Medicine Woman
Almost Self-Reliant
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I am well into my 2nd journal with the same title so by now everyone knows I am rather boring 🤷♀️ Same ole stuff...different day. 😂
I get it, I think...kinda!
What happened to 40???? Does no one love 40???? Humph!1. What state/province/country are you in and what is your climate like? WV, Mountains, four seasons, some extreme temps.
2. How many people are in your family? Marital status? A. Right now? Me. I also have three grown sons. B. And ruin a good thing????
3. How would you define self sufficiency? As a fallacy ...but I get yer meanin'. I always felt it was being as versatile, solvent and independent in your life as possible.
4. What would you do with your spare time if you had any resources you needed? What is this spare time of which you speak??? I would help those who need it most...the defenseless and persecuted women and children of this world
5. Have you ever built a house , or other types of building? Yep...assisted with the building of four log cabins in which we consequently lived.
6. Can you weld? Steel, aluminum, MiG, TiG, stick, Oxy-Acet? Can you embroider?
7. Who or what inspired you to become more self sufficient? My grandma, my mother, my dad....my poverty.
8 Cloth or paper? Eh?? Whatever does the job....
9. In what ways are you self sufficient now and in what ways would you like to learn more? Too tired to list them, too many to list and I always leave room for learning.
10. In what way(s) will you never choose to become self sufficient? I think I like my toilet paper..I could do without and have but I really, really like it.
11. Are you interested in stocking up for future needs? Do I can? Yes. Do I stock up for some fan event involving excrement? Not on your life.
12. Where do you end up when you sink into yourself, away from the outside world? Heaven.
13. Can you drive a farm tractor or a semi? Can you catheterize a 500 lb woman? Yeah, I can drive a tractor...
14. Do you make crafts or useful items? Yes. Would you want to teach others how to do these? Yes.
15. Can you have legally livestock where you are at? Do you have any? What kinds? Yes. I gave them all away. I had 30 chickens, three sheep, used to have a milch cow and calf(s).
16. Can you operate a lathe? Metal, wood? Can you operate a sewing machine? Serger? Heck, no, I can't...who devised these questions, some guy???
17. Do you like to garden? If so, what do you enjoy growing? Yes. As much food as possible.
18. Do you fish? Bait or explosives? Yes.Explosive baits.
19. How much space/land do you have or rent? City? Country? One green little acre, rental, we pipe in the sunlight.
20. Are you a Novice, Technician, General, Advanced? ARRL? No hablo englis? In WHAT, exactly???
21. What is your self sufficient specialty? I can do it all, baby. Or what one would you like to learn? Anything I can. That process never ends.
22. If you could create a degree and curriculum, what would you major in and what classes would you take? Beach bumming with a PHd in being lazy with a good book.
23. Do you do wood work? framing, finish, cabinet? Yep...I cut it down, stack it up, carry it in and light it up.
24. Are you interested in herbal medicine? Only when I feel sick...
25. If you could live any place you chose, where would it be? Heaven. Is that one of the choices? No? Well, I guess I'd be a citizen of the world...mountains, beaches, desserts and plains. I'd want to live in all those places at any given time.
26. Do you use a wood stove for heating or cooking? Yes and in the past.
27. What would your ideal super hero/villain be? Eh? I loved The Brain, from Pinky and the Brain. He was a villian that was my hero!
28. Are your family or friends also interested in self sufficiency? My mother...but no one else. Isn't that incredibly sad?
29. Do you like to cook? Are you interested in whole foods and natural foods? raw milk? farm fresh eggs? No. Yes. Yes. Yes.
30. What was your MOS? What was yer WNL?
31. Do you forage or hunt for part of your food needs? WV, remember?
32. What skills do you have that help you be more self sufficient? My ability to learn and apply theory to practice.
33. In which fictional universe would you most like to live? I thought I was there already..... :/ How did you guys get in here????
34. Do you have solar panels? Plans to use solar energy? We already pipe in the sunlight...now ya wanna have us convert it too?
35 What is the mass/weight ratio of a European swallow carrying a coconut from the tropics to England? Approx. 17 grams, depending on the ripeness of the coconut.
36. Have you ever lived completely off grid? Would you like to? Yep(9 years+) and yep.
37. In what do you trust? God only.
38. Do you make things yourself to save money? Yes. I'm currently learning how to mint money so as to cut out the middle process.
39. Has trying to be more self-sufficient changed your attitude or habits about money/spending?Yeah...now that living this way allows me to have some to spend, I no longer see the necessity. Bitter irony.