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
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corrosion, or bending around the edges, the easy thing to do, look at a new ring, and an older ring, if the only difference is the color (because of use and age) then it’s good to go with. Hope that helps
I put my beans and spices in jars and freeze them and just keep them there.
They’ll come out if the the grid ever comes down.
How long to you heat them in the oven and what temp to drive off the moisture?
I sure appreciate your alerting us to the value of prepper situations around the world as they come up.
I find it amusing that some poeple are so anti-prepper and yet less than a hundred years ago, if people weren’t prepped for bad weather or whatever, they were considered fools.
It was a lifestyle for most of human history because they knew that their survival depended on themselves only.
We had an old phone pole we cut into chunks and made kindling out of.
BEST. KINDLING. EVER.
into another valiant but futile attempt to download every recipe off the Internet, though.
I am just laughing and laughing.
Thank you.
Add me please...
“So I basically look to make sure that the rubber isn’t cracked or dried out?”
Yep. That’s about it.
Best,
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Please add me to your list.
Thank you for the invite, please sign me up.
I’m in. Please add me to your Ping list.
Thanks.
done!
you’re in!
got it!
got it - and thank you for your service!
ok thanks!
So a color change isn’t necessarily a bad thing then?
I’ve been contemplating putting them in mylar or food saver bags.
Hi Dolly! I’ve missed you as well.
Well, maybe we can make your off-the-grid lifestyle seem more appealing to you, since we are striving for what you have perfected.
I’m sure you’ll have a wealth of information to share.
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