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’m such a nerd, LOL!
if one recipe makes 5 - 6” rolls, then the area is 45pi. So with my 4” diameter pans, it would make 11 rolls.
Ok, I’ll use that, assuming the depth will be about the same. Not sure I have that many pans...
LOVE the blog on making bacon, BTW. And I must’ve come across his site back when, because I canned my bacon the exact same way.
Gosh, I dunno. They will rise a bit so eye ball it. 4” maybe makes 8?
After seeing your pic, I realized I have 2 baby cast iron skillets. Just measured and they are 6” each!
I can’t believe that’s all I have that is 6”. Everything I find is 4”, I seem to be stuck in a rut, LOL!
I’ll try it and see, can’t wait! I went and bought stuff for the sandwiches, to try the recipe for the whole thing as written. yum!
I had an odd thought today and was wondering if you’ve ever experienced the same
- since I’m not into sprucing up, I attributed the reserved expression of a checker at a little local grocery store to my attire. Perhaps she thought I was a welfare-type? This is the first time I have thought this since moving to East Tennessee, since people here are not nearly as materialistic as they were in California. Most people here dress in their ‘gardening clothes’, or whatever they might call them.
However, it was common to see people all dressed up shopping in CA. You could sort-of tell the food stamp users, although I probably fit in with that group with how I looked.
It bothered me there, never bothered me here until today. I think she was just grumpy and/or shouldn’t be working with the public. I paid with cash, but did make her wait because I wanted to get rid of all my change - my purse was getting really heavy. She probably thought I was counting my pennies to afford the bread and lettuce I bought, LOL!
IMHO I have earned the right to dress down as I wish, and so have you, comfort is of utmost importance to me now.
Let the youth think and feel however they want, no RESPECT is taught anymore.
I might have said, if I was grumpy, what you staring at or what’s your problem?
Not nice I know but don’t live in the south so Bless your heart would be lost out here.
She was probably just ticked she was having to work and not be in the break room with her nose in her phone.
After going to the Walmart to shop for many months, I stopped back into our local grocery store recently. Everyone looked like trash. Well, the locals are trash but it seemed worse. Oh, well, they were probably thinking the same of me.
In a shtf, I’d rather have people in their work/gardening clothes around than those who are more worried their manicurist closed shop.
“Not nice I know but don’t live in the south so Bless your heart would be lost out here.”
lol, That is said a lot here. I thought it was just a stereotype, but it certainly isn’t!
I took the other road, and was exceptionally nice to her. I apologize for holding her up and the gentleman behind me. And I thanked her for the extra bag and said have a great day. I figured I might look trashy but I didn’t have to act it :-). Heck, I took a shower, my hair was combed, everything was clean - I wasn’t even wearing my dirty gardening clothes! I don’t think anything had a hole in it either. Heck, for me I looked pretty good!
Couldn’t agree more.
People being as they really are or people putting on airs, let me see.....
So true! I know I’ll be able to count on my neighbors, they are down to earth people, and know a lot about gardening and the old ways.
Now my neighbors in California, they will just be sitting at the curbs waiting for the FEMA trucks.
speaking of manicuring, I had some friends in California that just kept trying to push me to go with them for a manicure or pedicure. I told them my claim to fame is I have never had either of those. I can’t imagine making anyone touch my feet! That would just be so rude. And the dirt under my fingernails, well, that happens when you pull out weeds! It’s hard to get it all out. LOL! A manicure would be ruined in a day, a waste of money and time. I actually love the smell and feel of dirt. There’s just something so life affirming and… Well earthy… I can’t think of another word - About it.
CB don’t even worry about this young lady or maybe pray that she will have a better day today and learn some respect.i
Hard to say what a young person today is dealing with in their lives.
We certainly can’t take for granted that she has a loving family somewhere.
So glad you and your hubby escaped CA.
Waiting for the BIG ONE where it all slides into the ocean, Yuma will be selling ocean front property.
Wish all my family that still live there could move.
I’m glad I escaped also. I keep trying to get my son to move here, but all he sees is that wages are higher there. But so is the cost of living! I have a little granddaughter, but my daughter-in-law is still tied to her mothers apron strings. I don’t think they will ever get to leave. She has two older brothers, well into their 30s, that still live at home. So she probably feels successful that she at least lives under her own roof! (That my son provides)
Everyone looked like trash. Well, the locals are trash ...
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This phrase reminds of the novel Peyton Place:-)
You mentioned in earlier post you live in Texas. If you don’t mind my asking, where in Tx? If you prefer not to answer, understand. We live north of Dallas between Denton and McKinney.
CB, wouldn’t allow such to bother me. Might be experiencing a really bad day; that and the fact most working with the public are not fully trained to do so.
If “Bless your heart” is not understood in your neck of the woods,there are other words which could be spoken to assist her in seeing from your point of view.
Read earlier today that Sarah was showering that Wolf creature with kindness and ?praise? I’m thinking she made her point known in handling her situation in this manner.
LOL When you feel this repeated, you might make a comment about her education in working with the public in retail sales. LOL asking if it was an easy class or did she find it to be too difficult for her to grasp. Perhaps asking if it was a correspondence course and she ran out of stamps.
We females have the ability to purr sweetly or show our sharp claws - and actually use them from time to time.
OK, I’m almost ready to bake the rolls! Even though I sprayed the tops with nonstick spray, the dough was so wet that the plastic wrap stuck. I had to peel it off but it probably deflated the dough quite a bit. How do you deal with that? Perhaps in your Pyrex containers the plastic wrap doesn’t touch? I have some little baby cheesecake springform pan’s that were like that, but I only had three.
I can’t believe how much they rose!
I hope hubby is OK with sandwiches for dinner. I didn’t even ask him. And he brought home Jimmy John sandwiches last night, on his way home from being on travel for several days. Oh well, we can always have them for lunch tomorrow. But they seemed too fancy for lunch.
I’ll add your son and DIL to my prayer list, let’s pray he sees the light and gets out of ground zero. Things are not getting any better but only worse in CA.
Thank you LG. It seems that once we left the Sacramento legislature redoubled their efforts to imprison the people. It has just been crazy the laws that have been passed there.
It is scary indeed. Do you have a lot of family there?
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