Preparing for Uncertainty and Self Reliance

[Speaker to Animals]

Is that old trader store still there? They used to have all sorts of stuff from the 40s. It wasn't like a retro thing. That stuff was literally from when the store was there back then.

Im not sure which store you are referring to, but it sounds like a cool place if it is still around.

There used to be a store just as you drove into Gotha from the Windermere area that was just an old gas station. It was a vestige of old Florida still carrying on in the 1980s and early 1990s. It might be gone now. Gotha I imagine is suburbanized now, whereas when I was a kid that was all totally rural area with farms and orchards.

When I grew up, we lived on an old Florida clay road with cypress trees lining it and the moss hanging down. Now all that stuff is paved over and the northerners built their cookie-cutter subdivisions all around it.

[heydaralon]

Is that old trader store still there? They used to have all sorts of stuff from the 40s. It wasn't like a retro thing. That stuff was literally from when the store was there back then.

Im not sure which store you are referring to, but it sounds like a cool place if it is still around.

There used to be a store just as you drove into Gotha from the Windermere area that was just an old gas station. It was a vestige of old Florida still carrying on in the 1980s and early 1990s. It might be gone now. Gotha I imagine is suburbanized now, whereas when I was a kid that was all totally rural area with farms and orchards.

When I grew up, we lived on an old Florida clay road with cypress trees lining it and the moss hanging down. Now all that stuff is paved over and the northerners built their cookie-cutter subdivisions all around it.

There is an old gas station on Old Winter Garden near the Health Central Hospital and Wal Mart, but I have been inside and it doesn't look particularly historic. I'm not sure if that is the one you are talking about. Gotha is still a beautiful town in my opinion. I don't get out that way much, but I enjoy many aspects of it. There is an old cemetery there which I have gone to several times. It has gravestones from the 19th century and World War 1. Absolutely fascinating. It is very overgrown now, which makes it even more interesting to me. Kind of like the final scene of Gangs of New York.

[C-Mag]

The great wheat harvest has begun. .................................

Don't know if I'll get to a full bushel, but those sheaves are adding up fast.

What was your final Yield ?
Make anything out of the grain yet ?

[SuburbanFarmer]

The great wheat harvest has begun. .................................

Don't know if I'll get to a full bushel, but those sheaves are adding up fast.

What was your final Yield ?
Make anything out of the grain yet ?

Right now, it's getting a few days to cure in the shed. I'll be putting it in buckets this weekend. I'll get a weight after I do that.

[C-Mag]

The great wheat harvest has begun. .................................

Don't know if I'll get to a full bushel, but those sheaves are adding up fast.

What was your final Yield ?
Make anything out of the grain yet ?

Right now, it's getting a few days to cure in the shed. I'll be putting it in buckets this weekend. I'll get a weight after I do that.

Cool !

Picked 3 gallons of Plums off the tree. I have like 15 volunteer Plum Trees that I need to transplant in a row. In a few years I should be getting huge yields.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Very nice. I'm trying to track down a Mars grapevine for our pergola.. Seedless, hardy, disease-resistant grapes.

[Alexander PhiAlipson]

Picked 3 gallons of Plums off the tree. I have like 15 volunteer Plum Trees that I need to transplant in a row. In a few years I should be getting huge yields.

You bastard!
I had to buy a half-dozen damn plums just because you mentioned them. I hadn't even given them a thought in years. Now I'm trying to find loquats--Japanese plums. They don't have them at the Korean grocer. Damn it.

[C-Mag]

Picked 3 gallons of Plums off the tree. I have like 15 volunteer Plum Trees that I need to transplant in a row. In a few years I should be getting huge yields.

You bastard!
I had to buy a half-dozen damn plums just because you mentioned them. I hadn't even given them a thought in years. Now I'm trying to find loquats--Japanese plums. They don't have them at the Korean grocer. Damn it.

I do what I can ............... Plant a tree dude.


BTW, they are delicious.

[C-Mag]

So, I was in the mountains working with a couple of guys I had not met or worked with before. We taught each other a few tricks. The one I learned was Bicycle Tire Rubber for a fire starter. It's not often anymore I find new tricks and techniques for fires, but this one is a keeper.


The reason it's a keeper for me, is I use Bicycle Tire Rubber as a gear keeper on my pack, so it's a dual use item. I like it and encourage you to tire it out. Plus any fire starter that is fully weather proof is great.

[Hastur]

So, I was in the mountains working with a couple of guys I had not met or worked with before. We taught each other a few tricks. The one I learned was Bicycle Tire Rubber for a fire starter. It's not often anymore I find new tricks and techniques for fires, but this one is a keeper.


The reason it's a keeper for me, is I use Bicycle Tire Rubber as a gear keeper on my pack, so it's a dual use item. I like it and encourage you to tire it out. Plus any fire starter that is fully weather proof is great.

I use cotton balls and vaseline. Always works. This guy does it like me: