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1. Mr. Rawless, may I ask what שש means? I tried translating it but it kept telling me that it was 6.

   1. Those are eyeballs, he is addressing whatever watchers are spying on his column.

2. Greetings from the great Midwestern redoubt! I had shoulder surgery for a torn labrium 2 weeks ago. I should have taken care of this a decade or two ago, but there are always other priorities. It’s going to be another 6 weeks before I’ll be “normal” again. About 4 weeks before my surgery my back went out and threw my schedule way off. I couldn’t sit down or get up from a chair with out the help of a cane, very frustrating when I had so much to do. I managed to get the garden in, it’s large and feeds us well enough we’re self sufficient for vegetables.
   It may be easier to list the things I didn’t get done: no fence posts for the grape arbor, hopefully I can get at that late in August. Didn’t get all the firewood cut/split/stacked that I wanted too. I have at least three years worth ready to go but I like to stay ahead so now I have a pile of logs to look at all summer. Didn’t get siding on the east side of the house, hopefully in the fall now. Didn’t get my rabbit cages the way I wanted them. Again, another fall project. I have two AR 15’s I would have liked to have worked with but I can’t even hold a long gun at the moment. Well, you all get the idea, just when you think you’re getting ahead something like this surgery pops up and knocks your plans all apart. BTW, I get the same surgery to the other shoulder in November, I hope it doesn’t snow much this winter!

3. AND, I didn’t get a pair of pigs like I wanted to or look into a pair of donkeys either!

4. Jorn is completing his move onto one of the oldest homestead-farms in Lincoln County, Montana.

5. Spent the weekend working on the old diesel pickup truck and the RV comms equipment. Flying the Gadsden flag here north of the border.

6. I my big prep win this past week was turning some cash into silver and gold. While I like to save up cash I also like to move some of it into silver and gold. I also like to turn some of it into guns and ammo too. I did do some actual ditch digging this past Wednesday. I had someone grade one of my dirt roads and in a couple of places the ditches filled with silt and the water started running across the road making ruts. I bought two 25′ erosion waddles (You’ll have to search them) and lined the road sides in key places. I then seeded the 250 yards of road in fescue grass seed. It has rained every day since then. Hopefully the seed will sprout and has not washed away. These storms coming off the Gulf are a little stronger than the one’s Cindy produced.

7. Greetings all, hope all is well! The wife is transplanting pumpkins in the backyard while my job is to construct a 2′ welded wire fence around it to keep the rabbits out. Continuing construction on our backyard shed, still going through old Y2K storage food, grinding, mixing and feeding what isn’t good to the chickens and goats. Some life changing decisions may be coming our way soon, prayers please. I have discussed the topic of relocating to the Redoubt with the wife (after explaining what it was), that time may be close, yet there are some loose ends that need to be tied. Happy Fourth everyone! Please be safe! God bless!

8. Oh how my patience are being tried.. We must stay in town this week and next for work and to finish up chores before heading to our beloved north Idaho retreat.. we picked mounds of strawberries this morning in our garden.. reworked the shed doors to close a little easier, and restacked some of the firewood that wasn’t quite stack able without some cutting.

   In idaho, I have a new toilet to install at the Idaho property,( whoever thought of a round toilet, under the comfort sweet spot of 16.5 inches should be fined and jailed!) and some 4×4 posts to sink for a new metal shed. Its going to be a busy next couple of weeks

9. I’m really enjoying this section as well as the comments. We live south of the Redoubt at altitude and are still recovering our property after a complete loss from wildfire. My husband is still cutting dead wood and has about an acre to go – whew. We will be set for firewood for quite a while! We are battling grasshoppers with more meadow than woods. I got NOLO after seeing it recommended here (thank you) so we will see. We have 21 raised beds and a greenhouse. I got a little carried away when we rebuilt the garden! I didn’t get as good a spring start as I would have liked due to weather this year but things made it through a late hard freeze in mid-May. Things are growing nicely and I am busy with weeding, thinning and mulching. I ate the first strawberries of the season – right there as I stood in the garden. I will share the next round with the fam! we enjoyed our first asparagus crop after patiently waiting 3 years – oh my! This week I will do some succession planting. If it would rain, we will get at the noxious weeds that have popped up everywhere. We have learned through our experience that God is good all the time and provides graciously for our needs. Blessings to all!

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