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About six (I think) years ago the Michigan Agricultural Commission threatened to file a lawsuit against the DNR for mismanagement of the deer herd resulting in millions of dollars in lost revenue to Michigan farmers as a result of crop damage by deer. The following year the DNR changed the...

When they started that passport thing my nephew"s father in law sold his property in Canada. Just got to be too much hassle to summer there. Shame too it was beautiful there. I refuse to fly since the TSA took over the airports. Average citizen? Actually I am seeing less and less of that...

I usually staple the reciept inside the owners manual. Everything else goes in a stack on the top shelf of my computer stand and gets filed after December 31st. I don't run a business so I only have to save and file check stubs. Bank deposit slips are kept until the monthly statement arrives...

I remember the first time I walked into that shop. He had a mountain of silver rounds stacked up pyramid style. There were also stack upon stack of silver eagles in sleves. Just a side note... When I was a child my mother started a coin collection (Pennies, Nickles, Dimes, Quarters and Half...

Mark good luck finding it. (locally anyway) I was at the local coin shop to have my nickel collection appraised and the case where he normally keeps eagles and rounds that he is selling was empty save for one ten ounce bar and three one ounce bars. I personally stopped buying when it hit $12.00...

Modern tools and technology assist me to maintain as much property as I do and enable me to get to work. I have not gotten my hobby farm to the point where it could sustain me yet. I am slowly working in that direction but at my age I have to take it nice and easy. That is why I have a two year...

Don't feel sorry for me I am well prepared. Feel sorry for those who have gone their merry way ignoring the writing on the wall. I grew up in an age when gold and silver backed our currency. Inflation was not an issue. That is no longer true. The first time I bought gasoline I paid 15 cents a...

My job will no longer exist and I will be dependant on social security and a small pension. If I"m lucky I might welcome you to Wal-Mart.

Yep Here we are. That is why I started preparing 6 years ago. I am not preparing for 2011 or even 2012. I am preparing for 2016 and the real possibilty that my social security check each month will make my mortgage payment and the rest might buy me a bag of groceries. I'm very optimistic that...

What I hear most often is "Oh the government would never allow such a thing to happen". I just shrug my shoulders and walk away.

The Ahmish have survived that way for years and they routinely encourage their younger generation to answer the knock of the great wide world. The vast majority return to the fold. They have sustained thier way of life for a good long time as a "relic" population. They prosper on a smaller scale...

What on earth could possibly lead to a civil war in America? http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1317392425.php Perhaps the first showdown since the OK corral? Things are heating up all over the country. as you said, on every front. Montana recently passed a resolution that any attempt by the...

Apparantly BOA is under fire for more than debit card fees... BOSTON (AP) Police have arrested two dozen protesters for trespassing during a demonstration against Bank of America's foreclosure practices at the banking giant's offices in downtown Boston. The Boston Herald reports that the...

So that means the bugs crept in somehow under the rim of the lid. However, this one jar was not a canning jar but a glass quart juice jar. The bugs did not get in through the seal. Flour bug eggs were already in the flour and they hatched inside the container. The best way to prevent that is...

NEW YORK (AP) More than 700 protesters demonstrating against corporate greed, global warming and social inequality, among other grievances, were arrested Saturday after they swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge and shut down a lane of traffic for several hours in a tense confrontation with police. In...

There are many different ways to preserve meats without freezing. The process your referring to was known a "salt pork" a very common practice back in the day and curing salt was nothing more than plain salt. Salt draws the moisture out of the meat so bacteria can not grow. Bacon used to be...

It has probably been a while since I had to buy them but I don't ever remember paying more than 25 cents apiece for them in season. I walked out of that store empty handed. I refused to pay $1.33 each. I had a great tomatoe crop so I never even looked at what they were asking for those. In...

Just my 2 cents... You may have seen him once but that doesn't mean that he didn't dispose of an entire litter this way. You may have only seen him dropping the last kitten on the way home. They could be scattered all up and down the road. IMO a phone call is the only way to insure that the...

What is a green bell pepper worth to you? Myself and many local gardeners had a terrible green pepper crop this year. Consensus is that temperature fluctuations hit our local area hard this spring and stunted the plants. The farm stand down the road from me had 1000 (yes that is a thousand)...

Agreed works great for odors but I never let my cooler get moldy. A strong bleach and detergent mixture is the best solution to kill mold and mildew I use an extra strong solution of it to wash the exterior of my home Just spray it on and rinse it off after a few minutes and rarely is any...