Tried a new recipe Saturday.  Seen in on Facebook. Its just canned meat with some onion, some garlic, taters, mushrooms and carrots. It turned out delicious.

You can always  convert it to regular shocks. I contemplated doing this with my 06 suburban LTZ. But i traded it for my Duramax instead.

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So if my thinking is right I can pull the 3/4 ton axles out of my 80 pickup. Then I need to order new 3/4 ton springs for a suburban. That will raise up the rear end quite a bit. Then if I order a 2 inch lift for a 3/4 ton it will come with new 3/4 ton front springs. If i gotta buy new springs anyway I just as well lift it a little.

I don't NEED a 3/4 suburban but if Im going to put new springs on I just as well go one step up.

I'm a crappy welder but if I take my time it comes out pretty decent.
Don't get in a hurry you be fine.

I wonder if the 3/4 ton springs will fit?

It has 350 with 700r4. 4x4.  Rear brakes don't work and the Windows don't roll down so I have to figure that out. Otherwise Its a pretty solid beast.
I had to dip I to vacation money to scoop It up but I think its well worth it. Wife even liked it.

Picked this up yesterday for 650 bucks. Odometer sais 130,000 miles but it dont work so who knows what it has. I found a list of repairs done at 109K in the glove box but the date is 2001 (ball joints, wheel bearing, brakes, fuel pump,etc) so I hope its not too much past that. Im thinking add a 4 inch lift and some bigger tires. Sand it down a little bit and shoot it flat black. No rust repair just leave it. The rust is not horrible and wont show that bad through flat black. The interior is really what sold me. Its near perfect. If someone takes the time to keep it that clean than I think they would take care of it mechanically also.

Hang in there. Marital problems are hard to deal with. Unfortunately my first wife and I were unable to over come our problems. It takes 2. It won't work of only one person tries.

I don't need to see a movie to know that.

No its not going bad over summer But I should drain the hose. Just whats in the hose changes color.

Ive heard stories about that in WW2 My grandpa served while his younger brothers and dad farmed. They still had horses. The government must have had enough so they didn't take anything.

My boss told me stories abut his dad during that time also. Being the youngest and his brothers already over seas they let him stay home. You couldn't buy a tractor at that time. His uncle was a shady character and  car dealer. He found a Allis Chalmers wd on the black market.  That was the first tractor on this farm that I work at.

My boss, the man the with check book don't believe in all this prepper stuff. I was just wondering how long we might have with what we got.

I noticed she has a Facebook page. I'm going to check that out too.

Some of them remind me of my family trying to take a picture.

The Dalmatians freaked me out a little also.

Every time we go camping its a challenge to see how quickly I can make a fire with no lighter fluid. Sometimes it takes a while. I always bring a gallon of diesel. Ever since I doused a pile of wet wood with gas then I couldn't get the paper lit to throw on it. By the time i got it lit we had flames from vapor 6 ft out from the ring. Diesel don't do that.

Then my boss and his buddies would all go to Colorado on a ski trip every year. Get a big condo with a fire place. I said that must be nice sitting around the fire having drinks after a day on the slopes. He looked right at me and said nobody can ever get the fire lit. Really? Wow. What a bunch of men you guys are.

I got sucked into a tv show. Last man on earth.  Kind of dumb but I like it. One episode the gas turned bad. Turned into jell. I know that don't happen but one guy on there sad Hey I told you this would happen.  Diesel last longer.

Got me to thinking. A gallon can of gas will go bad in 8 months or a year.  Will a 500 gallon barrel go bad that fast or will that quantity stay good longer?
How long would the same gallon can of diesel last?
What about propane?
The military uses JP8 I don't know much about that except its jet fuel but like kerosene. Can it be used in diesel trucks? Most likely hard for a civilian to obtain.

Every farm has fuel storage. If something happened I just wonder how Long before we are out of usable fuel?  Don't want to waste fuel in a SHTF situation  but if it will go bad in a certain amount of time just as well use it. I know we have a few propane tanks that have been full for a couple years. Filled them to run the grain dryers and never needed them. How long before they go bad?

