Been busy...

Well, the bees are busy at work, the garden is popping, and I keep craming every square inch full of things. I still have some room in the bean patch. Not for too much longer though. Should be through planting by end of this week. Hope you all are too. Here in the NC we are blessed with the long growing season. And can get two to three crops in one spring, summer, fall garden. Plenty of squash, cukes, beans, taters, maters, and fresh greens for salads. Might be a good time of you haven't already, to track down the old timers in oyur midst, and find out how they did what they did in the good ole days. Need old recipes, old methods of storing and preserving foods. I am going to try my hand at a few new things this year myself.

This summer is when things are going to get pressing, according to a few wise folks. Men that see the world for what it is, not what the made-up pretty boys and talking dolls say it is, with a smile added for effect of course. Some say as early as mid-July. I say, whatever you need to od, why not do it by July. That way, you are ahead of the brain craving zombie hoards. A water purifier is a must, a back up is required (2 is one, and one is none, remember that) P.A.C.E. yourself. P is for Primary, A is for Alternative, C is for Contingency, and E is for Emergency. If your plan is running to wally world for a couple for gallons of water for your backup, your plan is to die. If you don't have the plan now, you need to make it priority number 1! Not waiting another day, take a moment and think things through. Think about commonality of disaster. What you can do to cover your bases. Food, water, meds, flashlights, batteries, etc. All are necessary for what you could encounter. But, better prep for whats coming. The word is out, summer is going to be remembered as the summer of rage. I think that might be the understatement of the year. Hungry people might be a little pissed off. Just a little.

Are you ready for the revolution? You better be. If you plan to just hunker down and keep your nose clean, you still can be brought into it, just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The Patriot, with Mel Gibson, while a movie is an example of how this could happen to a person trying to stay out. But I would advise picking a team. I know my side, and I ain't budging from it. Not one damn bit. I am not wanting a fight, but I ain't sitting in a corner whining either. North Carolinians have always been strong warriors, and could be depended on in battle to fight harder than most. I take pride in that. I pray we haven't all been neutered, but I have to admit, I have my doubts. That doesn't mean pick a fight, just stand ready. Forewarned is forearmed.

Been busy planting...

Sorry for the delay...LOL. I have been busy gardening. Tis the time of the year to be busy as a bee, and thats what has put me behind. My bees came ready earlier than I expected, like 2 weeks earlier (I had no earlier experience to tell me the right timetable) and I have been frenzied to get stuff in the ground. I usually plant a few new things I have never planted before, and some things like corn or watermelons that take a lot of space, but produce relatively little compared to such staples as beans and potatoes. I am going to skip corn this year I think. I love the fresh corn with dinner, but this year with the coming global depression, summer of rage riots which GM is prepping for by closing plants, the droughts of biblical proportions in California, Texas, China, the world, and my general gut feeling of impending civil rebellion/ riots/ war here in the US, might be good to produce as much as I can with what room I have. Now I have a goodly sized garden, and I added room this year, but I know it will not be enough. It is never enough. It will however be enough to grow all the green beans, peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, carrots, beets, parsnips, squash both winter and summer, cukes, okra, sweet potatoes, regular potatoes, lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, swiss chard...and whatever else I can cram in to her.

I did get my beehive set up, and they are working hard, gathering nectar and pollen. I am going to add the small super for their honeystores, and for their future growth, and I will add a medium super for me to possibly steal a little for us later on. This year is all about making a strong hive, and next year hopefully getting a swarm and filling the top bar hive I built using plans from www.biobees.com . The hive I built will be in a future post I am sure, and once I get my wife to show me how to work the camera and the computer, I will take pics and upload them.

My rabbit hutch still sits 3/4 done, and waiting for its occupants to move in. I need to pick up a roll of roofing, or scrounge some shingles from a construction dumpster or 12. I also need to finish the doors. I have the wood cut to length, 5/4 decking board, and I am going to mortise the boards together and add the hardware cloth. Once that is done and hung, I can get busy finding a local to buy some good rabbit stock from. 2 females and 1 male.

