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That wind may be something with the phone system. We started having a problem with it after Hardway called in and it hasn't really cleared up. I just tried reconnecting to Skype and there's still a little noise there but it's not as bad as it was. It sounds almost like air. Could be. Larry, are you moving or are you static? I'm hitting about 70 mile an hour. That's it right there. We're getting a lot of noise background might have to roll the window up. It's not me Let me put my finger in that covers it Well one day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters There we go the help some both on and behind the lines and occupied territories Central West Southeast and North Well ladies and gentlemen you're listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com, PBN.4mg.com, and we are live 365 then go to Liberty Tree Radio. We're also on AM and FM micro stations, CB base stations, and ultra net technologies both east and west of the Mississippi along with southern and central Alaska. We're on the Hallmark Network from the top of being to the bottom of the floor, from the bottom of the floor across the arc of the Gulf of Mexico, out of Torres, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska. the third of Wyoming and of course Iowa slash I away boy we're still get noise I'm sure it's on your end Larry it may be somewhere in between try putting your finger right over your intake on your mike and see what happens I'll get my thumb I can put over there you want to know the date today's the 20th of July 2010 AD I don't know what's happening up with you guys, but we keep getting rain every single day down here in Indiana. It's not doing the tomatoes a bit of good. I found it interesting that my wife picked up a book from the local Walmart. She likes to cruise little mystery romance type novels. And right in the middle of this book, they're talking about a conspiracy to modify the weather using harp and chemtrails. No way! So they've tried to drought for a few years, but saturating crops with too much water will also kill them too, folks. So remember, they've signed a treaty saying they won't use weather warfare against people of other countries, but that doesn't mean they can't use it against us, Mark. That's what they're doing. Exactly. So what we need to consider here again, guys, is the fact that we have a lot of activity going on. especially at the strategic end trying to manipulate the weather we know that but it's interesting like you said uh... blary you're just confirming something we talked about if anything we're not going to see a dry summer we have in a no way shape or form even come close to that here in michigan we've had a very wet summer uh... we have not had a fire hazard in michigan for quite some time uh... we had a little short window there up north down here not at all but up north in the upper part of state we have forests and so they usually put a fire warning out well there hardly has been any uh... since the beginning of the uh... summer in fact uh... to the end of spring there was a short window there now we've had constant renal cyclic rain uh... we might get a few weeks into august here of really a dry weather for a bit. We'll see what happens. But I don't see that lasting very long. If it does, it'll roll into the fall. That wouldn't be bad. As the weather cools up, then we'll see an improvement there. So we get a combination of dry, great working weather. In the meantime, for certain plants, it's not good. Other plants, they're just kicking in big time. The zucchini here, because of the dry, we had a little hot spell there, around the 4th of July. And then we had that rain that kicked in. the perfect starve and then feed cycle and it kicked the all the squash into high gear Larry. We got got to be in fact we're eating almost every meal we're eating out of the garden no matter what simply because there's that much coming out if we don't use it up we're going to have to start processing sooner than we expected. One of the things we experimented with last year was drying zucchini. And while that does work, it remembers a lot more moisture. It's kind of like drying watermelon, except not quite as bad as watermelon. almost like styrofoam when you're done. We use the food dryers that we have here. So that's one solution and you can fit a whole lot of dry goods into a cleaned out peanut container or a cleaned out mason jar or a peanut, like any other jar that's glass, that has a nice lid that secures it from the air, secures it from the environment. And you've got a storage system without having to do anything special. for dried goods that's especially desirable. I'm just now using up the mushrooms, a dried puffball that we did from last year, this season. And I'll be probably next week or two I'll use the last of that and we'll be getting ready to cycle in the next batch coming in with the fall. So again guys, I was going to have Nancy up actually earlier today but she got tied up in another schedule because we're going to have to start discussing food prep and food transfer from the gardens into the larder. And this is something that everybody's got to be thinking about. We hear all this limitations about we're not going to have. Well, if we are going to have it, we're going to have to make it. And that's what the gardening is for. Larry, you've been working on this for quite some time. What are you seeing? Again, we're pretty well seeing everything coming out of the garden now if it isn't being too wet or if it isn't getting too dried out, right? Pretty much you can eat out of it across the board. Yeah, that's what we're seeing here. I've got tomatoes, I've got peppers forming, and now I'm in the middle of the woods, so I don't get quite enough sun to get some things to grow. I cannot get eggplant to grow, I cannot get more fishes to go to their tubers, and I can't seem to get watermelon. But I've been experimenting for a few years, so I'm figuring out what will and what will not work. We do have another major concern coming up that people might want to think about, Mark. Gulf oil disaster that they've created. They've pumped literally millions of gallons of a toxic substance into the ocean. And that toxic substance is rising into clouds and falling back on the earth as rainwater. There's all kind of videos and YouTube videos showing problems with