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
Winter stormy and other cold rainy days: a bunch of blankets, all the dining room chairs, all the upholstered pillows and the sofa and love seat. Tunnels, caves and homes to be made and an afternoon of play and imagination.
Can’t say we ever did that. Closest thing would be: After seeing a Knights of the Round Table Movie with fighting on a cliff overlooking a pool of quicksand, we did reenact the scene moving round the room standing atop any piece of furniture we might find handy. To be on the floor would be
‘death’ in the pool of quicksand. (of course, PARENTS never knew just what mischief we kids might be generating)
A favorite pastime would be playing house under a huge, old tree. Though there was never a ‘play’ kitchen, with improvisation, a make-do kitchen was created which endowed us with countless mud pies. Umm good :-)
“Top 20 of Mud Kitchen Ideas for Kids”
https://www.1001gardens.org/2014/07/20-mud-kitchen-ideas/
“Explore Play Ideas, Outdoor Kitchen”
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/58969076343436284/
we were sort of poor but one of our inventions was sliding down a small grassy hill in our backyard on cardboard...just as fun as sledding in the snow except you did it in the summer...
We did that but we didn’t have quicksand, we had alligators and cottonmouths.
I don’t know why, we were all New Englanders.
Yes, fort. Building forts with blankets in the bedroom. Tie them to chair knobs and pile books on top of the blanket. We would sleep inside for the night.
Yes, it was the big thing when someone got a new stove or refrigerator and we would take turns jumping on the empty box and slide down the hills in front of our house. Several on at a time.
Well, what timing on the article! Almost like they were copying us :-)
MFM? I’m almost afraid to ask…!
How awful! Poor little things. That kind of ruins my thinking how magical everything is when they are out.
I was thinking them lighting certainly makes them visible to predators. But I suppose since they’re not out in the daytime, the birds won’t be getting them.
oh, yes, I forgot all about building forts with blankets and sheets, tying them to chairs and stuff. It made a nice little private hideaway, no parents allowed!
I feel bad now throwing away large cardboard boxes. I guess that must be why I always figure there should be a use for them. I guess I could ask some neighborhood kids, but with all their video games and fancy toys, they probably would think I was nuts!
Bats. Plus, they’re out as soon as the sun sets, it doesn’t have to be dark.
Oh, I didn’t think of that. They’re just sitting ducks.
I’ve read that place is that spray for mosquitoes end up wiping out the fire fly population. I was really surprised we have no mosquitoes here, I fully expected to have them. Especially with our pond. But luckily no mosquitoes and the fireflies are still abundant.
LOL - don’t ask. Originated on Rush’s show from a caller when Rush thought he had misunderstood what she had said. Since it fits, it’s used LOL
Living in the Bayou must be a dormant dream you have. :-)
I grew up in an area where tanker trucks with sprayers would come through spraying DDT for mosquitoes and we had plenty of lightning bugs or fireflies. If spraying for mosquitoes kills them it’s something they started using after DDT was banned.
Oh, then it means what I thought!
Fire ants. They nest underground like fireflies and push them out. The spread of Southern Fire Ants matches the decline of firefly populations.
Hope you enjoy and perhaps learn something about the good ole' days.
We trust the birds and the dragonflies to get the mosquitos. The fireflies are amazing this year.
Thanks for the ping.
L
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