damp tents warm and dry for surgical patients it might work well for a greenhouse? A Rocket mass heater needing mostly a shovel and flat rocks.
Ken,
It’s going on 4 years since I went SHTF mode here on your site.
For me and my group it was the right decision.
I look back at what I based my decision on compared to the non stop BS of today and see just how far and fast we have fallen.
I guess my tolerance level is lower than most people.
Old homesteader bugged out of posting as have others. I rarely post here myself.
It’s not that this is not a great site. It’s definitely in the top 3 for sure. Great articles and follow up.
It’s come to a point where people have to decide what’s best for themselves. Much of the good advice and comments fall on deaf ears.
You better know your neighbors (both good and bad) in the times ahead.
Too much wasted time and energy worrying about what some POS a thousand miles away is doing.
It’s more important to know what the POS 5 miles away is up to.
But hey ,to each his own.
You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink…
BJK,
FYI, oldhomesteader isn’t posting here because he and I had a disagreement (it’s not that he left – just so you know).
A few comments reflecting on what you said:
Yes, It’s ALWAYS a point where people have to decide for themselves. It’s called self-reliance. Unfortunately many are not.
Yes, good advice does sometimes fall on deaf ears. And it’s the way it has always been. Though certainly, seemingly, worse these days.
Regarding “worry”. I don’t worry. Worrying is a “state of being” where one feels out of control with one’s circumstances. I do not. When I post on issues that may be misconstrued as “worry”, it’s really just pointing out issues that I feel are important for others to know about. Information. Opinion.
Yes, you better know your neighbors. When the SHTF, it will be ALL LOCAL.
Ken,
Apparently I missed that with OH.
He posted many times about going dark. I thought he had done just that. I post very little anywhere these days.
My time and energy are better spent elsewhere but for many it’s a positive emotional outlet to see their thoughts and ideas spelled out on a page. That’s what makes this site one of the best out there. The free flow of ideas that are encouraged here.
I wasn’t saying you put out “worry ” articles. You’re not a fear monger like many other sites have morphed into.
I just see the trait of needless worrying about issues in way too many people nowadays.
They have no control over it. It’s good to have knowledge but you have to sift the intel and figure out if you will be affected . I have a former close friend who literally wastes a third of his day posting and arguing with faceless people on FB and Twitter. On issues and problems that he has no control over or affect him personally. I imagine everyone here knows at least one as well. That’s becoming the norm not the exception.
I agree that it is all local.
I have posted many many times about working and interacting with your neighbors.
Our only difference is in my perspective the SHTF has already happened. Look at the behavior of the politicians and a large segment of the the people in the last 4 years. The shortages that are surely to come to (pick any ten different reasons) pass soon.
I’m not saying people have to take the road I went down .
Just saying what’s hitting you in the face ain’t rain…
BJH
Good advice
Good to see you post and that you are still around.
Miss you here, as well as OH, and others.
One question I always wanted to ask you, but never did….
‘Bill Jenkins Horse’
What’s the significance?
What’s the story?
Maybe some old timers here know.
Just curious, that’s all.
‘Horse’ was my interest.
Hm…hope he’s OK with me answering this. He said he had a friend named Bill Jenkins. They were off somewhere (and yes, he tells the story much better than I do) and he broke a bone. Bill told him “If you were my horse, I’d have to shoot you.”
Maybe BJH can correct me if I got the story wrong.
Lauren
Lol
Well to be honest, I’ve done web searches looking for the significance in the name of BJH. And was just curious.
Your explanation gave more smiles than what I had found.
Not to be weird. Just saying
Thanks.
(I knew someone would know….you be the gal.)
Thanks Lauren…
Hope all is well on your homestead.
You would be welcome at my campfire anytime…
Joe c ,
I had a good friend and mentor named Bill Jenkins.
We walked into one of his favorite fishing holes. It was a “fer piece “out into the woods.
I sprained my ankle really bad on some slippery rocks at the water’s edge.
He wrapped my ankle and in true form for Bill said “if you were my horse I would have to shoot you.”
He’s gone now but it’s my way to honor a man who taught me skills that I still posses to this day.
Hope that explains it…
Bill was one of those rare individuals who come into your life. I was lucky enough to realize it and stayed close to him over the many years.
We are fortunate human beings if we have 2 or 3 of these people in our lives.
I only hope that I am one of those to people to others in my life.
It’s a goal to strive toward
BJH
Yes, sir
I believe you, most definitely, ‘fit that Bill’, as they say.
Carry On, Bill Jenkins Horse.
Thanks
Me2,,,,,,
Your no tech magazine Intrigues me. Never knew there is such a publication.
The problem with the Crimean Oven is that there is a big tree in the center of the greenhouse. My luck, where ever i dug the trench, i would hit huge roots and i do not want to kill the tree. But, it would be such a good idea. I think it is worthy, maybe if i get run out of here ( like civil war) and i live in woods, it would be a great idea. Maybe everyone should memorize the idea- some of us, just might need the plan to fall back on.
Hey, thank you for the suggestion on slow drip hose by using higher and lower faucet to control water pressure I sure am going to try that!
Where i live, in Amish/Mennonite country, they watch what i do, so they will try that idea. My ( you know who visitors) this last week tell me i do not need to do anything, God will take care of me ( which He will, but i believe He expects me to use common sense too.) They can not stand that i prepare, but they sure want me to attend their church REALLY BAD. Wonder if they could control me, by their all Male board meetings, they could control what i own? They are pushing to hard. I was telling them what wonderful healing herbs God lead me to the other morning, while taking a walk. The State of Ohio plant and herb man tells me if i am ever hungry or sick, i am on the right property.
They were here the other day, couple of hours after my discovery of the plants. When I told them about them, they wanted me to stop what I was doing and take them to the plants. I just started describing them, so they could look on their own properties. They did not like that answer. They could not control the situation.
I was once close friends with their Bishop’s wife. She was so unhappy, her counter in the kitchen was cracked wide open for 20 years. She was not allowed to have , free nannies from me, because the barn was in shambles. So I went to fix the counter top and stalls and he threw me off his property for trying to help her.
So suddenly, why do they want me in their church? Do not need him to make me miserable too.
Probably would be the very folks wanting defended or cared for, when I was the example right in front of their eyes, all these years. Rant over!
Thanks again Me2.
Sage, happy to hear your thinking about that Crimean Oven. I tried it once at the Deer Camp and it did indeed make a nice warm dry Wall Tent during my typically cold and wet deer hunting season. When I get around to rebuilding my raised bed garden I plan on putting one in so I can gently heat my raised bed for an earlier planting (frozen earth springs) and later season extension. I think it would pair well with a hoop house over my raised beds. Nice way to use up storm fallen branches and otherwise near useless firewood’s like wet pine. Fast hot fire and let the earth hold that heat!
Beware the Pharisees Matthew 16:6. God is personal, Faith is personal, Religion as you well know is often a set of chains. The story about the Bishops wife speaks volumes, I’d not get on that bus, even as a Man. Nuff said.
Hearing some scuttlebutt about Colt exiting the retail market and focusing on Military and Law Enforcement.
(Conspiracy theorists, what say you!)
Slippy
They acknowledged it but said it’s temporary.
It’s a financially smart move considering how much the contracts pay compared to what regular folk pay.
PSA is killing it, along with others, in price and quality and it’s mostly a different class buying colts in much smaller quantities anyway.
Slippy,
Haven’t heard that. If it’s true, they may want to look at the Smith and Wesson debacle years past.
British investors acquired Smith and Wesson and partially withdrew from civilian markets. Like to have been the demise of the company. Quality suffered as did sales. Recovery was slow. As I recall, the employees worked out a buy out and took control of the products and marketing.
Dennis & Slippy,
Colt will be getting out of long gun production for retail markets to focus on getting their government contracts back that they lost when they went through bankruptcy restructuring a few years back. From what I read handgun production will continue as normal at retail.
I wonder if some of this is also to avoid any pushback on the anti AR15 bs that’s going around.
A&O
11HE9,
Seems I read somewhere, awhile back, that Colt was struggling in the AR market. This happens when you’re dealing with mil-spec weapons. Colt refused to lower quality to compete with the myriad of companies who were producing lower quality. cheaper weapons that worked ok. Sadly, the big market was for cheaper guns. If you’ve got a Colt AR, hang on to it. It will most likely skyrocket in value like the pre-64 Winchester rifles and original Colt Pythons.
Another interesting week. So, I believe I mentioned about a year and a half ago that we lost our area Sam’s Club when it closed. It has been sorely missed as their free shipping is horrible and there are many things that they won’t ship. Plus, we miss the benefit of things on closeout for the store. Anyway, Walmart has been bad for their employees and not the best at meeting consumer demand in our area because no more competition locally, but now they have a new service that people absolutely love – order your groceries ahead and just pick them up. The young ones LOVE not having to go in and gather their own stuff. Of course, Walmart will lose out on a large percentage of sales for those items the person would walk by and pick up for whatever reason. So now a new mixed sales store is opening in this town near us – it is called Runnings and it will give Walmart and the crappy Tractor Supply store near us a run for their money. Our TSC has never done a good job keeping farm stuff stocked but others in surrounding towns do a good job.
I will check out the store but not until all the crowds rush in the first few weeks. I don’t care to be involved in that crush. Interestingly, they are not paying their people any better then Walmart, but want the already trained skill set that comes with staff from other operational stores in the area.
I won’t be shopping at Walmart anymore since they have become oppressive and directing us how we should “behave” (don’t carry your weap@@ for protection). However, they have no problem accepting loud-mouthed, rude and verbally abusive welfare rats in their store. Walmart allows their staff to be regularly abused by these people and they allow their mannered customers to endure their poor behavior.
As a side it should be noted that Target did the same thing regarding carrying protection many years back and asked us not to conceal carry in their stores so they lost our business. I loved Target before that dictate, but had no problem finding other avenues to procure my shopping list. The problem is, we will eventually run out of places to get supplies. Even the Amish shop these superstores and the scaled down version (dollar stores).
Granted, I have gotten better about how much I need from these stores over the years, but there is always that item that is important that requires time to find it elsewhere.
And I am probably already on whatever list they have for people who could cause trouble as I have voiced my opinion on critical issues over the years in the local and regional papers. At some point, you have to let others know about the slippery slope.
C D in Oklahoma,,,,
We need you here. Dennis is a good guy. We just all come from different backgrounds and incomes.the challenge is to make this work despite our differences.
This , in many ways, is like pastoring a church; everyone comes with different backgrounds and various ideas, some good, some not so good all seeking to be better ( we hope); that is why I am here. I want to improve me. Plus I hope that someone learns from my trials and failures. My thinking is low tech to survive and most here are seeking all the tech they can acquire. Different ideas, but one goal survive ( together.)
Yes, I too, like OH and so miss his knowledge on various subjects. This is where our faith is challenged, as Dennis said, we grow with forgiveness.
CD in Oklahoma
Understand you have your set of guidelines for life, but have to tell you personally have missed your stories & your special wit.
Were you aware that Bill Jenkins Horse(believe it was him)wanted to request your help on treadle sewing machines?
You have a special talent, and there those of us like your assistance from time to time. If you do not wish to post to articles, please pop in every so often to let us know you are well. May you & Mrs. CD have some wonderful games of cribbage.
If you see rainbows in your area hopefully they will come with rain, will try my best to send some your way.
Ken,
I posted a comment and it did show that it posted but now it’s gone. No links. Just about some anti 2A house bills that were going to be voted on. Did it go to spam?
A&O
@11HE9,
Please re-post it on the Open Forum (you had it on another article and was unrelated off-topic). Thanks.
Ken,
My apologies. I had to many tabs open and thought I was posting on the open forum. My bad. Thank you for getting back to me. I’ll repost it later when I have time.
A&O
The only reason that I would have watched last night’s demoncrap debate was if I was told that each candidate was to Spontaneously Combust at a certain time, but I digress…
Today I read that this punk Robert O’Rourke who calls himself Beta, said; “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47!” O’Rourke said.
My question to Beta is; Are you the one that will attempt to Come and Take It?”
Molon Labe, beta boy, Molon Labe!
The man is simply trying to bait in everyone to say something that can be deemed a threat. Don’t fall for it.
All they are looking for is any reason to enact, justify and support the Red Flag laws and show how big a threat EVERYONE who owns a gun is rather than the few mentally ill individuals that are true threat.
Just be careful what you say. I know you’ve got the 1st but you’ve got the 5th too. Remember when to use them both.
Excellent advice Matt you do have the 1st AD but you also have the 5th AD!
Proverbs 10:19 Sin is not ended by multiplying words but the prudent hold their tongues. Actually there is a huge number of scriptures both old and new testament about the tongue and it’s power to cause harm, danger and healing depending on it’s use. Control of the tongue must be Important because it’s so often mentioned in the scriptures of every known religion.
Does that mean a dog that eats a weiner/hot dog is a cannibal?
Modern Throwback,,,,
Now you are stirring my low tech self.
My Amish neighbor built a small ice house with concrete block in the corner of a block under ground type of out building.
Someone just ask me two weeks ago, why I do not have an icehouse?
Good question. That same person could not get over my sundial set up in Ft. Choctaw.
The Amishmen go out in winter and saw, harvest, ice blocks from local ponds. bring them back to their block icehouses and stock them in with sawdust. The ice lasts till summer.
Huummmm.
There is an idea I do not have time to do now, but maybe later.
Sage, our long term preps are geared towards living in the 1800s. We have Mennonites all around, in fact, I used to go to one of their churches. Most Mennonites here have adapted themselves for the 21st century.
Amish are further north in PA, many of whom are involved in the heavily commercialized Lancaster County. Though it’s a tourist trap, the surrounding farms and nearby Amish households operate based on their Bishop’s ornungs. Despite their dictates, Amish are being forced to adapt to the 21st century in a number of ways…First and foremost is the difficulty they face due to the scarcity of farm land — this impacts their livelihoods and the future generations of farming. Some Amish have begun working in service-related careers (ie teaching, nursing, carpentry). Then there are the problems with competition: by hand, or by large mechanized processes. While they still are off-grid because they cannot use the public utilities for power, they do allow propane, natural gas, batteries, etc. So they are off-grid in a way, but when those resources are depleted, they — like us — are left with few alternatives for power.
There are many spring houses in our area most are made with limestone. There are also some ice houses. It’s fun to spot them, knowing very few people know what these small buildings are.
Slippy, Matt,
It ain’t gonna happen (taking our guns), no more than the “Green New Deal” is going to do away with fossil fuel. Fools spewing hot air to gullible, un-informed/mis-informed/indoctrinated people.
Would these fools like it to happen? Yep.
If these democrats got elected, if they passed all these gun confiscation laws, if whoever is president signed these laws, if the Supremes ignored the constitution and upheld them, if the police ignored their oaths and attempted to confiscate these guns,………….it would be overnight chaos in America.
