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My name is Dana, 33, I have a husband and three children. We currently reside in East Tennessee and I am a manager for a lending company. I grew up in small town America in the back waters of Louisiana on a farm where we gardened and pretty much slaughtered/hunted our own everything and if we didn't have it, we traded for it.

I'm pretty much a novice at this. But I did grow up hunting (shot my first deer when I was 8, know how to set out yo-yo's to fish and how to fish, hunted rabbits and squirrels, bullfrogs and gators) and such but did not get into real wilderness experiences until my adult life because we were so far out there was no need to "lodge". We literally went hunting in the woods behind the back pasture behind our house.

We love to camp and get to do it so little these days. There was a time when camping/hiking was something I did as frequently as possible all throughout the year. But then I got that promotion and had kids and.. yea. The longest I've been out in the wild was 3 weeks on a mountain in Oregon (Jones Creek area near Tillamook) and I had an absolute blast but we were well prepared with a truckload of tents and tarps and other equipment.

As a supplement to food supply, I garden and can. I am currently working on a small orchard and have several trees already growing in containers. We are about to purchase a modest amount of property so that we can have a farmstead outside of the city.

Preparedness planning wasn't something I really thought about until the last couple of years. We've always had an abundance of food in storage (about 2 to 3 months worth) because I'm a frugal shopper and I pounce on sales. We also purchase a side of beef and have that in the freezer to keep costs down. Other than a small stock pile of alcohol wipes, quick dissolving strips of all sorts of all types of ailments and a crapton of baking soda, DE and vinegar, we really aren't all that prepared for much of anything.

I'm looking forward to getting back to what I knew but have not used and getting a more completed education where mine stopped so many years ago after I moved from small town America to concrete jungle Atlanta. Sorry if this was a little long winded!

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Welcome home, Dana. Yours is a familiar story. I think we can all relate to it very well.

Hello and welcome. You called yourself a novice - I don't think you give yourself enough credit. Sounds as though you have a wealth of experience.

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Originally Posted by crashdive123

Hello and welcome. You called yourself a novice - I don't think you give yourself enough credit. Sounds as though you have a wealth of experience.

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Thanks! I suppose it is just a matter of me remembering things from the perspective of a child. How I can remember it done and how it was supposed to be done are two different things. But I'm learning! For the life of me, I can't remember things like how my father smoked meat but I bought a book on it so now I realize how really complicate it can be. Though, there are some things that I'll never forget. Like by the time I was old enough to use a knife, my job was skinning catfish and scaling perch. That, I will never forget how to do because I did it over and over again. Practice makes perfect, I guess.

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Thanks! I suppose it is just a matter of me remembering things from the perspective of a child. How I can remember it done and how it was supposed to be done are two different things. But I'm learning! For the life of me, I can't remember things like how my father smoked meat but I bought a book on it so now I realize how really complicate it can be. Though, there are some things that I'll never forget. Like by the time I was old enough to use a knife, my job was skinning catfish and scaling perch. That, I will never forget how to do because I did it over and over again. Practice makes perfect, I guess.

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You were trained while young and impressionable, Meaning it was easier for you to never forget. If you have any Kids I hope you can pass that along. You were NOT long winded! I think that would be me, I just don't know when to shut up.LOL Thank you for your introduction! I am personally Glad to see more women taking this to heart and looking this stuff up. see What I mean about being long winded? I was just supposed to say "Hello and Welcome"!!

Hello and Welcome!!! (Sorry about my manners I should've said that first.)

Welcome to the Forum.........

Hello and welcome. Glad to have you aboard.

I'm still being trained! :ohmy:

My father gives me long lectures on preparedness, hunting, fishing, gardening. He always manages to get in a lesson or two about what my great grandparents did. Two hours last night, as a matter of fact about peas and succession planting, the dollar isn't worth the paper it's printed on. I certainly soak it up and my kids do as well (maybe I should take notes?). His big thing lately is networking. I get the network, network, network lecture at least once a month. :phone:

And, poco, your manners are just fine. :)

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I'm still being trained! :ohmy:
And, poco, your manners are just fine. :)

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My Mother would be SO GLAD to hear anyone say that!!!:innocent::blushing:

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www.youtube.com/trapperjacksurvival these videos should help you with primitive survival techniques

Welcome and enjoy

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Hello and welcome. You called yourself a novice - I don't think you give yourself enough credit. Sounds as though you have a wealth of experience.

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doesn't give herself enough credit? ha she works for a lending company, i'm sure she has allot of credit.:winkiss:

ok just kidding so wlecome dana lend me your ear. geeze i can't stop so i'' just hit the button::innocent:

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Originally Posted by erunkiswldrnssurvival

www.youtube.com/trapperjacksurvival these videos should help you with primitive survival techniques

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Thanks for the vid link. I watched the first one and you're right, it does help. If the hubby and I can actually stop running in opposite directions long enough, we'll get to spend some quality time arguing about the best way to do things while watching them. :innocent:

Thanks for the warm welcome, btw. It isn't often that newbies get such attention on forums.

FORUM. singular. Why do people keep talking about other forums like they really exist? Not in this dimension anyway.

It's a pop culture thing perpetuated by a media with agendas that do not coincide with normal thinking.

(taking notes) It's a pop culture thing.....

Wait. Is this a "don't ask, don't tell" kind of thing or they just simply don't exist?

Welcome aboard.

Muhahaha. I'm back. =)

Been a hot minute! But after a little adventure and a lot of strangeness, I'm kinda sorta back in a round about way.

JT