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Post by tripwire on Dec 30, 2008 9:41:08 GMT -6
Just a few thoughts, ya kno, I spent 35 years in Montana, and while I will always head back there in the summer, it's nice being someplace warm in the winter, guess I'll quit making nasty remarks about snowbirds..
I've come to enjoy the weather here in the Piny Woods of Texas And seeing how much easier it would be to survive here as far as growing food even in the winter it's funny it took so long to sink in . Today I plan to look for some non hybread seeds, been meaning to stock pile a bunch and feel it's time to stop talking and start doin... I'll start on my cabin in the pines soon, small but snug... what more does one need?
Trip
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Post by sis on Dec 30, 2008 10:03:41 GMT -6
Bring some of that "warm climate, easy growing" Nor't with ya when you come.
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Post by tripwire on Dec 30, 2008 11:07:19 GMT -6
Will do Luv...will do.. better yet I could bring you to the warmer climate...
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Post by Muffie on Dec 30, 2008 14:06:59 GMT -6
Trip, you know it will take an act of a greater power than you to get her and her beloved to move. You need to visit a place called Baker Creek check them out at www.rareseed.com
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Post by tripwire on Dec 30, 2008 18:36:56 GMT -6
thanks Em yea they have no adventure in their soul...I on the other hand have stepprd into the twilite zone...lol..you would not believe what all I'm either doing or bout to do....
After I get into it I'll post it as I go...but Loonie is to blame for sure... well her whole fam is...
But ya kno, I feel like I have a purpose again...
I did bookmark that site along with several others I found today...
Will be looking into starting a garden soon...weather is so nice here that care most anything can be grown year round... thinking about a greenhouse too...may as well go whole hawg!!
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Post by sis on Dec 30, 2008 22:03:46 GMT -6
NO Adventure in my so'l? Dear man... who you talking about?? I'm the Tank's mommy and that's plenty enuf adventure for right now!
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Post by Muffie on Dec 30, 2008 22:07:02 GMT -6
Will be looking into starting a garden soon...weather is so nice here that care most anything can be grown year round... thinking about a greenhouse too...may as well go whole hawg!! Oh Heavens what has Lunny gone and done to you man...green house...going whole hawg...Quick Sis you and da sheriff get to Texas quick and save the man. If you don't hurry we will be calling him Farmer Brown instead of Grumpy O'l Bear Glad you are getting your spunk back Trip we have missed you.
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Post by tripwire on Dec 31, 2008 0:00:22 GMT -6
Ya know, here's the thing, we all talk about preping and the end of days stuff, but if your gonna survive and live like a rat in a hole why bother,
If your able to grow your food and be warm without 40 cords of wood per winter then ya best be thinking about someplace where you can survive mans problems without having to fight mother nature to boot.
I was looking for such a place but in truth the area I was thinking about has almost as much winter as MT... here I can have it all and not fight Mother nature. well except for storms etc...but 40 below and a stiff wind takes the fun outta being a survivor...
Anyway, I like it here and where I'm gonna build my cabin is a real nice spot...
of course if the shtf while I'm in MT for the summer I'll have to have two stashs...
anyway, I'm cooking the ideas..will let yawl kno how it shapes put...
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Post by sis on Dec 31, 2008 10:07:21 GMT -6
And when you come home, you can give ME gardening tips.
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Post by sis on Dec 31, 2008 10:11:08 GMT -6
Oh Heavens what has Lunny gone and done to you man...green house...going whole hawg...Quick Sis you and da sheriff get to Texas quick and save the man. If you don't hurry we will be calling him Farmer Brown instead of Grumpy O'l Bear Glad you are getting your spunk back Trip we have missed you. [/quote] Good Grief , Muffin!What do you take me for? Don't you know that there's no saving Trip from himself? I can work an occasional miricle, but nothing of that magnitude. Besides...I like seeing him smiling again.
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Post by Muffie on Dec 31, 2008 15:53:59 GMT -6
Good Grief , Muffin!What do you take me for? Don't you know that there's no saving Trip from himself? I can work an occasional miricle, but nothing of that magnitude. Besides...I like seeing him smiling again. what was I thinking
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Post by tripwire on Jan 3, 2009 13:50:07 GMT -6
If you two are thru making jokes... ;D...
I've made a leap of ..faith?, I'm going with an earth bag house.,.."round" 20 ft diam...with a wrap around porch, also earth baged up to the 4 ft mark..making the whole 30 ft in Diam... the roof beams will bolt to a large log center pole and extend all the way out to the eve of the porce, with the space between the porch 4 ft wall and the roof all glass and screen...making it the bed rooms, screens in the summer and windows in over the winter...
Yes Loonie is turning me into an old hippy... BUT..the cost will be very low...and tornado proof for the most part..and bullet proof... with the porch wall that makes it doubly safe up to 4 ft inside..
This thing is gonna be a lot of work but about 95% cheaper then stick built... so I can hire some young folks to help out and they get credits for helping with an eco project..
it's really more sq ft then I need, but I like big open spaces unbroken with walls...and "NO" halls!!!!!!
SO THERE...THUPTH
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Post by Muffie on Jan 3, 2009 15:08:10 GMT -6
Turning you into an old Hippie...nah she is just helping you find your inner child...
The house sounds wonderful build me one too? There in Texas would be just fine.
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Post by deerslayer on Jan 4, 2009 18:40:29 GMT -6
well, congrats trip--I love texas so much!!!! I really miss it--you may have decided to live pretty close to me over here in LA. Maybe we'll be neighbors and cause trouble togeather. The house you are thinking about sounds wonderful. I am a true believer in "smaller is better" homes. I have done the giant home (over 4000 square feet) and the small yurt (30 foot diameter) and now this place (900 square feet--mainly kitchen) and I choose this one every time. Once you get used to small living it is hard to go to the big places again. I have a 30 x 30 house with a wrap around porch. On the back, the porch is 12 feet wide and screened. It has a living area, dining area, and queen size bed. PERFECT Enjoy your new climate!!! I know I do--it is much different down here in LA from the coldness of the texas panhandle. I can grow so much more types of things and almost year round garden--(could year round garden if I wanted to).
Let us know how it's going!!
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Post by tripwire on Jan 6, 2009 13:18:38 GMT -6
Ya kno, I've been almost stressing out over this building idea and getting started, reading books etc etc...
Well along about sat I was talking to Loonie and all of a sudden I had one of them E-pif-anies..so to speak...It came to me that yea i want to get to building, but the flat out truth is that right now I'm not in shape to do it...in 4.5 months I'm faceing full knee replacement with long rehab. on top of that I've spent so much time sitting on my Azz, because it hurts to move, and because I've gotten really lazy... now none ofthis is a good recipe for getting this project done... on top of that my mind is still trying to encompass what this undertaking will entail...lots different from standard construction..who different layout...so...now that I've awakened my brain to reality instead of dreaming I can see more clearly now the path I need to take, first getting me healtyh and strong enough to do the work but to also to be able to recover from surgery sooner....
So i will spend my time till May trying to lose weight as planned, working out , and drawing out my plans for this home..... prior planning prevents pisspoor performance...or so they say...
Trip
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