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Originally Posted By: Skagitgal OH!...... this is so good. I nearly wet my pants laughing so hard. Especially the Y2K and better preps in storage than you use everyday. Now the fabric, we dont talk out loud about the fabric crammed in totes. That is a whisper only conversation. You know, nervously looking over shoulder,checking from side to side. Skagit checks to see where DH is, before she dares type this. The man just doesn't understand! And this is the man that has 6 pairs of electrical pliers. And the number of 9/16th. wrenches for brake adjusting; well lets say...when we cleaned out the longhaul truck there were 12. Snicker. Boy have I got a lot of mileage from that particular incident!! A friend of mine was reorganizing her rather extensive fabric stash and her husband wanted to load it up and haul it to the dump. She told him "You do Buddy, and I'm hauling every tool in the garage to the dump!" LOL

We need more ducks! I looked out the window and one of my roosters was squaring off with a duck! When I laughed the rooster turned around and started to walk of, but the duck chased after him and noodled him right in the tail feathers. That rooster jumped two feet in the air and took off running with the duck hot on his tail. LOL

Yeah, I need a couple sets of those gun racks. I like to keep the rifles over the door so they're easy to grab when a varmint shows up. LOL

http://www.theshelffactory.com.futuresite...._wsn/page2.html I was looking for decorative brackets and these look reasonably priced. I'm hoping to get shelves put at the tops of the walls over all the windows pretty soon. Figured I could start with my bedroom and do one room at a time. If you drill a hole thru the supports that are on either side of the window, you can run a wooden dowel rod or metal rod thru the holes and put a decorative cap on each end. Here are some pretty ones: http://www.countrycurtains.com/sdx/H24715.jsp (I've never ordered from either of these places, so have no idea how the service or anything is. They are just two sites I found to show what I want to do.)

http://www.justhungry.com/2006/04/milking_the_soy.html Took me a while to remember what the pulp was called and I didn't want to go digging for the soy cookbook that is probably in a box somewhere anyhow.

Feed corn! YOu can get 50 pounds for about $7. I eat a lot of mush. I make "polenta" and put all kinds of stuff with it. It is way cheaper than pasta and even cheaper than rice. Use it to vary your diet now and when you are totally dependent on your storage foods. I never buy soups. They are expensive and I don't care for the taste of them. My DD cannot have them anyhow because of gluten problems. Things that will add body/flavor to soups are powdered onions, browned flour (or cornmeal or rice), dried nettles, leftover coffee, kelp granules (taste a bit fishy), tomato powder,other powdered dried veggies. If you use soy, buy the beans and learn to make your own soy milk and tofu. The leftover fiberous bean bits can be dried in the oven and added to meatloaf or other ground meat dishes. To avoid a beany flavor bring the water to a boil and pour in the dried soybeans. This kills the enzyme that causes the beany taste. The enzyme also has antinutritive factors that are deactivated by the boiling.