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Any of you older members may remember "Armorer" a dearly loved moderator of the Survival Forum. A bit of a curmudgeon deeply appreciated by many. Passed away June 2023. To his wife Doris my deepest condolences. She was instrumental in so many of us getting to actually meet, from all over everywhere, in their home in Arkansas. Sleep in peace, Warrior.

We moved this summer to a lovely rural property in southern Alberta (Canada's province just north of Montana) near a small town Fort Macleod. My brain is having a major adjustment to the fact that while I am busy canning peaches , and haven't even picked the apples yet - it's snowing!! Oh it will warm up again, but I am standing at my sink giggling - snow and peaches - it sounds like a dessert!

After a couple of exceptionally horrible, heart-wrenching years, He has seen fit to bless us in a way we never expected. Out of the blue a property in another province came to our attention, a perfect section of land, located in the heart of where we wanted to live, with a house that beamed "Welcome Home" - but the price was prohibitively high. Due to it's perfection we arranged a viewing, and I was almost in tears knowing it was out of reach. As we were leaving with the estate agent, the seller came home and stopped to talk with us. It turns out he has to move due to work, and he was heart broken that he had to leave all the horse fencing, custom stalls and rodeo-style chutes behind to make the property attractive to a prospective buyer. We laughed and said we didn't want that stuff, and if we bought it he could take it as far as we were concerned! Then the miracle happened. He said if he could take all his horse stuff with him, the price would drop $120,000 !!!!!! Yesterday, the Contract for Sale was signed by both parties, and on April 15th, we will own a new home on 12.5 acres of land in Southern Alberta - land of our dreams. Praise the Lord, for He really does work in mysterious ways!

A genuine kiss on the cheek to you Cat.

gofish, I can honestly not say enough good things about a Hospice Team. Last October I was caring for my Mum who was in final stages of metastized bone cancer, and I had promised to keep her at home until the end. Then she had a stroke and became quite violent and was placed in Hospice. There she got care that was as loving as anything I could offer, but with regular heavy duty medical care as well. I stayed with her the entire time of the five days she lingered. The Team took as much care of myself as they did of my mother. And at the end, they supported me emotionally, physically, and spiritually - despite my not knowing at the time how badly I needed it. Hospice workers are carefully chosen for their abilities, and they deserve a special place in heaven, for surely they are God's gentle hand here on earth. One of the wisest things they said to me was, "The one watching suffers more than the one who is ill". Hold that in your heart, it will help you get through your troubles. My prayers are with you.

Cat, I consider myself a 'shadow' prep person. Outside of SOME of my immediate family, no one knows what I have squirreled away, where it is (I have stashed in a few locations), and quite how deeply my preps have gone. I've been gathering for 30 years - and at times 'survival' has been a longterm illness causing financial troubles, or sudden job losses, not to mention nature's odd surprizes. My preps have seen us through all of these. Seen us through well as we have always been warm, dry and well fed. But to have somewhere to read for ideas, maybe share the odd one of my own, to understand that everyone has the same goals... that's invaluable to me. Thank you.