If it was not for Obama Hillary would be President right now.

We made it. Relatively non eventful trip. Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and safe travels!

Can't beat a good old fashind hand cranker meat grinder. Get them for less than 5 bucks at most house hold auctions around here. Paid a dollar for mine.

This in our truck. We were buring trees in the hole in the background. Disked up all the ground around it. I left for a Dr appointment. The guys decided to leave for lunch. While they were gone embers from the fire flew over the disked ground and lit the ditch. Then went into the field and got the truck.

I received this in an email yesterday Thought I would pass it on.



What I See Happening In a Trump Presidency

By Bill Bennett

 

They will kill him before they let him be president. It could be a Republican or a Democrat that instigates the shutting up of Trump.

Don’t be surprised if Trump has an accident. Some people are getting very nervous: Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett, Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton and Jon Corzine, to name just a few.

It's about the unholy dynamics between big government, big business, and big media. They all benefit by the billions of dollars from this partnership, and it's in all of their interests to protect one another. It's one for all and all for one.

It’s a heck of a filthy relationship that makes everyone filthy rich, everyone except the American people. We get ripped off. We’re the patsies. But for once, the powerful socialist cabal and the corrupt crony capitalists are scared. The over-the-top reaction to Trump by politicians of both parties, the media, and the biggest corporations of America has been so swift and insanely angry that it suggests they are all threatened and frightened.

Donald Trump can self-fund. No matter how much they say to the contrary, the media, business, and political elite understand that Trump is no joke.  He could actually win and upset their nice cozy apple cart. 


It's no coincidence that everyone has gotten together to destroy The Donald.  It's because most of the other politicians are part of the a good old boys club. They talk big, but they won’t change a thing. They are all beholden to big-money donors. They are all owned by lobbyists, unions, lawyers, gigantic environmental organizations, and multinational corporations – like Big Pharmacy or Big Oil. Or they are owned lock, stock, and barrel by foreigners like George Soros owns Obama or foreign governments own Hillary and their Clinton Foundation donations.


These run-of-the-mill establishment politicians are all puppets owned by big money.  But there's one man who isn't beholden to anyone.  There's one man who doesn't need foreigners, or foreign governments, or George Soros, or the United Auto Workers, or the teacher's union, or the Service Employees International Union, or the Bar Association to fund his campaign.

Billionaire tycoon and maverick Donald Trump doesn’t need anyone’s help. That means he doesn’t care what the media says. He doesn’t care what the corporate elites think. That makes him very dangerous to the entrenched interests. That makes Trump a huge threat to those people. Trump can ruin everything for the bribed politicians and their spoiled slave masters.

Don’t you ever wonder why the GOP has never tried to impeach Obama? Don’t you wonder why John Boehner and Mitch McConnell talk a big game, but never actually try to stop Obama? Don’t you wonder why Congress holds the purse strings, yet has never tried to de-fund Obamacare or Obama’s clearly illegal executive action on amnesty for illegal aliens? Bizarre, right? It defies logic, right?

First, I'd guess many key Republicans are being bribed. Secondly, I believe many key Republicans are being blackmailed. Whether they are having affairs, or secretly gay, or stealing taxpayer money, the National Security Agency knows everything.

Ask former House Speaker Dennis Hastert about that. The government even knew he was withdrawing large sums of his own money from his own bank account. The NSA, the SEC, the IRS, and all the other three-letter government agencies are watching every Republican political leader. They surveil everything. Thirdly, many Republicans are petrified of being called racists, so they are scared to ever criticize Obama or call out his crimes, let alone demand his impeachment. Fourth , why rock the boat?  After defeat or retirement, if you’re a good old boy, you’ve got a $5 million-per-year lobbying job waiting. The big-money interests have the system gamed. Win or lose, they win.

