you could always get you a few cases of MRE's for occasions like that jon

Ive been wanting to get some but they are so darned expensive. The only ones Ive found reasonable was some lady had some in her dirty old basement shes had them for years. Probably still good but I passed.

Being that we are in full swing of harvest and the wife in the the grain cart our supper menu has been different.  We have to get everything ready in the morning before work. One day we just got a jar of canned meat out of the basement. Thats what it there for. Delicious. Then we got the crock pot out and made a roast the next morning. We were too tired to do much clean up that night was a long one. Next day I decided to put pork chops in the crock pot but it was still dirty and we are running late already.  Wife pulls out her spare. I knew there was a reason I keep her around. Pork chops with cream of mushroom soup over the top cooked on low for 13 hours. Didn't really even have to chew it. Kinda just fell apart. Tonight is going to be Mc Donalds. Have to go get the kids from my ex for the weekend.

The one in the fl60 is a 4speed but yea if you wanted to put it in a 4x4 that would cause problems. I don't think it has any electronics but then I never looked for any either.

Very interesting. I was also raised carhloic. Catholic school, alter boy and so on. I guess I always asked questions the priest could not answer. Like where was Jesus for 30 years? He was a baby and over night he was grown.
I wish I could remember where I read this but there is evidence in the Koran that Jesus visited and learned about Islam. Aslo in buddisim he was was mentioned. Jesus traveled a lot and learned many different religions.
The church makes the priest take a vow of poverty yet our church was freaking huge with gold and big statues everywhere. Things just didn't click with me.
My first wife was Lutheran so i changed. I don't attend services anymore I worship in my own way. I do send my kids to Sunday school became its important to learn about God and Jesus. When they are older they can make their own decisions on what they believe.

All you had to do was flip the axles. You gain 6 inches. You don't actually flip them you pull them out and weld a saddle on the other side so the axle sits under the spring. I was going to take mine in because the guys at the trailer place have done it a hundred times and it would be done in a few hours.

These frames are so thin I don't know if I would feel comfortable cutting and welding on one. Very good write up though I have not doubt its as good or better than factory.

The first thing you need to do with the the 6.7 is get it deleted. If I didn't see it for myself I would never believe the difference. Its a whole new truck.  The emissions crap just has it castrated. I love my duramax but when I need to tow something I jump in the dodge. Unless it's my camper. The chevy rides way better.

He had the paper work along with a driver/body guard. Driving a black suburban. They guy we worked with in the DEQ (department of environmental quality)  called and gave us a heads up and showed up with them. We had to go through him when we redid everything to make it all legal. DEQ is state EPA is feds. I know these departments are needed but dang get it together already.

That's how grandma use to make em. Pound of burger, can of van de camps pork and beans, some mustard and catsup or bbq sauce.

I actually use a lot of Chinese elm. There happens to be a ton of it out in the grove around the place. I start a fire and let it burn down to coals. IT makes an awesome coal bed. Then I just add small pieces as needed. It smokes real nice. I'm still using my old cooker it don't  have a fire box. 

You forgot Myth No8. Never use cast iron on a glass top stove. Ive been doing this for over 10 years. Just try not to slide it and don't drop it.

