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I m like an old shaggy loner dog. I saw a tattered blanket in the back corner of a shed . I laid down on the blanket and so far no one has swatted me with a newspaper and run me off, so as long as the people are nice I will just hung around. and protect this shed from squirrels
 
Frodo said:
I m like an old shaggy loner dog. I saw a tattered blanket in the back corner of a shed . I laid down on the blanket and so far no one has swatted me with a newspaper and run me off, so as long as the people are nice I will just hung around. and protect this shed from squirrels
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There are a few people here that need a good ole newspaper swattin', but you are definately not one of them!!🙂
 
Why I joined?? Was looking for a group that could actually discuss homesteading, gardening and good old fashioned ways of doing things, with a little prepping mixed in. This place came up in the web search and peeking in could see a great bunch of folks. I'll hang around as long as ya'll let me.
 
hashbrown said:
I think I joined PS in 2012, thats 10 years now with several of you. I consider some of my virtual friends real friends. There are a lot of fantastic folks here and I look forward to my daily time. Love Y'all
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It looks like you and I joined PS at about the same time.

I like many of the people here, but I don't like everyone and some do not like me! I've been in this forum since very early on, but not exactly at the beginning. December 3, 2017 was the big day when a large group of us signed on, coming over in mass exodus from PS. I believe that is fairly universal, isn't it, that we don't get along with everyone?
 
Weedygarden said:
It looks like you and I joined PS at about the same time.

I like many of the people here, but I don't like everyone and some do not like me! I've been in this forum since very early on, but not exactly at the beginning. December 3, 2017 was the big day when a large group of us signed on, coming over in mass exodus from PS. I believe that is fairly universal, isn't it, that we don't get along with everyone?
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I like a weedygarden
 
I thought this was a Dating Site. And at the time I joined, I was considering a good dog, or a bad-bad-bad woman. I ended up with 37 huge Geese. Sometimes you just have to appreciate what is granted unto you.
 
I joined because people here are nice regardless if they agree with you or not.
Also sharing of info is great, we all have our strengths and it’s good to learn from others.
we are going to be homesteading very soon and I enjoy learning from those who have already done it, as well as contributing to those who will do it after.
 
I came here because the other place was dying of rot and everyone was trying to post about a better place.
I never got banned but I keep some things to myself.
 
SheepDog said:
I came here because the other place was dying of rot and everyone was trying to post about a better place.
I never got banned but I keep some things to myself.
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It was definitely in a downward spiral, no doubt about that! It is still circling the drain.

I joined SB in 2008 and never really participated much because there were so many know it all's there. I joined to learn about prepping. There is no doubt that SB had and has lots of content, just not always delivered in a friendly manner. In 2012 I joined PS, and most people were really friendly and when people got really snarky, they were relieved of the privilege of being members. Whenever that happened, you could see it coming before it happened.
 
I was looking for somewhere to chat with others about gardening, self-sufficiency, etc. This forum has a good array of topics, active but not overwhelming (which is good for me) and everyone seems nice. I’m also hoping that having a place to talk and post updates will encourage me to do more around my place. I’ve been having a tough time lately, I have to work full time and have other stressors taking a toll. I’m glad to be here.
 
where else would I find people who would like my useful machines repurposed from mostly stuff other people had left for dead, or not worthy of "life" support
 
Chaosdawn said:
I was looking for somewhere to chat with others about gardening, self-sufficiency, etc. This forum has a good array of topics, active but not overwhelming (which is good for me) and everyone seems nice. I’m also hoping that having a place to talk and post updates will encourage me to do more around my place. I’ve been having a tough time lately, I have to work full time and have other stressors taking a toll. I’m glad to be here.
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Your first concern for being self sufficient should be water
do you have a water source besides a city water meter?
pond? lake? stream? rain catchment system?

second concern is shelter, then food, medical provisions
 
I came here because the place I was had a few people that obviously came from dysfunctional families , drama fill and always complaining. Some of you here have made me feel like I have known y’all for years + the PG-13 rating also makes it nice.
 
I came here because I think, in general, we have lost the art of growing our own food without chemicals. I think a time is coming when we will need to know how to grow our own food. I saw, before the pandemic, how easily the supply chain could be broken. And I thought, "Before Miracle Gro...there were worms, pigs, horses, cows, leaves...we must relearn to work with nature to eat." I need to learn more. I've been trying for years...last year and the year before were bad due to my brother in law's passing. So this year is a reset for my family.
 
Acdoctor said:
I came here because the place I was had a few people that obviously came from dysfunctional families , drama fill and always complaining. Some of you here have made me feel like I have known y’all for years + the PG-13 rating also makes it nice.
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Hmmm, let me guess where you were! I believe I know. There is so much knowledge in some other places, but the way people treat each other is so bad! Yes, the PG-13 rating is great.