I’ve lost a lot of faith in a lot folks willingness to preserve their freedoms, but if only one percent (1%) of gun owners stood by their belief in personal freedom and right to defend themselves, they would outnumber all law enforcement combined. And that would presuppose that all leos would agree to enforce that confiscation effort (I can assure you the majority wouldn’t).
I’m not saying that these anti-gun politicians are not sincere. Sincerity doesn’t translate sanity, except to equally insane people.
Sadly Dennis although over all you are correct there will be a few Socialist-Democrat attempts that will cause a lot of direct harm to the first few mouthy Molon Labe folks and their families.
That old proverb about the protruding nail WILL be Hammered is true, history shows it over and over.
Then the resulting revolt will cause directly or indirectly the loss of our power grid and all the mass death (90% reasonable estimate over a few months) that follows from the grid down will happen.
Never underestimate just how stupid Political People can be especially if they THINK their nice bunkers and armed guards will keep them safe until they can return to LORD it over us survivors.
The Deep State wants power, it care little what the Sacrificial-Disposable-Replaceable Political Face People choose as the system, Socialism is OK to the Deep State as long as THEY have the Real Power.
I prepare to have a reasonable ability to survive stupid people.
Dennis,
I wanted to comment on your 1% comment.
Even if the US Armed forces were used to take our firearms and include all the LEOs, we (the 1%) would still have an overwhelming numbers advantage.
That, in my opinion, is why there is such a push to make it extremely difficult to purchase or own firearms. They are trying to pre-emptively take them now before a WROL situation occurs.
Then again, with the media’s penchant for just making up what they want to believe, he may have said nothing of the sort. Actions count.
Here is a brief of a 17 HMR ammo recall:
“Winchester has determined the above lots of 17 HMR ammunition may contain no powder charges.
This notice applies only to Symbol X17HMR1 with Lot Numbers ending in NB51 and NB61. Other Symbols or Lot Numbers are not subject to this recall.
We apologize for this inconvenience.
WINCHESTER
September 12, 2019”
See their website for a full briefing
Thanks for the heads up Matt. Would be a nasty surprise to have a 17 cal stuck in your barrel.
Sorry for your inconvenience? Wow….
Thanks Matt
Checking mine now!
(PS LOVE the .17 HMR What a fun little round!)
Well, I’m hunkering down today. Friday the 13th, 100% full moon tonight. Sure as heck, if I don’t hunker down, I’ll break a mirror, cross paths with a black cat, while walking under a ladder.
Can’t be too careful.
Dennis;
You already jinxed it by just bring it up…
BUT will be the last full moon on a Friday the 13th for another 29 years.
October 13th 1307 King Phillip IV of France in league with Pope Clement V ordered all of the Knights Templars to be thrown in prison. The king had borrowed money from the Templars and did not want to repay. That is only one of the reasons.
Thus the bad luck history of the 13th remains.
LOL…my husband gave me orders to stay put today.
And yep, I surely am!
NRP,
So, you’re saying me and you ain’t likely to see it happen again?
Modern Throwback,,,,
The heat ( with humidity. They are saying feels like 97.) Does to me. So I feel house bound, when I should be outside working.
Watered everything heavy this morning, in garden and greenhouse too.
You mentioned needing an oak icebox. I found mine in an antique shop ( around $750.) I use it in the big kitchen for jelly and jam cupboard. Oak is still nice on it. Then I found the jumbo ice tongs that lifted ice blocks into it. I just raise the door on the top and that is where ice block goes. Right now, it has more jam and canning lids in there
Since you are in or near Amish country, it will give you an excuse to go antiquing. Plus it looks pretty with the woodcook stove.
The Amish.sink big jars of food or butter etc. Into basement cisterns for refrigeration. I wondered why one lady’s sleeves were always wet, year round, and she said reaching in to pull jars out of cistern water. The next time I went to town, I bought her some plastic crates and put small chain thru handle. She could use chain to pull crates with jars out of water. No more wet sleeves on her!!
Life should be fun; somewhere in spite of the time and country we are in.
I have been thinking maybe in basement, back corner which is below grade, I have hundreds of spare block ( Amish had a moving auction and the auctioneer missed all of those concrete blocks.) So I paid 5 cents a piece and he didn’t want to count that many, nor did I, so he settled for $20 and delivered them to me. I would have to move my buggy to make room for small ice house in there.
Planted sweet potatoes slips in hanging baskets, hang them down center of greenhouse. They will be pretty when they fill out and trail down.
Better get to work, nobody ever stole work.
Ms Sage,
I LOVE your posts! (it ain’t the first glass of bourbon talking either!)
What a joy you are and a vessel of information! God Bless You and keep on keeping on!
Son 1 stopped by after work, must have smelled the Shrimp and Grits I was cookin’!
After chowing down on my savory concoction Son 1 starts talking AR Pistols, of which I have no clue about.
Slippy Lodge is my sanctuary and has all we need…but Son 1 rents nearer to town and if SHTF, he wants something he can pack up and hide then hoof it out of town if need be and not be seen with. Most of his preps are here but he has what he needs but would like a rifle that is more concealable.
Any suggestions appreciated!
Slippy
I fought the AR pistol craze for years. It was a mistake.
It will never replace my carbine but …..
My truck gun is a 10”. I can draw it from the back and go to work. Realistically it’s gonna be within 50yds pre shtf because it’s real hard to justify anything longer as “self defense” often.
I then thought huh that’s cool but it still doesn’t quite fit this bag or that bag so an opportunity came for a 7” from a buddy needing money and not liking it.
Man you can be in a hotel, hospital room or bout anywhere and it’s there. It is obnoxious in sound though and the fireball with regular ammo is enough not to be prone in tall dry grass! I did put a directional device on it to make it all go out the front.
Hornady makes the neatest short barrel rifle “SBR” ammo that burns up all the powder in 10” with a 75gr SP bullet. At 100 I can make head shots on a silhouette 👤.
You should really try one. I’m really a fan of the10”.
Best news is this here is America 🇺🇸 And if you don’t like it well it will sell by morning lol.
Slippy
That muzzle device is a Troy Claymore I got from Primary Arms.
It’s got some breaching points on the end though I’m not real sure how excited I’d be to breach a lock with a rifle round. But they are pointy should ya need to push off a mangy dog with the muzzle.
It does great at forcing all of it out away from you.
Matt,
You seen those kits to make the AR butt a side folder?
Can turn that SBR into a very small package, fits nicely into any unassuming kids day pack, or into just about any other small pack, brings concealed carry to a whole new level
Yeah Kulafarmer
My buddy is big on them. I’ve just not sold that they are for me though.
I’m also trying to figure out this last ATF ruling and what they are saying. It’s confusing even to us.
I hear ya,
Personally, beyond the concealment capability there is no utility to that folder as you cant shoot it.
Now a PTR with a folder and SB, thats a different animal
Kulafarmer
I should also mention I can be a cheapskate too. Lol
I pay 300 to build the gun I don’t wanna pay 300 just to fold the stock.
I’ll blow that on mags and ammo though or another build kit lol
Guess it’s priorities
Thanks Matt,
You’ve echoed what Son 1 has been saying.
My truck gun is a Winnie 94 .30-30 and Son 1 chuckles at that! My buddy and I went to the range one time and I flipped the seat over to grab some stuff and he spies the Winnie in its custom made secure place, and my buddy grins and says “Dang Slip, whatcha afraid of?”
“Grizzly Bears, anything else I got it covered here in the truck”, I replied…:)
I hope to have a range report on the AR Pistol when he buys his.
Molon Labe!
An interesting article, forwarded to me via email.
Picked up on this:
“Semiautomatic rifles were developed and considered for purchase by Congress long before the Second Amendment was added to the Constitution, as Logan Metesh at Ammoland explains in these condensed excerpts:
(Joseph) Belton, an inventor and gunsmith from Philadelphia, claimed to have devised a new form of flintlock musket that was capable of firing as many as sixteen consecutive shots in as little as twenty seconds. He first wrote to Congress about his new invention on April 11, 1777.
Congress ordered 100 examples of his “new improved gun” that were capable of discharging eight rounds with one loading.
On July 19, Congress got word from the Board of War. They dismissed his petition altogether.
Belton invented his gun in 1777. The Bill of Rights wasn’t ratified until 1791. That means our Founding Fathers not only knew about repeating rifles 14 years before the creation of the Second Amendment, but that they thought highly enough of the idea to pursue further development and implementation such technology”
Stuff that in your pipe and smoke it
Joe c
To bad we could not forward that to the Prez so he would get off our backs about limiting our rights under the 2nd amendment.
Maybe BetO file-O(my name for O Rourke) needs a copy of this since he wants to take everything away..he is a turd!
AC
There are definitely too many turds out there.
Thus the reason for us to forget about and for them to rewrite our history.
Anyway, I believe this is the real reason why that email was forward to me:
“Food is a weapon. Nations weaponize food against nations, governments use it against dissenters, invaders use it against holdouts. Here are examples from the recent past.
Sherman’s 1864 March to the Sea in Georgia was a scorched earth campaign. Horses, mules, cattle and millions of pounds of fodder were confiscated. Farms were stripped and put to the torch. The novel and movie Gone With The Wind was set in this time.
The British naval blockade of Germany from 1914 to 1919 led to widespread starvation. The most reliable account puts the death toll at 424,000. The unpayable war reparations levied on Germany after the war led to more hunger during the Weimar era.
Stalin’s confiscation of food and blockade of Ukraine in 1932-1933, for resisting collectivization of farms, resulted in death by starvation of about five million people.
Nazi Germany’s “Hunger Plan” of 1941 to divert food to Germany from Soviet countries was to allow only a small remnant of the population to survive, as slave labor. As it was, huge numbers of conquered peoples perished from hunger, including one rarely cited, the Netherlands.
For the first three years of the war World War II, German U-boats successfully attacked shipping bound for Britain. While they didn’t manage to close the shipping lanes as completely as did the Royal Navy in the previous war, the losses forced drastic cuts to already severe food rationing
Operation Starvation, begun by the US in the waning days of World War II, used advanced sea mines to all but destroy what remained of Japan’s merchant fleet. Some experts claim it could have won the war had it begun earlier.
None of these famines were from natural causes—drought, insect infestation or plant disease and the like. But have a care, weaponized hunger isn’t “instead” of natural causes, it’s in addition to natural causes. Notice the accelerating ramp up of the price for pork in China due to the epidemic of “pig ebola”. They’re drawing down reserves at present, when those are gone there is no obvious alternative source for the quantity needed. And the knock-on effects for substitutes is under way, just as their import tariffs take full effect.
The food supply is a target for any number of disasters. Most times it evades a hit altogether, sometimes it’s merely wounded, occasionally it takes a ruinous blow. There are no guarantees. Disruptions often can’t be foreseen well enough to do much good. Example: poor growing weather in the UK and the desperate demands of a hungry Europe caused food rationing from 1945 to 1948 even more severe than it was in the war years. The successful survivalist will have a secure source of food with sufficient reserves for unforeseen adversities.”
Lauren is doing what we all should be doing.
Both articles came from the woodpile report.
Yes the Germans and I am sure the Russians and others, took the grains mills as well as the grain.
JS/MT
Worked in a automotive warehouse for thirty years. Let AI takeover, I’m damned tired of the cheapskate manufacturer BS.
These idle hands would be more productive on the home front anyway.
Fire me, “show me the door”, I beg of you. I ain’t 40, hell I ain’t 50 anymore. But keep pushing us to no limit.
Joe C,
What a strange thing… I relieved contact from an old friend..( I worked in a warehouse ,long ago and 12o miles away). So am very familiar with merchandising of consumer goods. Each major distribution center goes thru normal cycles of deep cleansing and generally a fairly rapid refill, is visible on the receiving dock. Report was” less stock available than ever observed”. Could not help but wonder what the orders look like??? suspect size changes are imminent, for every product..as I have been seeing in a local store, over past 2 months.
Heads up . If you need it, can latch fingers on it, get it now. if you did not produce enough____(whatever) this year for you and yours.
As for us, working on sustainable and trying to see what works have had good indications of what has not worked… limited success with gardens. Wicking pots better than most other things, will lower to/in ground for next year to utilize cooling of ground…and add reflective covers in places and shade cloth in other places./certain crops.Have added more winter keeper veggies. as soon as temps cool enough to allow for sprouting of other things will plant more.
I have worked on gathering hay this week for small animals and securing. We have continued very hot, no rain. and since we had grasses cut , was blessed for it to be that way.Anything non use-able for animals will go in composting with manures for garden. Have worked on plans for securing the new green house… some materials need to be moved to “use area” One hard job at a time….
Hauled some pine sawdust and began replacing floor in the chicken run..henhouse completed .Have begun the winter straw for the chickens, using native untreated grasses..
I have rotated a generous amount out this week, out and replaced. No large amounts of any one thing. Found some vegetables in frozen are not avail in one store brand, are in stock downsized under a different brand. size reduction from 32 oz to 24 oz. with 60 cent increase in package. This matches the business model that increase prices by small amounts to increase the revenue leaving my pockets and going to another’s.
With my experience of working in this environment.(whse).I began asking MYSELF, to follow to logical conclusion…. Has anyone considered that as back-stock in any warehouse is reduced, it reduces the workers needed to pull and process any item….ie.the equipment needed for moving material out of a slot 8- 10 layers high is different from what is required for 2 layers. MOST JIT freight could be ordered, received,accounted and shipped without ever going to those whse. slots,by going to the shipping dock, being broken down and loaded for 60 different stores on 20 or more trucks. With the set shipping days many stores have, would limit the time those cases of (whatever)are tied up. Low level warehousing requires less skill .Less maintenance on equipment, less labor hours and insurance on those employees. That is a business model that puts money back in pockets of investors, …from at least two different directions.
BTW, just another version of chinza mart putting in the self check outs, another way to reduce overall costs.
Just Sayin’
I believe we will see radical changes in how warehouses and delivery in the near future. There will be much larger distribution centers, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see corporations sharing these warehouses. Warehouse workers will be phased out in the near future, and replaced with a robotic system. Amazon does this already. Speaking of Amazon, they are not far off from being in a position to challenge or take over the postal delivery service, too.
Amazon is at the forefront with automation and BIG business and product distribution. Look how many small and large businesses keep an Amazon storefront now. Brick & mortar stores will decrease, and I wouldn’t be surprised if more large businesses will gear towards online ordering with pick-ups, to reduce retail overhead while automating with robotics.
It is my belief that the Leftist hype over the “living wage” and ‘free’ healthcare have been intentional catalysts to usher in the robotic era. It will be the excuses fed to society as to why businesses can no longer afford humans. The robots have been planned for more than 20 years, but big business can’t just remove a large segment of the human workforce without reasons. And society will not easily accept a ‘takeover’ of robots — unless the dangling fruit of ‘free money’ and a ‘basic income’ is given.
