Posted on 01/28/2012 9:02:34 PM PST by Kartographer
???? Don’t ya have to “plug in” a pellet stove .......??
I have come to love Texas. Two years ago we spent a month wandering around the state. We will return in may for another extended visit on our way west on the Butterfield Overland Mail Trail
I read extensively of the founding of the Texas Republic and visited sites in Laredo, San Antonio, Goliad and San Jacinto.
We get a lot of input here on our founding fathers and 1776 but today, an equal and perhaps even better model is the ad hoc and diverse consortium that wrested Texas away from Santa Anna.
I have a good grinder. I buy wheat, both hard red and hard white once a year. We get about 45 lbs. sealed in a 6 gallon bucket. A bucket lasts about 6 months for hard white and a year for hard red. We buy 4 buckets white and 2 red.
You are correct about the taste and the texture. It almost tastes like it’s good for you.
Yeah, seems senseless to me, but my assumption is he either has a alternate power source, is thinking short term SHTF or not thinking at all.
I said Mad....Mad at someone is more like when the cat throws up a hairball on a just vaccuumed rug, not like the cat is my enemy.
My wife and I watched the first season of 'Survivors' on BBC and will not watch any further.
Only one of the people in that little band was smart enough to do what was needed to survive and after 2 episodes even he gave in and went along with the rest of the group. A group that has no direction, plan or skills to survive. It's existence by committee. Feh.
For my money, the script writing is far too infested with the typical UK socialist mindset. I find it distasteful and not entertaining at all.
During my visit to the Philippines last December I stayed in Manila the first day, very noisy and chaotic, I would not want to live there either.
Most of my time there I stayed in the barangay of Balabag, which is outside the city of Iloilo. It’s a rural area, lot of rice and chicken farms there. Every morning you can hear roosters everywhere, seems almost every residence there has them.
In Prepper circles, when we speak of when the SHTF or TEOTWAWKI, those you speak of are called "Zombies".
Great show. WIsh it would have lasted more than 2 seasons though.
How many today would even be willing to put down the snack bowl, turn off the Superbowl and take a tour at guard duty on the road into their subdivision or town?
Of course there will be a few more volunteers after the first drive-through hordes of MS-13 and Holder's MoFos tear things up and take what they want.
I don't know about all that zombie talk. I guess in the cities they can't live a subsistence lifestyle like out here.
WE have all kinds of local dependent on govt checks, but everybody lives off what the land & river provides too. So I figure those people be eating salmon 24/7 if it gets bad. Heck the Indians do and don't even realize there's anything wrong with it, ha ha.
Ya know out here people don't play the end of the world game, they have lived that lifestyle for decades out of necessity. Our nearest Sams is 500 miles away. Cost prohibits flying everything in, so people have always had big gardens and lived off moose & caribou & salmon. Most everybody has 3-4 years of basic supplies and the ability to make do with what is out here. Nothing wrong with rendering bear fat down, no joke.
I’m a yankee living in Texas now. Met my wife when we were both in the military. I followed her back to Texas 25 years ago.
We’re a little late on the prepping bandwagon. We’ve had a good stocked pantry for years but just now started expanding into a year or mores worth. Most of our prepping is canned goods(veggies, meat and fish), bagged rice, and beans. I ‘d love to be able to buy a years worth of MRE’s then just keep the pantry as usual. My organizational skills are minimal and hard to keep food from spoiling.
We have maybe a thrid acre garden and can some. Green beans, cukes and squash. New potatoes and tomatoes are the favorite but get eaten before the canning part. We live on 11 acres, have 5 cows, 15 chickens and a pet pig. 1 cow is going to the butcher next month, the chickens are for eggs, and the pig is for emergency use only.
I’ve started adding other supplies to the prep room so always looking for prepper lists and ideas. Thanks
That's why we're preppers.
I find it hard to beat a good hard white wheat. It makes a much lighter loaf of bread both in color AND texture.
I thought that prepper show was on NatGeo.
Imagine if that fellow with the double barreled shotgun tried to be a strong man in the US where everyone has an AR-15 with a couple of 30 round capacity clips. I am on show five of the first season but with most entertainment I forgive the writers for their biases.
There was an hour show on NatGeo a few months ago that featured 3-4 families but this is a new series that is starting in a few weeks. I've only seen the commercial once so didn't realize it was prepping until too late to focus in on the where and when.
Electric or handcranked? My wife wants to get one, but I'm torn on the efficency vs. dependence on electricity issue.
A funny thing happened on the way to lunch. I was being lazy today so decided to use a can of chicken for a salad. Took the can out of the pantry. Sat it down. Walked away. Came back and looked at it. Sat it down. Walked away. Came back and pondered on the 2014 expiration date. Walked away. Came back, sighed. Walked away. Came back, took a deep breath, put it back in the pantry and went out to the freezer to dig around for a small package of chicken. Came back in with 3 raw thighs. Boiled them and chopped them up for salad. Just couldn’t make myself open something with a 2014 date when a freezer package would expire sooner.
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