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It seems squatters are becoming more an issue in many places.. Seemingly mostly the larger sanctuary type states and metros and all.. I seems you can come home from a grocery run, kids sports game and some one else is living in your house, drinking the beer from your fridge, all with a bogus...

Yesterday being Spring Equinox, a day later than usual because of leap year... It seems some are reporting finding things like Oyster Shell mushrooms in the woods already.. Plus some other varieties I'm not familiar with.. This all very early in the season it seems given the very ..El Nino...

I thought this was interesting... Hope it is helpful to someone..

Anyone have recipes for .....homemade electrolyte POWDER..... ?? This MUST be a powder recipe... One that I have found I will try.. For 1 gallon water.. Lemon Aid, Tang, or other flavoring powder for 1 gallon of water 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/8 teaspoon Kosher salt Mix well, better if...

I'll start.... Old sailors superstition.... Never open a tin can from the bottom... Never turn over a calendar page a day early...

I read on an Australian forum the next wave of health issues from China is a form of Pneumonia.. I can only suspect it will be quite severe, drug resistant, and likely any other difficult to manage thing you can think of.. Facts, details, thoughts ?? ??

In the ..feed the birds.. thread it was mentioned birds like banana peels.. Thinking about it, so did the chickens.. One thing I heard about.. Seen tried, but I can't say there was an obvious result that I could see... Soak banana peels in water a day or two.. Use the water on garden...

In another thread there was discussion about wintering chickens... My 2 best tips and tricks.. Feed more protein and fat in winter.. We would get organ meats from our neighbors who had the butcher shop.. We would boil, grind, can this meat to feed in winter with beef suit available also...

The other day I saw a counter top convection oven in a thrift store... I didn't stop to look closely at it.. Just the label on it saying what it is.. From what little I know convection ovens are faster, better, more versatile in many ways than conventional ovens, full size or counter top...

OK.. So the species has been brought up kind of lumped in with coyote and such.. But in my experience with them it is a whole different animal to deal with, despite being a canid.. I have lived in the far north in the wolfs native range of habitat and a couple different habitats where...

It seems there have been a number of people killed by bears this late summer, early fall so far... A couple and there dog hiking in Banff Alberta Canada were killed by a grizzly... The bear was identified and ..taken care of.. A hiker was killed in Arizona (?) And a person died in Colorado...

Somewhere the subject got brought up... So a number of times I've had Pacific coast and lake salmon from the far north.. This shared by friends who sport fish.. It was always WONDERFUL tasting.. It never lasted long enough for any of it to get canned... So I looked up the procedure.. The...

Here is one of an interesting series of ...foreign prepping.. I believe from the Ukraine area of Europe.. For instance the fish being canned I believe is Asian Carp.. The same as the invasive species in the US.. I would like to try some of the things they are cooking.. However I would be...

Ran across this short first video in the Wartime Kitchen, Garden series... Several years ago we watched the DVD series the BBC put out for the Wartime Kitchen, Garden and the series Wartime Farm... As I recall there were 6-8 DVDs in each series about an hour each.. The series we watched...

Does anyone have experience with ...over the counter... hearing aids.. ?? ?? With a little research they seem to go from a bit less than $100 to about $300 a pair.. I imagine the variable being the type of loss you have compared to the next person.. For a long time now I have lived with...

Even retired from the tool and die machine shop all these years, I'm pretty good at most kinds of measurements.. However I have run into a number of ....odd... measurements in cooking, canning, preserving... For instance the post about ..pounds in quarts.. brought up some questions and of...

Now that I'm back by Lake Superior, it will soon be bear season... Tags are alotted by a draw system per region.. You can hunt over bait.. Of course there are a lot of rules about baiting.. However hunting over bait and with dogs is the best thing that can happen to bears for a lot of...

This poster has a number of videos about making homemade meals in a jar.. I like her approach to doing this as it is close to the recopies I developed that would survive in a cold climate.. I'm going look up as many of her videos as I can find... About the only 2 major differences I see is...

First time I ran across this web site, maybe 3-4-5 years ago now, it was 177 or so recipes.. I'm glad to see it has grown.. At the time we made some recipes.. For instance... The most notable that comes to mind is the recipe for the whole wheat bread.. The English called the ...National...

I found an article by the USDA linked on another forum saying eggs are suspected to be $12 a dozen this fall, later this year ?? Facts, details, rumors, thoughts ...?? ...