They’ve already set the stage. Can you imagine?
‘Idle hands are the devil’s workshop’
MT, I agree, this is their goal unless someone throws a monkey wrench in the spokes. Amazon is supported by government and they pay much of those shipping costs already…. would be in favor of a breakup of the monopoly agencies. amazon is only one. When we buy or produce local, that takes Amazon out of the equation. Can’t have people feeding their own self plants they grew without poison, or animals they treated humanely. Like the false news that chicken causes cancer. bravo sierra… the truth is they are trying to push fake meat made out of everything from dried roaches to ground up grasshoppers and pink slime to us to make us sick. Rape seed oil was developed to make cows fat… just go to wal mart and watch come “benefits day” you will see one fat cow/steer after another…
AC, I have a special name for Beto…..Master Beto 😉
Or how’s about
BiteMeBeto?
– MT.
LOLOL!!! Suits him perfectly!!!
– Papa S.
Deep gardening? You make me curious…
Lauren you are quite intelligent. I think if you re-read what Ken said above my note and then my note. You would have a good understanding about Deep Gardening.
Gardens provide food yes? We work in them to better prepare for next season’s gardening? What happens when Proverbs 13:23 “The poor man’s fields produce abundant food but injustice sweeps it away” occurs? Then you need to have Deep Gardening as to feed your family until your hidden seeds and tools (often stolen by injustice to cause even more suffering) can produce next year?.
Think of places no soldier or policeman would want to dig. Got bees maybe? Deep Gardening.
Thought that might be it, but I wasn’t sure.
I don’t have a lot of space, so I go more for guerrilla gardening. Potatoes in the flowers, barley as a clumping grass, alliums (onions, chives) in the borders. I’ve done a few things in a nearby city park, planting grape vines and nut trees (seedlings) far enough from the trails that I hope the overzealous city employees will overlook them. Those I planted near the trails were removed immediately.
Weekly:
Purchased:
Restock on the wife’s essentials oils kit.
Purchased the stuff to make caltrops at the next get together training session. That way when everyone leaves they will have an area denial tool/force multiplier that pretty much anyone can deploy.
2 Glock 17 mags.
Mags, parts and ammo till the politicians sell us out completely. I was saying “till election time” but POTUS has proved he doesn’t care bout gun rights.
Ordered my daughter and her husband 2 more mags for their SR9s. I got that duel pack from grab-a-gun that was recommended to me on here. Them 2 don’t pay enough attention to the world events but are great parents so the crazy old man takes care of that stuff.
50 rds for practice and 100rds 38 Special ball and 100rds +P HP to be stored which leads me to ..
Received: S&W model 36-1 .38 3” revolver from my recently passed FIL. Good little gun but now I gotta stock another caliber.
Y’all make sure you ain’t just hording all the ammo and that you burn some. Stay in good gun shape by working out them sights and triggers.
Accomplished:
Recovery from the camper camping trip. Washed and bagged everything to keep creepy crawlies out. It gives me a good chance to inventory everything and update in case we had to bug and the upcoming deer season. Did some maintenance on the trailer and equipment as well.
Got 2 days of firewood from a tree the neighbor cut down but didn’t want. I got it cut into proper sections and stacked to dry. I also split some stumps I’d collected earlier in the year.
Trained: revolver reloads
Complete cylinders and the shoot 2 load 2 methods. Dunno if anyone even teaches that anymore? In the 80s and 90s it was a method to keep your limited ammo gun topped off. It has draws backs which were overcome by carrying a second revolver.
Matt in OK is that Chief Special 38 rated for P+? most of that era are not recommended for P+ according to my favorite gunsmith. As he says it can handle it until it can’t.
Buffalo Bore makes an awesome short barreled 38 special for non P+ 38’s, heavy soft lead hollow point with low flash powder for dropping the hammer at night. Not cheap but a nasty load.
Me2 and Dennis
It is rated. It’s the 36-1.
I don’t shoot a lot of them however the +P Speer is the carry load that has performed the best that I had my FIL carrying. My wife I considering carrying it so I might have to switch the load to a lighter one. A SWC would probably be better.
Back in the day of my 586 I carried 158gr hard cast SWC alternating between Remington 125HPs.
Remember these are to put back. SHTF I’m not worried bout longevity I’m trying to stay alive.
Now my Glock that’s a whole different story. I run a ton of hot stuff +Ps and +P+. Insofar as longevity that 1986 Gen 1 G17 has 300k thru it. I replaced the mag catch in 98 (cause the metal mags of the brady ban)recoil spring a few years ago and just for giggles the other springs last year. I still use it for carry, hunting and shoot competitions.
I love buffalo bore ammo.
This gun will stay in the family forever as will several others.
I’d love to hear your load data.
Matt,
I consider the .38 spec revolvers as indispensable in my preps. Every member of my household has at least one.
I know you’re a reloader. I, long ago, settled on double ended hardcast lead wad-cutters as the best round for defensive use of the .38 spec, especially in the shorter barrel versions (all of ours are snubbies). My son’s is a three inch like yours (hang on to it, hard to find), my single action Cimarron has a 3 1/2″ barrel, the rest are 1 7/8″.
If you like, I will share my favorite loading for 148 gr. DEWCs and 100 gr DEWCs (which are great for small critter control and practice). I don’t advocate or use +P rounds. Never thought the trade off in wear and tear on the gun vs. increase in effectiveness was enough to warrant their use. But that’s just me.
This weekend is the annual preview for what I hope doesn’t happen should shtf big time. The annual 4-wheeler, atv, utv, off-road vehicle extravaganza descends on our normally tranquil area.
A route following 42 miles of National Forest trails, part of the route comes by my home place. Usual participation runs in the hundreds. The un-paved county road we live on is used for ingress and egress into and out of the “wilderness” trails.
Dennis,,,,
Please share your 148 gr.loading and 100 gr. DEWCs, Matt is not the only one interested
Agree on +P loads too.
Coffee and two aspirin ( for my foot), break over, back to work.
Sage are you growing Turmeric yet? I find that good quality turmeric really helps my ex-paratrooper knees and feet feel decent. I find the root in most Asian markets and with a daily MISTING to avoid root rot they grow into beautiful houseplants. Harvest root at around two years and save a nit to start the next plant.
Same general rules about ginger another very useful root for me.
Sorry Sage incomplete message. Slept poorly last night. “Save a nit to start..” was to say save a good bit with a nice pair of growth nodes to start the next plant.
That said Asian markets seem not to use “Bud nip” a commercial product to keep sprouting from happening. Look for heavy fresh looking roots with at least a couple of growth nodes for your base stock.
Sorry if I am repeating what you already know. Maybe others might find it useful data.
– me2,
Really like the turmeric as well. Never jumped out of any of the Air ‘Farces’ “Perfectly Good Planes, LOL”, but will admit to playing ‘Dope onna Rope’ a few times. The Turmeric really helps the lower back and knees.
– Papa S.
Papa Smurf part of the family assistance thing we have here at MSB. 🙂
We share knowledge both successes and failures as that way the next person doesn’t have to re-invent the wheel AND a possibility of a NEW concept we may never have given thought about..
As I have said more than a few times the past shows how to survive and prosper in the future. Knowing how to grow your own Turmeric and Ginger give you useful spices, useful medicines and maybe when things calm down Post SHTF something to trade?
In the most “Successful” Socialist Country (According to Bernie Sanders) Venezuela the bolivar is so worthless they have to trade goods and services for almost everything. Thus I look to how to produce value for trade.
My Grandmother and Grandfather prospered in the Great Depression because they ran a green house producing food, plants for sale and oddly enough Flowers! Grandmother also kept boarders, did peoples laundry and sewed.
What is your thoughts Papa Smurf about Trade after things calm down Post SHTF?
– On the subject of trade; always prefer to teach someone to do for themselves rather than part with goods. Hence the EMAS hand pumps for water, various chemicals I can manufacture (Bleach, Ether, etc.) and a bit more than primitive medical care. Most of these things are desirable post-SHTF, so should be barterable to some extent. If I can manage a garden and a few rabbits/pigeons and maybe some fish, maybe I can stay ahead, or at least even.
– Papa S.
Papa Smurf I can make bleach with salt with the information from the web. But ether is something past my skill set. Do you know a webpage where I could look it up?
I know it was used during the reign of Louis the 5th for his court to amuse themselves with “laughing gas” so it should be easy enough to make. I’m old enough to have used it with the application cone as an back up to pressurized anesthesia.
Would make my field dentistry much nicer.
I am looking at the fortified trading post concept as currently we gentle people can do business protected by rude men who keeps civil law enforced. Pre Policeman era trade was done under the watchful eye of soldiers (I.E. American Frontier forts). If you ever has been in Boston MA the Tax Tower where the ship owners paid their taxes had a fighting balcony where armed troops overlooked the Tax mans desk.
– me2,
I am not aware of a webpage that might help. Mine is from a seriously out-of-print manual, but as I’m sure you are aware, it involves distilling alcohol and sulfuric acid (battery acid) together. I’ll have to look and see what, if anything, I can find. The manufacture of anesthesia cones is covered in the old Special Forces Medical notes handbook, but I don’t recall if ether manufacture is covered in the book.
– Papa
Papa Smurf I’ve researched ether but that making sulfuric acid (A very useful thing for rebuilding batteries) is the kicker.
Well more research or quicker tooth pulling like the street dentists of Mexico do.
Not sure where I could find an old SF Medical manual. Remember the FM number perhaps?
me2
Check on eBay and possible Esty. Know when we lost dh’s sf stuff in the fire I was able to replace several items being sold on that sight. It will take perseverance to find what you are looking for but who knows. Good luck
– me2,
Unfortunately, my manual right now is in one of several plastic tubs stored in the garage. It was part of the goods retrieved from the old house prior to the fire, and I haven’t had a chance to get all of that stuff unpacked and put away. I have seen it for sale from the old Paladin Books catalog, too bad they are out of business. I think a Major catalog had it in a multibook deal a couple of years ago along with Emergency War Surgery and something else. I didn’t pay a lot of attention as I already have those two.
Still more unfortunately, I have been elected to take DW to youngest daughter’s house to assist with an ill grandchild or two for a week or so. And I get to work on a shower plumbing fitting as soon as I get back that has gone tango uniform.
– Papa
Family FIRST Papa Smurf, Family First!
Hopefully all resolves quickly and fun times erupt in your family
– Hah! Just found out the rest of the story! Apparently, there is a community-wide ‘garage sale’ there that is also going on this week, and guess who wants Mom to go along?
– Papa
Well, Well, happily not a serious sickness Papa Smurf, that’s good news.
Maybe you can charge them a Grandfather “Fee” and give them a shopping list of items YOU might like from that town wide yard sale? Extra wool blankets? A rusty but restorable camp skillet?
Just last week I picked up a rusty old squirrel thumper for 20.00 I paid a friend to clean it up and pretty it up (they need cash) and now it’s a beautiful truck accessory. Just because I asked when I saw some old steel traps. Also got the traps.
Have to love thrift stores and good (non broken plastic junk) yard sales
Sage,
These are my loads. Follow all normal precautions. They are non +P and work well in all of our .38 spec. revolvers for accuracy. Bullets are from Mastercast Bullets, Enon, Pennsylvania.
bullet powder charge velocity felt recoil
100gr DEWC 2.5 gr Titegroup 710 fps very light
100gr DEWC 3.1 gr Titegroup 813 fps light
100gr DEWC 3.6 gr Tightgroup 932 fps light/moderate
148gr DEWC 3.0 gr Titegroup 850 fps moderate (my defense load)
All velocities are from a Cimarron Lightning 3 1/2″ barrel single action revolver using my chronograph and 5 shot averages.
I will include my experiment with .38 short Colt loads that can be used in .38 spec revolvers. Brass is available from MidwayUSA. No special dies needed. I used .38 spec sizing die, 9mm to seat and crimp. Bullet used are 125 gr truncated cone hard cast from Mastercast Bullets, seated to first crimping groove.
bullet powder charge velocity felt recoil
125gr truncated cone 2.4 gr Titegroup 750fps light
Why .38 short Colt? Snub nose revolvers don’t fully eject the longer .38 special cases. The .38 short cases, loaded with truncated cone bullets make for speedy reloads using standard speed loaders, and the snubbies fully eject the fired cases. And, well, I admit, I like to experiment.
Hope this is useful.
Dennis that’s interesting data.
Pretty smart using the shorts for the snubs.
Does using the short brass leave a powder ring in the cylinder that makes the longer special brass stick unless it’s cleaned?
Matt,
Yes, similar to shooting .38 spec in a .357 mag cylinder. Never had cases stick, but, after 50 + rounds you can feel resistance loading and ejecting. Nothing that would cause a big problem.
I use copper strands pulled from a copper (not copper plated) “Chore Girl” scouring pad, wrapped around a brass cleaning jig to removed lead fouling. Does a thorough job, doesn’t harm the gun.
Might expand. The resistance comes when loading full length .38 spec after a few rounds of shorts.
Dennis,
Thanks for the load info. I also have a 36-1, with 3″ bbl. Ever since my thumb got cranky, I’ve been looking for lighter loads to take it easy on myself. That, and doing more non-dominant hand practice.
We gained another thousand votes on #2. Every time someone reminds us to vote, we do a good job for awhile, then the votes taper off. Time to make another resolution to vote every day!
Saturday morning,
Keeping my eyes open for places to buy ammo. Yea, I know I can get it online, it’s just nice to buy it and immediately, own it. I’ve bought it at Wallyworld for years. No more. Still considering other purchases at wallyworld. I sincerely dislike their latest politically based decision. Our options are limited by proximity.
The jeep re-wiring project is complete. No more shorts, I hope. That was a challenging project, replacing all wiring with in-line fused wire. I love the new HEI distributor/ignition module. $69 for new distributor with all components built in. Just buying the brain box (ignition module), and coil would cost way more. This new set-up provides a “hotter” spark. I can tell the difference. I kept all the old components and made diagrams for re-installing should an EMP/CME ever happen. They are now in faraday. I’m not much of a mechanic, but if I take my time and write things down, I’ll eventually get it. My 1970’s jeep, is in better shape than it’s been in, since I’ve owned it. Still an ugly hunk of rolling metal, but it works.
I guess we’ll soon find out, if we have a two-tiered justice system. The “elites” have already gotten far more time and “benefit of the doubt,” than you or I would have gotten. Folks are paying attention.
Saw a combo of knife plus mult-tool for reasonable price, (Gerber). I have zero experience with that brand. Still slowly shopping for grand daughters backpack, I’m putting together. I may go back and get the combo. I’ve always used leatherman, but the grand daughter hasn’t used anything, so she’s not going to be biased. As long as it’s good quality, it would work fine. I will NOT buy junk for her pack. Thoughts?
