Like the illusion of Wall Street, with its vast and powerful investment banks, now shuttered, China too is an illusion perpetuated by the Globalists that gave us the 15,000 mile Caesar salad, poisoned cat food and lead based paint on babies' pacifiers. Like the illusion that money would come from thin air to always push housing prices higher, China has spent a generation pursuing its illusion. Pursuing an unattainable dream to be like the West, while 6000 years of its carefully shepherded top soil blows into the sea.
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:40 pm Post subject: Re: Today I made / bought / learnt .... (for a post oil worl
Bought 4 blueberry bushes to add to my backyard fruit collection (I planted raspberries last fall and 8 fruit trees - apple, pear, peach and cherry - this spring.
The local library had a used book sale this week and I picked up a copy of "Home Food Systems" (Yepsen, Rodale Press, 1981) for $1. It has quite a bit of useful information including sections on milling grain, storing grain, cooking & storing beans, drying, canning, freezing, churning butter, making cheese, raising domestic animals, etc. It is a bit dated and quite a bit of space is devoted to discussion of specific brands/models of equipment that are probably no longer available, but it still looks useful. (It is surely worth $1, anyway!)
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 3:09 pm Post subject: Re: Today I made / bought / learnt .... (for a post oil worl
"Water, food, shelter....."
Right, SCF. Today I'm backfilling around the irrigation tank and the ditch for the delivery pipe. This was dug by a backhoe in junk fill dirt/conrete pieces/ chunks of blacktop/rocks/bricks. Not fun to shovel 4 yards of that stuff. Padded the tank all around with sand, watered down, then added the ugly fill around that. When this mess settles down and dries out a bit, I'll get a load of driveway stone to patch around it.
Then I have to figure out how to shed over this thing to prevent UV damage to the plastic tank. That probably means digging postholes in that Gawdawful fill "dirt". Gee. I can hardly wait..... _________________ Local fix-it guy..
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 4:15 pm Post subject: Re: Today I made / bought / learnt .... (for a post oil worl
Patience;
What about a UV resistant coating on the tank itself?
Yesterday.....
I put the chicken nests up last night and this today...the chickens layed on the floor of the coop right were they have been laying them. I had placed one nest down there to get them laying in the nest but only 2 out of several were layed there. Oh well. I guess I got to it too late. As long as they lay somewhere in the coop, I'll find 'em. I put a bit of scrap fence wire 1 x 1 inch to try to make it uncomfortable for them to lay there. We'll see.
Joined: Oct 04, 2004 Posts: 5701 Location: Body in OK, Heart in TX
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 5:39 pm Post subject: Re: Today I made / bought / learnt .... (for a post oil worl
My potato vines were all keeling over and about done, so I harvested them a couple of weeks ago. Most of them were a little smaller than the original seed potatoes I planted. Will just save them to plant next spring in containers. I think they didn't get enough water. _________________ "Every junkie's like a setting sun..." - Neil Young
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 6:05 pm Post subject: Re: Today I made / bought / learnt .... (for a post oil worl
SpringCreekFarm,
A coating would sure be easier, but I don't know of anything that will stick to the poly tank. And, since it is sitting atop a hill with a north exposure, a cheap tin shed over it would provide some protection from extreme temperatures, too. I'm not going to keep water in it year around, but there will be a little in the bottom that won't drain out, and too, very cold temps are hard on plastic.
The tank is 8 ft. dia., x 105" tall to the cap, but I put about 2 ft. of it in the ground, so I can get fall for a downspout off an 8 ft. building. With the usual winter temps around here, it seldom gets to 0 degrees F. for more than a day or two, maybe a week in a hard winter. The ground rarely freezes more than 18" to 20" deep, so I don't think 10 gallons in the bottom will freeze, and won't care if it does. The outlet will drain, no problem. (Crossed fingers.)
Our little Fall garden is looking good, with turnips, kale, beets, and a few cabbages and onions still going. Night time temps are in the 50's now, and may have a frost, but that stuff seems to go on anyway. With a bit of luck, we'll get more than some greens off the beets, but if not, oh well, greens are good too. Had a half inch of rain that perked it all up some after a dry month, but tomatoes (Rutgers) are still going and going. _________________ Local fix-it guy..
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:33 am Post subject: Re: Today I made / bought / learnt .... (for a post oil worl
Yesterday I stopped to test the grapes on a wild vine. They are excellent, but small. Sometimes wild ones have a strong vegetative flavor but these are really good. Quite a few on the vine too. This winter I'll go back and take cuttings. I think they will be good for jelly, wine and juice. _________________ Remember every mighty oak tree started with some nut who stood their ground.
Joined: May 20, 2008 Posts: 336 Location: Tennessee
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 8:03 pm Post subject: Re: Today I made / bought / learnt .... (for a post oil worl
RGS, thanks for the link-its under favorites and on the list of things to purchase. Hope you feel better soon! _________________ Rev 21:4 and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be death, there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 12:47 am Post subject: Re: Today I made / bought / learnt .... (for a post oil worl
Picked up a blueberry bush, will take cuttings to propagate it into several plants. Picked up a live thyme plant as mine all died off from months away from home, drought and neglect. Thyme propagates well from cuttings. I'll turn the one plant into a dozen or more in a month.
Made mayonnaise from scratch. Came out pretty good. An egg, a splash of vinegar and lots of vegetable oil. See Youtube for examples. _________________ If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever."
-George Orwell, 1984
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 3:06 pm Post subject: Re: Today I made / bought / learnt .... (for a post oil worl
Today I bought a new wood stove and a ventilation system with a reverse flow heat exchanger. Woohoo! _________________ All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become. - Buddha
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 8:36 pm Post subject: Re: Today I made / bought / learnt .... (for a post oil worl
I read Roubini's latest missive quoted on Tickerforum, and freaked. Closed the business early, told my wife to get online and pay all the bills, then went to both banks we use and cashed checks on hand, then withdrew all but a bare minimum. Shopped a bit, then came home with Mexican take-out to get on the net and watch the show.
Roubini said, "Financial System in Cardiac Arrest, Risk of the Mother of all Bank Runs."
Also posted this in Financial, "Bunker Time" thread, because I thought it was important for folks to see it. When Roubini talks, I listen. _________________ Local fix-it guy..
Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 12:44 pm Post subject: Re: Today I made / bought / learnt .... (for a post oil worl
Knowing that everythings free after 12 noon at "The Lords Acre" garage sale, I went in at 1202 and swooped up a nice box loaded with canning jars, lids etc. I looked around, no one to thank, said Thanks Lord and carried on. Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus lol
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