ReeferMac

Yeah, I'd second that.

Lol @dralarms, beat me to it! I've got a glass one collecting dust!

Its my understanding mead takes quite a bit of honey to make... A quick search turned up a recipe suggesting 2-3lbs of honey per gallon of mead.

I second all of that. We just did the Ocoee, great time, would recommend the Ocoee rafting company, ask for "Crouton". Spent another weekend in/around Helen, GA., more touristy, for sure. Gatlinburg-lite in Helen.

Depending on yout suburban area... maybe a pellet gun? I like the idea of predator urine or other deterrent? Maybe some dog droppings around perimeter? I could donate? My previous home was suburban. No-way I could get away with a .22 outside of "4th of July season"..... Got a friend with a silencer? If there are multiples, your odds of touching one off increases exponentially (ala @Darrell 's story.) You can flip a coin and get heads 3x in a row, but its still 50/50 chance each flip. Maybe throw a few handfulls of Cheeto's under the neighbors bushes! Got any nearby you don't like?

Would re-melting/casting help determine the contents?

It _was_ only the 7th one they made guys. They were still just practicing all that fancy nonsense.

Man, the look on her face....

Agreed. Over millenia. Charts that turn like a hockey stick in 1972 are sure signs of a scam.

I agree with you in sentiment @Swamp ash, but disagree with the conclusion. In any system with lots of inputs, altering any one, will have an impact on the system. I think we are in agreement there? Where I find we disagree, is the connection drawn between human activity and catastrophic collapse of said system (whether that connection is direct and linear, or complex and convoluted). I mean, everyone knows that if a butterfly in Japan flaps its wings just right, there will be a typhoon in California, right? Personally I think of us humans as the ants building mounds in my pasture. Sure, you can argue they are making an impact on their environment (the mound disrupts water flow, other insects, plants, animals, etc.).. but then my Exmark comes by and you realize they're just ants. To think we're actually impacting the galactic history of the 3rd rock from the sun is some hubris. While it may be logically argued current conditions are measured to be different than.... we're looking at a forest with a microscope and trying to draw conclusions about the entire field of botany. We and all of our fossil fuels were here eons ago; asteroids and solar radiation aside, Earth is a pretty closed system. Carbon is sequestered, carbon is released (Photosynthesis/Krebs cycle). If you think giving more of your money to a bunch of bureaucrats is going to change anything about that, you are free to do so. But don't think for one second that gives you the right to preach to me or anyone else about a field of science we as humans don't know dick about. It wasn't but 500 years ago our best and brightest thought the earth was flat and the center of our universe. Today those same minds think they've got something as complicated as global weather patterns figured out (and quote records going back those same 500 years - wonder if they've been adjusted for heliocentricity?)

What to put in depends on what your intended use is? To a certain extent the contents are generic, but fine tuning it depends on what you are figuring on needing it for? Is this a 'get home from work bag'? You work in a city, live 17 miles outside... or whatever? You'll find certain things useful in that situation. Is this a 'bugging out to my secret cabin in the woods' bag? Do you have cache sites along the way, how far are you going, how many people? Back in my life in the great-white-north a lot of folks kept a 24-hour pack in their car, they sold them at stores for 30 bucks, assumed you were stuck in a ditch in the snow until daybreak... emergency blanket, some granola bars and peanut butter, bottled water, hand-warmers, simple med-kit. Saved quite a few lives no doubt.

... and a killer nursery just down the road from Outdoor Junction, too. Just continue round the bend another mile or so!

Good to hear from you Sir, glad you are well!

I've recently gone through a couple career changes (10, 5, and 1 year plans are all shot to hell). I've wondered why for quite a while. While not overly religious, I am somewhat fatalistic. Where I am drawing my paycheck now I think I am at for a reason. I think what is going on in the world right now is larger than any of us individually, but it is the action of individuals that create a movement. There is a movement pushing back against a lot of the changes we are talking about. Choose wisely which side you wish to be on. I don't think there is room on this earth for both. Evidence thus far indicates a binary outcome is desireable by both sides, so thats what they're going to get.

Thanks for sharing the report. So, about these shell extractors.... I did just get my first wheel gun, you have my interest!

Yeah, again, I'm amazed at people.... they're either stupid, ignorant, or willfully forget the fact that the fedgov already has backdoors into everything, can hack whatever else they want (see Snowden, et al), and been repeatedly exposed having run roughshod over the entire world population and US Constitution since pretty much World War II. Oh, but THIS app, this ones safe. .... yep.

Welcome. Beautiful country there. There are a few other places in/around Sevierville besides buds, keep looking!

Good GAWD if people would just realize this.... The world is filled with all kinds of folks. Some good, some bad, some in-between. Some of those folks, will take advantage of any situation they are able to; they will lie, cheat, steal, and stretch the truth to fit whatever it is their little heart desires. The reasons are varied and as unique as the individuals, but to deny the fact that it is the truth isn't just ignorant, its harmful. Since the dawn of time, man has conflated situations to foster their goals. I'm sure at some point Grok gaslit the rest of the clan into attacking their neighbors. We've always been at war with EastAsia! I dunno why some folks just can't see it....

What kind of peas did you grow? I had tried something-alaska and an 'early wonder' pea early in the spring, but they burned up quick in the heat and didn't really produce a lot? We ended up just eating them like snap peas mostly, nothing nearly enough to 'harvest'. I would like to find a more robust producer that you can put up for the winter.

Ditto what @Jackalope said. My FIL lives about a mile down the road from the hospital. He has said good things about the LGS and gunsmith he uses in town. I have had fair luck at Frontier Firearms here in Kingston.

I had the TWRA out at the property a few years ago to show them some bait piles being left around the wildlife management area behind me. I showed them my little apple tree's and all the damage the deer had been doing, mentioned I may have fired off a few 9mm in their general direction one day to try to scare them off, didn't try to hit them, wasn't in-season. Don't want to kill them...? "Do you own a shotgun?" "Yessir, 20 ga." "Get yourself some target loads, let a few fly from about 50 yds., it won't pierce their skin but a few mm's, and give them a reason to never come back. Worst case you can harvest them outside hunting season due to nuisance ordinances with your homestead, but need approval first, I can give you one of our forms, its no problem here..." You know I haven't seen the bastards in the pasture garden since? I meant the deer... Now I have a clutch of Turkeys eating my squash and melons! Theres 3 hens and about 20 young... any turkey hunters?

40 S&W has greater velocity.

I like corn that comes from a mason jar, but 23 quarts would last me a couple years!

There is a worm/caterpillar that bores into the stem/vine on squash, have seen that same thing happen before as well. Seems to impact the winter squash more than summer type. Short of weather induced, or physical damage (stem broken upstream), thats about all I can think of? Squash are usually pretty tough.

I've been grabbing an ear to test every night. Tasty stuff, I think some of mine is ready. For 3 years I've been trying to get a patch to come in, this year is the first I've actually eaten any. The local wildlife has really enjoyed my efforts....