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Holy crap it is chilly for August this morning. (46) Had to turn the heat on briefly to take a shower. I like it for working even if you need a jacket. Got the posts to expand my woodshed by 10 ft. so I can keep more wood dry in case we get a winter like last year. Have 2 big truckload of slab wood piled up about 10ft. high with the backhoe so it can season and should have 2 more loads of logs in the next week.Even the Amish neighbor is going to get a jump start on his wood after running out last winter. I shared mine with him and he will send the boys up to help me get mine done early. While we all hope it is not a repeat of last year it is nice to be over prepared.
 
Chilly here too Muley and was chilly in s Arkansas yesterday and day before. when I was there..... in the morning anyway...
Now, where have I read about this seasons changing thing... and weird stuff happening in diver 'se places......and......other things...
I am preparing too.. so many trees dying and blowing over that I have trouble just keeping up and in fact have a huge pile of downed trees if lumped together.. I am planning on a big pile of food put back too...at least enough for 5-6 months... collie
 
This cold weather is awesome!

I was out splitting yesterday evening and it was in the low 50's. Perfect T-shirt weather for firewood. Beats the heck out of doing it when it was 85° last week.

I already had this winters firewood ready but in the past couple weeks, I've put away another 3 cord. One more cord and that will be close to cover another winter.
 
LOL what you gunna do when winter gets here???Been hitting low to mid 40s here at night in michigan.Leaves already starting to change colors.
Got to love chem trails and harrp
 
bordercollie said:
I am preparing too.. so many trees dying and blowing over that I have trouble just keeping up and in fact have a huge pile of downed trees if lumped together.. I am planning on a big pile of food put back too...at least enough for 5-6 months... collie
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Had a forester out the other day. Actually a woman that her outfit contracts with TVA to come through and clear the trees away from the power lines. We have a power line easement that comes up our road and then over to a water storage tank of the county's. She is a trained, schooled, and experienced tree type biologist/arborist and cares that they don't KILL my trees. Usually they just come through and really do a thorough job of ruining the trees they work on. The last time they came through, my wife sat down on our road with a 12ga. pump across her lap in the RTV as I was still teaching school........No way was she gonna let them on our place to do their damage. That gave us a certain reputation so back then and now, we get an arborist/forester to plan and direct, with our agreement, what exactly gets cut. It's only 600 yards of mature oak and hickory trees; but I have to look at them as I come and go.

She is saying that the loss of MANY of my mature hickories and oaks are an unknown type of situation. In the next week or so she is bringing some consults type folks in from U of Tenn to do bore samples and the like......Seems the drought/climate/weather situation is high on their list of possibilities. We shall see; but I easily have in one 10 acre area that I pretty much get my wood from, at least 10 fallen over from root damage mature oaks and that many just dead still standing hickories...........In one 5 acre area I now have a pasture with a few trees standing that 10 years ago was thick, mature hardwood forest and understory............

Yes, for sure on the food put away stock pile.......Cosco has 5 gallon buckets of dehydrated food that is 3 months worth of food for 4 people.....Here lately I am buying one every time we go over there........Got my 5000 rounds of .22 to use as barter/currency and small game the other day from the CMP armory over in Alabama along with several cans of 30.06 that are put away and never touched................Surely NOT to be some kind of nut but just tooooo much stuff, besides Obama and our government, is going lousy.........

Oh well..........on and on.........now I have given the NSA government internet commo monitors something to report once again.........God bless........Dennis
 
Hey Dennis,

Have you tried any of that dehydrated stuff from Costco?

I have some freeze-dried stuff. Some isn't bad but other items taste like crap. Just hate to have you buy a bunch of stuff to find out you don't like it.

Mountain House has good dehydrated food... except the Ham & Eggs. That was so nasty even the dog wouldn't eat it. You can buy 1-meal packages at WalMart so you get to give it a try before buying in bulk.

Another thing to consider. When you go to eat it, it's not going to be what your body is used to. For every bucket you get, consider getting a bottle of Tums and some anti-diarrhea pills.

I'm a firm believer in "store what you eat, eat what you store". That keeps your body normal and your stock rotated.
 
Thanks for the thoughts MR BC; but not gonna open this current crop of dehydrated as the can itself is sealed.............BUT...........Back in the day, ate LOTS of dehydrated, off the ground, and left over C's from the Korean War..........Did lots a back packing before it was called that except folks were hunting YOU.............Anyway, am a firm believer that if it isn't crawling away trying to bite you, oozing blue gunk, smelling like 3 day old baby poop, and isn't fresh from the digestive tract of a monkey.......that if you are hungry enough you can eat it............

Yes, the eggs are the worst. Was stuck on an OP for awhile and all we had was powdered eggs........The 4 of us got reallllly hungry.....We had used up all of the Tobasco by day 2.........ANYTHING is edible with the power of Tobasco.............

Yes........Thanks to the availablability of "drugs" to the modern day animal raiser one develops quite a pharmacy of all kinds of stuff that can be used if needed.........lol......then of course there is always the skills developed with treating all these guard dogs and critters with their cuts, illnesses, infections, absesses, and wounds........My wife could really stand in for a mid-wife if she has to........

Bet ol Miss Collie can handle a LOT with the just useful skills that it takes to work cattle..........God bless........Dennis
 
Thanks for the vote of confidence brother Dennis. I have learned a lot since here on the farm about doctoring on animals. -and people too I guess. All of us have had encounters of some sort.. Simple over the counter things like 7 % iodine, real alcohol and fresh hydrogen peroxide can come in handy in hard times -among the other things that one could imagine... antibiotics if you can store them..
I saw this bad boy on a cold morning this spring.. I had just been thinking how I was glad it was cold so I could get in the ditch without worrying . Be careful with that wood gathering...collie
 

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