Posted on 11/22/2007 7:27:08 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Ethanol is a bad joke.
It has 75% of the BTU’s of Gasoline and they charge us the same price for it.
Then there is the matter of tying our energy markets to our agricultural markets.
It’s insane
I’m harshing his Thanksgiving L0L.
He thinks I’m not thankful.
For the record, I am thankful.
I just call a poke in the eye a poke in the eye. L0L
Bivalves are good!!!!
I’m currently paying $20 per 100 for clams, $35 per 1/2 bushel for oysters, $10-11 per pound for scallops (no shells) and I haven’t bought crabs in a while because we were catching our own, so I don’t know the current price.
An oyster casserole would would be awesome for the table today!
Here in central PA, the Boy Scouts have, as usual, worked hard to collect a massive amount of donated food for the local food banks.
Yes, the same Boy Scouts that the PC crowd have been driving away in Philadelphia.
Actually what Pat was suggesting, turning part of my barn into a chicken coop and raising some chickens wouldn’t be all that expensive, it is just not something I wish to get involved in.
Butchering the chickens myself wouldn’t be all that problematic, it’s just not something I want to do.
We do our own butchering when it comes to deer. And I’m looking forward to that in the coming weeks, because those danged things got what little of my crops survived the drought this summer.
slow roasted is good too - over an open fire :)
LOL. Get laying hens, then. Just a tool for turning feed grain into protien (eggs)...
For some reason we didn’t think of oysters, so we don’t have any today.
2 years ago I added some to my stuffing and it was awesome. I gave some to a friend who had never had it before (neither had I) and she was amazed at it.......but what was really funny about that is that I had bought my oysters from her. Her husband is a waterman and we buy much of our fish and seafood from the seafood market they own.
So, as i said earlier, my seafood doesn’t come from China :) LOL!!!!!
Nah - easier to just nail bambi — that I fed all summer.
Need to go check on my bird!!!!
Oyster dressing rocks!
Or to work and stopping having kids they can't afford to support.
And you didn't call me!!??!!
It was in the late 80’s...I think you were underage. ;)
You can free-range chickens and use little feed but here you would lose most of them to hawks, owls, fox, and coyotes.
I have raised some hogs and saved a little on the meat by buying the feed in bulk and doing my own cut/wrap but its not that cheap.
I wind up with 75 -85 cents/ pound in the meat, but its better pork than the store stuff.
My wife and I volunteered at an organization in Oklahoma City when we lived there that gave “assistance” to those in poverty. We quit when we learned that the “clients” were taking whatever they could and selling it. The “charity” did no means testing and many of those in “poverty” saw the handouts as a second source of income.
Absolutely, without a doubt.
Years ago one the gals I worked with had a chicken farm and she used to let us know when the company was coming to pick up the birds. so we would all tell her how many we wanted and for 69cents per bird we had fresh chickens --- the 69cents was what her neighbor charged to slaughter and pluck the birds. It was the best chicken I had ever eaten in my life.
LOL!
Flattery .......... music to my ears!
Happy Thanksgiving my friend!
Tell themom, happy t-day!
May G_D bless us all for another year.
Wow, and I thought my 40 mile a week commute was a bummer. (5 mile one way X 4 day work week) I spent like $20 last payday to fill up my 4X4. Even at $3/gal, no big. Home heating gas is another matter altogether.
Live on a farm and drive to the city to work or something? I am curious.
I have heard of some folk in Kali-foor-nneeeaa who drive 75 miles one way to work at McDonalds - but thought that was limited to the Lompoc/Santa Barbera AO.
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