Posted on 04/02/2010 5:05:17 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
Are you truly independent? Do you have the skills? Can you hunt, grow a garden, can food, sew-knit, live off the land? Are you ready? Do you possess the "lost" skills? Our family is ready. In obama's words, "bring it on". Once the economy collapses, I'll be here longer than the liberals and their pampered lives.
I rent a townhouse & have no garden area whatsoever. I just bought the long uv lights & I have them sitting sideways pointing toward the plants...I also have tinfoil behind the plants for extra reflection. I’m growing beans, cucs, cauliflower, & peppers. Another thing that I failed with the first time around, was the need for pollination. Now I take a qu-tip & touch the flower of one plant to the flower of another to cross pollinate. I also have a fan blowing very lightly on the plants to help them pollinate each other.
Won’t help you for a dirty bomb, which would be unlikely to contain the radioactive iodine for which the tablets are intended.
That’s only for a fission bomb which releases a lot of radioactive iodine.
Tonight’s not the night, but I will definitely look at this.
Ok, that makes sense. The radio commericals should point that out. I was thinking short term.
I may try that this year and hang on garden pole. beats digging and weeding!
SPEW!!!
ROFLOL!!
Costco litter, canned food, seeds, TP ping!
Oh, I’m not saying that anyone should necesarrily take everyone in, at least if they’re not willing to work. (I personally believe in trying to organize a society with many others, not protecting a cache like some Asian dragon). I should point out that I’m single, and far (1000’s of miles) from family, so I have to adopt a slightly different mentality than some other Freepers.
I’m just trying to point out that the logistics of many dead bodies are literally a nightmare. In a firefight, there may be many casualties, are they all going to be burned, what if one is a friendly, will the fire and smell of roasting flesh draw other looters nearby. Few can contemplate the disasterous conditions after a collapse. What if a cut gets infected and an arm or leg has to be removed, there are MRSA strains that the best medical care can do little about.
I just don’t invite the mayhem to come, Garlic is a great anti viral, and antibiotic, just in case the above worries some people.
I think the idea of dressing on a gun shot wound is to stop the bleeding and protect against infection. So you will need a regular sterile dressing against the wound to help the blood clot and be sterile so as to protect against infection (I don't think tampons are sterile).
The tampon is designed to absorb blood, so I would think it would be ok after the sterile dressing, but not against the wound itself.
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Best thing to do is talk to a local farmer or gardener in your area, and find what grows best, and yields the most.
It’s a pretty cool climate where I am. I couldn’t grow a cantaloupe if my life depended on it!
But lettuce, potatoes, cabbage, spinach, carrots, they all do great.
Corn I could grow but not right where I am because there is just not enough sun long enough during the day. (I’m surrounded by Doug Fir trees)
No one can have what they alone need for all the different scenarios that are possible. It’s romantic to think that you can survive off the land, hunting deer, fishing out trout, growing a garden. But everybody and their mother will be doing the same. Deer and fish will become extinct, and your garden won’t make it to harvest. Prepare, but pray it never comes to that.
THUD!!! (Sound of Lurker hitting the floor in shock...)
Congratulations!
Wow, I have been reading some, but never thought of the Tin foil on the reverse side! Thanks so much for that, I’m planning to try some growing. The q-tip suggestion is great. As a kid, my dad and I, (In vegas, where growing is a chore), used to take the “male” part of a plant and cross pollinate EVERY flower on other plants. It was a chore, but we always got good crops out of it.
He was a farmer as a youth, growing up in the depression, and knew of several small tricks like that. Thanks again.
Is that the upgraded model?
“Are you truly independent?”
Nobody is and anyone who thinks they can be is fooling themselves. We can be far less dependant on others and for material goods but for all practical purposes, no man is an island.
Bingo! And you had better be ready to guard your garden 24/7.
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