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Roadrunner,

Sorry I may have sounded curt, but only tired and up to our ears in food processing! Yes, we are getting back into canning and such big this year. Expanded our garden this year and ...

Oh, they are going to TRY to pump the money machine, because the alternative is immediate disaster, but from the scale of things as I understand it, they are pushing on a string. The outrageous amo ...

Oh yeah, barter is alive and well. Just finished 16 pints of grape jam. Have to go help my wife clean up.

BigTex,

Right. The big local car dealer will make you one heckuva deal on a new SUV, but he won't take one in trade! Come to find out, he can't get one financed to sell, at least not 100% like mo ...

Newfie,

I went through the same thing with my kids when they were young. They were 6 and 8 years old in 1974 when we lived in an automotive town that suffered from the oil embargo. I just explain ...

My daughter's in-laws gave us a bushel of grapes today, so the processing is under way for juice and jam. My wife and daughter had begun work on the remaining 10 gallons of pears before that, so we ...

cube,

I'm pretty sure that you mean the "official" US unemployment rate. I think that I read from shadowstats that the real rate is over 10% now as of a couple weeks ago, so that is likely up to 1 ...

When my wife retires in a few months, her savings fund is in US Treasuries, mostly. What the devil do we do with it then?? The options are to let Met Life administer an annuity, roll it to an IRA ( ...

Meanwhile, unions have no clout in a declining economy, and we have higher unemployment (surplus labor), so pressure on wages is down. So, in the face of scarcity in resources, we all get a lot poor ...

AAAAAAAAHHHGGG! Just when I am halfway through re-reading Lucifer's Hammer!

SpringCreekFarm,

Might be a good idea to harness them when you handle them, to associate harness with you being in charge? I'm not a trainer, so maybe those who are will put me straight if I'm wro ...

Steel is so common that it is being largely ignored, except for thefts arising from the current high price of scrap. This may be explained by the fact that, like oil, few people realize how pervasive ...

Olaf,

Looked over the pictures, and the barn kits are sturdy enough. Where they usually skimp is not using enough trusses (too far apart) and not enough purlins, but these seem alright.

If yo ...

RE: "...take...one problem at a time..."

I wish we had the luxury of doing that, as I prefer it that way, but I believe we are at a point that requires "multi-tasking".

In my case, that means, ...

I voted the middle option, and reserve the right to change my mind as the situation developes. I don't have much faith in our society responding to our situation preemptively. We haven't so far. So ...