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1. Yes please HJzl, do indeed write an article review on your Security/Video Surveillance.

2. Love this section.
   Mr. Latimer, will be interested in your security cams. I myself, need ones with no flash, time and date and easy to program, under $200.00.
   Love and pray for you all.

3. I recently purchased a freeze dryer and I’m interested to hear about your “pump” issue. If there is somethings I should or should not do, I’d like to know.

   THanks,

4. HJL, I would be very interested as well in a review of your video surveillance system when you can. We seriously need to install one on our property. Thank you for all the hard work!

5. From our Chicken coop and our garden since the 1st of June we have done the following: Friends and family have been provided 13 dozen fresh eggs with another 5 dozen to be given away this weekend. We harvested 168 ears of yellow sweet corn and gave away 50 ears with another 18 to be given away this weekend, harvested enough crookneck yellow squash to put up 36 qts and will be given away 6 more qts this weekend for a total 9 qts given away since
   1 June 17. We will be turning yesterdays harvest of sweet corn into creamed corn today. Of the 62 tomato plants; all have green maters on them and should start turning red by the end of next week, the we will start canning them. Pepper plants are all starting to produce and they will be canned to make pepper sauce for seasoning the greens & beans.
   Will be planting beans and peas for a fall harvest next week, reorganizing the power house / shop, installing the wiring from the inverter to the circuit breaker panel and from there to the well pump (meant to accomplish this week but way to wet outside to do safely). Will be doing some welding repairs on the bush hog, cutting and splitting wood for the coming winter.
   To all in the redoubt, may god bless you and keep you safe.

6. We did some re-panting of our small patch of Painted Mountain corn. We have great difficulty growing small patches of corn here: some critter (perhaps crows) pulls the 2-3″ sprouts to eat the seeds; then as the ears ripen, some other critter husks and eats the kernels as they stand. Scarecrow fails to deter the first. Had partial success against the second surrounding the garden with rat-poison stations during the whole season. Better, more sustainable suggestions solicited.

   1. An inflatable snake or owl often deters rodents.

7. Yes, I’m looking forward to getting prepped

8. We experienced this same problem years ago. The corn shoots got about 2 inches high, then were gone the next time I looked. At the time, I was working two jobs at 60 hours a week. I didn’t check things every day. Anyway, I re-planted. This time they only got about an inch tall, and were gone, and I mean 100% gone. The nebulous “they” didn’t leave a single one. So,,, I replanted with the last of my seed. When nothing came up, I went out and tried to find the seed corn. Where wasn’t any in the ground.

   About another week later I came home early. As in, before dark. There was a full murder of around 24 crows diligently scratching the ground to see if I had put out their next week’s course for them.
   The funny thing is, I never saw a track. They tilled the ground so well it did not look disturbed!

   CentOre

9. Had a preps failure with pancake mix,tried to make pancakes and they wouldn’t brown properly(went to slightly burned) they had a “off” taste and caused burps. Checked dates and found it to be over a year out of date. Remember to rotate!

   1. I’m wondering what went wrong with those. Usually, on dry mixes, the expiration date has to do with nutrition or texture. I’ve never heard of a failure like this. The off-taste might have been due to oil/fat going rancid or oxidation of the ingredients though. Just curious.

10. Planted second crop of bean’s, some of the first planting did not come up. Have a piece of ground I have given up on,will till more organic matter in and try again.

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