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Surviving Winter in the Middle Ages
YouTube ^ | December 16, 2022 | MedievalMadness

Posted on 12/25/2022 12:52:25 AM PST by SunkenCiv

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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Not that I would want to actually “live” with my animals, but there’s nothing quite like going to the barn in the morning and seeing the horses’ heads over the stall doors, white frosty air coming out of their nostrils and hearing their “good morning” nickers. The smell of hay, horse feed, the horses themselves and yes, even the manure .... nothing quite like it and I mean that in a good way. I miss it. :-)


41 posted on 12/25/2022 7:42:16 AM PST by Qiviut (I'm not out of control, I'm just not in their control. $hot $hills: Sod Off)
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To: riverrunner

The city dwellers will be the first to die from severe cold and no power. There are no alternatives to heating without electricity. The dumbass leftists have eliminated fires, bbqs, or any other type of fossil fuel burning.


42 posted on 12/25/2022 7:44:35 AM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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To: SunkenCiv

So basically, the Early Bird get the worm, but the SECOND mouse gets the cheese? *SMIRK* :)


43 posted on 12/25/2022 7:44:59 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Qiviut
We just have 'Chuck' in the barn right now, and I know exactly what you mean. :)


44 posted on 12/25/2022 7:46:47 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: SunkenCiv

Merry Christmas.

I woke up this morning and it was 34 degrees with a NE wind of 15 mph.

Somebody in FL forgot to turn off the air conditioner.

5.56mm


45 posted on 12/25/2022 7:47:16 AM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Merry Christmas to you & yours as well.

I’m jealous .... wish I had a Chuck in my barn!! My brother did send me an Omaha Steaks gift box, which I am enjoying. I think that’s his way of telling me no more venison will be coming my way this year ... but I’m ok with Omaha! :-)


46 posted on 12/25/2022 7:54:33 AM PST by Qiviut (I'm not out of control, I'm just not in their control. $hot $hills: Sod Off)
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To: Alberta's Child
Excellent point. I have read the same thing.

When you live on the edge, life is exhilarating. I have been fortunate to have lived through a bunch of "exhilarating" experiences.

That's why I love that movie, "The Edge" with Anthony Hopkins. After you've been through something like that (or a bombing in London), you're not the same person.

It's liberating.

47 posted on 12/25/2022 7:56:53 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Heh heh... it happens. Works both ways too, do a little genealogy and the further back, the more one finds that most kids grew up with, at most, one of their natural parents. And, now I get a lump of coal. ;^) It’s cold, and was part of my plan.


48 posted on 12/25/2022 8:22:33 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Vaduz

That explains all the old flea collars in the Halls of Shamballah.


49 posted on 12/25/2022 8:23:18 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Yep heat is heat any way you can get it I guess.


50 posted on 12/25/2022 8:52:29 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: SunkenCiv

“Hard times create strong men,

strong men create good times,

good times create weak men,

and weak men create hard times.”


51 posted on 12/25/2022 8:56:29 AM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: SunkenCiv

That’s so interesting!


52 posted on 12/25/2022 11:14:23 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: MayflowerMadam

Thanks!


53 posted on 12/25/2022 11:37:02 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: riverrunner

That is what candles are for too, if I lost power I still got a gas stove to light with matches. The young today could not handle anything bad today


54 posted on 12/25/2022 11:41:20 AM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: M Kehoe; Vaduz; Ronaldus Magnus III

:^) I feel like picking up some fast food, but I don’t want to clean off the car.


55 posted on 12/25/2022 12:06:37 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Call Uber eats have it delivered!!


56 posted on 12/25/2022 12:07:41 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Yeah, I’d try that, but the Uber eats guy is Amish, and he won’t take the horses out in this weather.

Oh, and he still uses a Blackberry.

Not the phone, an actual Blackberry.

I have gotten a lot of mileage out of that stolen joke, btw. ;^)


57 posted on 12/25/2022 12:32:05 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: RoosterRedux
And imagine what it felt like to curl up--skin against skin-- with your mate under those furs near that big fire after a long day of hunting and all the hard chores that life required...belly full for once from a great meal.

Just think of the satisfaction of having been victorious over the harsh elements of nature for one more day.

A now for a good night's sleep...and a little baby-making.;-)

In a one room hut filled with 3 or 4 generations of smelly, cranky, exhausted people in sub-zero temperatures.

58 posted on 12/25/2022 1:11:23 PM PST by Sparticus (Primary the Tuesday group!)
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To: Sparticus
Heheh.

And all those happy, smelly people would say the same thing about you then as they would now, "There's always one complainer in every group."

And you would probably be sleeping over in the corner all alone.;-)

59 posted on 12/25/2022 1:19:38 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: SunkenCiv

I had to turn on the a/c on Sunday here in southern California. It was 80 degrees : )


60 posted on 12/25/2022 10:47:52 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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