gardens down in Texas and Louisiana and Florida. Those rains can come all the way up here, folks. If you have a small garden, it might behoove you to set up some kind of a plastic tarp system to be ready to shield your garden from that kind of runoff when those things happen. Because when we get those Gulf hurricanes hitting the southeast coast, it usually drives rain all the way up. I've seen it come all the way up here in Indiana. You've probably had it too, Mark. Again, that stuff as it condenses into the cloud layers, it's carried over land and then dropped again and it's very, very toxic. Again, check out those YouTube videos. Go to rinse.com or ense.com. You've got a whole list of things with the Gulf oil disaster and problems with crop. We can't say for certain, but we haven't seen a lot of this stuff before. There's an awful lot of people that are making videos and pointing out problems. You know your own water from a well or something would be definitely less contaminated than the stuff that's coming up from the Gulf. So something to think about if you're dependent on your garden. And again, one of the most important things to consider right now, especially, is we're going to be trying to pull everything out of the gardens that we can and cycling them into food storage. So even though we have, for instance, radishes, some people won't think about that. Radish actually works quite well. Dried, it's just something that's not on the high menu thing, but it's easy to grow, fast to harvest, and to get out of the garden and into storage in its dried form. Where you see this though, examples of this, how many of you ever have purchased, for instance, the higher end ramen noodle packages? Not the 10 cents a pack or 14 cents a pack model. Those are pretty good, but they just have a dust. Instead, the better ones from overseas actually have little meal packet slash food packets that you throw in and rehydrate. Well, one of the things that's in there is dried radish. And in fact, turns out to be pretty decent. easy to rehydrate, easy to dry by the way too. So it's one of those many foods where you can use it to enhance other like soups or you can do whatever you want for spicing. Remember that radishes as you know have a certain amount of warmth to them. So the neat thing is they do offer another dimension in flavor and that's one of the most important things to consider when you're putting food storage away too is diversification so that there's no food fatigue. Personally me I'd be happy to be just eating but some people are worried about a lot of different variety in flavor and radishes, turnips, parsnips, any of the root vegetables like that easy to store easy to process quick to put on the shelf and Easy to sprinkle back into a different different cuisines from Asian to European without any complication a lot of German by the way traditional German cooking guys uses a lot of rutabaga uses a lot of other root vegetables so it's not a problem integrating all these into some of the really neat dishes that you can produce and end up with other flavors. In other words you don't have to stick to just one part of the planet cuisine wise. You can look at Asian Thai cooking all the way to German you know cuisine or Russian cuisine, Slavic, whatever, and you go back that direction. In each country you still end up with spice under certain conditions, but in others, more into the neutral range and the idea is to fill you up. again the process so we're looking at ways to make the stuff more palatable or to make the food storage food stretch out farther and become more interesting for people. My attitude is going to be when I put food in front of you eat it or eat it or starve because I'm not that's if I'm you're going to be eating whatever I'm probably eating and whatever it is we're cooking at the moment congratulations that's it or die. that's that's how it works and if it seems to be the same thing every day maybe it's because we're in a hurry and we're busy working our hind end off now we'll try to change that situation and uh... i would especially recommend we look at the idea we've got rice in storage noodles in storage come on guys be creative One of the other things here Larry, especially since we are looking at the fact that we might have to, for instance, pull an entire harvest up just to save it from any kind of contamination. It doesn't have to be the oil spill. It could be any number of different threats. If we know it's coming, we're going to take everything up out of the ground and try to use it as best we can, aren't we? Well, it depends on how far along it is. I mean, radishes, you can use the leaves of radishes and salads. They're not quite as tasty. They're a little more bitter, but they are nutritious for you. As a matter of fact, they're more nutritious for you than the radish tuber itself. You need to learn these things. Some things can be used and some things can. Obviously corn isn't formed. What's the point? It just depends on the type of vegetable. Cabbage, yeah, you can yank that thing up any time. Cabbage just continues to grow more leaves, folds in on itself. Same thing with lettuce. Depends on the plant and it depends on the vegetable. But yeah, if you know that radiation or poison or an army is coming, that's the idea. Take what you can, use what you can, and leave the rest. And the other option there too is if it's something that for instance bean production one of the things we've talked about is bucket plants to begin with or hanging. Whatever you can do or you can actually make the stuff semi-mobile even in its growing form that's a preferred solution that's something that can happen. The other advantage to that is if we cycle towards green housing through the winter one of the things we're going to experiment with Larry I've been I've got two more panels of glass to pick up tomorrow they're going to be free and I'm going to build up just randomly another like a little sunroom greenhouse arrangement simply because it's free. I'm not having to buy a single thing I've been in fact a lot of the windows have been virtually brand new. We've got a lot of people that are changing stuff out or decided not to use what they got put it out by the road and it's like oh no that's going with me. And now we've got enough to actually do a complete solar room on the south face that this winter I'm going to experiment with. And like a big