I hear news of impending doom and gloom, things out of my control, but I made a decision a while back. Everytime I hear bad news, or something happens I do one thing to make myself and my family less dependent on those beast systems. I am now independent on eggs, chicken, apples, and soon, honey rabbits, fur for coats and robes, and I am always thinking about whats next. Get ready for a bumpy ride. And watch your back...

Left and right

I used to be a republican. Or should I say the republicans used to represent me? I had strong libertarian leanings and was not a republican water boy by any means. I can and do think for myself, which makes me and others like me dangerous. I admit I was very vocal, and I was slightly active in local politics, but became disgusted with a party that said one thing and did another. Now no malice involved, if you are a democrat or a republican, I am not your enemy. But you might want to do some self-searching. I was going to quit the party and join the Constitution or Libertarian Parties, until Ron Paul declared his run. I was and am a big Ron Paul fan. That being said, we lost. Several reasons why, but nothing can change the outcome. I was opposed to the war in Iraq, because I support the troops. I don't support the idea of sending Americas Finest to die for corporate causes. I was against the NAU. I am against the open borders. I am against the UN and the new Global banking cabal that has been handed our country and our treasury. The american people also rejected the dingdong politics, but attached them to "W". They elected Obama. I couldn't vote for the fellow, nor McCrazy either. I knew it was going to be meet the new boss same as the old boss. And for your proof I present...http://cryptogon.com/?p=8011

“The Obama DOJ is now squarely to the Right of an extremely conservative, pro-executive-power, Bush 43-appointed judge on issues of executive power and due-process-less detentions.”

Read it if you want and just think things through. Why would the new president want more fascist powers than the last dictator, oops president? Why wouldn't he be opposed to the W policies? Remember Clintons mentor Carol Quigley said "The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies."

Hmmmmm. Think on these. I say these things to bring you this...

For Official Use Only: Department of Homeland Security Document Predicts Violence in Response to New Gun Restrictions April 13th, 2009
Via: Infowars:
(U//FOUO) Many rightwing extremist groups perceive recent gun control legislation as athreat to their right to bear arms and in response have increased weapons and ammunitionstockpiling, as well as renewed participation in paramilitary training exercises. Such activity, combined with a heightened level of extremist paranoia, has the potential tofacilitate criminal activity and violence.

This coupled with the US Army's War College plan about the "new enemy" that they are preparing for. I hope everyone realizes the depth of this news. You the Liberty lover and Defender, you the second amendment champion, you the mother of children, you the unemployeed,things have changed. There now exists a dramatic disconnect between the elected and the electors. Might change your prep plans for this summer accordingly. What would you do if you were german, and living right this second in 1932? What would you do, and what would you prepare for? Maybe you would pray more, hunker down, and hit the dirt. Many did just that. What will you do when they come for your neighbor? your coworker? your family? YOU?

What will you do as an American, living in 2009?

2nd for the day...

While perusing my lists of news sites, (no not CNN or FAUX news, or the MSM at ALL!!!) I came across this link whiched linked to Yahoo.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090408/us_nm/us_usa_states_taxes

The best is this...He added that while refund delays popped up in only a few states so far this year, continuing revenue shortfalls could lead others to resort to this "band-aid" tactic.
"This doesn't solve a budget crisis, but it gives you a little float," Barro said.
North Carolina, facing a $2 billion deficit in its current budget, is about four weeks behind where it would normally be in sending out refund checks, according to Kenneth Lay, the state's revenue secretary.
"We're managing the distribution of checks very carefully," he said.
Lay added while the state hopes to catch up by mid-May, there was understandable anxiety on the part of taxpayers who need their refunds due to the sour economic conditions.
"We're telling people 'You'll get your refund check, it's just taking a little longer this year,'" Lay said.

Hope you got preps and a job. If you are waiting on a refund check to supplement your unemployment pittance, good luck. Time to develop a plan. We all better have one. We are going to need it.