ReeferMac

Omg, a Bills fan!!!! (Buffalo born and bred here...)

Getting ready to till and plant a winter/cover crop down in the pasture garden. Neighbor wants a big bed of Mustard and turnip greens, I'll mix it in with clover and buckwheat... maybe get a deer this fall. Going to try to get a late crop of taters in my old garden area (better soil). Just not enough time to work the dirt the way I'd like to.

LOL @buck1032, reminds me of The Great Santini banquet scene!

My pleasure. Yeah, agree with your last statement. What really HIT me reading his stuff... some of his other posts are more, intimate, detailed.... that wasn't some third-world ####hole we're talking about. A major 1st world European nation. In a matter of weeks, it was a devastated warzone. In weeks! All the while the government mouthpieces and talking heads on the tee vee telling you everything is fine. Younger folks I guess I understand... but anyone old enough who still believes anything government tells you is willfully ignorant.

Might want to get some before to try and see if you like it? I have not tried it either, but heard its a unique taste? Might be able to find it at that big store in Turkey Creek?

Selco had some good advice in his early postings... funny, I just shared it (and re-read) with a friend... https://lulz.com/surviving-a-year-of-shtf-in-90s-bosnia-war-selco-forum-thread-6265/ Link was literally still in my clipboard! Bic lighters... who knew!

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.