version of the little one, little mini greenhouse that I built towards the end of winter, beginning of spring. That turned out to be a great success and that was absolutely no cost whatsoever. Completely made up from throwaway or castaway windows and junk. Not really junk, brand new junk. So we need to look at the idea that we may again like you said they have to pick up and boogie. Well start to look at which plants would be the most valuable if you had to move, you know, I had to move them and how could you re-situate them at the other end so they can continue to get production out of them. One of them that's a really good choice and we've mentioned this at the beginning of the growing season but it's in there now, rattlesnake pole beans. If you don't have them get them. They're called rattlesnake pole beans. Now, Nancy's family, they actually have a breed that they have been promoting probably since the Civil War and before, from down south out of Mississippi, but it's their own seed they produce every year. What's interesting, Larry, is as long as there is a growing season, as long as there's any daylight left, these beans produce until the cold or as cold snap hits them they will not die they just in fact after they after you pick them the first time they double production when you pick them a second time through they double production again and they it's interesting you can either eat them as of course green beans which is what we do all the time or you cycle them through to dried beans and you've got a dried bean for on the shelf and there are breeds down south that are rattlesnake pulled beans that you can get in most of the fields. Yeah, you want to make sure that you let some of those go all the way through to where they're dried and that way you've got the seed for next year. It's not a hard thing to do. I just let some of mine go. Heck, I harvested some of mine this spring to start up again. I just went out there and pulled them, pulled the plants down and I already had the seed ready to go. So there again, that's one to experiment with with a bucket project whereby when it starts to get colder, if you're in a northern climb, take the plant indoors. Bring it in where you can still water it, you can still give it sunlight, and let's see how long they'll run, how long they'll continue to produce, which is the other option. Plants that stay outside, let them cycle into seed. And that way you've got both going. Of course, now at a certain point you can just cut them, bring the plants inside, hang them upside down, and leave the beans on them. And there's your seed beans. You let them dry and take all the nutrients out of the plant. And then you shell them and store them for the winter. So there's a couple options, different ways to go. We have found that these things, if it weren't for the fact that the frost hit them, These things don't die. I mean if you can keep them in a bucket we did this with one years ago and It went through to the next growing season walked it back out put it in the garden and it kept going Eventually got tired, but that's expected. It's not exactly supposed to be a forever plant But that's the hardiness of that bean plant The other option are carrots. We're up here in Michigan. My sister-in-law started doing this. Everybody used to do this all the time. Covering all of the root vegetables with straw at Christmas time with a foot and a half of snow, she could go out, uncover the straw, then move it aside. She was picking carrots out of the garden all through the winter. Once they're extra covered, you put an extra layer of puffed up straw over top of the areas where the crop is, you can go back out and still pull it without even putting it in the greenhouse. Forgive me, without putting it in the root cellar. So that is another option. You have to start looking at these things now and deciding if you want to experiment or if you want to commit to that system based upon how much you've got in the ground and how much storage space you have. Because that is another consideration is how much room do you have in the root cellar? How much storage space do you have in the house? If you don't have much room, you need to start looking at other ways that you can actually keep this stuff online for as long as possible so it doesn't go to waste. It doesn't mean you're going to lose some of the garden because you can't, let's say you planted more than you needed, fantastic. Carrots can be dried. Everything we've got in the garden can be dried. Even, of course, needless to say, tomatoes. Larry, that's the big thing is, ooh, sun ripened and sun dried, dry tomatoes. Oh, Italian. Well, guys, they did that because they didn't have any refrigeration. They did it because they were poor. They didn't do it because it was in vogue. They did it because it's the way they had to to maintain food storage. We don't have to reinvent the wheel, we just need to pay attention to the systems being used to make them work for us. Now with dried tomatoes, the meatier the tomato, the better off you'll be. Which is again, where these Italian... What's the one Italian breed, Larry, that teardropped? Oh, I want to think of the name. Anyway, it's an Italian tomato though, but there's a specific... Oh, it's at the tip of my tongue. I'm in brain lock. But anyway, the thicker, meatier tomatoes would be your best choice for drying because you'll have more material that will be easy to rehydrate. Not a big deal, but yours, again, the moisture content's a little lower. The flavor's going to be there. And again, you're bulking your food out. You're trying to add more material and a flavor range to change the composition. which is really critical when it comes to supply. And again long-term looking through the winter when things are getting kind of bleak, gets kind of snowy, it's all white outside, it's kind of nice if you can open up a pot and... Oh! It smells like fall or it smells like harvest. In other words it smells pretty tasty especially if you can have the right combinations there. Are you doing any spices this year Larry? Uh-oh, did we lose Larry? I think we lost Larry. We'll get him back and I'm sure he just went into a niche there. That happens when you're traveling and using cell phones. We still are good on the conference call but Larry apparently is out of range of his cell phone or something else. Okay, very good. So again, just a real quick idea