Posted on 06/29/2018 6:57:26 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Thanks for the reply...
I don’t have that many cans for sure. However- I use that little stove more often than any other to make coffee and heat soup when the electricity goes out. Just set it right down in the middle of the stove - they are great.
My long term is the rocket stove, since we have plenty of twigs, branches, and trees around. I also have a solar oven which I haven’t tried out yet. I’ve had it for more than a year - it’s the one that you found for me a while back.
If push comes to shove, I can take the rocket stove out to the green house and open the door and vent as well as a fan to avoid noxious buildup.
I have used the rocket stove and it only takes a handful of stuff that dropped from trees to cook the whole dinner and a coffee. Very hot and very fast.
Did you see the pics of the greenhouse on this thread? I really enjoyed the sunny days last winter-felt like summer in the greenhouse. LOL
Hope you are feeling better. Drop by more often - we’ve missed you, and homesteading/prepper subjects are just as welcome as garden stuff.
Such a great use of available space! Thanks again for sharing pics.
I forgot to add that the sterno type stove is so great that I gave one to my adult kids and grandkids for Christmas, as well as the nifty coffee maker that you bought for Johnny, and a few other “prepper” type items including some fuel for the stove and instructions for making a burner out of tuna cans and alcohol. LOL
Thanks. I’m battling with the junk shed syndrome right now - Hubby and I are both really bad about saving stuff that might come in handy for something.
He also throws the tools and stuff in the greenhouse to avoid going up to the garage and putting it away. I have ordered a couple of lean to style prefab sheds designed to go along the wall of a house to alleviate this problem.
That means a corner of the greenhouse with the table and chairs for coffee in the winter on sunny days, and the rest of starting plants and stuff-minus junk!!! LOL
Ordering a few books on designs of backyard porches and sunspaces for the additional room at the top patio - it will be approximately 14 x 26 ft. with nearly floor to ceiling height windows and some skylights.
Should be able to grow plants all around the perimeter. Planning on a wood stove, strong vent fan for heat exhaust as well as shades for the windows to reduce buildup in summer and a window air conditioner.
Sounds like a fantastic plan! :)
We’ll do the planning and then estimate to see if we can actually afford the building. Hubby also wants to build a garage size outdoor storage shed so that we can actually use the garage for cars. LOL So we’ll have to do a lot of planning and negotiating. HaHa.
I’m in the same boat! We are keeping the footprint of our barn, pouring a safer foundation, then building a kit on top so it’ll still look like a barn, but will be metal.
I can barely make it through the underground 2-car garage it’s so full of Beau’s GUY JUNK.
Promises, promises, LOL! I’ll just keep my areas clutter free and call it a day. Living with a FARMER can be difficult, but you can only do what you can do. I’ll never change him. Why try? ;)
Hubby is not really a farmer, but pack rat would be a good description. LOL
Thanks tubebender. The passion flowers are blooming all over and the bumble bees are buzzing all around. The picture colors from my cell phone really don’t do justice to the beautiful flowers.
The other picture is of some of the garlic that I’ve been growing for several years-always keep some back to plant each year, and trying to have a few more to plant each year.
Thanks again for posting all these. It’s been weird trying to figure out the cell phone and sending to email in order to get these to you. Still not sure why some of the pics make it through and other’s don’t LOL.
I’m 99% sure it is rats. I also discovered evidence of their penetration into my screened porch.
I’ve thought about water and smoke bombs and might try that tomorrow. I’m also thinking of filling their holes with cayenne pepper. I plan to dust my tomato plants with cayenne pepper too.
Good Luck!
“as well as the nifty coffee maker that you bought for Johnny”
He used that coffee maker every day - it was the only one he used after he got it. I have several, so simple for a cup of coffee. Since I have power, I use an electric one cup Hamilton Beach, cost $20+.
This coming Monday,orthopedic pain doctor will put me to sleep and put shots of steroids in my neck and shoulders. The cartilage between my neck bones has collapsed and narrowed the space for nerves to go through so there is pressure on the nerves that go through my shoulders down to my wrists. There is also some arthritic crap in my shoulders but the main pain is from the pressure on the nerves.
The pain is severe when I wake up and I can’t put on clothes or comb my hair or brush my teeth. I take a significant pain pill as soon as I get something in my stomach and about an hour later I can use arms a little bit. Doc said it may take three times for shots in neck to open up that space so nerves are not pressed. This has been getting worse for two months so it has to be fixed.
I have been wearing my pajamas all day because it hurts to move arms out of clothes and into other clothes. So that is the good part, wearing comfortable PJs all day. :o)
God Bless and Good Luck Marcella...
Praying for you Marcella. I know a little about the pain from nerve pressure-due to the sciatica. I’ve been a little lazy lately about doing my exercises, but I always sit on my pillow with cut out for the tail bone. I also use a firm pillow behind my back to help out.
Anti inflammation shots was what my doc was going to do. However, as we discussed it, I became concerned about the very possible adverse reaction. So he gave me some heavy duty anti inflammatory pills and pain pills. The anti inflammatory zapping that the chiropractor did was good too.
I sure hope that these treatments help-I know it’s got to be worse than I can imagine for you. I just feel lucky to be over the sciatica. Also lucky that they were able to get my c1 and c2 vertebra back in alignment.
What variety of corn is that?
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