Likely, nothing will happen
but we’re ready, if it does. The J-Man has positioned both generators. He’s fired them both up to be sure they’re running. We’ve got 30 gallons of non ethonol gas. Good to go.
Preparing for Gordon & His Spawn
Just conferred with the J-man. Asked if he’d mind running to town to fill up the two empty 5-gal. tanks with generator approved nonethanol gas. (And yes, I do have time to blog about this b/c we’re prepared!) With what we have on hand, that will give us enough to last a week if necessary–
Water: Our Greatest Accomplishment
It’s that 1/2 time of year again. Test & tally batteries. Replace & — now in the age of USB– recharge– flashlight batteries and other lithium ion things. We stay pretty up-to-snuff on ethanol-free gasoline as we need it everyday for the lawn-tractors, tillers & such, but I check to be sure we’re well-supplied for
How to Survive the Coming Collapse in Culinary Style
Freeze home grown peppers. I’ve got about eight pounds of them so far this year– about eight months’ worth. Ounce for ounce, pound for pound, peppers are higher in vitamin C than most citrus fruits. Peppers are good for you, and quite easy to freeze to use in your fall and winter dishes. If you
Recipe: Stuffed Peppers II
Last week’s menu called for a baked stuffed pepper dish Thursday evening. Recall we had no power Thursday– no oven. So Mr. Big Food prepared this stovetop dish instead. Though I could have used the flash for the photo, I thought the beam of the flashlight was a nice touch. They were delicious! Mr. Big
Must be a theme
Blue skies everywhere! Double Nickel Farm, New Mexico Framboise Manor, Nova Scotia
Prepping 101
After a while, you learn to take these things in stride. Here’s an expert: “The earthquake is inevitable. The only question is when,” said Lucy Jones, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. “It might not be another 50 years. Maybe even 100. Chances of us making it through the 21st century without the earthquake
Just when you think it’s safe enough to stay inside…
this happens. That’s one of the buckets the Girls gave me for Mother’s Day a few years ago. It’s coming in handy. It sits about… two feet from me. There’s another bucket just under the ceiling vent up there in front of me. When the sky is falling and I leave the house, I move
“So you think *you* can stack wood?”
Subject line of an email Mr. Big Food’s Dad passed along.Here’s a sampling of the attached images. Hoping American Grouch will enjoy them.
Pecan Math
We had a very satisfying dinner cooked in a clay pot this evening. Tender & moist A whole clove of garlic roasts in the clay pot, then is combined with butter to top the veggies. succulent After dinner chit chat, Daughter C and I got down to shelling pecans. We had been given, by Mr.
It doesn’t take much
to amuse us. These are mockernuts. Mockernuts are a species of hickory: Carya tomentosa. I got that from the infallible source, Wikipedia. It confirms what my Plant Book [1] and several tree identification books [2] say.Mockernuts are A. Leland’s gig. He’s been collecting, removing the husks, and shelling them. He reports the nut meat is
UPDATED | You Know What This Means, Don’t You?
It means I can’t sit around eating bonbons and watching my stories this afternoon. That’s what it means. Dang. UPDATE! Like magic the lights came on seconds after I called to inquire about when the lights would come back on. Now this should be fun. In lieu of watching my stories, I mopped the kitchen
Custom Made at No Additional Charge
I am pleased to report that thanks to Mr. Big Food’s unrelenting efforts in a small space of 50 square feet and wall heights ranging from 8-10 feet the prison-striped wall paper is history! As you may recall, there is no law (Yet? That I’m aware of?) forbidding home owners from affixing wall paper to
Happy New Year!
May 2013 bring you and yours ever closer to Happiness, Excellence, and Self-Reliance. ~~And speaking of Self-Reliance, New Hope Seed Company is having a sale! Plus, free shipping on order $25 or more.
This should be interesting.
Oh look. A senator. Someone from the UN & Mozambique. And Korea! Thank you Marica ______ , you have been successfully registered for the Technology Implementation at the Local Level: Food Security for the Future Conference. For additional information about the conference, please contact Benjy Mikel, director of the Mississippi State University International Institute, at
From This … To This … To Stewed Tomatoes
From fresh tomatoes To blanched and peeled Roma tomatoes & fresh peppers & onion & fresh basil & fresh oregano To stewed tomatoes As God as my Witness, we will never buy a tomato product ever again (except tomato paste and tomato juice). And I’m here to testify that we haven’t. Last year was not
I have a wringer.
More crappy old stuff In the developed world, we forget that there was once a time when washday meant “day” rather than “toss it in the machine and come back in 20 minutes.” In many parts of the world without access to electricity and clean water, that time is still now. Design students Alex Cabunoc
Speaking of which,
I did win something a few weeks ago! The Piglet– what we call the little Piggly Wiggly Super Market in our little town– has a weekly raffle premium distribution. Non-winning tickets Every time you make a purchase at The Piglet, you get a ticket(s). The number of tickets you get per purchase correlates roughly with
A Nice Little Chat
Not my Post Office. Mine’s way bigger! (haha) I happened to be out front today as my mail-lady drove up. Say what you will about the United States Postal Service (why in the world would you need to follow USPS on twitter?) but the ladies at my little post* office are very friendly and helpful.
Cooler Corn & Cardboard Cookin’ / Let’s Play Redneck
Two great ideas for when the lights go out, or when you just want to play like a Redneck. The first, Cooler Corn, comes via an email from Mr. Big Food’s Dad who I think gets more emails each day than Mr. Big Food (who gets a lot). The second, Cardboard Box Solar Oven, comes