In November, this group will have been around 5 years. I remember in the beginning thinking, "But there is no content!" Slowly but surely, we have been building up the content here.
 
I think Weedygarden PM'd me, all I know is that this is the only place I want to be, great info and good people. I want to add that I have dropped other non homesteading forums and this is the only one I now post on, I'd say that, that says a lot about how good this site is.
 
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Weedygarden said:
I came here, in faith, following some who started here. I came from a forum that I joined to learn about preparedness.
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I came here because I have 65 years of agrarian background that got pretty much shelved due to being permanently crippled by a more than likely drunken hit-and-run driver that left me to die in a ditch 11 years ago. It was my dream to farm. I spent the first 55 years of my life honing farming skills. My hope is to share the knowledge that I have acquired with any and all who wish to share in it.


For the first eight years of my life I lived on a dairy farm in Storrs, CT where the University of Connecticut Huskies are found. I and my two brothers had the run of the farm. I loved that time of my life. We would be given a nickel and would walk, unsupervised around the two miles into Storrs to spend it on the typical junk that enamors any young kid.

We moved to Arizona in 64 and everything changed. From having the run of an entire farm to living on a postage stamp urban lot. Peoria at the time was a farming community. There was an alfalfa field that backed up to our back yard, so it wasn't entirely citified living. I proceeded to fill the back yard with chickens, rabbits, guinea pigs, a few ducks, etc., kind of Dr. Doolittle in miniature.

I got my first job throwing newspapers at the age of ten. I was too young, to get the route on my own so I conned my 11-year-old brother into getting it and then split it with him because 11 was old enough to have a route.

Work history as best as I can remember:

I started throwing the Phoenix Gazette at the age of 10. I kept a menagerie of chickens, ducks, guinea pigs, and rabbits in the back yard, I've worked in the cotton fields, tromped cotton, baled alfalfa, worked alongside the non-English speaking field workers from South of the border in the watermelon and onion fields, was a grocery carry out and worked at a pizza parlor all before graduating high school in Peoria, Arizona.

Learned how to weld in Vocational Agriculture shop. Pounded nails framing houses. Worked at a warehouse in Phoenix, Arizona that handled all of the cigarettes for the entire state. Was a teacher's aide in the Vo Ag department at Peoria High School. Delivered roof trusses around greater Phoenix.

Worked sorting feeder pigs in Ava and Thayer, Missouri and on a cattle on a ranch, doing everything from castrating/dehorning to building fence in Arno, Missouri,

Worked on a 300-cow, total confinement 3X a day milking dairy in Ellington, Connecticut and an 85 head 2X a day dairy in Randolph Center, Vermont. Worked at a sand-molded clay brick manufacturing company in Middletown, Connecticut and a Machine shop in Newington, Connecticut that did machine work for Pratt-Whitney Aircraft and some work for NASA.

Worked at a Rainbow trout fishery, and as a deputy sheriff in Ava, Missouri, I rebuilt hydraulic cylinders, (re-sealed, straightened bent chrome rods, replaced honed tubes and liquid-tight arc-welded, cut threads and machined any part necessary from steel or cast-iron stock in order to fix them.) I can arc weld flat, vertical and overhead, MIG weld, TIG weld, carbon arc, plasma cut, and ornamental ironwork. I've been a portion-controlled meat cutter, commercial sign installer, construction equipment transporter/operator (backhoe, dozer, track loader) and run dump truck. I've worked with draglines, wheel loaders, jack hammers and just about any kind of construction and industrial equipment and hand tools you could name. I've delivered class eight trucks all over the lower 48 and overland from Vancouver Island to Nova Scotia, Canada for a company based out of Kenosha, Wisconsin.

I consider myself a cattleman. I judged dairy in FFA, took an AI course and studied embryo transfer. I can get a full breach calf out of a cow, raise it to slaughter, butcher it, cut it up into retail cuts, cook it and serve it to you.
 
Wow @Wyatt, that's quite a diverse background. Looks like you moved around a lot CT, AZ, & MO. I'm sorry that you are disabled, that is a tough pill to take.

The wife always put off doing things till after the kids were raised, right after the kids were raised she started having medical issues that left her mobility impaired. Now she can only look out the window and talk about gardening with her father. About 15 years ago she lost the ability to drive due to loss of movement her right leg and she blacks out unexpectedly. That combined with not being able to get to the car unassisted pretty much ended driving. She hates the loss of independence and the isolation resulting from the mobility issues.

I know you have a lot to share and look forward to your posts.
 
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