bigugli

The first staple you should get is salt, lots of it. Sugar isn't a necessity.

If it ever gets that bad (it wont) make sure you bring a shovel too. You will spend a lot of time burying the dead come spring.

Sugar is almost as important as salt for the preserving of food. Of course, in the right areas one can go sugaring off in late winter (there's another set of skills few still posess. I still own a small evaporator.), or over time one can set up hives. It is needed for canning, pickling, the production of bread, fermentation, etc....

I agree about the shovel. 100 years ago child mortality was around 10% and pushed to 30% or more during epidemics. Go into some of the back country areas in Ontario and seek out old settlement graves. See one family plot with 7 or more tombstones put up over the course of three years.

Yes life then was a whole lot simpler, but it was also a whole lot more brutal and cruel.

Farmed fish are no different than farmed "wild game", or beef, pork and poultry for that matter. They are raised for human consumption.

I think a lot of us are in that boat... You just gotta know when to take to shore.

And speaking of boats and shores and seeing how this is a fishing forum and such....blah blah blah

 

Can't seem to find a live version but this is quite good...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz_LaNDUiko

I always wanted to own me a Cape Islander like you would find in Fundy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26AwLnSxHkA...feature=related.

An old story

In this part of the country Nauti, there was zero possibility of surviving a nuclear war. Every nuclear plant was a strategic civil target. So was the Falls. So was 'gasoline alley'

All we could ever do was kiss our keesters goodbye if it had happened. So why worry?

There are a lot of forgotten skills that need to be relearnt, and fewer people left who can pass them on. Many don't want to listen and learn. We quickly forget that survival is based on self- reliance. It never hurts to keep a veggie patch, learn food preserving. Reduce the unnecessary extras we like to surround ourselves with.

Berry picking and digging up roots are just as important as fishing and hunting.

Mr Dressup.... , that was kinda scary...LOL

 

This one memory I have, actually I remember the LP as it was the only yellow record I had ever seen

I think I played it so much my old man had to hang out in his shop just to get away...maybe

ok time to get into it....

 

I'm a big Horton fan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJD0Eall4Dw...feature=related

The mrs,s remembers this,but I dont.Not saying shes old or anything like that.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPQ_fa_yNh4...feature=related

I always wanted to be a member of the MMC

We faithfully watched Uncle Walt every Sunday

Howz about " Born on a mountain top in Tennesee..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BTfJct2a3E

Don't forget Bimbo and son of Happy

More childishness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2se2I70CJ0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-yLYz6ejqw&NR=1

The guys who came up with those shows were smokin some high grade stuff maaaan.

Want to go to sea Billy?

So I guess we are reliving our childhood tonight?

Remember 'Early one morning'

Learn to make do or don't survive, but even a bush rat needs $ to make a go of it. Fuel, seed, shot and shells still cost dollars.

Too many hours of OFC will do this to you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYLkqcWJdgg

I used to love watchin Capt Kangaroo and Mr Greenjeans

I'm certain you could fill a book from the suggestions on this board.

Easiest place to start is the grocery bill. I spend $250 for a family of 4 per month. That requires doing your homework weekly, avoiding impulse shopping, and dropping all the ready to serve/quick serve stuff from your grocery list. Drop the takeout and drop Timmies.

Wife and I have various health issues the past few years so we are on a very limited budget. Neither of us is in a position to be working, so the budgeting lessons we learnt years back are what keep us afloat now

Now that is a wholesome brekkie. Nothing like a good layer of bear grease to line the innards. BTW, nice bag of fish.

With that kinda dough I could buy me a Prime Minister On second thought he ain't worth it

The boat is not big enough for Great Lakes running unless you're staying inside the 1 mile mark. As the others said, priced too high.

As for appx weight: on trailer roughly 1000lbs. all out.

Don't know how much more the MRs can take? All these tunes belted out at the unholy hour of 9 0'clock She needs her 12 hours of beauty sleep

Fer ye crazy Irish folk...LOL

 

Actually, the Celtics are a Scottish soccer club in Glasgow with a heavy rivalry and grudge against the protestant Rangers

Mighty fine collection of tackle. Hope you don't plan on humping it all along a shoreline trail. I do love backpack fishing. You cannot carry it all. You select a few key items and the necessary bits of terminal tackle to fill 2 medium trays. Remember to have some downsized baits for tough bites days. I carry 2 rods. A shorter baitcaster and an U/L spinning rod for finesse.

By the time you have 2 trays, tools, camera, tape, snack, bug juice, etc... plus your two rods, you have more than enough to carry around. You still have to be able to fish and move around comfortably without having 20-30lbs. on your back.

Finally got a few varieties tied since then.

Game fish have been commercially sold in the past. Pike from Manitoba is the most obvious. It wasn't taken in provincial waters and you have a receipt.

Seeing as the LM was in a tank of live hybrid stripers or white bass, it is probable they are farm raised and not product of ontario waters..

I do recall 20 years back a fishmonger in Kensington getting pinched for selling bass

I listen to this and look at my Grampa's picture and wish...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq0tAoO3-xQ

Just to be able to let him know

Had to disappear earlier. the family wanted a cookie fix

It's whatever you like on this thread Nauti!!!... if you click on something that doesn't suit you, close it and open another!

 

Your description of that song made me think of this one... I know I posted it last week, but I and several of my friends have had medical problems... some much more severe than me and they didn't make it, neither did the writer of this song... it is rather blunt, but when you're facing those kind of problems... it seems fitting!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHDdqubE7zQ

Oh so true for many of us