Posted on 12/22/2014 5:56:30 PM PST by bkopto
Who doesn’t enjoy snuggling down with a good book. The best is an old cookbook. The older, the better.
I was half raised by my grandparents. Learned about farm animals from my grandfather and to garden and cook from my grandmother. Too bad those times are lost on the current generation.
Hi;
I love Susan’s knowledge and confidence - it’s inspiring to a scaredy-cat like me. This summer I will try some of the acid things, to get started.
My family came a little later. I picked 1630 to be safe, because I couldn’t recall the exact, earliest date where my genealogist aunt found record of us here. (She took it much further back in England and Wales; and knowing that stuff makes history really come alive!)
I will dig out the records someday soon, and figure out the real date.
JT
I was our family’s genealogist. Granny would say they’re all dead and gone so who cares. One time while visiting granny’s wackadoodle sister, her husband took us out to the horse barn where we found a box of old family photos which he gave to me. The horse barn! Rats, bugs, rain, snow, hay dust and manure! That got me started. Those ancestors became real from photos and letters. Sadly, the kids couldn’t care less. Some of the original documents were donated to the University of Texas but apparently they don’t care either because they were never catalogued and now lost. Some things are ready to be sent to Texas Woman’s Univ but I don’t want them treated the same as UT did. Other items (we never threw anything out) have been sent back to the small towns the family came from and they’re appreciative but those museums seem to be dying out and are being packed up. Anyone know where to send family history where it’s appreciated?
It always amazes me to think that it’s only two steps of acquaintance from me, to my grandma, to Civil War era relations...
When I was a kid the menu was easy, beans, potatoes, cornbread, wild greens(edible weeds)
...and you turned out just fine. There you are. Actually, in my case, I’d probably benefit from a diet like that, at least for a few months. My heels, arches and tendons would be appreciative.
Some might debate that but in any case I managed to outlive most of those folks.
How about a 1400 gal cistern that takes a couple of hours to fill with a generator and a couple of gallons of gas. I can go a long time. I also live on a lake and have a number of "Water Straws".
Those activities will become part of your life and you won't have a lot of the normal distractions if the SHTF.
I have about a 100 issues of that old hippie magazine "Mother Earth". Among all my prepper food I have mucho Chili Powder for any critters I may have to harvest to add to rice, beans, corn etc.
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