Posted on 02/26/2018 12:12:20 PM PST by CottonBall
I’ve been missing the vast amount of information on prepping, survival, camping, simple cooking, the old ways of doing just about everything – all the things nw_arizona_granny knew so much about and shared with us, along with numerous other posters with a vast array of skills and knowledge.
We have our various related-threads here, a recipe thread, a gardening thread, and even a prepper thread. They are all great and I don’t mean to take anything away from those and the hard work their owners put in.
But I was missing a place to talk about ALL those things, to get the camaraderie that we used to have on granny’s thread.
I learned how to can on those threads! The pressure canner was not my friend, I thought, but I bought one and stared at it for a month, intimidated. Then I read the directions for another month. But with the help and encouragement of posters on granny’s threads, I jumped in and now have my very own food storage room in the basement with lovely jars of shelf-stable meats, vegetables, and fruit. When we moved, I fashioned my food storage room – and insisted upon having a basement – from what I learned on her threads. Getting started gardening was from her threads. Making my own cleaning products….the list is endless.
So I thought I would take the chance and start another comprehensive prepper thread and see how it goes. I used to have granny’s ping list since I made one of the threads for her, but alas, with numerous computer changes, I cannot find it. So please pass this onto any posters you think might be interested.
We’ll just keep it running until..whenever. Granny created a new thread at 10,000 posts or so. I do like the idea of having ONE thread to go to – because often I cannot find or keep track of the weekly threads. I won’t be posting lots of recipes or tidbits myself – to any mods concerned about the size of this thread. I’d just like a place to chat, post questions, post ideas, make new prepping friends.
Here are granny’s threads, if anyone wants to peruse them:
nw_arizona_granny’s Thread #1
I wonder if Captain Trimmer is still alive. The first edition of the book appears to have come out in the early 1980s - at least, I found an ad for the book in a 1983 issue of ‘Yachting’.
How did you ever find this book and its reviews on Amazon?
So, it’s a serious boating book?
I probably found it a few years ago, while reading an article about funny Amazon reviews.
Yes! Captain Trimmer was a Master Mariner and a harbor pilot. The book was sincere; apparently the Captain had seen many pleasure-boaters doing stupid things out there and failing to understand the physics involved in encounters with Huge Ships:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Avoid_Huge_Ships
Then I really hope he hasn’t read the reviews. People making light of something he find serious could be insulting. Either that or I hope he has a fantastic sense of humor.
If he’s still around, he probably gets a kick out of it.
I think he’d be quite old, though.
A few years ago, there was a ‘tweeter’ claiming to be him, tangling with another tweeter called @AHugeShip:
https://twitter.com/johnwtrimmer?lang=en
I had no idea this book was so famous, LOL! I”ve been missing out. Thanks for introducing it to me.
I especially like the reviews where people couldn’t find huge ships after reading the book - the lady whose vacation was ruined because she didn’t see her cruise ship or the naval pilot whose career was ruined because he couldn’t land on the aircraft carrier.
I might have to read “Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers” next, LOL!
It’s funny stuff. (I really don’t have too much time on my hands...I just spend it badly ;-)
That sounds like a sort of philatelic work; probably not as exciting ;-)
“I really don’t have too much time on my hands...I just spend it badly ;-)”
LOL, I was doing really well at being productive, getting my downstairs kitchen painted and all sorts of other chores wrapped up. And THEN someone introduced me these Amazon reviews and I am addicted! Just one more, I’ll just read one more,....next thing I know, hours have gone by.
This is your ping to the All Things Prepping, Simple Living, Back to the Basics Thread
This is an ONGOING thread, meaning drop in when you want and chat. There is no one topic or story, but ongoing sharing with prepper friends.
If you want off/on this list, just let me know.
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I have a question for everyone regarding storing plastic.
Is it better kept at a cool temperature or a warm temperature? As in basement temps (65ish) or house temps (anywhere from 66 to 83 during the year).
I’m storing an odd thing, kinda embarrassed to say what I have done....I’ve put things in a mason jar with oxygen absorbers, but don’t know where to store it now. It’s the plastic part of the thing that I figured might degrade first, while the metal part might be ok because I’ve eliminated the rust issue.
I use canning jars.
The downside is that glass breaks.
The upside is that nothing gets through it.
Definitely in the cool place.
TY!
Yup, I have them in mason jars with an oxygen absorber inside. But now I don’t know whether the jar should stay downstairs in the basement or upstairs in the house.
My instinct is to keep it away from heat. Not freezing. Basement seems right to me.
OK great thank you that is what I will do. I didn’t know if plastic had issues from being cool. But it won’t be cold, nor freezing.
“Care of Objects Made from Rubber and Plastic”
I just thought of something, I’m wondering how those reviews made it past the moderating process.
I was annoyed with something political years ago with Amazon, I can’t remember exactly what right now. The CEO came out for something liberal most likely.
I was reviewing something that you could actually get cheaper on the company’s website because they had a coupon. I put that in my review stating that Since Amazon saw fitto alienate half its customers, that I would show people there was a cheaper alternative.
It was rejected :-)
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