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Comment on What did you do to prep this week? by Jarhead 03

Jarhead 03 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:41:09 +0000

Worrisome, my main plan is bugging in. Bugging out is last resort and I have my plans and routes be it northern Ca or the trek across the desert.
I would move out of California but I have too much keeping me here. My career requires I do 30 years in the company for retirement, I would be 60 by then so I’m looking at second homes in small mountain towns with a population of 1,000 to 5,000 and there are many of them in southern and central California where people only visit during the ski season.
That won’t happen for a few years before I can do that.
My food preps are good but I want to bump up to 12 months instead of 9 months.
My firearms preps are in the event the Governor puts another tax on firearms and firearms related gear. I want the firearms prep to be so solid that if they decided to ban more items or spike the prices I won’t have to worry.
I shoot once a month to keep my skills fresh.

Thanks for the concern and I think I will be good. My biggest concern is earthquakes, another potential riot.
Some around here (my area) think the Chinese may invade, I tell them they have financially but won’t militarily and tell them avoid buying Chinese when possible.

Comment on Formal study in herbal medicine – what you don’t know could kill you… by JeanneS

JeanneS — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:44:47 +0000

ccooolwoods, I’m that rarity in the modern world — I don’t drink soda! Never developed a taste for it. My favorite beverages are water & unsweetened iced tea. Okay, and a slight Starbucks coffee habit. :-)

My neurologist determined that my migraines are largely hormonally-related. They started at puberty, disappeared entirely during both pregnancies (I would have had more than 2 kids if I hadn’t developed a non-related problem that made further pregnancies dangerous), and tend to occur more often at certain times in my cycle. The doc said if I’m lucky, they’ll disappear or reduce greatly once I hit menopause, but I’m still 10 or 15 years away from that. You can bet no woman has ever been as eager for menopause as I am!!!

Comment on Formal study in herbal medicine – what you don’t know could kill you… by JeanneS

JeanneS — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:36:03 +0000

bmerry, my allergic reaction was that the entire inside of my mouth (except for my teeth & tongue) started turning bright red, becoming highly inflamed, painful & swelling, and bleeding. It was like my gums & under my tongue & the insides of my cheeks just started slowly weeping blood — not a lot, but just enough that you could see it if I kept my mouth open for a minute or two. It began about a week after beginning a daily regimen of dried feverfew in caplets, lasted for about 4 days until I figured out that it could be connected to the feverfew, and and continued until 24-36 hours after I stopped taking the caplets. It obviously wasn’t life-threatening, but I was terrified what it might have been doing to the rest of my digestive tract. Nothing like that has happened before or since, I had to conclude it was the herb.

Comment on Weatherization on a Dime; Pt1 (or $ .30 Inflation ya know!) by Red

Red — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:23:18 +0000

Passive solar home, built one up here in the northern midwest. Works best when the mass being heated by the sun is inside the insulation envelope of the home. Need to pay attention to the type of glass, you want high SHGC (.6 or higher usually). Should have about 12-15% of the total square house footage in south-facing glazing (for a 1200 sq ft home, 144 to 180 sq ft of south facing glazing), with the roof overhang calculated to block the summer sun for your latitude (there’s calculators online for this). Solar radiant barrier in the attic can help reflect the summer heat. Passive solar / ICF combo is the way to go imo, we have to open a vent or we can’t keep a fire going in the woodburner its so airtight.

Comment on What did you do to prep this week? by Encourager

Encourager — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:17:51 +0000

I just talked to Frigidaire about my ceramic top stove. She said no pot can be over 1 inch bigger than the element; and nothing heavier than 50#.
That eliminates the hot water bath canning I have done on it! And I am sure a pressure canner full of quarts weighs over 50# or close to it. Rats.

Comment on Homemade cleaning products – what you need to know by TG

TG — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:55:09 +0000

I was just looking thru one of my favorite sites that deals with herbs, essential oils, and other such stuff when I found in their archives a page full of cleaning recipes. Figured I would post here so if anyone is interested they can go take a look
http://mountainroseblog.com/2011/03/

You do have to scroll down a bit. It is the third post down titled “green spring clean”

Comment on What did you do to prep this week? by Cliff in Douglasville

Cliff in Douglasville — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:58:59 +0000

Incredibly frustrated with a friend today. He and his wife stopped by last night. He was openly carrying a new S&W .40 automatic pistol. Very nice pistol. I asked him about it and he unholstered and handed it to me saying “oh, there is one in the chamber and there is no safety”. I have never handed anyone a loaded gun unless they were getting ready to fire it. I’m shocked that any rational person would hand over a loaded gun. When I showed him mine the first time I ejected the magazine, checked the chamber, put the magazine in my pocket, checked the chamber again and then handed it over to him. What are people thinking these days. Then, he is wearing a holster with a restraining strap and saying that he was going to cut the strap off since it gets in his way. I asked him what happens to the pistol if he runs or if someone walks up beside him and removes the pistol from the holster. He hadn’t even considered the possibilities.

I shouldn’t have been too surprise, I had given him a surplus CZ -53 pistol when he had nothing to protect the house with. I went over all the features of the unloaded gun then we went out back and fired it a few times. It is an automatic and has an external hammer. I showed him the decocking lever and told him how to decock it. He fired it a couple of times then tried to hold the hammer back with his thumb while he pulled the trigger rather than decocking. He wasn’t aiming downrange at the time. I hit the ground and ate some dirt trying to get out of the way. No idea where that bullet went.

I believe that if I am going to gift someone a firearm, from this point on, it’s going to be something like a Russian Nagant rifle that is really hard to do stupid stuff with. Perhaps I give my fellow man too much of the benefit of the doubt and too much credit for having the necessary knowledge to be handling a fire arm.

Comment on Weatherization on a Dime; Pt1 (or $ .30 Inflation ya know!) by axelsteve

axelsteve — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:39:07 +0000

And they think that they can run healthcare. ha ha ha ha.

Comment on Weatherization on a Dime; Pt1 (or $ .30 Inflation ya know!) by axelsteve

axelsteve — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:37:46 +0000

Penny Pincher. You may want to replace at least the bedroom windows for your tennents, it will at least make there rooms warmer and they will save money on the juice.Also the plexiglass windows may not be up to code so you may want to install real glass windows.It may save you a code violation. Steve

Comment on Let’s talk about water storage by Kelekona

Kelekona — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:24:15 +0000

During a period in history, everyone drank beer because ordinary water was unfit for human consumption. A university “Science of Beer” department actually ran an experiment where they took filthy water from a duck pond and found that there were no bacteria by the time they made it into beer. (They didn’t say whether or not they strained the chunks out, I’m just assuming that they might have ran it through a couple layers of cloth.)

I think it was the boiling that made the water safe to drink, rather than the aggressiveness of the yeast.