Seeds Seeds Seeds!

As everyone who reads this already knows, non gmo open pollinated seeds are very very important to your prepping, and are worth there weight in gold (or will be). At our little piece of heaven we use a method called bio intensive, or as I like to call it, the “cram all that stuff in there” method.
Usually we pick thru the 40+ seed catalogs that we get delivered, and come up with a list of what we need want that year. We have our favorites but we like to try a bunch of different things.
This year I happened across a website selling open pollinated seed bundles, I figured they would be similar to a lot of places out there. But this place was different right from the jump. They had an amazing collection of seeds, everything you could want plus more. They also carry seeds for herbs as well. I am a huge fan of customer service. I don’t feel like anyone owes me anything but the level of customer service that you receive defiantly dictates the kind of company that you are dealing with. The web site was very easy to get around and the few questions that I had, were answered right away with a quick email. The follow up emails that I sent them were all answered right away and they were a huge help in getting the information I wanted and needed.
Now the price… WOW I couldn’t believe what they were charging for such an amazing variety of plants. I would have figured I would have to pay twice the price, but nope they were wicked cheap. Almost to the point that I felt I may be stealing them.
Well the ground is still covered in 2 feet of snow so I haven’t had the opportunity to plant any of it yet but if the past is anything to go on I’m sure they will be great. I’ll keep updates throughout the year on here to let everyone know how things are turning out, as far as germination rates and such.

Oh and just in case anyone was wondering I didn’t receive any payment or free stuff from them. I try to make it a point to let everyone I can know when people or companies treat me right as well as wrong.


Please go check them out
http://backyardheirloomseeds.net/default.aspx

p.s. if you do order, tell them Kirk sent you!

Stages

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately, as everyone has, about the fate of the world and our country. It seems everyday something new has popped up that really gets my goat. It’s too much really, for any one person to deal with. So I have decided to move on to a new stage “acceptance”. The other stages won’t help either so I have decided to skip them as well. From now on I will try to give my take on the news when something huge happens but the rest of the time I will fill everyone in on what can be done to prepare as we all know “the end is near”. There are so many blogs that do an amazing job reporting what we all need to know so I will let them continue on with that and get back to what I started this fore in the first place.
So, if it helps here are the stages of grief. I feel they also apply to what everyone is going thru.

The stages are:

Denial
Example - "I feel fine."; "This can't be happening, not to me!"

Anger:
Example - "Why me? It's not fair!" "How can this happen, I hate this world!"

Bargaining:
Example - "Just let me live to see my children graduate."; "I'll do anything, can't you stretch it out? A few more years." I will give my life savings if..."'

Depression:
Example - "I'm so sad, why bother with anything?"; "I'm going to die . . . What's the point?"

Acceptance:
Example - "It's going to be okay."; "I can't fight it, I may as well prepare for it."

So Happy Prepping

Tomorrow I’m going to talk about seeds as we just got ours and wow am I impressed!

I may be crazy or I may be right, but either way I’m prepared!

Article 10

Finally I’m back! We just took the kids on a “vacation” (don’t get me started on that). Now its time to get back to work and back to preppin. I have a couple things on my mind today but this is the most pressing and I have been waiting for two days to get it out of my head, Resolution 6 in my home state of New Hampshire. I was very happy to find that it was introduced and equally as upset when I found out it was killed. It was the first good thing that we had done in a very long time and we threw it away to suckle at the tit of mother DC! Bullshit! So in an effort to better educate myself I have started to memorize the US Constitution and the New Hampshire constitution. That’s when I cam across this little tidbit that I find truly pleasing.

Article 10. Right of Revolution
“Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.”

APARENTLY OUR FORFATHERS HAD THE FORSIGHT TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE WHEN OUR CURRENT GOVERNMENT ONLY WANTS THERE OWN.

And from what I can find Kentucky Tennessee and North Carolina all have similar articles in there respective constitutions. It’s high time our Government upholds its constitution or sooner or later the people will.

Well I may be crazy or I may be right be either way I’m Prepared!

Pants !

