Dave Burton wrote:
I think having friends, good neighbors, and a supportive community might decrease one's "need" for income to get things one cannot produce themselves.
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Pearl Sutton wrote:
Dave Burton wrote:
I think having friends, good neighbors, and a supportive community might decrease one's "need" for income to get things one cannot produce themselves.
That gets back to the problems us neurodiverse types have with dealing with people. I moved to this town 2.5 years ago, there is one person who would care if I left, and another 8 or so that might notice I had left. It's not easy for some of us to have a supportive community.
Like Nicole assumes at the start of this thread "I am not managing it now,what makes me think it'll happen if SHTF?"
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Chris Kott wrote:Oh, I couldn't do that. I need to have my garlic whole so I can crush and mince it myself. It loses much of its flavour if it's pre-processed, I find, and if I let it sit for ten minutes after crushing and mincing, it gets more garlicky.
-CK
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elle sagenev wrote:
Chris Kott wrote:Oh, I couldn't do that. I need to have my garlic whole so I can crush and mince it myself. It loses much of its flavour if it's pre-processed, I find, and if I let it sit for ten minutes after crushing and mincing, it gets more garlicky.
-CK
But peeling garlic is THE WORST!
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Mike Barkley wrote:
Around here hillbilly is usually not considered a derogatory term.
I'd consider being called that a compliment because that's what I am... and a redneck, too.![]()
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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Rufus Laggren wrote:
In this thread, people have taken a slightly doubting look at all our motivations and capabilities. But, really (to go back to the beginning) NIcole, the OP, stepped right up and worked hard (and then harder) in the situation she found herself, coping and doing the necessary, and Lo, here she is amoung us to tell the tale! I have to say, that sounded a serious episode and it made me wonder how I'd do if lots "stuff" happens to me. Sure looks like Nicole passed the test or whatever in good standing. Really good standing. <g>
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Rufus Laggren wrote:
There is something on the other side of the teeter totter that people don't seem to have mentioned very much. Motivation. Rising to the need. Looking at scenarios, and getting doubtful or worried, we maybe should(!) remember that our worries and prognostications - they aren't what's real. We're "looking in" (in our imagination), we're not actually there (in the hard place we're imagining). I think that makes a huge difference, a _really_ huge difference, because the body and the spirit don't get energized and motivated by imaginary stuff. People really do "rise to the occasion" in the real moment and in fact become different people therein. And it's not just the individual, but also the nascent network, community, which many don't even know exists - until there is something _real_ for it to do.
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Marco Banks wrote:One of the realities that keeps coming back up is the fact that you've got small children. Those are LONG LONG days, when you've got little ones. I think you'll find that you'll have so much more time and energy in just 3 years. Hang in there mama.
Perhaps once the kids are old enough that you no longer need to pack a diaper bag and snacks when you go out to the car, you'll find that you'll have a bit more time to turn those homesteading fantasies into realities.
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