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We both feel the same about borrowing money, everything we have is paid for in full and it's the reason he has managed to save what he has. Niether of us have any debt so he's been able to save instead of servicing loans or whatever.
It amazes me how most people I’ve talked with about money think avoiding debt is a bad thing. I can proudly say I don’t owe anyone anything, so what I make I am able to keep for me. I do use credit cards, both personal and business, I just never put anything on them that can’t be paid in full at the end of the month. The kid we hired recently told me his car loan was thirty percent. I tried not to choke when he told me.
 
Both of you are smart. I always saw interest as throwing money into the fire.
Most don’t really think about it other than the 38 dollars extra they pay each month (or whatever the interest is). But when you add it up over the entire year, or life of the loan, it becomes a substantial portion of your income.o
 
Yeah, I finally got around to ‘hiding some guns in plain sight’. This is something I have wanted to do for a while now. Primarily if someone breaks in while I am out I don’t want them leaving better armed than when they came in. I spent a good bit of time considering what and where to conceal throughout the house and finally came up with pretty good plans. Before I had everything firearm related stored in the same room, which made it really convient for some crack head to score some easy money. I even left some less desirable weapons out as a decoy so they hopefully would run off with them before really searching the place top to bottom. There’s a couple threads on here about hiding guns in plain sight with some good ideas. There are loads of websites dedicated to the topic too. Feels good to scratch that one off my list, and I really feel good that my defensive weapons are much less likely to end up on the street.
 
Last Thursday I ordered the wiring to connect my generator to the inverter. It was supposed to be delivered to the building supply store yesterday. So today I made the 60 mile trip only to find out it didn't get delivered. Maybe tomorrow. On the way home I got stuck in my driveway. Fortunately the snow bank kept me from sliding over the edge and rolling down the hill. Our road is covered with 3-6 inches of solid ice.
The wife ordered 35 meat chickens today. They should be shipped to the post office around mid May. That's about the same time her bees will arrive too. Once the snow is gone and the ground thaws out I'll build another chicken coop and setup an area for brooding the chicks. And make a bear proof enclosure for the bee hives.
The wife be home on Friday so I need to get this pig pen cleaned up before then.
 
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Last Thursday I ordered the wiring to connect my generator to the inverter. It was supposed to be delivered to the building supply store yesterday. So today I made the 60 mile trip only to find out it didn't get delivered. Maybe tomorrow. On the way home I got stuck in my driveway. Fortunately the snow bank kept me from sliding over the edge and rolling down the hill. Our road is covered with 3-6 inches of solid ice.
The wife ordered 35 meat chickens today. They should be shipped to the post office around mid May. That's about the same time her bees will arrive too. Once the snow is gone and the ground thaws thaws out I'll build another chicken coop and setup an area for brooding the chicks. And make a bear proof enclosure for the bee hives.
The wife be home on Friday so I need to get this pig pen cleaned up before then.

Will the new chickens survive in the cold weather where you live?
 
Will the new chickens survive in the cold weather where you live?
These meat breeds will be ready to butcher at around 16 - 18 weeks, so they should never see any cold weather. We don't want to winter any of the meat chickens. Eventually we plan to raise around 75-100 meat chickens for us and family.
Our laying hens do fine here in the winter. We picked the breeds that are most cold hardy and the best egg layers. We're getting up to 18 eggs a day now with 26 hens.
The hens don't like the snow too much until it packs down. After every snow I clear a large area with the tractor for them.
 
We were set to do some fence repairs today, I gone out 3:30am to warm a couple of vehicles and get them ready na, I only made it out to the porch... apparently we just got hit with a winter blast of snow that no one seen coming not even the weather people, project delayed.
They posted storm warnings last night for our area. We had high winds all night and this morning I can see clouds moving in over the mountains to the west of us. They're calling for up to a foot of snow today.
 
My sister in NY took a rough fall on ice today. Hope she is ok but still not sure why everyone doesn’t live in the south!

