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Having fun with booze
Buy a sack of these
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Cut the top off one of them
Pour out/remove. 2 shots worth
Replace what was removed with 100 p vodka
Steal your ladies curling. Iron and seal it back up
Freeze. And enjoy
 
Proud Prepper said:
I have not. A friend in our prepper group does. He makes a Strawberry n Muscatine wine and a bayou moonshine about 150 proof.
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Give this to your friend
Spiced Rum Recipe

4 gallons Blackstrap Molasses
16 gallons Water
4 crushed Vitamin B Complex tablets
4 tablespoon Bakers Yeast

Ferment as normal
4 strips / 1 spirit run
Age on toasted/charred oak for 1 year or more

Spice Mix:
4 Cloves
1 pinch Ginger
1 pinch Nutmeg
1 Cinnamon Stick
1 Vanilla Bean, split
12 Raisins
1 3” tangerine peel
1 Black Walnut, halved

Leave in for 3 days, strain, dilute to your choice
 
I am perplexed by some of the behavior I have seen in this thread. Nothing has changed, nothing bad has happened, anger is not warranted, but some people have really blown their gaskets. And for the life of me, I can't see what for. I am embarrassed. I know I can't put words in someones mouth and apologize for them, but I sure wish I could.

This thread has now wandered off into the most random of directions, and I kind of hope it stays that way. I am scared of what I will see if it drifts back to "on topic".
 
Haertig said:
I will admit, as @Hardcalibres pointed out, this name threw a fright into me as well. Unfortunately, "doomsday" in the same sentence as "prepper" conjures up thoughts in my head of someone digging a ten foot deep hole and burying themselves in it. But I will also admit, that when Phideaux drug me kicking and screaming over here, I was concerned about the term "homesteading". I kept pointing out that while I would love to, I don't live on a homestead and wouldn't fit into the forum (in my mind, I picture a homestead as the property in the opening credits of Bonanza). And giving equal due to other's feelings, I'm sure at least a few heard that I came here from a "firearms" forum and prejudged me to be a whacko militia guy.

So maybe we shouldn't think of forum names in a prejudicial way.
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Most of our grandparents or older family members were preppers. Gardening, canning, preparing meat for the winter, etc. We just got away from this when we had access to large grocery stores and butchers.

More people are going back to the old ways to get away from processed food containing dangerous additives. Hence, the name homesteading is used now instead of prepping. New name, same intent. Having food and supplies easily accessible in case of an emergency. Floods, tornadoes, inflation come to mind.

Just adding the name Doomsday in front of prepper shouldn't scare anyone.
 
People were not called preppers back in my grand parents day. They were simple country folk who crew their own food and raised critters
Even today it is common to find a country kitchen with a table full or Kerr jars and a couple of big pots on the stove. It is the way we were raised using the term preppers or survivalist is really new. It is what we call a yuppie term
Doomsday ? Is like the word zombie
Prolly came into play from a movie
lol. Zombie. Funny word. What is a zombie?
My definition is those that did not put any food back for emergencies and are search the streets for food
It is thousands of starving roving people who will try and take everything you have.
Katrina was a excellent learning situation
I learned these valuable common sense lessons
Do not pack your car full of your preps and try to drive to your safe place
Why? You will not make it there
Interstate traffic jams, no gas and looting
Bridges and over passes are choke points where zombies wait
If you do not have a place already stocked then stay where you are

Urban camo
Man, ditch the wood forest camo that is not going to do you any good in an urban setting
Best move you can make is to buy some used clothes at a thrift store you want to blend in not stand out like freaking rambo
At the corner of 8th and federal st
Put your fancy high dollar bug out bag in a trash bag and carry it like that. Keep your mouth shut your head down your eyes on a swivel and mind your own damn bidness as you go about your bidness. Learn how to use your chin and a head bob to acknowledge others
If confronted by someone asking for money say. Man I was just about to ask you the same thing, I am hungry. Lemmie hold a five. Come on I needs iit
Never, never never give anyone anything I don't care if a little cute kid is looking at you all pitiful. If you open your bag you will be seen and are now a victim

Just my opinion. With it and a dollar you can get a cup of coffee
 
Haertig said:
I am perplexed by some of the behavior I have seen in this thread. Nothing has changed, nothing bad has happened, anger is not warranted, but some people have really blown their gaskets. And for the life of me, I can't see what for. I am embarrassed. I know I can't put words in someones mouth and apologize for them, but I sure wish I could.

This thread has now wandered off into the most random of directions, and I kind of hope it stays that way. I am scared of what I will see if it drifts back to "on topic".
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The behavior, at least in my case, was the result of a lack of communications of exactly what was going to happen here. Little or no communications by the owners/administration results in us making assumptions and dreaming up worst case scenarios. Next time, let's communicate. Otherwise,, it feels like we have no say and are having something shoved down our throats whether we like it or not. I was never upset with the DPF family. I was upset with our own forum's owner and admin.
 
All right nobody is bleeding yet so I think we might live and we are learning stuff. typed words don't have the voice inflection to know if a word is used in humor or "not a humor not at all" :brewing:
 
backlash said:
NO, it got derailed not better.
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yeah but it took way longer than usually, we often make a thread so far off topic in far less posts,
 
A few years ago, we went from dumpsters to rolling trash bins in my area. Oh the moaning, groaning, and complaining that went with that!! We literally had threads called trash chronicles.

Large item pickup was scheduled for one week out of a month and we were not to leave large items unless or until that day. But did that stop people from putting out large items weeks before that? Oh, no! One of the reasons we went from dumpsters to rolling bins was because of the people from other areas driving to our community and using dumpsters for free, instead of paying for trash pickup where they lived. I saw people drive in and fill dumpsters with tree branches and other trash. My neighbor, who has a construction company, would have his workers filling the dumpsters instead of doing it the right way, with integrity, and taking it to a dump and pay for it.

So the trash chronicles included photos of dumped large items. I kept shaking my head at the craziness and complaining and found my large French Provincial dresser for free that I never would have known about otherwise. I see these being sold for $100's, so a win for me.

For me, I knew it was going to be a good thing, because I wasn't going to be coming home from work on the day dumpsters were emptied, only to find that a few people had already filled them back up with their trash from their businesses of tree trimming, construction, yard work, etc. Or the people putting in five boxes that they couldn't be bothered folding flat and then the dumpster was full, of five damned cardboard boxes! I was finally not going to have to wonder if I would have room to empty my trash. People doing remodeling in their homes were filling up dumpsters with dirt, rocks, concrete pieces, riprap, bricks, construction materials while trash trucks broke from the weight of that! And the other thing was that people knew how to open a dumpster, but so many would never close it back up, leaving an easy way for squirrels and raccoons to go in and make a big mess.

But for so many people, change like that was just so hard. Trash chronicles started before we went from dumpsters to rolling bins, but right after it was announced. "Oh, no!" Why? Because people were now going to have to be more responsible? People were no longer going to be able to fill up a dumpster by themselves, or like one of my neighbors, all of them on my block in one day, the day they were emptied?

And now, no more complaints about rolling bins and trash. I haven't seen a complaint in a few years.

So change is hard. People have knee jerk reactions without even really looking at the possible positive outcomes. The new kid at school can be welcomed or people can be waiting for them to say or do the wrong thing and then a fight ensues?

Grace, lets offer each other some grace! And welcome them!
 
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