Recent content by johnElarue

Recently I was rotating out some old stock and ate some 2006 and 2008 expiration sardines and mackeral, no problem , yum.

I've got 2 near the front door, but not very serious ones. Water, snacks, rain gear, gloves, lights, candles, TP. We're prone to flash flood or landslide.

A large sized can of grizzly bear pepper spray

Great to hear!

Sounds good, try an insulated picnic cooler with spigot. I did something similar this fall when our bath was being fixed, not super warm the next morning however, but if you add a kettle of boiling water it is bearable

I lived with only kerosene heaters for 5 years. The first few were not so bad, but it eventually drove me out of the house and to get a woodstove. If you can find something like this http://www.alexyokohama.com/Products/Kerosen_Fan_Heater_FH-6740H.html they are pretty safe and fuel...

Thanks, the black ovals are heavy duty plastic, rice paddy borders. The tires are on tatami mats to suppress bamboo grass, a nasty invasive weed.

I store them in the crawlspace under the house in a plastic storage bin lined with newspaper and a sturdy bbq grill (like hardware cloth?) on top, weighted down with a rock. Once a week when I take a basketful out I mix them up. It doesn't get below freezing down there and they last from...

The panels are all installed and have been making power for about 2 weeks, not running many loads but it's all set up. Here is the new wiring box.

Sorry, I mean green- fresh cut, not dried.

Nice pics everyone, No field to till this year so I'm concentrating around the house cedar logs front garden experimenting with tires this year partially shaded "forest garden" in progress

Hi Paul, I take it that is greed cedar? Great videos, keep them coming.

Yeah they are more expensive even though they're made here so, yes we do pay more, for most everything. The credits on the vehicles are nearly the same though. The Mitsubishi MiEV plug in EV is now available, 40K. After credit it's 30K, yikes. Not nearly reasonable. I'm wondering if EV's...

We @got 2-3K off a heat pump hot water, all electric house system from the gov't here, but I'm in Japan, sorry.

Nice beds