I wear jeans almost exclusively, and I with everything I do from working outside to playing with my kiddos I have a hard time keeping them from getting ripped in the knees or pockets or someplace else. (I blame most of this on cheap labor and cost cutting on materials but that’s a different post) Last night I was out looking for a new pair as I had just shredded my last good “work” jeans.
Clothes are the only thing that we as a family “waste” money on, getting a new one instead of patching up the old ones and making due like we do with everything else we own and use. It kept running thru my head and wile I was in the store, Dam this is expensive they are just pants and then my top just blew. Like it does a lot. I put the pants back and made the decision to just start patching up my old jeans instead of making rags and shorts out of them. So off to the fabric store I went to get some suitable patches, and wow the price on cloth is ridiculous! Even for the odds and ends that I needed it was more than I though was a fair price.
So I said to myself “Self, how can I get free or cheap cloth, to make patches with?” That’s when I hit upon this answer, thanks to my grandfather, whom recently passed away. My grandfather used to get the longest pant he could buy and roll the bottoms up and hem them in place. (For reasons no one knows)
When you go to the store to buy a pair of pants, most people typically look for the waist and leg sizes that fit them. Not anymore with me, and this is why. Within a certain size range all the pants cost the same amount. So if your inseam is 30 and you buy 30 inseam pants your paying the same as the guy who buys 36 inseam pants yet he gets 6 inches more material. If you get pants that are as long in the leg that you can find, roll up the leg and hem them. That way, when you get a hole in the knee or seat of them you can use that extra material from the leg to patch them up! It may be cheap, but every penny counts at my house.
It falls in to the same philosophy in my mind, of take everything they are willing to give away. I do it with everything else from old windows on the side of the road to ketchup packets and the fast food restaurant to toppings on my sandwich from the sub shop to the pens at the auto body shop. My family thinks I’m wicked cheap and a little weird (as do most people) but you know what…… We haven’t bought ketchup and mustard in months, and I made 6 cold boxes out of windows I found free on the side of the road! So now I will start taking that extra 6 inches of material with my pants too. Lol. If someone is giving it away for free, take it, you’ll find a use for it, or someone you know may need one. Does anyone else do this or am I now a “lone ranger of cheapness”.
I may be crazy or I may be right but at least I’m prepared!

Freedom for money

WTF! Ok some of you may not agree with me on this but I see this as a huge failure of my state government. We are supposed to be the live free or die state! why does my government feel the need to protect me from myself? The only purpose of a seatbelt law is to generate revenue for the government. Our state is in a pinch just like everyone else but we don’t need to cow down to Washington for a couple dollars. It doesn’t protect anyone from anything! I wear my seat belt because I feel that it is safer to do so! This is an invasion of my privacy. This is BS! What’s next, are they going to come check that my aspirin bottles are child proof? That I have outlet covers in my sockets? I give you my word that if this passes and I receive a ticket for it, to jail I will go before I pay that.

Here is a link to an article about it.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/election/812

Ok quick post today just to pas on what happened to me this morning then tomorrow I’ll get back to business. This morning as I pulled out onto the road in front of my house I hit an icy patch, and my 2 wheel drive truck wouldn’t move, at all. I just sat there spinning wheels. I glanced up just in time to see a truck come around the corner going at least double the speed limit. And I couldn’t move. In reaction I yelled to my girls to hold on and threw my hand across them to pin them best I could in their seats. I tried to brace for the impact, wile watching in the rearview mirror as the truck speed closer. The other truck slammed on his brakes causing him to go into a sideways slide straight at my truck. Then suddenly, as he was only 20 feet or so from impact his front wheels caught, spinning him back straight and into the far lane. He flew past my truck and in front of me then spun in the opposite direction and slid to a halt sideways in the road again about 200 feet in front of me. We both hollered to make sure the other was alright, and other than the both of us needing a change of pants we were. I don’t know how that happened; I thought for sure I was in serious trouble, but some how he managed to spin around my truck like a running back twisting off a tackle. Both of us ending up untouched, I don’t think I could do it again if I tried. (Nor do I think I want to try)

Keep It Simple Survival: Uncle Bruce

Keep It Simple Survival: Uncle Bruce