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ta dah! here I am to save the day! What do you want to talk about?

Not-so helpful advice I've received ranges from divorce DH (what!) to move to Alaska (hmmm.)

How about this? Can I have this? Pleeeeeze? http://www.flickr.com/photos/davesag/4088101/

gd, that's real bad about your dog. I see there's lots on both sides of the deer plot discussion. One point is, the deer are there anyways; just set them up for a safe shot. More humane clean kill.

Goodness, hope you pull out of the funk soon. Get a massage if you can. Be careful with benadryl, people become sensitized to it and develop dreadful complications. I was taking it nearly constantly for allergies, and developed the BAD stuff. Now it's life threatening to take it (along...

I find your project awesome. Years ago I drug DH and the little DS's to a very hippie-style cob workshop in a secretive (due to zoning) commune-like project in rural somewhere. It was our first live intro to self-sufficiency, organics, vegan, etc. My poor city boy DH was overwhelmed, but...

congrats, Boyd! Couple years ago DH got hold of a Fecon (mammoth sized grinder) for "testing purposes" and used it to clear the back third of trees and brush, grinds it all into the topsoil. Talk about overkill 9000 on our little suburban lot! Size matters...and draws quite a crowd.

clkingtx: I won't even see physical therapists anymore it was such a disaster. I have had a massage therapist tear a ligament in my knee, another send me to bed for a week in pain - and one who gently flexed my back and fixed what I call a vertebrae that slides out of place so that I didn't...

I'm just gonna copy/paste your list to my computer, with just a couple changes! The Homestead Garden 1. Grow enough tomatoes for a years supply of canned tomatoes, tomato juice, tomato sauce, salsa, and tomato soup. 2. Grow enough potatoes for a year round supply of baking potatoes, frying...

Getting along in the neighborhood. I consider that a critical part now of self sufficiency. Being aware and ACTIVE with your immediate surroundings... IMHO.

Leta, what a thoughtful post. It coincides with my discovery last week, of the fact that it seems (reading posts of war-time bosnia and some other SHTF places of recent time) not of how much you had, but who you know and what you know. That the ones who survived were the ones who blended in...

I'm looking at a moped to do errands into town (8 miles each way). But some teen driver just murdered a bicycle rider a block away last week. *sigh* It gets worse every year. My DS is considering a helmet camera just to show the police all the idiots every day. A motorcycle is all he can...

Ah, German engineering! :lol: Seriously, dragsters are one fine PITA. Video. Of course, the leaf piles are tempting. Too bad our subdivision has no street trees.

What about hazelnuts? Pine nuts? These would be faster to production, no toxins in the soil. Pine nuts also are still very expensive to buy if you want to sell some to supplement income.

Don't know about butternut, it's the same family? Walnut toxicity for the birds? (not the nuts, the whole tree/plant)

I would brag how we've quit TV since February 2011, but we've been watching an awful lot of shows on free hulu. Dishnet wouldn't deal discounts or give us back AMC until after we disconnected. Too late then! My sis only has the lowest netflix for over two years. DH has lost more weight with...

Had a no-name big skillet for ages - then ds took it camping and warped it over a propane burner. And it would not hold season after that. Oddly enough, right after that another scout parent wanted to donate his mother's small collection. Knowing these cherished pieces would meet a terrible...