All my ham stuff, coax and rotor controller, come into my garage. It’s been so hot this summer, it dampened my enthusiasm for being out there to do 2m ssb. Finally, starting to cool off, at least a little bit. It’s very comforting to know, I can contact VIPs via ham radio, if shtf. Please consider it folks. It’s not hard to do. We have times and frequency established ahead of shtf.
enough rambling!
Plainsmedic
I’ve carried Gerber multi tools for years. We carried them in the Army too. You won’t go wrong and they will replace them if it breaks. I usually end up with the new model cause mine are no longer made by the time that happens.
Leatherman, Gerber and SOG are great brands.
I’ve got several Gerber blades too.
– Plainsmedic,
Ditto here. Don’t currently have any Gerber, but have used then in the past without any issues. Actually, I was extremely happy with a Gerber MkII quite a while ago, think that it is now out-of-print. Gerber Multi-tools are also good quality, probably better than the Stanley I have right now (Don’t use a multitool as my EDC, instead I still have the SWAK Victorinox Explorer model and a Craftsman ignition pliers I carried before Leatherman created his new tool.
– Papa S.
All this talk of Ammo and Firearms sure makes me wish I had not had that boating accident on Navajo Lake a few years back, lost everything I had, even the Ammo….. Darn.
NRP,
Ahw man, I bet you have some fond recollections of the weapons you once had.
Dennis:
Sir, you have no idea. 😎
Dennis/NRP
Well dang.
Since we are throwing out sob stories….
I sold all mine during the Big O years. Boom sticks and ammo and still going.
Bought a lot of friends during those years.
Now I just trek around the woods, making gunlike jesters with my hand and using an occasional chewed up Poptart. Yelling bang, bang.
I don’t do that around the home front….I don’t wanna get picked up…..
Joe c:
I still stand behind the FACT that Obama was the best firearms sales promoter ever.
I do believe Killary would have surpassed him, but thank GOD we will never know.
I dug up another five sweet potato seedlings–three had tiny roots and went in the greenhouse to continue growing, and two with no roots just outside it. None of these are blooming. I’m hoping I can get large enough roots to try again next year and really evaluate the plants. The larger plants I’ll leave in the ground until frost and harvest whatever roots they have.
Does anyone know how large a sweet potato root has to be in order to survive to be replanted in the spring?
Still haven’t gotten enough rain to evaluate the water changes, although the storm we got this week did tell me where another change can be made. I watched during the storm and all the water from the driveway flows right into the southern parkstrip. Over and around at the moment because of the soil level, but if we can catch that water rather than letting it escape we’ve got one more water catchment point nailed. Right now there’s a tomato there, as well as echinacea and iris, so I need to decide if it’s worth pulling out the tomato (all the tomatoes are currently green) to catch the water from storms that might not arrive.
I’ll be making other minor changes to the catchment areas in the next few weeks as I wait for the maybe-storms. Otherwise I may need to wait for spring to evaluate the changes.
The Kratky hydroponics bean already has blossoms on it, so either it’s severely stressed (which it doesn’t appear to be) or the nutrients are heavy on potassium and phosphorus.
The window well garden is doing OK but not great. The tomato is fine but the lettuce is really struggling.
Lauren, Good Morning. Here in the south we make green tomato relish which is good on beans and such. We pulled our tomatoes with green ones this week. They are just not going to have time to ripen and it is very dry and hot here with of the same to come. Did not seem worth it at this point.
I have never seen a sweet potato bloom. In one of my past lives we grew them every year. Bought sets usually. Sets can be grown in water even. A mature potato can be set in water and you can get plants from this method. They will have roots. Very easy to do. There is probably a youtube video.
Mrs. USMCBG:
I like to use up some Green Tomatoes for Chow-Chow & Chutney.
Good stuff.
I got hold of a sweet potato breeder in the spring who was willing to give me some seeds. Part of the problem is that we don’t have a long growing season, and part is that if slips are ever unavailable then there goes our harvest. Similar to potatoes. When there are no seed potatoes, where do you go? You can keep your own, but what if there’s a failed harvest for two, or five, or ten years? A handful of seeds (either potato or sweet potato) can easily be kept that long while a root will shrivel.
The sweet potato seeds I got are bred for blooming. Two have bloomed. This wasn’t exactly unexpected, since I’ve never done seedling sweet potatoes before. Next year I’ll have a better idea of what they need so I’ll expect a higher ratio that actually bloom before frost. As they acclimate in future generations I should start to see plants that bloom well AND make good roots within our growing season.
Seeds would good. Have not gone that route before. Last time I just went to the grocery and purchased some organic sw taters.
We had sweet potatoes for 2 years and they would have kept longer. They did lose their sugar content and turned a bit more starchy over time. Lived in a 72×14 at that time and they were in milk crates by the frig. Not much storage room in a 72×14 with family of 4 living there! Worked very well. Of course we dug on a perfect fall low humidity day and let cure properly.
Starchy is fine if you’re intending to replant. Good to know that they can survive longer than a year out of the ground.
There’s a huge amount of variety in the seedlings, far more than any other plant I’ve worked with. Leaf shape, mounding/sprawling habit, root formation, can all be different for every plant. So far I have two with no roots forming at all (which probably just means they’re exceptionally long season), one with a round root of a deep reddish orange color, one with a long slender white root, one that looks like the grocery store variety, one with a slender root that’s almost blue and a couple that look orangeish. A couple only have a few leaves after growing the whole summer, while a few are sprawling everywhere and perfectly happy. Those will be my primary clones next spring.
It’s turning into an interesting project.
Lauren, How much time do you have before frost?
We should have about 3 weeks here. been dry for biggest part of 4 weeks and i am watering heavily now. we picked up local sweetpotato 2 full years ago in fall. 2 sprouted and i pulled slips from them for last years plants , they bloomed heavily last year. I got slip this year from harvest last year, have not bloomed this year, are producing and I am thinking we have up to 4 more weeks. (watching a potential drop in temps 21st).. do not know how severe that drop will be. as long as frost does not fall on potatoes should keep well.I pulled three large tubers 6inches x 3 inch circ. ground was estremely dry and that has been remedied. bed they are in is mixed clay and sand soil with compost, Vines have come over the 20 inch sides and are on the ground trying to do additional roots there. Whatever variety of sweetpotato these are they do not hold beyond the year.
Just Sayin’, we would normally get our first frost mid October but I’m expecting earlier this year. It’s already down into the 40’s most nights and the plants are struggling.
In talking to breeders it appears that sweet potatoes are very light and heat dependent–growing degree days (GDD) are very important. They won’t bloom if the conditions aren’t right, which is normal for plants that rely on vegetative propagation. Potatoes and garlic do the same thing, to extremes.
Lauen, this is just my thinking..I know does not go with what you have been doing necessarily. Our night temps dropped to 58-59 for 2 nights, now back to 70ish for lows. Highs mid 90’s. also thinking we may get an earlier frost than normal, around 10-7th give or take 2 weeks is our normal. for frost.
IF I thought was my fault i did not get these started early enough, I would give them a few more hours of grow light ,LED 45 watt shop lights will work get DAYLIGHT bulbs.. and protect in that green house under two layers of plastic…as long as possible to give those tubers time to mature.. and make the work done , pay off next year. I am going to use these in greenhouse,and other grow areas, if God permits. Our GDD, is also down by almost 10%. To accommodate change i can cut lights or power somewhere else.
have a friend who is working with potato seeds and a long season… are producing but wants more experience in that for sustainable.
Looks like our GDD is down by almost 1/3 from the 2018 highs. The plastic is a good idea, maybe I’ll move the hoop houses.
I should be able to keep the greenhouse above freezing well into November, and longer if the insulation changes work the way I hope. Last year the first “frost” in the greenhouse was in December, the early morning temperature was in the high 30’s and low 40’s through the end of November and it wasn’t until January that it really froze in there. That’s when the sweet potatoes died last year, although the tomatoes keeled over in December.
I keep trying on the TPS (true potato seeds). I’ll try again next year, but it’s a learning process. The seedlings are so stinking fragile…If I can get that first generation, the 2nd generation will be easier.
Lauren could you give us a report on successes or failures of the Guerilla Gardening efforts? Counting myself, you are one of 5, I know have actually tried it this year.
My Guerilla Gardening fed the Deer, Wild Turkeys and Voles (nasty underground bandits). No production of food. Unless you count attracting game animals to my area. But honestly Deer and Turkey wander through my fields all the time. Zucchini was the last to go and they were clearly Vole ate the roots victims.
My two neighbors tried it although one did some weeding and added scare balloons to ward off critters. I think she got some zukes from the one surviving plant.
My online gardening friend in MO planted in their BO land and got some “Submarine” sized zukes.
What results did you get Lauren?
The guerrilla gardening in my yard has two purposes at this point–emergency seed bank and tricking the neighbors into thinking I’m actually landscaping. As emergency seed bank, I have several stands of potatoes that spread a little each year, walking onions, various types of grains (wheat, oats, barley, amaranth) and so forth that I just let the seeds drop. Horseradish has actually established itself in two areas (I planted five) but does not appear to be spreading. It’s pretty, anyway, and looks landscapish. I’m really not aiming for food at this point, but once I have the soil fixed and stable that piece of the project will expand. Tomatoes will be left to rot this fall and I’ll see what comes up in the spring. I left the watermelons that didn’t ripen last fall and several of them came up. I figure that over time the plants that return will be those that are best suited to the environment. Self seeding everything if I can arrange it.
In the park I planted seedling almonds and several grape vines. The seedlings should be two years old in the spring if any of them survived but I didn’t really mark them so it will probably be several years before I know. I planted garlic and chives in the border grassy areas that seldom get mowed, and they survived to last spring, but the potatoes that I stuck in with them have disappeared. Someone else planted two peach trees, and the landscaping idiots have left them, so except for the grape vines and almonds I’ve focused on that area.
I’ve created a seed mix that has lots of different vegetables, greens, grains and flowers. I’m going to spread it in my forest garden this fall and see what comes up in the spring, fill in with other plants in areas where nothing grows. If they grow but don’t thrive, they’re mulch. If they grow and thrive, we’re a step ahead for the next year.
To get sweetpotatoes slips from tubers, the tuber is placed in a pot close to surface, 1/2 inch horizontal, water and lightly fertilize. Set in sunny window,..will begin giving slips. allow them to get 6-8 inches (roots will be visible @ junction of orig tuber.) break off with those roots and place in temporary holding pot, ( i used a 2 gallon with potting soil/soil mix for about 25-30 plants.The tuber will continue to make more plants/slips..as long as it has food/ and “some material left. Do have to fertilize and have in sunny location.. until ALL danger of frost has passed. plant.they like rich loose soil .Danny on” Deep South Homestead” you tube.,,uses his smaller roots to do all of his slips and cans and stores the rest for winter eating.
Stopped at commie -mart last night to buy some .380 ammo. Woman behind the counter had to see my drivers license to buy ammo. When i asked a few questions, her reply was, if you don’t have anything to hide you shouldn’t worry. I said thats what all socalists say. She wasn’t happy. Never will buy there again.
@country,
Walmart is very much anti-2nd-ammendment. They made that clear recently with their announcement. I personally decided not to shop there again. Only exception would be an emergency where I had no other choice. But my regular shopping will be taken elsewhere.
Ken
I didn’t want to but needed the ammo for a surprise s&w ez i ordered for the wife. I am not a huge fan of .380 but she is very recoil averse. I have researched the ez, including talking to a couple of people who have them. The reviews have all been very good. hopefully this will get her motivated to practice, likes to shoot just obsesses on recoil. But i am done with wal-mart. I hope they get out of the gun and ammo business totally, help the little guys.
Forgot to add, she tried to tell me it was state law about having to show the drivers license. She backed off of that when i called her on it.
I have to show my Pistol permit in order to purchase ammo. I guess the laws vary by state.
country,
I used to tell them that my license was the state’s permission to “operate a moving vehicle” not to buy ammo and as far as I’m concerned there is no federal law stating a minimum or maximum age in order to buy ammo. Then I would request that the store manager come to the checkout line and refused to give up my space in line. I’d just stand there smiling.
Then I stopped patronizing those locations that asked me that ridiculous question.
Slippy/country
Slippy’s comment reminds me of a visit to TSC this past week.
I was buying hornet spray. The cashier ask if I was over 18/21? I don’t recall….needless to say, I wasn’t carded.
but she shared a story that recently happened to her.
An 18 yr old patron purchased a BB gun….. lawfully…..but he was not of age yet to buy the BBs for it.
Ain’t sensible laws Great!
18 or over to use tobacco
21 or over to use alcohol.
Any age for use of illegally pushed drugs.
Well, then….any age for sex trafficking.
And the ‘Adults’ go Scott free, with involved cover-ups.
Joe c,
The world done gone crazy, this I shit you not!
I needed some spray paint to paint the whimsical garden gnomes that I have spread out across my property and went to The Home Depot to procure some spray paint.
At checkout, the lovely cashier, named Lakeishia Jones-Smith-a’bdullah or some such nonsense “axed” for my license.
My laughter was heard across the 2 out of 19 check out lanes that were open.
“Ms Jones-Smith-a’bdullah”, I replied, “I will NOT provide you with any ID whatsoever as that is a violation of my 4th Amendment Rights. And smiled sweetly. I then axed her who done her nails, as they were the finest set of fingernails that I had seen all day!
She blushed and rang up my purchase of Krylon Sunflower Yellow and Sweet Basil Green and I was on my way.
Douchebags exist at all levels…this I shit you not.
She looked at my
Peanut Gallery
The laws vary greatly.
To others as well:
They are required to check your age. (18 USC § 922(b)(1)) For those who always want to challenge.
There’s lots of ways to do it. The law doesn’t say DL but the store policy often does. In Peanut Gallery’s case they use the permit per state law. That won’t work here with constitutional carry so they go with the DL.
I don’t get sideways with a clerk who’s doing their job and trying to take the easiest, on everyone, route in doing so.
Everything isn’t a personal attack.
The manner in which it’s addressed can either be educational or prove what a jerk “that crowd” is. From what I’ve read here for a while now it’s the later in many cases. Some here are doing it correctly.
I look at this way. Let’s say my daughter is the clerk and you walk up and start screaming at her about rights, constitution and blah blah blah while I’m standing there I’m probably gonna feel obligated to address your behavior. You don’t want your kid being treated like that. Your certainly not helping “the cause”. You sure don’t represent me as the 2A crowd. I doubt the attitude will get you a job with any gun organization. So in the end your just an angry little person.
2 wrongs don’t make it right. So act right.
Matt,
I agree. The clerks/cashiers are just doing what they are told, they didn’t come up with it on their own. Jumping on their case, for something they have no control over, accomplishes nothing.