But Trump doesn’t play by any of these rules. Trump breaks up this nice, cozy relationship between big government, big media, and big business. All the rules are out the window if Trump wins the Presidency. The other politicians will protect Obama and his aides but not Trump. Remember: Trump is the guy who publicly questioned Obama's birth certificate.  He questioned Obama's college records and how a mediocre student got into an Ivy League university.  Now, he's doing something no Republican has the chutzpah to do.  He's questioning our relationship with Mexico; he's questioning why the border is wide open; he's questioning why no wall has been built across the border; he's questioning if allowing millions of illegal aliens into America is in our best interests; he's questioning why so many illegal aliens commit violent crimes, yet are not deported; and he's questioning why our trade deals with Mexico, Russia and China are so bad.

Trump has the audacity to ask out loud why American workers always get the short end of the stick. Good question! I'm certain Trump will question what happened to the almost billion dollars given in a rigged no-bid contract to college friends of Michelle Obama at foreign companies to build the defective Obamacare website.  By the way, that tab is now up to $5 billion. Trump will ask if Obamacare's architects can be charged with fraud for selling it by lying.  Trump will investigate Obama's widespread IRS conspiracy, not to mention Obama's college records. Trump will prosecute Clinton and Obama for fraud committed to cover up Benghazi before the election.  How about the fraud committed by employees of the Labor Department when they made up dramatic job numbers in the last jobs report before the 2012 election?

Obama, the multinational corporations and the media need to stop Trump. They recognize this could get out of control. If left unchecked, telling the raw truth and asking questions everyone else is afraid to ask, Trump could wake a sleeping giant.  Trump's election would be a nightmare.  Obama has committed many crimes.  No one else but Trump would dare to prosecute.  He will not hesitate.  Once Trump gets in and gets a look at the cooked books and Obama's records, the game is over.  The jig is up.  The goose is cooked.  Holder could wind up in prison. Jarrett could wind up in prison.  Obama bundler Corzine could wind up in prison for losing $1.5 billion of customer money.  Clinton could wind up in jail for deleting 32,000 emails or for accepting bribes from foreign governments while Secretary of State, or for misplacing $6 billion as the head of the State Department, or for lying about Benghazi .  The entire upper level management of the IRS could wind up in prison.

Obamacare will be de-funded and dismantled. Obama himself could wind up ruined, his legacy in tatters. Trump will investigate. Trump will prosecute. Trump will go after everyone involved. That’s why the dogs of hell have been unleashed on Donald Trump. 

Yes, it's become open season on Donald Trump.  The left and the right are determined to attack his policies, harm his businesses, and, if possible, even keep him out of the coming debates  But they can't silence him.   And they sure can't intimidate him.  The more they try, the more the public will realize that he's the one telling the truth.

Jon in northeastern Nebraska. About an hour and half north of Omaha about 30-40 miles west of I29 that runs north and south through Iowa.

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When I think smoking meat I think a pork loin or a hunk of beef to eat now not preserve. With the smoker I am building now I should be able to do that. We have not worked on it a couple months and wont probably get it done until later this winter.

Looks good I was actually thinking abut doing that today or tomorrow. I put carrots in mine and more celery. Just rinse them off and break them in half. The onions I just cut in half and throw them in. I used the last of my homemade last week making soup. When it came time to do the turkey for thanksgiving I remembered I was out. I always put chicken stock in the pan to keep it moist. Works better than just water.  Too late to get to the store I dug through the cabinets and found an old jar of bullion cubes that expired last year. Had to make due and no one noticed.

You don't have a diggers hot line? Call before you dig they come out and locate all the pipes and wires?

Opened a can for breakfast this is all the natural juice from the meat. NO water or broth of any kind added.

I had a round bale fall off the trailer in the middle of the road pulling out of the field. I had to Sprint 100 yards to get to the payloader to move it before someone came flying over the hill and hit it. Lets just say if zombies were chasing me I would be gone. I was light headed and my ears were ringing. I thought I was going to black out.