there with food storage and that's one of the reasons I want to touch on. In fact, I was hoping we'll still bring Nancy up this week. I want to remind everybody too guys that we have a couple of videos uh... kitchen militia nancy doing the pickled eggplant were full circle now it's almost time to look at the eggplant coming back in and if you haven't done pickled eggplant shame on you we've offered you the recipe you know how to do it all use watch the video followed nancy's instructions and You can have pickled eggplant. I mean, hmm. No, we like it. Some people don't but we do In fact the boys is all my boys and girls here and most everybody that knows us has grown up with if they were young Have grown up with pickled eggplant and used it effectively. There we go. I think we got Larry again Yeah, I hit a dead zone. I'm coming. It always does it there. No, not at all mark Well, I'll tell you what another thing on that Larry what kind of herbs are you growing because that's the other thing we're looking at spices and herbs Depending on shade. I know that but stuff to help enhance your you know your food storage system. What have you got going? Oh, I've got rosemary Wipes is growing Echinacea Got sage. I've got Marjoram Bebalm I've got something called Candy Mint and Spear Mint. There's probably a couple others there, but those are the ones that I know right off the top of my head. There's a whole number of things that you can grow. Again, you'll have to experiment and find out what likes shade, what will tolerate a full sun, that type of thing. Most things, it seems, will take the sun. I'm finding that in the woods, there's quite a bit that won't take a lot of the shade. I'm finding a lot of stuff that wants more sun. So it's been an interesting year. We've definitely not had this much water before. The corn here in Indiana is all taffed. A lot of it is all taffled out, and the lower portions are forming. That's kind of early for this part of the year. Normally you don't see that until mid-August. But with all the rain and stuff, things are growing a lot quicker here. Now let's point out that you mentioned echinacea now again, that's also again medicinal. That's what looking the medicinal family of Herbs for many many other purposes go ahead and explain to everybody the need for that Well, I can Asia is used to enhance the immune system and it is the purple cone flower plant The roots are what is used in medicinal purposes and I believe those are ground up and you can use nutrients into your body. I have not done much of this process myself. You'd have to get some books on that and learn and practice using it. Basically the roots are extracted, cleaned, shaved and ground and then they're using alcohol, grain alcohol. They do that with a number of different roots. Another one I've got that goes out of that. But there's bunches and bunches of them. Mullen plants grow wild down here. Those are the ones that have the furry, you know, the velvety leaves. Those are reputed to help with respiratory flowers as they produce. Wouldn't the Foxfire series of books have some information on that too, Mark? Yes, as a matter of fact, I think it's Foxfire 1 through 5. I know I have Book 5 actually on the shelf. I'm very sure of that. There's a couple others. Indian Herbology is another excellent book on the subject. It's called Indian Herbology. There's volume one and volume two. And it covers pretty much all of the different wild herbs that are available or wild plants. for everything from healing warts to dealing with poison ivy which by the way is what burdock is good for you break open the body of the plant or the leaf and use that rub that right on the exposed area that's having the infection you know the reaction to the poison ivy and it will neutralize it will relieve the relieve the itching and alleviate the inflammation so that's one of the things that burdock is good for burdock is a very large leaf it's hard to miss The plant will produce the big sticky type burrs in the second or third year. It grows wild, so it's not something that's hard to find. Now another thing real quick here, by the way thank you Scuba, I wasn't ignoring you but it's Roma tomatoes. I don't know why we had a problem that Roma tomatoes, the teardrop Italian meaty type, thank you appreciate that and again that's the preferred for drying if you can. It's not the only type any tomato will dry. The biggest thing is the amount of moisture determines how long it takes to dry and what the end product is going to be like with regard to handling. If you can do a meatier tomato, it's a lot easier to get off the rack that you've dried it on. You're not going to have problems with the slurry or the material as it's drying, say permeating the grid or the net you've got that you're using. If you're using, for instance, window screen. A lot of guys have made homemade dryers. We have one that's 14 layers, 14 tiers, and it's using a window screen for holding the food. It does an excellent job, beautiful job. I'll tell you what Mark, I've got one here that I have to send you some seed from. It's called a Hungarian paste tomato. And it is much larger than the Roma tomatoes. It is a paste tomato like the Roma. It doesn't have the juice like normal tomatoes do. It's very good for running through the, what do they call that press that you use to do applesauce or tomato paste. the Yes, as a matter of fact, we'd love that because we've done well with the tomatoes this year, but I'd like to see a little more next year. We just got, well, we need to cut off-guard. We just had so much stuff going on simultaneously. We got everything to produce. Nancy's got cherry tomatoes in. We've got a couple other breeds. She actually was keeping track of that. The other thing that she did this year was called lasagna gardening. and the potatoes that we did with lasagna gardening technique which is using waste it's using and we're not talking excrement we're talking for instance You're raked up leaves and grass clippings, Larry. Using plastic, laying it down and laying the seed, the potato seed on the plastic, these suckers took off. I am very impressed with the way the plant served even during the dry spell we had. Once we got hit with that next wave of rain, it kicked right in. So the technique is pretty decent. It's called lasagna gardening. Look it up. You'll find examples of it in the system right now through the