Common sense would tell me that asking an obviously “senior citizen” for his birth date to buy a product limited to those 18 or older, is ridiculous, but that is what their supervisors told them they must do. Seems I remember having to show my ID to buy my son a certain video game a while back (he was in his 30’s at the time).
One of my pet peeves is paying a $30 “hazmat” shipping fee on top of normal shipping charges when purchasing primers and/or powder for reloading. Both of these arrive on the same UPS or Fedex delivery van as other products not considered hazardous. I see the special “fee” as nothing more than a disincentive to buying the product. It puts the consumer in a position of having to purchase several hundred dollars worth at a time to absorb the cost of that extra charge. Occasionally, MidwayUsa will absorb the fee as a promo on orders of $150 or more.
Dennis,,,,
Thank you so much for the load info.
I have a Smith Wesson .38 snub, no hammer showing, titanium ( either feather weight or lite weight- can’t remember.) Old age, ya know.
Just set formica counter top in greenhouse, must find lunch, before I faint. I will copy down all your information this evening, when I get to sit down ( dark.)
Ms Sage,
Many a sweet Lady are misguided by male privilege about the best handgun that they should use.
Often a .38 lightweight snubbie is suggested and I am guilty as well, misleading my wonderful wife into getting one herself many many years ago.
Then I saw the light and realized that a heavier weighted firearm with a lighter weight trigger pull was a much better choice!
A reliable 1911 Springfield Armory Range Officer Compact in 9mm is the perfect choice for my little 5’3″ 125 lb princess!
Her Smith & Wesson lightweight snubby is still available IF needed!
– Sage,
DW Smurf is quite happy with her 9mm Ruger LC9. It is what replaced her little Jennings .22 she bought when I was overseas.
– Papa S.
Slippy,
Interesting post. Can’t figure out if you are questioning Sage’s choice in a carry gun (a light weight compact revolver), or your personal realization that “male privilege” may have played a part in you “misleading” your wife into getting a similar weapon, before that is,……. “Then I saw the light and realized that a heavier weighted firearm with a lighter weight trigger pull was a much better choice!”………
I played a huge role in my wife’s choice of carry weapon. Wasn’t my male chauvinism kicking in. No it was at her request.
She has arthritis in both hands and suffers from fibromyalgia which robs her from being able to work the slides on most all semi-autos. Hand/grip strength also suffers. The S&W 642 was my edc. To tailor the handgun to her, I installed a reduced power spring set and performed an action job on it. Resulted in a 4lb double action trigger pull smooth that is as pulling your finger through soft butter. With my tailored handloads, she can shoot well and without unbearable pain. She loves it, it’s her gun, I miss it.
You’re choice for your wife would be a totally useless pick for mine. I know for a fact she would not carry a 30oz chunk of cocked and locked semi-auto steel in her purse (she couldn’t work the slide, making cocked and locked necessary.) Now, she does love to shoot my Browning Buckmark .22lr, but the size and weight that makes it such a good choice for the range and target shooting, makes it a poor choice for discreet (and comfortable) concealed carry.
My wife chose her preferred carry gun herself, from an assortment of just about every style, size, weight, and cartridge imaginable, with the help of me being able to refine the gun to fit her limitations and needs.
From what I’ve gathered reading Sage’s posts, I’m guessing she chose what was best fit her needs and requirement in a weapon.
Dennis,
Yes Sir, sad to hear that your wife has arthritis in both hands. I too suffer from Osteoarthritis and it is indeed a painful and debilitating disease.
In no way did I mean to suggest that our dear Ms Sage made a bad decision. In my wife’s case, the heavier weighted 1911 was a much better choice with the lighter weight trigger pull; she was a much better shot on target on the 2nd and 3rd shot with the 1911.
The weight was inconsequential for her, obviously not a decision for everybody.
In no way did I mean any disrespect toward you or Ms Sage or anybody.
Please forgive me if any feelings were hurt.
Love my Beretta Tom Cat…… sooo lady like!
I am so jealous when I read about your equipment and what you are doing on your own shouting range! I my country reloading is forbidden. Political correctness and European liberal values!
Veteran,
Great to have you reporting in again. Was worried about your well being. Has the political climate settled down any?
Dennis,
I had one hard period in my career. It is not yet finished but things are going in the right direction. I was busy and I was not able to write on this great forum. Now I am here again.
Liberals are very aggressive this days in all Europe. My country is under invasion of illegal Muslim immigrants from middle east. Thousands of this people come here and they want to go to the EU but border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and EU is closed for them. So we the people here need to be polite and politically correct and accept them, because they will not cross border. We don’t want them here and they don’t want to be here but EU want exactly that. They protect themselves. Every day is worse than it was yesterday!
Zdravo Veteran, well I just guessed at what language you might speak…… Google has a translator. Hope all is well with you and your family. Enjoyed your perspective from your country.
Macedonian?
Matt in Oklahoma,
Dennis is right. I am Serb.
But you are right about Macedonian people. We are same people. One tribe, one culture and one church. Same is with Montenegro people. My ancestors are from Montenegro.
zdravo koko si
I was there just before KFOR. I did a peacekeeper tour in Macedonia. I also went into some other places in the region during the conflict.
I’m glad to hear from you. The input you have is valuable. My experiences there are why I prepare as hard as I do and to an extent in the manner I do.
I’m glad you are here.
Matt in Oklahoma,
Pozdrav za tebe I tvoju porodicu!
World is smaller than we think. Civil War is everywhere disaster. I hope so that you and yours will never experience such kind of event. Now, after all we have problems with Muslim migrants from middle east via Greece who want to go in EU but EU close the border but they don’t want to stop migrants to come from Greece. So we are now huge camp for Muslims.
Mrs. U, Matt,
When Veteran first started posting, if I remember correctly, he said he was Serbian, and was learning to converse in English (does a great job at it in my opinion).
He brings a lot to the table, having survived going through a civil war in his country, and currently facing the challenges of having outside forces imposing outside solutions to integrating two very different peoples to share the same space.
Yeah that’s how I recognized the greeting. I was there
Mrs. U,
You are right about my language.
You are very kind. My family is very well for the time being.
Sage,
Sounds like you have a Centennial Titanium. Essentially the same revolver as my wife’s 642 Airweight which has an alloy frame with stainless steel barrel and cylinder. I believe the titanium model was dubbed the Featherlite. I think it is still the lightest weight J-frame at 10 1/2 oz’s. Great revolver.
With light handguns comes heavier/more pronounced recoil. You will love all the 100gr DEWC loads, and 125gr TC short Colt. Even the 148gr load is not unpleasant to shoot in the light weight guns.
– Dennis,
I have an elderly H&R .38 S&W 5-shot snubby that is not at all unpleasant to shoot with the 148 gr loads. The unfired cases now closely resemble the few .38 Short Colt cases I have around. Might this be a choice for those who don’t reload, but want to try the shorter cases? I know the old style original cases won’t work, but the newer ones will chamber in my .357.
– Papa S.
Papa Smurf,
If the new manufactured .38 S&W cases/cartridges fit in your .357 chambers, I see no reason they wouldn’t work. The original .38 S&W had a larger diameter case (slightly), and were slightly longer, that prevented them from chambering in .38 colt. I know several manufacturers offer .38 S&W. Maybe they are using cut down .38 spec brass and .357 bullets instead of the original .361 diameter bullets.
– Headstamp is R-P .38 S&W, FWIW
– Papa
Papa Smurf,
From what I can find, the .38 S&W cases are sort of unique, being not true straight wall cases nor a necked down case, the lower section being slightly larger in diameter than the top. Having never worked with any, I don’t know if this occurs in the crimping process or in the forming of the case.
As a side note, years ago, in my first year in law enforcement, I almost bought a S&W Terrier (the precursor to the mod 36 Chief’s Special) in .38 S&W from a small town hardware store in E. Texas. The Chief Special was hard to find at the time, and I found this revolver, brand new in the box. I passed on it because I wanted the .38 spec. Sorta wish I had bought it, in retrospect. It was slightly smaller than the Chief. Am told that Smith called it an “I”-frame, the Chief, of course, is a J-frame.
– Dennis,
Your description of the cartridge is absolutely correct. The pistol was DFIL’s in-car carry, stuffed down between the seats in his Olds for many years. Best I can find out, it was made in the early 40’s, possibly as early as 1939, and when it came to me it was loaded with .38 Short Colts. In his dresser drawer he had had a couple of boxes of the vintage .38 S&W 148’s; they appear to be usable, but I bought more modern loads to give it a whirl. I was intrigued by the cases, as they didn’t resemble exactly the older cases. Just for curiosity, as I knew the older cases wouldn’t chamber in my Ruger, I tried the new ones and lo and behold, they would.
Apparently, this was not an uncommon thing to do, loading the Short Colts as a sort of reduced load for the S&W. Lighter bullet, lighter powder charge, and if you didn’t reload, ruined brass wasn’t an issue. Shooting them in the S&W chamber fire-formed them into the larger size.
It is a nice gun, with the old-style latch at the rear that is unlatched by pulling up on the rear sights. Then it hinges down to empty/reload. It is a bit smaller than any I have found at the local gun stores, but I would guess that it wouldn’t bring more than a couple of hundred dollars. It is fun to go out and shoot once in a while, though.
– Papa
– Oh, best guess is the slight taper was done in the initial forming of the case, since you mentioned it. The crimp is not that heavy.
– Papa
– I had not really thought about it, but after this conversation I have begun to suspect that the manufacturers, knowing about this practice, decided that it would be simpler and cheaper to make a longer .38 short case, load the heavier bullet and call it a .38 S&W. Modern powders would make it easy to produce a load to duplicate the old ballistics.
The tapered case, I once read, was developed shortly after the Civil War as the S&W was one of the first cartridges the old cap-and-ball Navy colts were converted to. It was supposedly to keep drilled out cylinders from being used as they were more powerful than the old black-powder cylinders could reliably handle. You had to purchase a proprietary new cylinder for your Colt.
– Papa
Been a busy few weeks around here, as with everyone. Highlight includes starting to put the garden to bed for the winter. Still waiting on potatoes, leeks, beets & more jalapenos/peppers. Have been freezing the abundance of peppers but have never canned after freezing before, so we’ll see how that goes when I have more time. Just got too overwhelmed. I did chuck some of the veggies not suitable for use or preserving into the fence rows. Will be interesting to see if any of the seeds take hold.
There was a potential security issue at an adjoining property. Last weekend, after midnight, a car drove down the ¼ mile+ driveway, circled and pointed their headlights at the house for about 5 minutes, then slowly drove back to the road. Came back about an hour later & did the same thing, but no lights. Prop owner called 911 and sheriff responded….about an hour later. Same thing repeated two days later, different car. I went over to help set up some temporary trail cameras, and he now has a chain across the drive entrance, so whatever the reason was, at least they know they’re being watched until more permanent solutions can be implemented. Has made me up my priority of getting new motion sensor lights installed, and also get more serious about finding a self-contained external wireless security camera solution. Don’t want to have to pay monthly fees, anyone have a system you use & can recommend?
Had my semi-annual doc appointment and got out of it with no big lectures, and no additional meds. BP 128/68, A1C 6.4. Yay! After a couple days to celebrate, it’s back to try and lose another 25 pounds before the next one.
Hope everyone has a great upcoming prepping week!
FinallyOuttaCA
Great job on the numbers, from the doctor!
As far as canning after freezing items, we haven’t had a problem. In fact we might have to do that again with our tomatoes this year. We get a few here and there, but not enough for a canner load. So we prep and freeze them, waiting for more.
Haven’t done much worthwhile.
Blanched and froze corn from the garden.
The ole corn borers had a good season this year. Worst I’ve ever seen. And apparently a coon managed to climb the fence and wiped out more corn. So another corn worthless year. I guess I have fodder for the calf and horses.
Lots of green tomatoes. Potatoes are abundant. Forcasted cooler weather in a couple weeks, so will dig some up and let the skins harden for storage.
Deer season will be coming….too darn quick. Been doing some preps for that. Blinds and such. Will try the bow hunting. Both crossbow and traditional. Will see if time permits.
Take care all
Slippy,,,,
Fear not, just wanted .38 reloading advice. I too owned S/W 1911 and Glocks before NRP and I took the dogs out on the lake and had the boating accident. Thank God bird dogs can swim.
Ms Sage,
Sad to hear about the accident, my local lake has also been the recipient of many an accident involving those who mix firearms and H2O!
Please accept my apologies if any offense was taken.
My very best regards,
Is anybody going to the preparedness expo in Sandpoint Id next weekend? Would love to meet and greet any fellow MSB if so.
MontanaHome,
Will not be able to make it to the Expo. Please give us a review when possible!
Thanks,
Montana Home
A bit of a drive for us, but I love Sandpoint ID. Can you tell us what they have for displays, who the guest speakers will be. If we were closer(State of Jefferson), we would attend for a meet & greet.
ACDH- this is from the expo poster
Speakers:
Glen Tate- author of 299 series
John Jacob Smith- founder of AmRRon
Shelby Gallagher- author of A Great State: The Divide
Presentations:
emergency communications, food storage, prepper gardening, energy alternatives, First responder first aid, bee keeping, map my neighborhood.
Vendors: solar, knifes, self defense, Thrive food, tactical clothing, essential oils, etc
Slippy- yes I’ll give a review
Montana Home,
Do ya have personal experience with Amrron? I’ve read about that organization and considered it. Just don’t want to get involved with crazies. I’m very cautious about involvement with any organization. I’d rather stick to myself than get involved with the “wrong bunch.” I enjoy my limited experience with ham, but I’ve still got a lot to learn.
From what I’ve read; amrron started in the “redoubt” and is expanding to include CH3 and other organizations. Sounds good, but I don’t believe everything I read/hear.
No- I don’t even know what AmRRon is- AC just asked who was speaking so I gave her the list. They have oathkeepers and militia there at a vendor table too, I am also very wary of these groups.
Plainsmedic my thought for what they are worth.
Any group big enough to be “Known” has been infiltrated by 3 letter agencies. And NOT because those government agents are “Patriots”. Just our Patriot ACT tax dollars at work. Ask the Bundy’s about that fact.
My simple rule of thumb is you are KNOWN by whom you associate with. Associating with Problem Children will get you labeled AS a Problem Child.
I kind of doubt the Feds think well of AmRRon BUT I could be wrong?
When I choose folks to trust I want them to be local folks I have enjoyed working together with. For example our local Elks folks are mostly wonderful people not given to nasty political chatter and live to help others.
Why local people? Two reasons first I DO NOT Trust other peoples “Vouching” for others. That is the most common way 3 letter agencies get into trusted person status. Second when SHTF or other troubles come your way the LOCAL Trusted Friends can help you, not someone you “heard of” far away.
