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Well, I'm still alive, Allstate is finally going to pay my claim, and I am buried in un-done paperwork but making good progress. So much for self sufficiency. There are still bills I have to pay, so I have to work... Wormed the hens on Dec 29, tossing their eggs out for the next couple of weeks...

Good that you are doing well, good for you on quitting drinking. One day at a time. Gypsi

I have never had a cantaloupe quite like that since I quit planting cucumbers. I am aware that it should NOT affect this year's fruit, but my grand-dad told me not to plant them close together, and I had a small garden 20 years later, and I did, and I got some really weird fruit on my vines. I...

My dogs killed my spearmint, favorite leg-lifting location. The drought and choking bermuda grass probably helped out.

The only things my cucumbers ever crossed with were cantaloupes, you might be able to put them right next to zucchini. Those 2 plants (cantaloupe and cucumber) are just too close together genetically. I'm not sure about pumpkins - I always plant them at mid-summer or after for a halloween...

Mint doesn't die willingly - and don't grow similar mints next to each other, their roots touch and their taste changes. Oregano is a mint btw, I have enough to keep a lot of italians going. Made oregano olive oil to cook with (not the essential oil, I do not have THAT much or the right...

I started with an aquarium service on the side, after my day job, in 1997, because I pretty much got drafted. I still service a few aquariums, but fewer every year. And with the new copper/formalin resistant ich in freshwater, and enteric septicemia, I decline most new accounts now. Depends on...

I beat one back without getting sick a couple of weeks ago. took Stresstabs with Zinc a couple of times that day, (my stash - they are discontinued now), and gargled with a 50/50 mix of warm saltwater and peroxide. Slept with a heating pad on low behind my neck and shoulders. Didn't get all...

They're still growing feathers back in, I'm just makin sure they have food. (and my g key is intermittently not working, so I've got quite the Texas Twang on here today.) It is not that critical that they lay, I would rather they had a good rest and were healthy and ready to lay in their time...

All my feed store had when I got my first chicks were barred rocks and production reds. The barred rocks really suffered from the heat, although I have one surviving trooper that made it through. I was dunking chickens in the dog water to cool them off this summer if they looked...

Well, I mainly need breeds good in hot weather. After last winter, I built a place to move the chickens if it gets really cold again. Because I am NOT going to try to keep them in water when it is below freezing again. I'll build a tin can water heater and get them a 2 gallon bucket of water, or...

My production reds laid an egg a day for the first year and 4 months that I had them. This summer's heat was extraordinary - about 70 days over 100, and laying slowed down, then they started to molt this fall. Because I have 4 birds, they have molted in a chain - I have one laying at a time it...

Well the Americaunas will grow up, should start laying around March 1st I'm guessing. But I didn't know last year that I needed a 2nd shift, so I didn't get more chicks. I also need a 2nd coop and run, which I was going to build until my truck got wrecked.

OMG, I am so old. They have invented all of these pricey little html editors, and my daughter's friend was going to help me work on my page, and he can't understand what he's reading in the code, and asks me what tool I am using. And I am using Wordpad. I actually LEARNED html back in 1996...

Right now I've got a little swiss chard in, broccoli, romaine lettuce, and onions. I want to plant more swiss chard so I'll have plenty of greens to blanch and freeze, but it's cold out and I have to do the computer work some time. I have 1/12th of an acre dedicated to gardening - that's 1/4 of...

Water is also necessary to composting, if the pile is dry, nothing happens. I just pile mine, all wet and mucky, and give it a year. It gets there eventually. When the pile is too tall I start a new one. I break down compost piles in the spring, and start new ones at the same time.

Well, 4 weeks and 1 day later, 2 days until Allstate has to reply to my complaint filed with the State Board of Insurance, and I'm still here, muscles are mending, catching up on my website overhaul and bookkeeping, waiting for the cold weather to pass. New self sufficient stuff consists of...

I won't be recycling the wire - I'm re-wiring my house, just found extra stuff to do it with. If I ever get time to add the circuits I need, I've got most of the materials, most bought at 2007 prices, some squirreled away from things I took apart... I've been a packrat on metals for years...

Well my astrology is making a lot more progress than my self-sufficiency. Although I got a MUCH lower water bill this month, and I am actually looking forward to my electric bill. An all electric house, I don't expect it to be over $70 or $80. The truck trauma continues. I bled money the week...

Anyone doing astrology - it would be a good idea to keep an eye on Black Moon Lilith. It was exactly conjunct my Mercury at the time of my accident.... in addition to the rest of the mess. Still fighting Allstate. There are a LOT of Knight Truckings, and it looks like the one Allstate found was...