internet and For people that don't have a whole lot of space and don't have a whole lot of time and also have a whole lot of yard to mow or maybe the neighbors have yards they got a mow. Then there's a readily available pile of debris that you can use to grow the stuff in and you don't have to worry about cooling it down or anything. You just layer and pile it up over top of whatever your seed production is and away you go. So the technique is proven. I mean we already knew it worked but we tried it here and it worked exceptionally well. So there's another idea. There's so many different variations on what it is you can do to get a garden in even late now guys. It's not too late. If you have to use the bucket system and do it, start collecting buckets. You can do ice cream buckets. They don't have to be five gallon pails. You can use smaller containers. You've just got to remember you're going to have to pay attention to watering and you're also going to have to see if you can add a little nutrient to the soil there to boost a little bit to keep everything functioning and to continue to grow through the season. I heard a beat, Larry. We might have a caller. Who do we have? We might have a patient listener. Do we still have Larry with us? Oh, we might have lost Larry again. Well, that's possible. Hopefully Larry made it home and is on his way to the ground line. We'll see what happens there in a second. But in the meantime, again, others to other techniques, I want to get back to one more thing here before we go any farther. I mentioned this before. It's the third video that you'll see in a little screen icon on our YouTube page. It's Kitchen Militia. It's a pickled eggplant recipe with Nancy. She's actually going step by step through the process. You can visually, you can physically see what's going on. You'll see the product going into the container and how it's worked. And she actually explains the recipe step by step, so that should help you out there. We've got a couple others that haven't been loaded up yet that she did that are other unique recipes that are already finished. We've got those to post, and we'll do those on view flicks as we can too. Also, for HD, again, keep an eye on your emails tonight. We've got a three-pager headed your way. We will have more instructions to send with another email, just basic information, so we can keep everybody up to speed there with regard to supply and support. The other thing that we've got going on here this weekend, party on the beach, but also We have a number of training exercises in the middle and also a middle of the state of Michigan and also in the UP Now the UP will be the far western division of the Wolverines I've talked with them last night actually get a spike from those guys. They're into the alternate from the other end and The way it looks they're gonna be on Lake Superior. Oh, that's cold water swimming There's no day when Lake Superior is warm Everybody must understand this if you swim in Lake Superior I did. I like it. I mean, I like cold water, but that's okay. Anyway, the point is that it is a unique experience. So these guys are going to be performing a little bit of riverine operation this weekend, probably on Saturday into Sunday. They are going to also be doing some cross-country radio work and trying to do some broadcasting from Lake Superior to Lake Michigan. across the peninsula. We'll see what happens there. It's going to be interesting to do some directional broadcasting from boat to boat. And that's something we've been asking about. They're experimenting with some ideas that we gave them through one of the ham operators that we have here. And everything's been plugged in. They built the Yagi antennas of the Yagi arrays. Now we're going to see what we can do with it on the water. And that doesn't mean it's going to be flat, calm water this weekend coming up on Saturday. Could be anything. The rule is there'll be no canceling the exercise. There wouldn't be any canceling an operation. Okay, so whatever the conditions are, that's what they're going to experiment with. So congratulations, thanks to the guys there. We have another TC slash PM that's going to be coming out here in a little bit. It has to do with the militia rifle company operations and also reconnaissance. And I've got that pretty well mapped out. There are some recommendations I'm going to be including with the manuals that are going down to the militia down in Arizona as part of a manual package. I'm going to be shipping those by mail. They're not going to be going by electronic anything. And if everything goes the way it's supposed to, then we'll be hopefully able to tweak the units so that when they get the ground running, they'll be ready to roll. And we're not going to have any problems with either communications or transportation. Transportation can be made much easier, provided there is an SOP, Standard Operating Procedure Established, and everybody is disciplined to maintain it. Now what this means is that you need road coordinators. If you are going to do this, your transportation corps which is a combination of your what we might call I hate the word MPs because anybody in the military hates the MP idea but road control slash traffic control operators are critical and the key point here is that when you're moving a bunch of vehicles as a coordinator on the ground sees that something's ready it's like flight or air traffic control he points to the operator the operator moves nobody moves until the coordinator points to them that way you don't have three four or five cars or that red dawn parking lot effect like you saw remember in the movie at the beginning where that poor pinot gets creamed by the 57 station wagon Remember that? Oh yeah, terrible. Both cars. Oh, that hurt. And of course, it was much pandemonium in the parking lot for lack of coordination and cooperative activity. Well, we can avoid all of that, especially with just a little common sense and one guy with a magic pointy finger. Okay? We might have Larry there still, do we? I'm here. There we go. I did want to share with people and anybody that's interested in this book. about a bounty hunter. Like I said, it's a little trash novel by someone named Janet Ivanovich. The title of the book is called Plum Spooky. I'm just saying, there's something picked up, you know, a China mark. But it's interesting that it contained, you know, a