It’d be a lot more crowded. Huntsville is getting bad enough as it is. This end of Alabama isn’t like the other 3/4s of the state and is growing fast. They project Huntsville to be the largest city within the next 8 years. I’m really (not) looking forward to that....

Besides, could you imagine more Yankees telling you how they did it up north? Lol...
 
My sister in NY took a rough fall on ice today. Hope she is ok but still not sure why everyone doesn’t live in the south!
I hope your sister didn't get banged up too bad. I fell on the ice this morning too while I was getting in my Jeep. As I was going down I grabbed the door handle and wrenched my shoulder pretty bad.
There are several reasons why I'd never live down south; too many people, too many bugs, too many snakes, too flat and too humid. But mostly too many people. Nope, I'll take living in the mountains any day. However, there are times, like when my fingers and toes are frozen, that living at a lower elevation does sounds tempting.
 
It’d be a lot more crowded. Huntsville is getting bad enough as it is. This end of Alabama isn’t like the other 3/4s of the state and is growing fast. They project Huntsville to be the largest city within the next 8 years. I’m really (not) looking forward to that....

Besides, could you imagine more Yankees telling you how they did it up north? Lol...
I get lost nearly everytime I drive in Huntsville . Took a wrong turn one time and ended up in a Trailer park and People started coming out and looking , I got lucky it was a Red Neck trailer park so I fit in .
 
These meat breeds will be ready to butcher at around 16 - 18 weeks, so they should never see any cold weather. We don't want to winter any of the meat chickens. Eventually we plan to raise around 75-100 meat chickens for us and family.
Our laying hens do fine here in the winter. We picked the breeds that are most cold hardy and the best egg layers. We're getting up to 18 eggs a day now with 26 hens.
The hens don't like the snow too much until it packs down. After every snow I clear a large area with the tractor for them.

Old poultry farmer and breeder here: cold is not the problem with chickens. Heat is the problem, in the summer. That's why you have to slaughter the very heavy meat chickens early. You COULD do Cornish hens, you know. With some of them. That would be so fun. Do you have one of those feather pickers, or are you relying on Amish slaughter/picking? They do a good job.

Not that there is anything wrong with hot nearly boiling water and doing it by hand.

Seven hens have always been enough for our one small family, for eggs. Migod, they lay so many! More and you've got a consumption problem, or at least we did. You can feed them to dogs and cats, put extra in everything you cook, eat more egg dishes ---- it goes on. I am betting you are selling the excess, with 18 a day.
 
What did I do for prepping this week?

Himself is pricing a new backhoe, a smaller one than the big used construction one he did a lot of work with but it's breaking down bad. I'd like to see one that can plow snow. Yeah, I know it's Maryland, but we have our moments.

I have continued to try out this incredible flour I bought from Honeyville, 50 pounds of "Artisan" European-style flour. It's new here, you can get it in the fancier supermarkets like Wegman's, 3 lbs a bag, but I don't know what I'd do with tiny little bags like that. Now I really wish I had not bought the bread flour and cake flour. (Okay, 50 lbs each. Oops.) If I were doing it again I'd skip both of those and skip the low-protein American type "cookie" flour and just keep around the Artisan flour, high-gluten flour, and all-purpose. Oh, and their 50 lbs of cake mix, which is really quite good and can be changed with flavor and pretty much anything added -- squash, applesauce, spices, chocolate, eggs of course, whatever you want. That's easy to learn to use.

But the artisan flour makes the kind of bread Americans really like! The soft, fluffy breads. The crisp pizza crust. I simply can't believe I never knew this before --- the baking industry has been keeping secrets, that's clear. But it has only been available to the public the last year or so. It's a low-protein but high-gluten flour (I don't know how that works either) that is rated very low in protein (000) and that is why it makes such soft breads. Apparently the Europeans use it in Italy especially.
 

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