Posted on 05/24/2008 11:30:31 AM PDT by decimon
Ping to you Quix
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note to self, read later.
I think what she's doing is great and I've been starting to do stuff like that gradually for years now, but geez, a tad unstable aren't we. There's no need to go into such a tailspin over it.
The human race has survived without all that stuff we think is critical for survival til now.
Come to think of it, all those animals survived, too.
Avoid the rush. Panic now!!!
Goat milk rocks.
I have found several sources for goat milk over the years. It started because of food allergies and we got to like the taste so much that we wouldn’t go back. It’s great to have RAW milk that you can actually get some nutrition out of.
"I was panic-stricken," the 50-year-old recalled, her voice shaking. "Devastated. Depressed. Afraid. Vulnerable. Weak. Alone. Just terrible."
I’m going to guess it’s Italian Parsley and a very impressive specimen/s.
"That was before Breault heard an author talk about the bleak future of the world's oil supply. Now, she's preparing for the world as we know it to disappear."
I'm not sure what she read, but it did have profound affect on her, didn't it? I also considered that she was a surburbanite and had probably never stopped to consider her future if everything she had known changed drastically.
Anyway, I appreciate your response and respectfully agree to disagree.
I’m with you. Right now the wife and I are doing the total money makeover (Dave Ramsay) and our goal is to pay everything off and retire to a couple acres in the country. I want to spend my retirement gardening, preserving, cooking, shooting, eating, & drinking.
The last couple years we’ve been growing more and more of our own food. At the very least we’re saving money and eating fresher items. If it also helps us retire sooner then great!
I agree. My husband has had two spinal surgeries for bad discs; in ‘The Olden Days’ I would’ve had to take him out behind the barn and shot him. *WINK*
But, ‘Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman’ could’ve saved him with a mustard plaster and a strong prescription of arsenic and absenthe. :)
Exactly my point. Just like you, I agree with what she is doing and have also been doing so for years, but comeon.......
... but the third little pig’s house was made of bricks, and his children were home schooled in the application of rule 7.62
Simply put, you don’t need a steenkin fire extinguisher or shotgun, because the fire department and cops are only a phone call away (if the phones still work) after any particular disaster; earthquake, flood, insurrection, terrorism, or meteor. Nothing can go wrong, and there’s plenty of fema food to go around. What a herd of worry warts. Trust your government. Pay your taxes. Sheesh.
It’s always best for the herd to prepare after the fact, because that leaves more, at a lower price, for those who think ahead. Simple econ.
just sayin.
Don’t take offense. I was just sayin’...the photos were rather incongruous coupled with the article. Grandma gave up her ‘bad driving habits’ and trips to McDonald’s, but now has all her retirement money tied up in wood, LOL!
We’ve lived like this for the past 15 years; prior to that, I was in the Army. I’ve always done a lot with a little and have lived quite lightly. That’s the part that bugs the HECK outta me. I HATE it when people tell me “how to live.” It makes me want to do just the opposite. To STOP recycling, to become a conspicuous consumer, to stop composting, to throw an old fridge in the creek, etc. ;)
And don’t get me started on goats! I was an Indentured Servant on my Aunt’s farm while growing up. If I NEVER smell a goat, drink goat’s milk or eat Feta cheese again in this lifetime, it’ll be too soon for me. I’d rather shovel out my chicken coop with a teaspoon on a 95 degree day with 100% humidity than smell that goat stank again, LOL!
Husband wants goats. He’s never tended goats. I’m holding out for that expensive, impractical milk cow. :)
I just had a thought...I’m going to start the ‘Midwest Milk Cartel,’ LOL!
$1.99 for me, two-fifty for YOU! :)
Reading books instead of watching the lobotomy box, having wood stove as heat, thinking that cities will not be pleasent places to be when folks start having problems getting fuel is not actually that far off the mainstream of folks on FR.
I’d be perfectly happy with $2.50.
Milk is now cheaper than gas per gallon -— I don’t remember THAT ever being the case before.
**I want a milk cow in the worst way**
Wouldn’t milk cows be great if you could just milk them when you needed milk? I love Gurnseys and I love to milk by hand—just not twice a day/364. It gets old—real quick.
OTOH, have you considered a milk goat? They eat way less and can give almost as much milk as a cow. It’s very rich, and tastes stronger than cow’s milk. Very good for you. Goats are browsers, so maybe they’d clear out your buckthorn prob? LOL
**Goats are a good alternative**
Didn’t mean to repeat what you said—just didn’t read all the way thru first!
Butter and gasoline tend to track price around here, but gasoline is currently winning. :(
Butter was $1.99/lb. last week, too. WHOLE milk is a tad more expensive; over $3 here, but I can’t afford those calories anymore.
My point was that there are forces in the works trying to get middle-class folks out of prime properties with scare tactics like the ocean covering the coastal areas. Or luring hard-working people to otherwise crummy locals so they can take over their homes.
Don't know where you live but gentrification is a real issue in East Coast cities.
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