little blurb in there about weather modification using chemtrails and harp. So, you don't even have to buy it. You can just check it out if you want to. But I just find it interesting. You know, they also put in The CSID program they do on TV, they put a blurb in there about, here's an anti-American guy who talks about fluoride and chemtrails and vaccinations and those types of things, and he's anti-American. They're definitely putting propaganda in TV and media for the public to consume. They want you to think anybody that talks about these things anti-american conspiracy theorists. That sounds stupid if you ask me, but that's just Mark. What can I say? I think everybody else used to... We're talking about food sources being dried up. I did want to say, I just noticed there is a story on rinse.com about 2000 cattle die in Kansas heat wave. So you know how much ground beef they recall at the hints of supposed to be coal wire, this, that, or the other. But I guarantee you they're not going to tell you when people start buying, when they start eating seafood that gets contaminated with the corrected material as it comes around the border mark. I guarantee you they're not going to say anything about it. They're letting people, they're letting their kids play in the ocean. They're inviting them to come down and play in toxic waters in the ocean. And for a bit, they should damage their tourism industry. I don't know if you noticed, did anybody notice the picture of Michelle Obama on the beach? Did you see those? I think I caught a story or two on it. I like the fact that the pictures were all far away and it shows them walking on sand, but I think everybody, if you were paying attention, guys, have you ever noticed when they dropped fresh sand off Larry how it's kind of puffy? and kind of stands up right where's on the beach. Oh, they're definitely delivering sand. Well on the water line. Well, the reason I point this out is on the water line if you've ever been on the beach in the Gulf, guys, there's an impact point because everything is saturated with moisture. In fact, on that line you have, if you know what you're doing, you have what you call coquinas. They're actually little, small clam-like things. They're about the size of a, oh, you're a little bigger than two of your little fingernails, end-to-end, like one on top of the other, you know, lengthwise. and they come in all these fascinating colors, well they're always at the surf line, Larry. They'll be right there where the tide shifts up and down. They'll never be too far up. You'll always know exactly where the moisture line is because when you take a shovel, stick it in about a shovel depth and put it into a screed, made out of window screen, wash it in the surf, you'll find these little coquinoes there. Well anybody who's ever worked at knows that that beach area there never is fluffy. In other words, right where the water is, it's never fluffy. It's never really like tough sand that you're hard to walk in. It just reverses. It feels like it's impacted all the time. Like it's concrete. Like, you know, spongy concrete. Well, if you look at, they showed them, they're right on the beach. I mean, they're literally, look, it's safe to be all right. Whatever. I don't care. You know, either way, as far as the water goes, there's been, I could challenge some of the stuff they're throwing out there. I will. But the point is that, you know, it, There are things that, that's why they can't have close-ups because if you were to look you'd go, that doesn't look natural. The sand is sandy like fluffy, just dumped like by several, it looked like several gravel trains dropped off a whole bunch of sand in a narrow strip and look it's safe to walk on the fresh sand that came from inland about 20 miles. Now personally if everything's okay you wouldn't worry about that. You'd be walking on the impacted sand that's right there on the water surf line and you'd be piddling around in it showing everybody how wonderful it is. So there's the only problem I have with that is it's like put your money where your mouth is instead of the propaganda so that look guys Everybody it's fine. By the way, they're making 83 million dollars as a family or 83 million What is it in profits off of the rake in off this BP thing? That's what the argument is for the Obama clan That he alone with the with the paperwork the money or the way they've got their money's situated It's gonna be about 83 million in pocket change that they're shoveling off to the side out of sight out of mind right now So I guess Michelle's highly motivated to make sure that everybody kind of looks the other way. Whoo! And as First Lady, what can we say? Propaganda. Oops. So anyway, other things happening here real quick before we forget. Larry, I don't want to get away from the garden completely because we're looking right now at what can we do? We're going to maybe look at a second wave of food. What can we throw in while we still have growing time right now if we had some space in the garden where we just harvested? What would you put in? Well, it's definitely time to start the fall call up our broccoli. weather comes on you can do a second wave of lettuce type plants. They want cool weather. Peas want cooler weather. Get ready to do more of the tuber type plants, radishes and those type of things. You don't want to do it in the heat of the summer, but plan it. Look at your days till fall, till frost. 30 to 45 days depending on the variety or what they call the cultivar. It's too late to do tomatoes and peppers. healthy sized plants dry. One cucumber will provide tags on the pithy hybrid plant. And again, the other thing too is we still have the opportunity to put another wave of food in. Again, storage, storage, and storage, guys. Now granted, we aren't going to be storing lettuce. We're using the lettuce. Use the stuff up as you can. Prioritize using that first before your canned goods and all your other dry goods, unless it's something that you've dried that you're cycling in from last year. This is where you combine the two crops. Last year's final production with this year's new production. And then you can complement them. The other thing is, for instance, like we just had a salad today, croutons. combinations of stuff guys. Even bread as it gets older. What do you think croutons came from? The restaurants are trying to figure out how can we stretch