sundown soon, was a hot day in February here in the Banana Republic....
have been busy building the new garden, pickhoe most mornings,
trying to get ready for whats coming...
also have been reconditioning tools, removing rust with Ospho, and
painting... today painted a small hatchet & an 18 inch rula machete I
made, also made leather scabbard for.. Both hatchet & machete are
going into my bug out kit....
I also rebuilt a hoe dag tree planting tool, going to use it for
planting bananas etc...
the new garden is coming along fine, have been terracing, and soon
to break out into a flatter area where it should go much faster...
Also planted a couple experimental beds of papa chilicanas, where I
used rotten logs, forest duff, and brush choppings, mixed w/topsoil,
to create deep beds of compost to plant the spuds in...
my farm was a ruined cattle farm when I bought it, with zero topsoil
left.. in the last 15 years of rehab its grown an inch of topsiol
here & there, due to decomposition of the brush leaves etc....
So as I'm digging terraces, I pull all the organics and topsoil onto
the slope, and then carve the flats... Here in central america its
best to grow things if possible on slopes for better drainage, which
results in better tilth, while the flat surfaces get rain hammered and
stay soggy....
so my terraces are distinct, with the operative surface being the
slope, and the flats used for access paths, or growing rice, which
likes hard soil & does fine on mineral subsoils if you season them a
few years in clover... Its a limestone mountain... and I double dig
by carving the terrace toe into the deep mineral subsoil, and mixing
some with the organic material & topsoil on the operative slopes...
I've also been struggling with some dental work... seems mercury
fillings degrade ones teeth over time, as well as being toxic...
interesting how the experts are always puffed up about how much they
know, and later we get to pay for their mistakes, and their attitude
never changes.. theyre always wrong and pretending to be invariably
right...
anyway, glad I have a good dentist...
I did a low budget town run, got food, dentistry, and managed to buy
a couple small screw drivers, and a couple three cheap stainless
cookware items... bowls & fudge pans....
the screw drivers are replacements for some that grew legs, and
thinking to buy a couple more of the same size, and upgrade my sewing
awls... 70 cents and a couple hours with a file.... I use a fine 3
sided awl for sewing heavy leather, and a fine round awl for nylon
strap etc.......
I also found a yuppie style stainless water bottle for $3.65, and
snagged it for my refugee gear... its 26 oz. So a bit smaller than
the water bottles I've been making from stainless thermos liners and
plastic water pipe fittings...
I also found a couple of stubby 115 V light bulbs, for another
project; collecting parts to turn a cheap stainless chowder mug from
India, into a light bulb stove for my hotel survival kit... i wake up
in the wee hours of the morning, and would like coffee or tea, long
long before the latins drag sorry asses out of snuggly beds and open
their cafe's.....
and the hotels usually have no more than one electrical receptical,
so I can use their power to warm up my water & brown it some... and
the bulb stove would double as a lamp.. As hotel rooms here often have
the lowest wattage bulb possible, making reading after dark hard on
one's eyes...
I also searched online today, as my old fone batteries allowed, and
found the beginning of the trail to Arni Coro's QRP transcievers made
from lightbulb parts... arni is in wikipedia...
and he's spot on about transcievers from junk parts...
I think its the answer to government controlled web, and day after
armagedon scenarios; QRP very low power transcievers running a digital
web, beneath government radar, and at post nuclear power consumption
rates.. I suggest such webs have send & recieve intervals, and
computers retransmit to extend web outward....
I suggest all you folk who consider yourselves survivalists get into
QRP, AND GET SET UP, as government will soon be choking your web
access down to politically correct pablum & more than mildly incorrect
propaganda... Read; official lies.....
and the only way around the faggot bastards is going to be low power,
mobile, HF webs.....
and after they get done nuking the dogshit out of our pretty bluegreen
planet, you'll be lucky to find five watts laying around to use to
communicate with...
that kind of wattage can be had from crude home brewed batteries, or
nearly dead car batteries...
also suggest again everybody get a download library going, stored EMP
proof... would be wise for the hackers to get around wikipedia's
silly online only format, and down load it onto EMP shielded hard
drive arrays etc...
cause baby, your going to miss it when its gone..
and if everybody who can, stores as much as possible, it can be
brought back to life.....
anyway, I'm digging in here... The New Zealand quake wasnt lost on
me... earthquakes & food shortages in diverse places, and wars &
rumors of wars, is starting to smell real familiar....
and so most mornings I'm swinging my heavy grub hoe, headed for a one
acre subsistence garden to grow even my staple crops in..
I rely on the system, like I trust my exwife...
actually the ex has become a better person... While the government has
become a terminally insane collective entity....
best you run from it... Its a real monster...
I feel quite content reducing my contributions to governments to less
than I give to street beggars... as the beggars seem to be better
quality humans than politicians and bureauocrats....
and every cent possible I'm trying to upgrade or augment my survival
gear, especially agricultural tools...
strange thing; I'm getting forged hoe heads here in central america
for $8, thats the price of 8 pounds of dry beans... imagine if our
anscestors could have traded 8 lbs of beans for a tool capable of
growing tons every year?
so I'm trying to get a few extra hoe heads, for those stragglers who
happen to survive hell day...
a hoe head will sure be worth more than it's weight in gold after the crash....
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