Last night our youngest would not go to sleep. He would only let mommy rock him so I went on to bed. Turned on the tv and fell asleep. I wake up to her freaking out. There is something flying around in the bedroom. I thought it was a bird.  Barn swallow or sparrow. I know they poop a lot so I pull the covers over my head. Wife starts laughing. I say tell me when its gone.  Mind you I am still half asleep at this time and not fully aware of the situation. Finally she said its gone. Ok so Im awake now and thinking its just a dang bird and how did it get in?
Not a bird its a bat. Hanging from the ceiling in the living room over the open stair case to the basement. Open the front door hoping it flies out and no more fly in. So I'm throwing things at it and it wont move. WTF. I came inches from hitting it with one of the kids blocks.
I have the wife holding a blanket over the door way to the rest of the house. I sneak over to the gun cabinet. I'm thinking do I use the .22? No too messy. Open the door and there is my daughters pink bb gun. That was my weapon of choice. Good ole daisy pump bb gun. Its even loaded. Pump that thing up a few times and direct hit. Bat falls straight down into the basement. Look down the stairs hoping to see a dead body. Nothing. crap. I go down the stairs and the sucker is hanging under the edge of a stair tread. Scared the daylights out of me. Right by my bare foot. This whole time Ive been running around in my shorts. Now I go get dressed quickly. boots and all. fly down the stairs and hit it again. This time its done. Hes dead. Now I cant sleep. We were up half the night waiting for another one to come flying circles over our heads.
The only thing I could think of was what I sight I must have been. Should have been in the movie the great outdoors with John Candy. 
Of course the Wife puts it on Facebook. I get drilled at work. The guys saying Wow what a tough guy hiding under the covers LOL. I don't care I admit it, im a bit of a chicken sometimes. Especially when Im woke up out of a dead sleep with things flying around my head.
We will be laughing about this for a long time.

No sence in pushing a child into kindergarten too soon. I have a boy in preschool his second year. They said he was not ready but we could move him into kindergarten anyway. No not worth it. He will just be on of the oldest in his class. My oldest boy that graduated last year was in a peer program like yours starting at age 3. There is a place in town that works with special needs kids. He loved it.

I live in a typical 1880s Nebraska farm house. What basement it did have was dug with horses pulling a tumble bug dragging the dirt out from under it. True 2x4 construction with square nails. The red brick foundation finally gave out. Everything was crooked. floors bowed. We jacked it up dug a new basement and put on an addition. The old red brick was not even in the ground. It was on top. Once the new foundation was poured and it was set down on the the carpenter said hes never seen a house so straight. everyone said we were crazy. Burn that old house down and start over. No way. How man people can say they live in a house over 100 years old?

This was me last weekend. I didn't measure it but I know im over length. I only went 12 miles.

You wanna know what irrtates me about the NRA? Well I'm gonna tell you. About every other month I get a bill to renew my membership or to upgrade it. I pay it once a year. They could save so much money if they quit sending me junk mail.

Ok ok  yea I have heard of them but never seen one. My cousin was talking about getting one a couple years ago. I had no idea wth he was talking about. Some box he puts carburetors in and it cleans them. First thing that went through my mind was that's a nice deep fryer!

I have a sobering thought for everyone to consider

We as a western culture are dying...literally

For a culture to be sustainable it needs to support a birth rate of at least 2.1:2.
So every married couple needs to have 2.1 kids. THe two kids replace the parents when they die, and the .1 allows for growth. Cultures either are gorwing or they are dying. No idling along at the same size, that doesn't work

Now the US has the highest birth rate of any western culture/country. Our rate is 1.8:2

So we are dying, growing smaller each year.

Islam on the other hand has the highest birthrate. They "Enjoy" a rate of 8:2!!!
Yep each family replaces itself and adds three more families to the mix.

Islam flourishes best in western permissive cultures and wanes a bit the farther they get away from a Christian nation. Purely Islamic nations like Yemen and Afghanistan just kill that rate and life spans are all the way down into the high 30's on average (38 for the stan)

So we need some talent coming in to fortify our numbers. Mexicans, Guatemalans, and the like come from a predominately Christian (Catholic) background.

So given the choice which would you prefer? Barry O is all about bring in as many of his kin as he can get away with. They are infecting areas like Flint, Detroit, Dearborn, Minneapolis, and Washington.

Personally I'll take the Mexicans or Latino, but not without condition.

Oh and if you think we Christians are not stupid. have you seen who is the largest sponsoring agency to take in and resettle these Muslims.

The American Lutheran Church.

I have 6 kids. I'm doing my part!

I wish my dang tomatoes would ripen up already. I juice most all of them. I like me a good red beer. The wife likes warm tomato juice with her grilled cheese.