this because we're stuck with bread we didn't use. I know we'll take the old bread, cube it out before it's too dry. Dry a little more with some you know spices and butter and wow throw it on the salad look it's something new. Mondeau! French cuisine. Croissants. Just like the croissants. In this case, the little cubes of bread with flavoring. So between the combination there, guys, you've got everything you need to actually make up a pretty decent palette, a wide range of food choices. Now you add your food storage system, where you've got stuff cycling in and out over the last five, six, seven years. come on you should be eating like a king without a problem at all later on you're beating like a prince instead of a king because you don't quite have the budget you can't afford to replace as quick you're gonna stretch everything out farther guys we're gonna make that happen anyway Oh, let's see, there was one other thing I wanted to do. Now water storage, you know, something else we've talked about here. And we've got about three of these, too. I know that you're using them. The 330 or 400 gallon palletized water tanks. So actually they're fluid tanks. Now these things are actually a lifesaver, aren't they, for a number of different projects? Well, I'm using one. I paid about $75 for it from a guy here in town. You want food great, say, if you want one that has special chemicals in it or anything. Some coke syrups are used in there. Soda syrups, some are used for detergents, some are used for other things that are non-lethal, non-problematic. I've got one on the roof of my building that's surrounded by bales of straw. that have been wrapped in shrink and wrap. And then there's a wooden plywood box. What I've done is that's my water supply. I pump water into that. Gravity feed water down into my building. Runs a shower. That runs a toilet. That runs the kitchen sink, the bathroom sink. Since I'm using gravity instead of a pressure tank, I have a low water pressure. As it happens, Sportsman's Guide has a shower head. Normal shower heads are just $2 at your local hardware store, a cheap one. This one is about $20, but it is specifically designed to work with water pressure. The system does work. I've got a propane hot water heater and it sits up off the ground about 3.5-4 feet. I've got enough water pressure to do everything I need in here Mark. Yeah, those tanks are great. can be used for all kind of things. And they can be plumbed in with PVC or with metal depending on what you want to do, what you have budget wise. They have a bung down below that's already threaded. They have an on-off valve that's a ball type valve. Actually they're very well engineered plus a metal frame around the outside of the container and typically they're fixtured to an oak or hardwood pallet of one form or another. So if you see on the bottom of the What I did with mine was I used PVC fittings, but I adapted them down to 3 quarter inch pipe. And they have 3 quarter inch adapters that go 3 quarter inch male on one end and then 3 quarter inch garden hose on the other end. So I'm actually using 3 quarter inch garden hose that's the largest commercially available hose that you can use for plumbing water fairly cheap. You want a good rubber hose. I mean, that thing will last for years. And that and some pipe clamps, it's nothing to pull up a system. It's like a champ. I mean, I've been running off this thing since 1995. I'm just gonna say I'm gonna tell you something right now. We have condos going in that are for the retirement community, the Methodist Church down the road here aways and Larry that's all the new plumbing is it's just a plastic hose in color code white red and blue and Low and behold all they use is a clamping system. So everybody going while Larry that's awfully inexpensive or is that really code and Guys, you wouldn't believe what they're putting in houses you aren't seeing behind the walls. Once the walls go up, it all disappears out of sight, out of mind. So, where Larry, you already went with this, there now the whole industry is going. I think that's rather fascinating. You're a cutting edge ahead of your time on the design there. I just came across a story that's kind of interesting. This is again linked at rinse.com. This goes back to our gardening. From seedlings to servings, 11-year-old grows tons of veggies for the homeless. 11-year-old folks. It's got a picture of her here with a 40-pound cabbage. I mean, it's bigger than she is. 40-pound cabbage fed 275 homeless people. Now, 86 gardens have produced over 4,000 pounds of vegetables to feed the needy. So if this little 11 year old can do it, so can you. Well I especially like the zucchini because unless you do something really strange it's awfully forgiving and the more water you have combined with heat the more fruit you're going to have off that plant. And again, what do you think? The Italians love it so much for the same reason. Lots of food for a little bit of work. And especially if you're looking at, you know, decent growing season, which we have, and again, a little creativity with some green housing. Those plants can run right into just about the snow if you do it right. Remember, we've got this design for the PVC pipe greenhouse that can be put up after the garden's up. After the garden is done and you've got most everything else in, let's say that you've got a couple plants you want to save, like some really nice zucchini plants. Well, you grab yourself some clear 5 mil plastic or any kind of plastic you can get as far as Visicwing goes. You build up your frame exactly as it's described, canopy the whole thing in. Now you're going to have to water that plant because you're going to be covering it over, but guess what? You've retained it through into a much later period for the growing season and with a zucchini or the other other squash plants like that. Yellow squash being another one, as long as you can keep them alive, they're going to keep producing food for you. So that is priceless in a situation where we might have a crisis scenario developing. Go ahead, Larry, please. Well, as forgiving as they may be, something killed mine. I mean, I had a pretty good-sized plant. It kept producing flowers. I never did get any actual squash up the thing. So I don't know if the soil wasn't right or I have seen squash bugs kill them things in a day or at least take them down. I have seen a budding