Proverbs 27:10 better friends near by than relatives far away when trouble comes.
If someone wants to “Start Something” I shun them. As Federal agents are often starting stuff to set up an entrapment and are generally on a planned time line. I rather liked Matt from OK’s comment earlier that You have the 1st AD BUT you ALSO have the 5th AD.
Proverbs 22:24 says do NOT make friendship with an angry man…. Proverbs 29:22 is worth reading also.
Nobody would be harmed by reading the 1st chapter of Proverbs weekly. Other than not mentioning “stay away from crowds” directly it covers most of the ways to remain out of trouble.
Me2
It’s not just 3 letter agencies the groups need to worry about. That’s only an issue with one thing and not the worst.
There are folks within groups that have zero business being there. Child molesters seems to gravitate that direction for some reason. Thieves looking for intel, convicted felons looking to buy weapons, power mongers and the ones who cause the most issues by lying and keeping everyone hyped up.
These are issues I’ve seen over the years within groups.
Vetting members is usually sloppy and rushed.
Maslow’s Law is the reason for it.
Matt,
Ya might ask your comms guy about amrron. Curious about other’s opinions on this organization. As I understand it, mostly about ham radio emergency communication. Kind of a network to disperse emergency information. As I’ve stated, I’m very hesitant to join anything.
At first glance, why would I care what someone 1000 miles from me, says or thinks? There could, however, be valuable information available in a grid-down situation. Ham radio would likely be the go-to means of comms. Apparently, there are “members” all over the country. Info could/might be disseminated from one ham on to the next, to cover the entire country. Even lowly technician licensed folks, like me, could get valuable information from just listening.
I’m NOT an expert on ham radio. I do see the advantages of being able to contact VIPs when your cell phone no longer functions. Children and grandchildren are a huge part of the reason we prepare. How are ya gonna answer the wife, when she asks “Are the kids OK?”
I know that I feel WAY WAY better, about being able to contact VIPs in a grid-down scenario. Besides, I have discovered, ham radio can be a lot of fun. 2m ssb
Plainsmedic
I’ll talk to him about it. I’m not about joining anything. I’ve gone that route and it leaves much to be desired.
With my current position in life even though I’m open about it I would considered less than desirable anyway LOL.
On the ham I just listen and gather intell because folks do enough talking to answer any questions I’ll have.
I’m studying now for the ham license cause I’m on bout every list there is anyway. I won’t be joining any local organizations in that either. I’ve attended some of their stuff and between the snobs and snitches I’d rather not even look at these guys.
Matt,
Thats what i ran into here as well, snobs and snitches.
Ill be damned if i join anything where people look down their nose at you. Theres nothing worth dealing with those people
This week we looked over our “Potential Buy/Need List” in a reaction to the discussion of walmart’s antigun position. We picked out all the items that we could get at walmart, made a shopping list and drove north to Alabama to the closest Rural King store. Enjoyed looking at the livestock and all the interesting country type products. Spent $190 on food, ammo, canning supplies, chain saw supplies, and other items and felt good about doing it. It is so much more fun to spend money when you are not giving it to a company who is trying to destroy your way of live.
Cleaned out around the house and took our dead side by side refrigerator to recycling. Making an effort to dispose of unneeded items and donating to local charities. Need to cut back on all the items of little value to us and make room for things that we will soon need to get by on. Restocking old food supplies with new where needed. Funny thing at our age when we look at purchasing long term shelf life items, some of the bulk and freeze dried items have a longer shelf life than we do.
Refilled our 5 gallon water containers and secured after reading Ken’s article and comments on water storage. Read through this week’s Peak Prosperity report and decided to move forward quickly with our preparations just in case any dozen of the 100’s of pending SHTF situations pop up.
We do have a calming routine that helps us deal with the negative in the media and entertainment field. We go on U tube and watch the movies from the 1930’s and 40’s back when you could hear the dialog over the music & special effects. The writing and directing were an art and actors like Charles Coburn, Chester Morris, William Powell and others had a personality. Haven’t seen a real comedy made in the last 20 years.
Ranch is back on the market. DH just not able to keep up. Found another smaller home with acreage not far from where I work (so no more 5 and 6 hour days to and from work).
Lot of work just to prep for sale and then yikes….all that packing. Oh my aching back!
Hoping all our MSB family is well and thriving.
Pioneer Women
Understand, if you found a smaller place to love, go for it. Let a new adventure begin for the both of you. Will keep you both in our thoughts and best wishes.
Well, I guess now I can laugh about it….
The saying on this board is, 2 is 1, 1 is none and 3 is better …or something like that.
Well, I have….ummm 5 chainsaws waiting to be fixed, cared to.
Ain’t none worth a limb, but I finally got the ole reliable up and running smoothly again. Lots of fallen Ash to be cut as I brush cut hunting areas today.
3 is good, 5 or 6 is better…..who wants to buy a used saw??
Joe c
After you sell your gas powered chainsaws, check out the new and improved battery powered saws!
Oregon Saws makes a very nice battery powered saw this has the ability to self sharpen the chain.
My best,
Slippy,
No offense taken.
My favorite was the 1911 9mm, it fit my hand just right and the balance was perfect. Glocks feel ” fat in my hand. The .38 was lite and easier for my CC permit. The weight I loved.
If I had to choose again, I’d save the dogs and lose the firearms everytime.
Slippy
Lol
Personally, I have never been impressed with battery operated tools.
But my Ryobi kit of drills, circular saw, saws-all have done me good. The batteries are a bit of hit and miss on reliability and longevity….
But then again, I have a plenty saws with crap carbs….umm for sale…,.
JC
If Ryobi is what you call battery operated tools, that could be the problem,,,
Makita my man
Makita
Kula
Lol
Good to see ya chime in!
Us limited funds go with Ryobi.
Get me second job back…
Makita it is
😎🤙
Job, no-job, only Makita! I’ve got their cordless tools, some from the late 80’s, still viable. I’ve dropped them off roofs onto concrete, started nails with the battery heel, ran them until the thermal popped. I’ve got all my retired Makita gear at work, which is a hoot, because they are a competitor. The last failure I had, on a 17 year old impact driver, was the F/R selector. $5 on eBay, genuine Makita part from Japan, a week later it was repaired and still at work.
I was with you Joe c for a long time,
Until I got sick of ethanol fuel ruining my gas powered tools. My Stihls still run like champs and I try to keep ethanol free gas in them, but everything else has petered out.
So when my gas powered Craftsman push mower died, I checked out the battery powered mowers and dang, if I didn’t like ’em! I borrowed a Ryobi 40v mower and it was wonderful! I’ll make a purchase this winter for sure
Hoping to get my Solar in place in the next couple of years and I’ll be set with the lawn tools…
Slippy, modern consumer grade gasoline engines are built for a running lifetime measured in hours; typically less than 100. Ethanol is half the problem. (retail price pressure is the other half) It’s just horrendous stuff. Ever notice how it hits your upper sinus and makes you wrinkle up and pull away? I spilled some pure gasoline in a lab a couple weeks ago, was shocked how it didn’t do that. It almost smelled sweet compared to etoh gas.
I NEVER use ethanol gas in my gasoline powered equipment. Bad stuff… Fortunately there’s a station not too far away that has one pump with Non-Ethanol gas!
Agree on the ethanol gas. Horrible.
A government program that has gone terribly bad. Think about it, pay some farmer with my tax dollars to grow “food” then pay a converter with my tax dollars to use good fuel to turn the “food” into bad fuel then tax me again when I buy it.
How FUBAR is that?
When I’m supreme leader of the world, eliminating ethanol government subsidies will happen on day 2.
I can’t think of a government program that HASN’T gone bad.
“When the price of an item is doubled because of the taxes on it, that’s abusive government.”
Lauren,
It took me a couple of days of racking my brain to see if I could name 1 government program that has not gone bad. (Other than the Military and we can all agree that the USA has the greatest military!)
The only thing I came up with is The Interstate Highway System.
Every other dang program that I thought of or researched cost us money time and freedom.
Ken/Slippy/tmcgyver
Non ethanol is hard to find in my area.
I can run about ten miles out of my way to purchase 110 octane. $8/gallon
Ran it thru the quad a couple weekends ago with the kids. Starts up great every time and no sputtering at top end.
Stay tuned to that segment Joe c. There are tectonic shifts coming in Lithium-ion tools. Many packs are now being built on much larger cell platforms. Brushless motors have become mainstream. You are going to see REAL chainsaws, and the vehicle you drive into the woods, in stealth mode, powered by the same platform.
Does anyone know how Shepherdness is doing?
Or PW?
Joe c
PW posted but you are correct have not heard a peep from Shepherdess. Could be work related as I know she has a job off the farm.
Hope she does not have that crummy cold that is going around. It put me down for a week, I was a grumpy old bear, just acdh–lol.
AC
So PW is doing ok?
Ahhh
Mr acdh is a good ole bear
Joe c
Yes,, for putting up with a very grumpy Mrs.(me), that was the first time I have been ill in over 6 years.
Joe c
PW is doing fine, but her hubby not so much. They are putting the ranch up for sale, and looking at a smaller place easier to manage for the both of them.
Which all of us understand, as we age that 50+ acre ranch gets to be to much for one person to handle every day.
We are in the same boat at this time, so doing my best to get this place spiffed up for selling. Finding that extra set of hands to hire or qualified person to do the job is next to impossible. Now they are limited(handyman)on the amount which can be charged for a job. If it is over XYZ they have to pass on it. Found one guy, each job will have to be a separate repair so he will be in compliance.🤔😏😫
AC
Thanks for the update on PW….and yourselves. Hopefully things will go as you all plan. I can’t imagine moving, but yeah having acreage and getting older doesn’t mix, too well.
Anyway….I can’t keep you all straight, and I know it’s on the tip of my typing finger….. someone recently lost their husband and I was wondering if anyone has heard on how they’re doing?
Joe c
That would be our ‘Peanut Gallery’, she lost her dh to AO.
Not that many years ago(Peanut Gallery/Finally Outta CA/Chuck Finley/Just Sayin & believe McGyver)all posted over at md’s old site. A person who posted there did something and the host & guest started to growl at each other on line, it went down hill from there. That is how some of the posters ended up on this site, we left for better company. Will leave it at that.
AC
Thanks again.
I saw PG post today/last night, so hoping she is doing well.
Seems as if I’m turning into my mother….
Here on the farm, every horse, dog, cat has three or four names before I get it right.
“A gun store in Arizona is running a “Beto Special” on an AR-15 style rifle after presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke revealed he wants to confiscate the weapon from law-abiding Americans.”
Response to Dennis, Matt in OK, Sage and Slippy:
Sorry I am kinda late to the comment section about reloads for 38 Special. Well, here goes:
To Matt in OK: I practce with 5 shots strong hand followed by 5 shots weak hand and at least 5 shots using both hands or whatever you want to work on. Federal qualification meant that we had to qualify at least 70% weak hand firing. My first academy was in early 1980’s so I practiced with speed loaders, speed strips and dump pouches as well as bullet in the loops of a gunbelt.
Snubnose revolvers will not eject empty shells but if the ejector is pushed and released, the fired shells will stay up. This is when I pluck the empties and drop in 2 additional shells from behind cover of an engine block of my patrol car. ( yes, I have had to do this in SoCal when I was being sniped at decades ago.)
To Dennis and Sage: actual load data:
105 grain cast lead semi-wadcutter bullet powered by 3.7 grains of Red Dot powder ahead of a small pistol primer in reclaimed and tumbled brass.. This is from the Lyman bullet manual and it is low recoil and inexpensive. This is the load I use in my Ruger LCR for practice load. I can fire this all day with no hand pain. Same point of impact as the 110 grain bullet factory round.
To Joe C.: 17 grains of Red dot powder from Alliant can be used in 12 gauge Trap loads using 1-1/8 oz of shot. For game, I use #7-1/2 shot. for trap, I use #8 shot. This works good on brush bunnies as well as dove, quail and pigeons over spilled grain.
A steady diet of 38 special shells fired within a 357 magnum cylinder will result in spalling which can be difficult to fix. I fire 357 reloads within my 357 revolvers these days. Some of my 357 reloads are, in fact heavy load 38 Specials loaded into a 357 case.
To fix or minimize spalling: clean the bore with JB bore polishing compound using a soft cotton rag and a snug fitting brass jag on a cleaning rod and scrub the section of chamber where the spalling is located.
For jacketed bullets in 380 acp, 9mm, 38 Spec. and 45 ACP, I have been reloading using Titegroup powder by Hodgedon. For all my lead bullet loads and 12 gauge trap reloads, I have an 8 lb keg of Red Dot powder by Alliant.
Red Dot is dirty and smoky compared to other powders on the market but it allowed me to shoot 25 of 25 on the trap range many times over the years. Cannot argue with results.
Going into this last ammo shortage, I was able to purchase an 8 lb keg of each powder. I m still working on both of them at this time. I sold several pounds of Titegroup to friends over the years. Titegroup burns hotter than Red Dot so it tends to scorch the brass whereas Red Dot burns cooler butt is much smokier or dirty in comparison. ( after tumbling brass for several hours, Red Dot loads do not leave scorch marks on the brass.).
Light pistols do best firing light bullets. Your arthritic hands will thank you on a cold winter day.
To Slippy: I competed with1911 handguns for years so my stable has 3 of them in stock at this time: 2 in 45 acp and 1 in 9mm. I got so many 38 Specials over the years that I have to stop and think about what I want to keep versus what I want to pawn. My wife likes my old model 38 Special. My old service revolver is in her bedside table.
Hope this helps.
Calirefugee
Yeah it dawned on me that I need to teach the shoot 2-3 load 2-3 to the younger crowd.
They know how to shoot them. My son is actually pretty good but I haven’t taught the tactics.
This is why talking this stuff out on here is good. It helps me fill the holes I’ve got in preparation.
I used red, green and blue dot for many years for shotgun and handgun reloading.
Calirefugee
Thank you for the information.
I’m hoping to get set up and do some reloading…. hopefully after hunting season and the Holidays.
Usually things slow down a bit after that. I need to contact our shooting range to see if anyone collects spent hulls and go from there. If not, I guess I’ll have to be one of those online shoppers…😩
What are you guys doing for financial preparedness? I’ve been thinking a lot about this recently. Obviously, getting out of debt is paramount. I’ve done that, except for mortgage and truck payment. Both are necessary to make money.
Keeping cash in the bank is stupid. Just using the proprietary average $FRN per bag of Trader Joe’s index, (developed by me and my wife over 30 years), we’ve seen it grow from $15 to $37 or so. Now we hear rumors of negative interest rates. Nah, keep enough cash for a few months expenses; maybe. I’ve also learned that the majority of US $100 bills are currently held outside of the US. Can you imagine a scenario where those are presented for exchange?
