CrabGrassAcres

Biggest hand gun I have is .38 special. Not sure I want to go bigger, but was just informed today that there are bear in my area. I'm assuming an electric fence with 1 joule charger will keep them out of the goat pasture?

Use caution adding young females to a pen with a mature drake. Try putting all the females together and separate the drake till the little ones are bigger.

16 dram per ounce

wine glass is 1/4 cup

pottle is 2 qts

tumbler is 1 cup

coffee cup is scant cup

tea cup is 1/2 cup

jigger is 1 1/2 ounces

gill is 1/2 cup

kitchen spoon is 1 teaspoon

spoonful is 1 tablespoon

dessert or soup spoon is 2 teaspoons

saucer is about a heaping cup

peck is 2 gallons dry

pinch or dash is less than 1/8 tspn

slow oven is 300 f

moderate oven is 350 f

quick oven is 375 to 400f

hot oven is 400 f to 425 f

Just thought I'd throw in a few more! LOL

Marriage records, wills, court records etc warren co north carolina;

http://www.ncgenweb.us/ncwarren/search.htm

http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/search/default.aspx?searchTabIndex=0&searchByTypeIndex=0

land patents

Glad you are ok.

fence first. fence not done yet. planting is futile.

I grind up the meat from tough birds and make chicken burgers. Real tasty!

BTW, my geese have a nest of eggs (3 girls one gander) and two of the girls are taking turns setting it. They woke me up last night though, yelling about whose turn it was. LOL I suspect there are eggs at multiple stages but the geese will normally keep setting till all the viable eggs have hatched while the others in their group look after the goslings. They frequently group parent.

I don't even like to give my home canned goods to others because I don't want the liability. I am careful and we have never got sick, but you can't control what happens outside of your own kitchen and just the fact that it came from your kitchen makes you liable if they get sick.

I picked up a pecan tree today. Just a little tiny thing, but I'll plant it and some day, somebody might get to eat some pecans. The thing is; if somebody doesn't plant the fruit and nut trees today, they won't be available for anybody to eat from tomorrow.

Possible, but I don't know how to find out or change it. I've run all the virus and ad ware scans and it didn't change.

When I try to go to Mrs S and my computer messes up, it will do a search on Mrs S instead of going to the site. If I click on the "discussion forums" link I am redirected to a commercial site. Thought someone needed to know that. It has happened several times both with IE and Firefox browsers.

We haven't had to buy meat for a while since I've so much canned, but we've had to buy dairy with the goats dry and I've had to buy hay for several months. At least I've not been laying out a lot for poultry feed, but that is about to change, I'm afraid. hope i can get some garden in.

I think it is going to be rather a lot of work to get going. Hopefully it will keep providing a long time though.

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Sure! I'd love some elderberry starts! The nut bush starts came today and got the concord grape vine trimmings. Got to set up stuff for rooting all this. It is all stuck in water right now.

Yes, and as long as it tasted good, I'd have eaten it right up!

I think I've read the ones here, Mt Rider.

Wormy, that story started to open then the page went to a web ring and I didnt see that story there. Don't know what happened.

Jeepers, I started reading it and deleted the link. I didn't realize they had so much of their religion in that manual. Sorry, I can't feel right about recommending it now.

I don't know of any fiction like that, Jeepers. Maybe one of us needs to write it!

I don't skim over stuff. I put the book down and stop reading if it even looks like heading in the wrong direction.

Someone is sending me 10 or so american hazelnut bush starts, for the cost of postage! I can propagate more from those. The nuts are real tiny, but probably once I get plenty of plants spread over the property the nuts will mostly be for feed for wildlife and livestock.

I hope it never comes to the point of feeding the warriors and childbearing women and everyone else left to starve! We don't know how we would react to such a situation till it happens. I hope I'd be all self sacrificing for the good of the group, but don't count on it. LOL

I once read a book about Eskimos prior to them being overrun by european civilization. The older woman in the family was set out on the ice to die, but before she died her daughter gave birth to a baby with no teeth. The young couple panicked because they knew a person with no teeth wouldn't be able to survive and the father ran out to ask the MIL what to do before she died. She said she would take care of the baby and help it to grow some teeth if they would take her back in and feed her. So she cared for the baby till he got teeth and by then the family food supply was better and they let her live. It was standard practice among them for post menopausal women and old men to be exposed to die when food supplies were too low to get the family thru. Families were small and isolated so it wasn't uncommon for young adults never to see an infant until their first was born.

Yes. That is why I don't like it. I stopped reading when I saw it was going that direction.

I didn't know about the embedded videos. I must have them blocked somehow. I don't think Alan has written anything else. Not sure though.

I really prefer not to have to read "single guy finds gorgeous dame and they survive the end of the world with lots of sex and violence" stories. That is why I like Alan's, plus it is well written.

Sorry to be the voice of dissent, I didn't like it in the least.

Alan Hagan wrote a really good one. Posted it online. "We interrupt this program". http://www.homesteadingtoday.com/specialty-forums/survival-emergency-preparedness/vault/192640-fiction-we-interrupt-program.html

You don't have to be a member to read it, at least not for now. They are making changes at HT and I don't particularly like them.