Today I made / bought / learnt .... (for a post oil world) 2

mystiek

Thanks! Its probably not the best time to take on a payment, but we are leasing property now for our critters (ie: throwing money away), our payment on a farm will be just a slight more than what we are leasing. The property belongs to a local fellow who is independently weathly and owns a bunch a property around the county so we are doing owner financing for now. There's an additional 19 acres we could purchase too but I don't want to take on that much debt. My husband is excited about the farm because he can get rid of the garden in our backyard. Right now we live in a modest house in what I call a "rural subdivision"-not my number one choice of location, but I have to be pretty close to the hospital when I'm on call. My husband would prefer to live in a McMansion-ughhhh. I think he is gradually rethinking this choice, plus I think he knows he would be living by himself!!!!
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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.

Ludi

Planted daylilies and lettuce.
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"...powerdown so soft and fluffy you'll think you're living in a pillow." - jboogy

RedStateGreen

Planted alfalfa and buckwheat yesterday. It's something I've never done before, hope it'll help the soil and give some good greens for the rabbits over the winter.

Swept up my garage and driveway. Took a while, I'm kind of wiped out now. Lots of dust and leaves ... with a bit of moisture and time this will make great leaf mold for starting seeds over the winter.

It's funny: my neighbor came out while I was sweeping and apologized for his tree making leaves ... and I just said, "leaves are great". He didn't ask why I said that, just looked at me like I had two heads or something and walked off. Laughing

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Conservation is conservative

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change. -- Charles Darwin

kpeavey · Expert Joined: Oct 04, 2004 Posts: 1323

I might have the next 3 days off. I'll unplug the phone and make sure of it.

Watered the dry, dryer, driest garden, and all the plants in the greenhouse. Looks like I was too late for the thyme. That's a tough one for me, picked up a pork roast, no thyme? I can always feed it to the chickens.

Been studying up on redworms these past couple weeks. A person would do well to have some on hand, lots of advantages to them.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever."
-George Orwell, 1984

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Accept the Facts.

patience · Expert Joined: Jan 04, 2008 Posts: 1762

Got the irrigation tank in the ground today, and the pipe laid to the outlet. Will fill around it tomorrow. Rain due tonight, so I was in a hurry. Have 4 courses of ties laid (out of about 7 1/2 or Cool

on the retaining wall. 10 1/2 ties long, so that is about 42 of 'em. Don't have quite enough to finish, but rain won't hurt it as is, and will help it settle in, although I watered the ballast behind the ties.

Local farmer was in the shop today, and I asked about corn to buy for the chickens we plan to get next spring. He has a LOT of corn to combine. Sure, he said, want some chickens too? He raises 2.2 million chickens/year. A couple hundred get loose and roam the farm, each time they catch 'em for sale, so if I can catch 'em, I can have 'em!
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Local fix-it guy..

Jenab6

I've bought 100 mesh screen to replace the 12 mesh door screen that had been covering the rain barrels' fill apertures. The door screen hasn't been able to prevent small flying insects from using my water as their breeding ground. I'll also have a 400 mesh (38 micron holes) pan to filter my water at the tap.

The size of the holes in a screen is equal to about (15200 microns) / (mesh).

topcat

WW (wonderful wife) tried her hand at making ketchup, my favorite food group. Hope it turns out well.
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"...the problem is today we have unknown unknowns."
Dominique Strauss-Kahn; IMF chief

Arsenal

The wife made a homemade apple pie from our apple tree. Picked up the pistol from the gunsmith, bought some more 50lb bags of rice and other food supplies.

Today. Other 1000 rounds of .45 ACP. Repack the rice in some superpails. Clean out jerry cans and refuel.

Arsenal
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Arsenal

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. - Edward Abbey

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

Ludi

Planted fava beans, seakale, cilantro,collards, turnips, lettuce, chicory.
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"...powerdown so soft and fluffy you'll think you're living in a pillow." - jboogy

ohcomeon · Heavy Crude Joined: Jun 10, 2006 Posts: 140 Location: USA

Yesterday, I bought Storey's Basic Country Skills. So far, I love it!

Not a lot of detail, but enough to get you started in the right direction. I found it at the TSC and spent $25.00 more than I intended, but it was worth it.

Today, my girls and I are working on the nesting boxes for our hens. They are going to be laying any day now from the looks of 'em.

Dehydrating some apples for the winter, if I can keep the rest of the family out of them long enough.

strider3700

My offer on the house has been accepted(verbally still waiting on paper work)

Since Friday every day has been a 7am to midnight work fest. another day or two and the outside of the house will be finished except for the landscaping( grade a slope and turf) and by Saturday the inside of the house has to be finished.

It should totally suck but the payoff is worth it.

Besides the doomer in me can see a future where 7-midnight every day is going to be the norm not the exception. The good news is after only 4 days my body is already adapting. I'm tired but not exhausted, can already feel my arms getting stronger again and I actually wake up early ready and eager to get going. Totally different from my standard day job (which I'm also doing).
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shame on us, doomed from the start
god have mercy on our dirty little hearts

Olaf

Gave the contractor the go ahead on the barn. If it happens this fall, it will be done the week before hunting season starts (middle November). If not, April.

Finished up freezing and canning the last of the garden beans. We easily have 12 quarts of 'dilly beans' and 5 or 6 quarts of frozen beans.

Sold our boat that we have been trying to get rid of for over a year. My wife inherited when her father passed away several years ago. Money from the boat will go to the new barn.

On another note, a pretty good friend of mine died this week. He was working on his porch roof and fell, striking his head on the sidewalk below. He never woke up. He was 51 years old. I will miss him. It has been sobering to me in ways I don't think I fully comprehend yet.

I know it seems like the world is just waiting to tear apart at the seams and I'm not nearly as prepared as I would like.

Olafr
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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." - Henry David Thoreau

SpringCreekFarm · Intermediate Crude Joined: Mar 03, 2006 Posts: 950

None of us are as prepared as we would like. It's never ending.

Just remember...

Water, Food, Shelter.....in that order.

Good luck. Don't forget to post pics of the new barn. Smile