‘Buy Land’ – Terrific. But it needs attention, upkeep, taxes, etc. I already have a massive stake in a tiny piece of home here in you-know-where. Zillow says it’s dropped a lot of value in the past few months; just as it did before the 2008 “great recession”.
‘Buy PM’s’ – Yes, they have a place. But they only protect against inflation; they hold value; but never really ‘grow’ in relative buying power, averaged across history.
‘Buy Preps’ – Done that. Now we are scaling back as empty-nesters to a more appropriately sized larder. I’ll be roasting more green coffee beans and soaking bulk garbanzos later today. We’re using expired bottled water for tree watering and a steam iron. Yes, the shrink wrap fails after several years and bottles fall out and roll all over.
Lately I’ve been playing around with stocks, ETF’s and some light options. I did this before, poorly, in the early 2000’s. but oh wow there are so many more high-speed, real time tools available in the broadband age. The quality of hard news in general has gone way down in recent years. But financial information has become very transparent. The SEC requires filing of a “form 4”,or something like that, whenever corporate insiders trade shares in their own company. It also requires disclosure of the funding source. Those are always fun to read, and ultimately pretty easy to figure out why they did it.
I know it’s a bit of a casino; but good-golly there seems to be a never ending flow of money into equity markets. Any little piece of news or rumor causes double-digit % jumps like nothing anymore. With about ten years left to figure out a retirement strategy, my best option seems to be getting educated daily and spend the time needed to invest wisely in a rapid growth posture.
Has anyone else gone this way recently? Any experiences or lessons learned? Any great successes?
tmcgyver ever hear of that stock market proverb about picking up nickels in front of a fast moving steam roller?
Or the one that says Bears make money, Bulls make money but pigs get slaughtered?
“Any little piece of news or rumor causes double-digit % jumps like nothing anymore.” Can and often does go the other way. We Work IPO just lost some 70% plus of value this week?
Small well researched bets (for those casino ideas) *can* keep you ahead of inflation and for Peace of Mind a total loss needs to be planned for. Never bet rent money is a common saying.
To lose money to inflation doing nothing is painful. To lose money when the market moves too fast for your options to kick in is nasty. Yes, in normal times the options do work but in 2008 they were CANCELED and that action was retroactively approved by the Government due to major Banks taking a big hit. Little guys got screwed again.
Personally I am out of the market at this time. I DO NOT use ETF’s or Funds for “Precious Metals” coverage as they cannot guarantee you Gold in hand upon demand.
There is currently as of last Friday over 375 Paper CLAIMS on each ounce of Gold available in the COMEX. That means because of leveraged derivatives 375+ separate persons or funds or ETF’s or businesses or GOVERMENTS have the IDEA they OWN that ounce of Gold.
Who do you think is going to get that ounce IF push comes to Shove?
I only count Gold and Silver IN Hand. Not even what is in a Bank Deposit box as the recent laws ALLOW Banks to BAIL IN with your assets like Bank accounts, CD’s and Bank Deposit Box contents.
Only advice I have is think of what we spend money on. Can you buy and properly store some of those daily-weekly-monthly-yearly needs to adsorb some of the pain from Inflation destroying the value of your cash? Can you pay your taxes a year ahead? Do you need a mattress base or would 5 gallon pails of supplies do as well?
Honestly I am not expecting retirement, I am spending my time and money building up useful skills and the tools and REPUTATION as an Handyman-Plumber because when things get tight a cheap but reliable repair is always PAID FOR in cash or worth while trades.
Just thinking out loud.
Trump ain’t happy with Iran. Iran is flexing it’s ability to hurt shipping in Strait of Hormuz. Trump frustrated with Europe’s failure to support sanctions on Iran. Europe highly dependent on oil imports. Drone attack on Saudi Arabian oil refinery (world’s largest), shutting down a full half of it’s production. U.S. blames Iranian backed Houthi rebels in Yemen (sworn enemy of U.S.). Europe will suffer much greater economic impact from loss of petro production than U.S.
Anyone else seeing a prelude to a major military involvement coming soon?
Anyone else see drone attack on refinery as a lead up to similar on U.S. soil?
Off shore rigs?
Gulf Coast refineries?
Nah, probably not. Just thinking out loud.
Got gas?
Dennis good points. My reserve was topped off last week. Might buy a couple more gas cans to fill up this week.
Add to that the China for the first time got quite BLUNT with the British about doing “Freedom of the Seas” actions with the USA. They are normally far more reserved and diplomatic but with Britain making comments about Hong Kong the trade stick and military repercussions came out. With Brexit (THIS Month due) looking like a crash landing and the British Flagship and their ONLY aircraft carrier was to be deployed had to have US Marine F35’s based on it that is not encouraging.
Add to that that “Nutty” the Prime Minister of Israel is fighting for re-election THIS WEEK is making comments about ground troops and tanks in the Gaza due to rocket fires AND HIS recent visit to Russia did NOT help him. The Russians told him Bluntly they have a NO FLY zone over Syria and if Israeli Aircraft try to strike again they will be shot down and they left the door OPEN for tit for tat responses INSIDE Israel.
“Nutty” claims Trump is signing a new mutual defense agreement between the USA and Israel.
Hezbollah is eager to bust Israeli chops over the air raids into Syria and are not constrained by Russia.
Hezbollah has also warned the US that all of their Aircraft Carrier and Bases are well with in their missile ranges and that they need to back off the Strait of Hormuz and stop supporting the Saudi war on the Houthi rebels.
About the only thing not mentioned is terror cells inside the USA to be activated.
A lot of hot coals laying around.
Dennis I topped off everything today.
I posted this elsewhere today to on the drones.
“spying, bombing, remotely shooting, firebombing, lasers, radio jamming, listening capabilities, drug drops, IR and thermal capability are all threats soft and hard targets of all kinds are now having to address. Everything from military targets, prisons, factories, scientists, rival gangs, to the spouse will need to adjust or be vulnerable. Porch pirates and purse thieves will use them and soon crimes from espionage to petty theft will be the norm.”
The issues with drones are the new norm already in my world.
Matt,
I posted about drones last year.
A group I work with caught a couple guys using a drone to map out their land.
These guys had mapped out many places, commercial buildings and properties. Definitely for nefarious reasons.
A drone does have its uses. We purchased one for our group.
I agree that they are the new norm and much of the usage will not be for anyone’s good.
Here is a drone article you might find interesting. Look at it from your perspective in preparedness
https://smallwarsjournal.com/index.php/jrnl/art/mexican-cartel-tactical-note-38-armed-drone-targets-baja-california-public-safety
Matt,
Interesting article to be sure.
Drones are the “poor man’s” airforce .
Drone technologies level the playing field at the minimum and can be force multipliers in the game.
After conferring with the other groups over the drone incident it was decided to purchase our own drones.
In the times to come drones will be used with bad intentions…
Curiosity– if it is flying over your property (assuming rural/country) can you shoot it down? Oops, thought it was a duck.
AKA in most states the answer is no. If it is flying to low then you have to seek legal action. Kinda tough when you don’t know who’s it is huh? Even tougher when you have no idea how low is too low and how do you prove it? Every state has different requirements for that too.
The laws are not on property owner sides in this. That makes it even harder to control and more dangerous.
In fact the shooter is usually the one charged and that has to pay.
The bad guys are already taking advantage of this fact.
They swoop in and take pictures of a sunbather, take inventory of what you have behind fences, look for egress routes into your house/property and so on then leave. You call the cops but what are they going to do unless they can figure out who’s flying it by driving around? Then again the burden of proof of too low etc. rests on them. The FAA is pretty much helpless and unable to control anything.
Everyone worries bout .gov and privacy while ignoring The People and privacy.
Even the guy I know who stated he had no bad intentions within days was spying on his neighbors when I called him out. “I’m just curious” was his answer.
Right now it’s a bad situation that will only worsen.
Matt in OK
Thanks. I remember a guy got in lots of trouble a few years ago but he was in town. I thought that was the bigger issue. I would think that you have the right to shoot on your own property ( out of town) though. I have a real issue with spying on people. The manager here likes to hide cameras in the bushes and spy on people. He had one watching my yard recently.
Seems the recently also that a drone shut down a big London airport for a few days.
AKA there might be a solution with lasers or jammers. Again different states have different laws but…..
Unfortunately they are making drone more impervious to them as well. In fact one company is making a titanium one with mirror finish to combat small arms fire and lasers and supposedly has tech that jammers can’t be used on it too.
I’m sure some idiot will put AI into it and it will become self aware on …….
Glad I ain’t named Sarah Conner.
They already make them with flamethrowers “for agricultural use” and we’ve all seen the handguns and rifles mounted to them on videos. In the middle east they’ve been using IEDs for a while now.
Actually I am looking for suggestions as to a drone with enough payload for a flame thrower. We have been seeing increasing web caterpillars damaging trees around here. Lower branches no problem but some need a drone or a work lift to get to.
Suggestions please?
Hello tmcgyver:
Yes, my Edward Jones advisor is predicting: “choppy waters” ahead for the economy and the markets in the near future. Actually, this prediction was made last fall.
I chose the low point of the last recession of 2009 to make my big lifestyle/relocation/career change along with my wife of 9 years at the time. It worked out well for us at the time.
I/we have a bigger house up here which allows us to store more food and preps than our old location. The weather is a lot different in there is more rain and humidity so safe storage for long term is a lot different compared to the heat and lack of humidity where you currently reside.
The only certainty I have observed since finishing my degree in economics in the 1980’s is very few people make money during a recession. Everybody loses…it is a matter of how much you have lost compared to friends, relatives and neighbors around you.
Recession is also a time of change- when old companies go chapter 11 And new companies sprout up like mushrooms a manure pile. The process of growth and survival is very darwinian.
Since my first career ended in a loud and sudden way, I have learned to read the paper, follow trends and try to keep up with the times. When I was young, I used to bury or immerse myself in work and did not lift my head up to look at things around me…that was a mistake.
Nowdays, I try to read articles from a few financial journals and avoid reading who-kissed-who crap on both the internet and paper media.
We use Edward Jones also. I’m not financially astute. Just statement of fact. Keep thinking we should move some of the investments into the trust, all of which are set up with Edward Jones. If the market goes crunch how safe do you think funds in a trust are?
On the PMs they may not appreciate as much as we would hope but they do tend to hold their value. I sort of follow them on a fairly regular basis and when the world gets nervous they do moe in a positive manner.
I worried about having a few K in hundreds and being caught up in a currency change. I remember in Vietnam we were paid in MPCs or Military Payment Certificates (sometimes referred to as Monopoly money). We were not supposed to do business with the locals in MPCs but they had a lot more value than the local currency. Periodically the military would change the currency and it left a lot of the locals holding worthless paper. When I think about it, it probably shifted support to the VC. Anyway on having hundreds in a lock box is probably nothing compared to the amount of 100s held outside the bank by the rich.
me, I agree there is a real threat that the powers that be might use a currency exchange system to capture physical cash out here vs. simply making it worthless. Was recently done in India a country that uses cash as the daily economy to force the un-banked into the system so they could collect more Taxes. The exchange was so abrupt that the economy was almost destroyed for almost a year.
This process has been discussed by the banks and congress if the need for negative rates needed to be enforced because everywhere else recently that tried to enforce negative rates (where you PAY them for the right to hold money in your bank account) folks (Like the Swiss)cashed out and held it at home, forcing a cash only domestic economy. Folks need to be aware just like Bail In’s where banks have the “Legal Right” to take our monies to “Save” their bank, negative rates are also out there waiting for the “Right” moment to “Save” the big banks and Government from default with little peoples monies.
Most of the “Rich” have other assets held outside the system. Mostly physical Gold that cannot be touched by such money conversions or negative rates. Also as history shows over and over again the Political Class NEVER harms those that Bribe them so the Rich will have advance notice as to avoid the Bail In’s and or take ADVANTAGE of the Currency exchanges. President Roosevelt’s forced Gold confiscation and reevaluation during the Great Depression to pay for that great Socialist “New Deal” did NOT harm the rich. That would have been Political suicide for Him and the Democratic Party.
But I would suggest some of those 100’s you mention be exchanged for 50’s 20’s and such. Otherwise you limit your ability to make quick cash buys due to lack of change.
Dennis,,,,
Finally got time to copy your ” recipe” for 38. Thank you
Me2,,,,
No, I have never planted tumeric , a
rhizome, but I looked it up on line, and it plants much like ginger. I have five or six pots of ginger; will acquire and plant as you suggested.
Lauren,,,,
Love your plant pursuits. Did not have time to respond to your sweet potatoes questions, but, I saw several responded. My thinking is that when this mess collapses ( for whatever cause,) we need to have sufficient seeds ( open pollinated to run a good while. ) Plants like cabbage etc. Produce seeds every two years, so all of them, we need to carry some of them over for 2 years to be able to reproduce them. I have been keeping sweet potatoes, whole in pots ,producing slips. Also starting slips to carry over thru winter. Also have several varieties of potatoes getting ” hairy”, when I get a moment, I shall start some of then in buckets ( or half barrels.) I do this to ensure I have starts for the upcoming years; if none are available from the outside world. Tomorrow, I want to butcher a big green and white striped cushaw squash and place seeds on newspaper to dry, plus I have a nice butternut to carve and save its seeds also.
Seems like everything is about water, food , heat or power generation.
Want to put a solar panel in greenhouse soon.
Charged Toshiba laptop to take to greenhouse while I work tomorrow so I can pop in a movie while I work plus solar radio is ready to move out there too.
Purchased 4′ sections of formica snack bar ( in marble formica), Mennards sells them for under $2 each. Shall run them down east side to hold flower pots full of plants; they will not take sunlit from 3 horseradish and rhubarb that is growing right up out of the ground.
I thank God for allowing us material and a dream to see come to fruition.
It is because He loves each of us, ya know.
Well, my oldest Granddaughter thinks I should be more sociable.
Says I’m in danger of becoming a curmudgeon. So here I am being more sociable…
BJH
You made me laugh and spit my lunch out, almost hitting the laptop..ROWL.
Kids do say the darndest things lol
BJH
Lol
Glad to hear your granddaughter is teaching you to be more sociable 👍
AC,
I’m impressed she knew what it means. Girl does like to read so she read it somewhere…
BJH
That is a blessing she likes to read, hope the other grandchildren follow in her footsteps.
You may be a little on the antique side, but aren’t we all, mean tempered, doubt it unless the grandkids messed up.
Peanut Gallery,,,
So glad to see you post!!!!
Glad you are back.
You don’t want to have the children calling you an old curmudgeon, like
Bill Jenkins Horse!
BJH,,,, I read your posts for years, as a lurker, get those fingers busy and keep us informed- we need you.