beauty of a zucchini plant and it was perked up and looking beautiful in the morning. By afternoon it was starting to wither. When I went over and looked at that thing, it was just covered with squash bugs. Again, you have to keep an eye on them. Squash bugs look kind of like thin elongated yellowish ladybug in a way. Potato bugs look kind of like a small pinkish-red elongated ladybug. Potato bugs are kind of cool though. You throw some seven dust on them and I've actually seen them explode. Oh, that's great. Kind of neat. When you see those things out there, you definitely want to make sure you get some seven dust on them or something. There's no way you're going to pick them all. Problem with seven dust, of course, kind of rains. after it rains it washes right off you gotta hit it again and else they're back at it again so Well interestingly enough you're not the only person that has had problems with the zucchini this year and I'm wondering if it isn't the excess water Because we're like I said we had the perfect combination We had just wet you know a good wet all through the spring Then we had that little dry spell for just a short time as it was hot not too dry because we'd already had some good moisture the ground never dried up But when the next wave rain hit after about five six days of hot that just was that was the on on your mark get set and go. and we always have, we have usually we have a boom year and then we have about two years of so-so. This last three years we had phenomenal choke cherry production. They're a wild cherry. About the size again of the end of your little finger. If they're really in good production they're good, they're not. They're tart, they've got a unique flavor, they're not. poisonous. I always love that. Anybody who doesn't know anything about it, it's poisonous! No, they're not poisonous. They're choke cherries. They're a wild cherry. Actually, they'll grow to be 50, 60, or up to a hundred feet tall if they're in a stand. But in the meantime, if they're in their bush to small tree form, normally we get a good production. This year we had tremendous flower, beautiful, looked like it was heading right on through to norm, and then we got the bad year. Now we've had three good years, so I can't complain. But this year, very little production off of the main trees which are all wild. They're actually growing in the yard around the perimeter and such. And while it did produce some fruit, very little. Usually there's clusters of 12 to 16 berries that are independent. They're little cherries, one after another after another. In this case we may have gotten one out of a cluster and they didn't last long. They were gone pretty quick. So this is one of the off years for those plants. And again, I have not bothered to look, but I almost guarantee Larry that the farmer's almanac probably has something to say about it. I've just never looked because they've been pretty consistent with everything else including accurately predicting the weather here and people are going, farmer's almanac? Oh, that's myth. No, that's science. They just don't want to talk about it. Make it sound like it's, you know, the old, you know, the guy studying the rutabaga, contemplating his belly button while he's running the tractor and that's not it at all. That doesn't mean that doesn't work, but there's a lot more to it. Each of the plants has a season and a cycle within that's a long cycle within the areas of the country too. We've seen this with a couple others. On the one hand, our wild raspberries did okay this year, but I'll tell you something, it really took off. We have a thing we call the Thunderberry. It'll get about the size of your index finger to the length of just beyond your first knuckle down from the tip of your finger. very large, pithy in the center, long and tubular. Like an oversized blackberry. Like an oversized blackberry, exactly. Stacked, like a blackberry that's stacked. This year they are thick as flies. Last year, couldn't find them if your life depended upon it. So you have to know and pay attention. And the problem is how much time we got in the day. Well, everybody has to share time. And this year I've noticed that we're not going to have a problem with thunderberries. Black raspberry, last year we did a lot of canning on those. This year we did more pies and stuff like that because while we got good production we didn't get enough to do quite what we wanted to and see how far scanning go so we're going to be supplementing our our stores of black raspberry jelly yum yum yum with Thunderberry this year which will be another one so every area has its variation that's why I'm curious about this whole thing because you're not the only one that had problems zucchini this year that's a third person now that we've had in different parts of the country that have had problems with it and we've had just reverse. So again it's usually pretty forgiving. There we go. That's the way to describe it. It varies, product varies depending upon where you are in the country and what time of year or what cycle within the decade. There we go. That'll qualify it. Other than that though, in general, if everybody stays focused, guys, like you said Larry, if we are worried about something with a resolution with regard to the rain issue, guys, again, I'll refer to the PVC portable greenhouses that can be made so cheap it's ridiculous. In fact watch for people getting rid of plastic and acquire it, VisiQueen, because it doesn't have to be brand new VisiQueen to make up a really nice greenhouse that's good for the season. And we've left these up through the winter just to see it. We've intentionally abused them to see how long they would last and it's amazing how long they have lasted. For what you know for the price the plastic of course is you know is a disposable thing you don't want to leave it laying around to the point where it chips and little pieces flying all over the yard, but We've actually had the stuff endure quite well, and we're in a pretty rough environment with regard to winter here in Michigan So we're looking at that but again for a canopy for the for the garden that would be an option anything else Larry before we go Can't think of anything Mark. Appreciate it sir. Be kind of good to see you got home. I'm safe off the road We are going to be letting Dutch takeover next. 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