Its a 35 gallon but im going to a 55.  I used the 35 gallon becasue when we unhook the camper at the mother in laws in Ky and went to Tennessee so see my family We can still use the Tonneau cover without unloading everything.  Its Just a regular plastic barrel I got from the dairy farm down the road. They use iodine to clean the teats on the cows before milking. This is what it comes in. I raid their burn hole every few months. Get a pickup load. I have a friend that's wanting to use them for water storage and aquaponics.  Anyway back to the point.

The bungs are threaded with pipe thread. A trip to the plumbing store and I got the spigot and valve stem. I tried the gravity flow. Took for ever and just didn't work well. The filler on our 5er is about the same height as my tail gate. Just make sure the top bung tight after you fill it. Pressure builds slowly and you wont hear a air leak. Then you stand there wondering what the heck is wrong it worked when I tried it at home!

I got a different 5er this spring and I quickly found out that the water tank is smaller than what we were use to. Someone had changed it out.  I knew we were going to be boondocking at cave run lake in Kentucky so I needed a extra tank. Even at our local campground we normally go there is no water close by. Its a pain to hook it up and go get water. Getting a barrel was easy but a pump was 80 bucks and Im kinda tight so I came up with this.
Used a 12 volt air compressor Ive had for years. Cost me about 10 bucks for the spigot and the valve stem and reducer. Takes a couple minutes but then have more than enough pressure to push the water into the fresh water tank. I have a long box pickup so there is plenty of room to mount the barrel right behind the cab.

I am a farm hand from Pender Ne. 42 years old. 6 kids. 4 from first marriage 2 from second. My wife of 4 years is from south eastern Kentucky. Met on the the internet. We enjoy gardening. We got into it more when we found out our youngest 2 has severe food allergies.  soy, chicken, milk, eggs, wheat, peanuts. oats and goat milk. Its been rough but we got it figured out.

We also enjoy traveling and camping. We go to Kentucky at least once a year sometimes twice to visit the wife's family. This year we took the camper and made a big trip out of it. We try to go on several camping trips a year even if its just to the local camp ground 12 miles away.

My wife and I  have been canning for the past several years. I don't consider myself "prepper" I just missed my grandmothers canned peaches. Shes dead so I had to figure it out myself. I wish so much I had paid more attention when I was younger but I had to be on the tractor with grandpa. Now I can everything. Beef, pork, chicken, I make my own chicken stock. Made pickles this year for the first time. 8 gallons.

I like to hunt and fish. Not so much hunting anymore but I try to fish quite a bit. I like to dump the canoe in the river and spent the day. Nothing better then fresh catfish.

Pictures taken this spring before planting. The steel water tanks worked out great. This is the second year for them. The bottoms are rusted out so they are no good for anything but this.
The concrete feed bunks are left over from when we had cattle here and from when we updated our cattle handling facility on the other place. They worked out fairly well. I was worried that dirt would plug the cracks and not allow water to drain. I have the opposite problem. I have to go back and dig the dirt out of every seam and seal it somehow. Water runs right through. I think it has harmed my yeald on the tomatoes. As a matter fact i know it has. I tried to fill the cracks with expansion foam but didn't work very well. On the side it worked but the bottom it just fell out.

 Thats so simple. You could get a patent on it and be a millionaire.

This all started one day I had some time to waste and seen a bass pro shop so I went in to browse around. I seen this.http://www.basspro.com/Horizon-Smoker-16-Ranger-Backyard-Smoker/product/10202040/. I loved it but who has nearly 2 grand to drop on a smoker? I was talking to a fried of mine showed him a picture and he set me up with some water heater tanks. Shortly after we got 3 inches of rain and couldent do anything at work and the rest is history. Its not done yet but getting there. I still need a fire box.   http://s1008.photobucket.com/user/jonandjen/media/1a1a1a1a.jpg.html One side is the smoker and cooker the other side is the charcoal bbq grill. The axel and trailer frame came from an old auger we had cut up for scrap iron.