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I'm moving into a house 90 minutes away, at the edge of a smallish town. It has a well and septic, and while my nearest neighbors are close, we can't see each other, plus the house is nearly invisible from the road. Both the real estate agent and the home inspector I used had driven by it countless times over the years, and never knew there was a nice little house back in there! And that's just the way I want it.
I have an acre that has mostly lawn and some scraggly old shrubs right now, with a strip of woods along the road. I've been interested in permaculture for a long time, and am going to spend this year starting the transformation of this rather barren-looking place into a lush, edible landscape, as well as getting needed work done on the house (chimney capped properly, single-pane aluminum windows replaced, house painted, some minor electrical and HVAC issues addressed).
The place is fantastic, with so much potential, and in a wonderful location, and it feels like the right place to be; as soon as my offer was accepted I felt my anxiety drop. So whatever may hit the fan this year, I'm just going to hunker down and work on my house and garden, and get to know people in my new hometown.
Are you going to let it "grow wild" or bring in things that suit your desire?
I am wary of invasive species and right now, I am in the mind mode to keep this place as a nature preserve. It may be a defence against others trying to take the land, through means such as bureaucratic, though I haven't filed anything with the county.
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As someone who leans a lot in the prep direction but there is still so much left to do, like catfish-crawdad pond,.....
...........what is missing from your life of this kind that you still need to do?
For over 7 lustrum we have happily lived on the forested mountain, 80 acres with a year round creek, artesian springs (storage tank), a bass pond.
Sometimes on evenings when the air feels comfortable i go night fishing & catching craw dads to put in my bass pond, to keep up a healthy population. I catch some with traps (leave them out a day or two, with a can of tuna or cat food in the trap). I get a kick out of putting a bit of nightcrawler on a hook, yank about 75 in & put them in a 5 gallon plastic bucket with water. If they will be in bucket 1, 2 days i use a battery operated air pump, so the c dads stay healthy.
I also go catching bull frogs with a fair sized net on a long pole. Put them in a minnow box. Put them by/in my pond when i get home, to keep up a good population. Sometimes i catch tadpoles.
Once in a while a turtle comes to live in the pond, on its own accord.
Every now & then a Bald Eagle/ Osprey/Great Blue Heron/hawk take a few fish from the pond.
Such is the way of Nature...
Well, when the crap began to hit the fan, one of the first things that got damaged was part of my intel network, and a couple communications channels.
I have had to replace two of my intel sources, and reroute one comm channel.
Still working on building three other channels. In the end,
I will have one more source, and two more channels, than I started with.
Seems like the sound of the feces hitting the oscillating device woke a couple of my peers.
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....what is missing from your life of this kind that you still need to do?
Still working on a supply cataloging system, and an intel cataloging system.
Still need to get a better secure channel up and running.
It was lit during the Obama administration years. He was a vindictive president against those he didn't like.
It's a combination of social medias increasing influence, the media being exposed and discredited for pushing a political agenda. Social media is a huge cause in this mess.
Everything that is happening now is a reaction to that.
Hey, did you get out of WNY yet, man?
Speaking of which, communication without relying on apps or internet would be easier, the shorter the distance.
It was lit during the Obama administration years. He was a vindictive president against those he didn't like.
It's a combination of social medias increasing influence, the media being exposed and discredited for pushing a political agenda. Social media is a huge cause in this mess.
Everything that is happening now is a reaction to that.
The final slide towards oblivion began in the summer or fall of 2006.
With help from some scattered fraud, the people, having tired of
being prosperous and free, chose that Nov to become impoverished and enslaved.
(And, yes, those are the correct dates.)
I can trace the actual decline all the way back to the 50's, without any problem, and with some work, to many years before that. One oddity was that the marxists tried to get George Orwell to help them, as he was an influencer, but he refused, remarking "they must not have read what I have written." McCarthy Was Right: There Were Communist Infiltrators in America! - Liberty Hangout
I bet I can find at least one thread in this forum, each month since this sub-forum was first deployed (ten years?), proclaiming that "the crap has hit the fan".
Looking forward to my investments in the market doing well in the next several years. Just watch out for the asset inflation, I would hate to be trying to buy a house right now in any remotely desirable area.
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