Veteran,,,,we need to hear from you regularly. 1, we know you are OK. 2,we live thru on how to survive in harder circumstances. 3. In this country, we are so VERY spoiled. Missions work taught me all of that and much more. You keep us rooted into a world quickly coming, it allows all of us to better prepare. You have a big job keeping us rooted into the world we really live- thank you.
Presto (Chinese) or All American pressure canner? Hi folks. I’m thinking of trying out home canning. The Presto 23 quart canner for ~$80 seems a reasonable entry level choice. Does anyone have experience with the Presto or All American brands? Personally I don’t have issues with buy a made-in-China item, provided it is of good quality (and Chinese airlines buy plenty of the airplanes I help produce). However, thought I should ask if there are issues with the Presto brand, or other reasons to go with the AA brand. My thinking is that if I get serious, and the AA turns out to be worth the ‘Pro’ price I could upgrade and then give the Presto to someone who doesn’t have it so good as I do. Thoughts? Thanks.
DLS, Your reasoning is sound. I have had presto equipment in past and some of it is still working but a cooker not a canner. If you need to can for family and things are tough, you may need 2 going…meats and corn in qts need 90 min, it can certaintly speed up the process to have 2 going at one time. I have “mirror ” i am currently using. have AA and another older one, forget what it is,… i have to get parts for… Once you obtain and use a few times, know you need to continue… get your replacement parts… a gauge or stem with weight..( the round one with 3 choices i have found effective.), and rubber seals for the lid. , and emergency pressure release. order all at one time- so they are on hand for quick repairs. I have one been using 2 years with nothing new, but already have repair parts ready for when gasket stretches and is hard to seal or ?
DLS,
We have 3 presto pressure cookers. All are from the 1948-1968 time frame. One is a 2 quart size ,one is a 23 quart size and one is called a camp cooker that holds 14 quarts at a time.
We have been happy with them all.It is easy to purchase backup parts if they are needed.We have never used an All American cooker .
DLS, I purchased my AA 921 pressure cooker around 2012. I found it for $199 and was happy with that price. I wanted something that would last my lifetime and could be handed down. I have been very pleased with this unit and it gets a lot of use. I also have a smaller pressure unit for cooking dinner – Kuhn Rikon Duromatic. You can put a whole chicken in there and it cooks quickly and beautifully….so tender. I actually used the AA to cook a Thsnksgiving turkey one year and it was awesome.
The pressure cooker is s big investment but worth its weight in gold to be able to put shelf stable meat away for many years. And the meat is so tender and delicious.
@DLS,
I have both the Presto 23qt (our first canner) and now the All American. They both work. The price difference is significant. Though it’s obvious what you’re paying for with the All American. Again, they both get the job done.
If you’re just getting started and not sure if you’ll keep it up – maybe the less expensive Presto is the way to to. However if you want to buy the Ferrari right away – you won’t be sorry.
Related article (lists the various sizes), All American Canner
Lord, it’s been a good week. My family and I enjoyed good health, we have lacked for nothing we are needful of. We thank You for that.
I see your majesty all around us. The beauty of your creation. The grandeur of the rising morning sun awakening the birds to sing their songs. The living portrait of the setting of the sun. The cool of the evening as we relax and look forward to a time of resting.
As bedtime approaches, I reflect on my life. There was not a moment that You weren’t with me. Even when I wasn’t thinking of You, You were watching over me. Those times I failed You, You didn’t forsake me. No, You’re love is not conditional, it’s unconditional. You’ve never turned You’re face from me. Yes, You have let me suffer the consequences of my stupidity, but, thankfully, I learned from those mistakes. I was strengthened by those experiences. Even then, You didn’t leave me. You never allowed me to suffer more than You and I together couldn’t make it through.
Lord, I know of no one I’ve done wrong today. If I have, make me aware so I can try to make it right. I ask Your blessings on me, my loved ones, and my family here a MSB. Continue to watch over us Lord, continue You’re provisions for us. I ask for just a portion of You’re wisdom, You’re love, and You’re grace. May my actions be pleasing in Your eyes. I ask these things in the name of Your Son, and my Savior. Amen.
Good night my friends. Sleep well.
Amen, Dennis
Peace be with you and yours
Quiet week. Some rainy days that felt almost wintery. About halfway through Blackout Wars by Peter Vincent Pry. Will give a report when finished. Have corresponded with Dr. Pry recently re his current thinking on EMP vulnerability. He said it is prudent to have a year’s worth of necessities on hand.
Visited cabin with DFM; talked over design and parts needed for year’s worth of water storage.
Here you can’t recycle waxed cardboard; it has to be hauled to the dump. So when I pick up scraps for the pigs the green grocers often put them in their waxed cardboard boxes. Did a little burning this week and found that waxed cardboard burns clean, fast, and hot. Think I’ll cut up some of those boxes for a stash of quick burning moisture-resistant cardboard leaves. Might make good fire starters for the wood stove.
Pioneer Woman – will you be staying at altitude or dropping down to a longer growing season? Don’t envy you the move.
Keep Calm and Prep On
At risk of being called racist.
Just took a break from reloading cabin (.380 acp today). Came into the house to Fox News on TV showing a series of videos from Minneapolis of gangs of blacks attacking white folks of opportunity. Beating them unconscious, and continuing assault after they appear to be totally incapacitated. In some cases, stripping the limp bodies naked.
No mention of racial motivations. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Minneapolis the Obama created Somali immigrant enclave? Wasn’t abusing and stripping the bodies of their victims recorded in “Black Hawk Down”? Isn’t this the home base for Ilhan Omar, the muslim Somali-American darling of the left?
Looking more and more like Mogadishu West. So much for assimilation.
In interest of fairness, someone please point out similar attacks by roving bands of whites on random black targets.
Sorry for the dismal post. Back to reloading cabin.
Dennis,
Nothing racist at all about your post, you were stating fact.
These somalis who came over to the US under our gracious and foolish political asylum laws are nasty animals that inherently hate the USA as well as Christianity and Judaism. They need deportation at the least. Parts of Minneapolis are turning into No-Go Zones.
islam is a geo-political ideology of world domination, not a religion. It is made up of 2 groups. One group wants to kill or enslave any who do not follow islam’s world domination dogma and the 2nd group funds the efforts of the the first group.
Not one islamist should ever be allowed to enter the USA. Assimilation will never occur with these animals.
That was a truly disturbing video. Deportation? Not until they’ve done some very hard time and are old and gray. There is ample evidence of intent to do grievous bodily harm. I truly hope that the victims spinal cords are intact. Send them back now and they might be regarded as heroes.
Makes ya all warm n fuzzy dont it…
me,
I agree with you 100%! Spinal cord, broken ribs, probably got his spleen as well…
This was not just a robbery, this was attempted murder.
This isn’t on lame stream media, because for some reason, Ilhan is becoming a misunderstood little darling. She was on “Face the Nation” this weekend. Trying to explain why conservatives just don’t understand what she means when she speaks. These beatings were not part of the discussion at all.
And yes, I watch Face the Nation. Know your enemy.
luv ya’ll, Beach’n
Where ya think that ilahn omar trash came from,
And that one is in the gubermint,,,
And then folks wonder why i have such a bad attitude about that stuff
Dennis
Dismal days certainly for large Democratic Party-controlled American cities. Riots, wilding events, wild mobs in downtown shopping centers and urban malls, “organized retail crime” mobs in inner cities, all been going on since the sixties; easier to initiate and see with today’s technology and ubiquitous media. Add in anarchists and “anonymous” crashing relatively peaceful protests since the Seattle WTO riot of 1999. More recently Occupy Wall Street all over the country, Black Lives Matter, Islamists taking over the Women’s March (originally organized by Jewish women against Trump), attacks on Jews in Brooklyn (interestingly Jerry Nadler’s district). Now antifa.
Following what’s happening in PNW. There’s a video showing black-masked antifa beating up an older gay man. Another showing them screaming in the faces of African-American police officers. Intolerant brown-shirts of every sort are running wild in the streets.
Correlation does not equal causation; but the relationship is very strong between libsider-controlled cities and these sorts of WROL events.
BTW that part of MN also has highest level of jihadist recruitment in the US.
Anony Mee,
These cities and their progressive prosecuting attorneys have stopped prosecuting property crimes where losses are under $750. This is almost begging for anarchy. Assaults are reduced down to misdemeanor disturbance of the peace. Youths are rarely prosecuted. Either they are plain stupid or, more likely, hoping for total disintegration of public order. I feel for those whose job requires living in or near these ticking time bombs. If you do, have a plan
Hey Dennis
Preach brother. Seriously, your prayers are a comfort. Am missing Shepherdess’s blessings.
Spent a long career in big cities. Now in an area with negative or no growth for several years, at the end of a dead-end road, 25 miles from “town.” As safe as I’ll ever be, as long as I don’t need emergency services in a hurry.
Dennis and friends spreading lawlessness and chaos is classic Rules for Radicals tactics.
Fear makes people willing to accept anything that promises safety. Part and parcel of the “Make it STOP” campaign.
More to come and we are NOT Allowed to Defend ourselves as then WE are the Evil GUN People and they are the poor misunderstood victims. The Media as Judge and Jury.
Stay away from crowds, stay away from stupid people.
If you have not made serious plans to Harden your Home with pre-cut welded wire window covers, solid outside door with 3 inch screws and reinforced frames what is your back up plan when serious trouble shows up? If you have to live in a Democratic controlled city do you have a Safe Room? Plenty of Bear Spray?
If you have a driveway worth the trouble can I suggest a logging chain across it when you close down for the night? That and make other ways to drive up a problem.
If you look like a hard target they may go for an easier target, or at least you get some warning and time to respond.
Think the Purge in real time. That’s what Democratic cities are devolving into by INTENDED failure of civil laws.
Bad times ahead.
Me2
If you don’t mind me asking what gage did you go with on the expanded metal?
I’m covering area denial with the group this weekend.
First thing I did here is build a gate. They had fencing all around but no gate. It was weird to me. I used some gas pipe for the frame.
I’ve got cable to go across and rebar knee high Czech hedgehogs that attach.
3” screws were one of the first things I did to all door locks and hinges here.
I’ll be controlling more than just my little square. Can’t let them that close.
What’s your fire retardant plan? Safe rooms rarely cover that. When they realize that can’t get what they want the meanness and evil will come out and they will burn you out.
Also Me2 how did you label the panels?
I’m considering using numbered cow ear tags. They are tough and fade resistant.
The find on the traps are awesome. Defense and food collection.
Matt I used 1 inch by 2 inch 14 gauge hog wire for my window covers. Easy to work with using large side cutters. I have aluminum strips predrilled for the screws along with a always charged cordless drill with spare batteries for installation.
These are kept with the rest of my Chaos kit of first things to grab and do when smoke from down the street or loud BANGS occur. Some of the items inside that BANG Kit is a first aid pack, tools, flashlight-headlamps, Bear Spray, and a rechargeable vacuum for glass clean up. Nothing is worse than unneeded cuts from broken windows IMHO.
My house is wood siding so no real reason to go heaver gauge. This gauge wire keeps out firebombs and bricks through the window as well as hard work to remove to enter.
I have seen what Molotov Cocktails against wood siding, makes a mess before it burns out unless secondary materials (like stacked firewood) ignite against the house, However one INSIDE your home is a far worse situation.
Vinyl siding HOWEVER will ignite and off to the firehouse races we go! The toxic smoke from that fire is nasty but secondary to your house on fire.
If I had a Brick or Cinderblock house I would use expanded metal mesh for even more strength.
As far as labels not much need for my house, most windows are standard, a few larger and a few smaller so I sort them thusly.
Fire retardant plan? Clear fields of fire 360 degrees, logging chain across the only way to drive up, several redundant security systems to include dogs and geese and the attitude of “Not on MY Watch”. Safe room is for non-combatants like my Parents.
I do have several fire extinguishers, hoses, generator for the well pump and have maintained a fire safe clearing of about 10 meters. Yes it’s annoying not to have firewood stacked on the porch but…..
Hardened fighting positions overlooking routes of entry always in process of improving. As we were taught in the military a obstacle NOT covered by fire is only an annoyance.
That and friends that are willing to respond if they hear the whistle codes as I am for them. Gangs hate it when folks start reacting behind them.
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Thanks 14ga. I’ve been looking at it. I gotta find a place that sells full sheets nearby. My old source went out of business.
I see nothing racist and it is my opinion that the sooner that people quit bowing to political correctness the better off we will all be. To my knowledge there have been no similar attacks- the msm media would have had a coronary of pleasure if it had indeed happened.
Got about half my .380 loads finished. These are defense loads. Tedious, precise powder charges, Lehigh Extreme Defense copper bullets, using Lee factory crimp die for final step. Tested this load some time back. Today is just for stores.
Took a break to go to my range and burn some .38 spec wadcutters using my bird’s head grip single action revolver. Love the back to basics feel of this fine handgun. Consider it a fine compliment to my preps. Got the 75 or so empty cases tumbling now for reloading again.
Getting old, a little slower in step, but do what I can to stay ready. Should circumstances come where I’m forced to take a stand, hopefully the efforts to try and stay on top of my game won’t have been wasted. Hopefully, I’ll never again be tested…………..nor any of y’all.
Son is out in the pasture mowing. Guess I’ll go join him. Later.
Sorry Dennis, I did not see or bother to look at that video. I still got bad memories of Reginald Denny, the truck driver that got dragged out of his rig in South Central Los Angeles back in the 1980/1990’s during Rodney King Part 1.
Interestingly enough, the pilot that filmed the Denny incident from the air was an African-American ancestry individual that was a proud graduate of the US Air Force Academy.
These days, I cannot say I am surprised so much as saddened. I can say I will not be traveling there for vacation or work anytime soon with that stuff going on. Thanks for the heads up though.
Hay Dennis, Great minds think alike:
I was out shooting my 357mag this morning and have cracked the reloading manuals in order to reload some 357mag loads that are more mild.
( these loads are actually +P equivalent within a 357 mag casing.). I am going to reload with some Unique powder I have in storage as it has been a long time since I have used this.
I cut my grass this afternoon since God gave us several hours of sunlight to dry the lawn prior to cutting. I am ever, the Japanese Gardener living out here on the Left Coast.
Now I am BBQ’ing some chicken on the propane Weber with the propane I bought at the local refill station in reference to the propane thread that was on this website earlier this week. ( I refilled the “Amerigas” tank I exchanged a month ago.) Folks at the gas station did not blink an eye at the new-to-me tank.
I suppose this method of tank replacement can be referred to as the “NRP”
method since he advocated this method in the propane article.
Like NRP, I am cheap. I am willing to bet that most of us on this site are of similar mindset. ( some call us cheap. I prefer the word: “Thrifty” or efficient.)
Thank you for your posted prayers. You are articulate and thoughtful in your prayers and I wonder if you considered being a Deacon or lay-preacher in your community if not on this site.