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36. I will always be able to tell the 'good guys' from the 'bad guys,' and I will ALWAYS be in charge.

I fixed a grilled slab of pork shoulder, marinated in Tyme, garlic, rosemary and and home
dried onions. The shoulder has less fat, [trim it well] and marinate in a container overnight,
in the...

Our family enjoys this recipe for lunch. I add a touch of mustard, and hard boiled
eggs. We need to use our bounty. Really good with thick sliced sourdough, toasted,
and then cubed. Left over...

We were in the wood shed, using the chainsaw; when someone tapped me on the shoulder. I swung
around with a running saw in my hands. Nearly cut a religious solicitor in half. If he hadn't been...

A way to get a lead on older cast iron cooking pieces, is to advertise on the board of a
senior activity center. Use your smarts, find concentrations of elders. Be sure to ask older yard sale...

Take your large cast iron skillet, fry 4 slices of bacon. Remove to a plate. Throw a cut up potato in the bacon grease, sear on med. high heat until crispy brown. Remove to bacon plate. Put skillet...

Unless it is different than others I have used, [ the Caribou ], ground coffee is put in the bottom, boiling water poured in, the plunger is fitted to the top, when it is as strong as you like it,...

For onions and garlic check your soil. All roots grow better in loamy, rock free ground. [that said, they will grow anywhere]. O & G have bunch roots that will grow as long as a foot in depth. They...

It sounds like you will be working at night, so make a list of what you will need to feel comfortable in the dark. If you are security for a heli, you have to be very close all night long.

I would...

Home invasions, earthquakes and wildfires are tied for first place in my neck of the woods. All the rest of manmade, natural and civil disturbances are second.

As usual, my greatest enemy is...

Today was hubby's B-day. He requested sweet & sour red cabbage with Polish sausage. From the garden tomatoes, cukes, lettuce. Gooey choc brownies, [the kind that are all sides] with double vanilla...

Dungeness crab, [caught yesterday, & cooked when we got in]. Served up with home made french bread and choice of sauces. Corn on the cob from the garden and a fist full of napkins to clean up...

Survival means not dying, during the life tests God gives us.

There is a continuing request for newby information;......and a continuing reply to search the archives, from the established members.

You do not know what to ask for when you are new. So the...

Some of the dry salami Italian style, already cured and covered with white mold, keeps well in dry, warm conditions.

Look for a Italian market, they would have good ideas. We have not been able to...

Thank you for this timely reminder.

Do you have a method of observing the outside of your location; when you are in your bunker?

At least one other curious/unfriendly ? person knows of your bunker. [the one that tried to break...

Beautiful pictures, beautiful country.
I do have a couple of questions. If your going in to your BOL during a snow time, what about tracks? That would seen to announce that you were going somewhere...

Well, as a wife that 'gets it', I have a husband that tolerates my 'hobby' grudgingly. So, in the generalization of things, not all husbands are on board with prepping.

I had to threaten to stop...

Conbuch,
As long as you not 18, you are subject to some very restrictive laws. There is NO FREEDOM, especially if your parents are uninformed of your desires.

Jailed as a runaway, how...

In my fishing experience, I've found about half my fresh water and salt water catches are infected with worms. Very thin red thread like worms that are only killed by cooking with heat. I cook my...

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Supposedly......which is a heck of a long word.....there are no rattlers west of the Cascades...up in the northern border area.
Where I met the rattler was north central Idaho. We had both...

I tripped in the garden, fell, and when getting up I heard the dreaded, dry rattle of a snake. I almost fell face first into a mean tempered little prairie rattler. I froze, did not even breathe for...

Thanks guys for the HOO RAH. :wavey:

Well, you did ask.
This week we [hubby & I] pulled the tracks, rails, rollers, sprockets, front idler and changed out the broken swing frame on the dozer. And then put it all back together again....