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That would be pretty economical wouldn't it Willie?

I buy all my rough cut fir from a guy three hours south of me Cory. I need a few thousand more board feet anyway, I might ask him. Folks would get wintered in Butch and starve to death or freeze. Sometimes they would be able to make it to a neighbor, sometimes not. There must have been a...

A couple hundred miles I suppose. Dad built logging trails for an outfit in the mountains south of me one winter. He never got paid. I should look into it. What do you suppose a load of logs would be worth? Not good logs, but crappers.

Ha! The Indians burnt buffalo shit, so did the early settlers I guess. I cant believe that my ancestors did though. Well, my white ancestors. We have it so good today. The early homesteaders up here had no timber, so they lived in dugouts. Just like you would think, a cave dug into a...

I have my great grandparents Majestic wood cook stove in my house. Grandpa and I would use it during our long and frequent power outages. I know you can burn coal in it, but would rather burn wood. Once I figure out how to make bread in that oven I will be unstoppable! Grandpa was...

One thing I have been trying to figure out is how the hell did my great grand parents, who homesteaded in 1914 out here, make smoke for their smoke house? The original smoke house is in dads junk pile. It was probably 6x6 and 8 feet tall. There are no trees. Could they have had hard wood...

Where are you moving too?

I see what you are saying Chris. I see it more as requiring the skills to do it for my self, rather than just gathering enough stuff to get through a bad time.

Yes! Its good to shop in nature! I would love to fish the ocean. We talked about that last night Dave, my wife and I. We are probably as guilty as anyone, but we dont consume like some folks we know. We dont replace anything until its worn out, or cant be re purposed. An interior...

I have been thinking the last couple of years about becoming more self sufficient. With the political landscape as wonky as it is all around the world and at home.....trillions in debt.....well, I am kinda worried about a global crash that we can't spend our way out of. I have been reading a...