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    hobobrando- my foraging adventures.

    Tomarrow I go to the orthapedis to see if I'm going to need a cast and if I do I'm going to see if they will shpe it to hold a ski pole :rolleyes: . I was wondering if anyone knows about the FFA, I would like to join but my high school lacks an agriculture program. Is there a way for me to join...
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    hobobrando- my foraging adventures.

    Well I went and had my hand checked and sure enough it was broken so after an hour or two at the hospital my hand was reset enough for the swelling to go down and its in a splint. I asked the doctor how long it would be before I could realy use it again and he said 6 weeks. First that means no...
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    Signs of spring in your area?

    I HAVE MUD!!! :woot
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    hobobrando- my foraging adventures.

    Yesterday I was all excited because afterschool I was going to go skiing. So we got to the mountain and I was having fun and then in our last hour I messed up on landing a jump and I fell on my hand. Well now people are telling me its broken and I should get it checked out but I dont want to. I...
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    The Self-Sufficient Skills thread (new name, old thread!)

    Here are the steps I'm taking. 1. Starting my first vegetable garden 2. Making a compost pile 3. Hopefully learning to can 4. Planning for some meat chickens this spring
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    hobobrando- my foraging adventures.

    I would like to get started right away on the compost bin but its to late to start it tonight, and I dont get home untill 9:45 tomarrow night.
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    hobobrando- my foraging adventures.

    What do you know I have a left over section of 5ft chainlink laying around I could use that for my composter. I do use the deep litter method so I guess I'm covered on that. I went to TSC hoping for canning supplys but they didnt have any. I will have to check at ace for them. Thanks for the...
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    Jason closes his journal... Thanks!! I love you!!

    :yuckyuck :lau You know what they say about fishing right. The best kind of bait is live bait.
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    Jason closes his journal... Thanks!! I love you!!

    YOU HAVE YOUR OWN FISHING POND!!! That is an awesome home you have there, and those front steps look really nice. P.S. I have to say I am a little jealous.
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    hobobrando- my foraging adventures.

    So last night I removed my jerky from the dehydrator and I took a huge bight, there was absolutely no flavor :/ . I had made a little dry rub from some spices in the cubbord and the mixture tasted good but once the jerky was done all the flavor was gone. I figured I did alright for my first time...
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    Trees are going in.

    k0xxx have you tried hanging bars of soap from your trees to keep the deer away. A friend does this with his young apple trees and it works well. You can also buy a powdered form of coyote pee and sprinkle it around your orchard to keep the deer out.
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    hobobrando- my foraging adventures.

    Decided I was going to try my hand at making venison jerky today. I had planned to have the jerky in the dehydrator by 10:00. Due to my steaks not thawing completely I didnt get the jerky in untill 12:45 :barnie . They should be done by 10:30 tonight so untill then I have absolutely nothing to...
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    Thought some of you might find this interesting....

    Great site. Thanks for the link, I now have some reading to do tomarrow wile I'm dehydrating beef jerky.
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    hobobrando- my foraging adventures.

    I dont go back to school until wednsday so I went and hung out with my grandpa today. Both of my grandparents are food pushers and before my grandma left for work she went through everything in her house to see if I wanted it for breakfast. After many "no thank you" answers she left for work. My...
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    IRON Money!

    My uncle had been saving scrap copper from his plumbing jobs for this purpose. Someone broke into his garage and stole the $700 worth of copper he had stashed away.
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    hobobrando- my foraging adventures.

    01. Name? Brandon 02. Gender? Male 03. Disneyworld or Disneyland? Disneyworld 04. What is your favorite color? Blue 05. What is your favorite kind of gum? Wintergreen 06. How much do you weigh? 130 07. How tall are you? 5' 6" 08. Can you swim? yes 09. Do you like to swim? yes 10. Living...
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    THE SQUIRREL CHALLENGE: Want to join?

    You can count me in on this one. I was planning on making wasted understair space into a pantry anyway. SKR8PN blew all my hopes of winning this out of the water but theres still 2nd place.
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    Bee~ Journal of then...

    That was funny. The other day in my math class a kid sneezed and then another one farted right after and the teacher said "bless you" and then she couldnt figure out why everyone was laughing :P .
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    Styrofoam containers

    No kids here I'm 15 :)
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