JWR’s Recommendations of the Week:

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1. Morning all,

   Dad absolutely loves the music of Count Basie and for those in range the College of DuPage (Illinois) has a Jazz station worth listening to at 90.9 FM.
   Keep cool, it’s been smoking hot here lately 🙂

   Have a Rockin great day!

2. Regarding Kevin Bacon, a great movie of his is “Taking Chance” from 2009. It is based on the true experience of an Army officer accompanying a dead soldier’s body back to his home town. Interestingly, Wikipedia does not list this in their filmography of Mr. Bacon. That should tell you something about the film.

3. Growing seed to seed is an excellent idea. With shortages on many fronts, and other potential concerns (including delivery and the viability of the USPS), learning how to grow for seed and store through to the next planting season is increasingly important. In addition to support for our own individual gardens, surplus seed may help another family member, friend, neighbor, or someone else in the community! This year we did especially well with our kale seed — quite a delightful reward in many ways. The relatively early flowers helped feed native pollinators, and we were able to secure a healthy seed supply for the coming fall. We’re wishing everyone lots of fun in the learning, and great success!

   1. I sure agree with you Tellesilla. I so enjoy using seeds I saved from last year’s plants. Much of my kale is from the homestead here.

      I was also glad to see the Food Drying book recommended. Just today, I finalized plans to teach a group of local teenage gardeners how to dry food. I’m also negotiating with a local arboretum to teach drying later this summer.

      Carry on in grace

   2. Great comment! I really enjoy that book, but then I guess part of it is that I have had correspondence with the author and personally know the late publisher, Kent Whealy and the photographer, David Cavagnaro. This year, after the COVID 19 scare and subsequent economic shutdown a lot more people are gardening and this book will definitely help them to be more self sufficient.

4. Regarding solar…2 comments…an excellent Youtube channel is one by William Prowse, very bright youngster. Also Home Depot is a good source for solar products. Solar panels are less than $1 per watt in many places. We have an off-grid hunting cabin in south Texas and run everything including a full-size refrigerator from solar. Just can’t run Air Conditioning without a generator. I have had panels delivered with the boxes totally trashed and with Home Depot you can have them shipped to the store and refuse them if they are damaged. That avoids having to ship them back etc. PS. we did our solar several years ago and wish we had discovered Prowse sooner. He is that good in my opinion.

5. Windy Nation, 100 watt PV Panel, $77.99 shipping included.

   https://www.amazon.com/WindyNation-Solar-Battery-Camper-Trailer/dp/B086P963G4/ref=sr_1_31?crid=1O7QN4DRZXJIF&dchild=1&keywords=solar+panel&qid=1594229214&sprefix=fish+bone+meal%2Caps%2C532&sr=8-31

   1. Yes, but note the recent reviews — they have gone cheap on their frame thickness and glass sealing.

      1. Thanks, good to know. I have one purchased a few years ago. We don’t the glass to become broken as a result of a frame that might flex, or water infiltration. I’m looking for more PV panels if I can sell some hit and miss engines. Got two good runners, 95% restored, and one with blow by.

6. Ammunition sales are at panic buying levels and is becoming widely unavailable. The rush is on. Get it if you can. SG Ammo is now out of all their expanding ammunition in 7.62×39. UNAmmo.com still has some 8M3 that fragments, but the price is now .35 cents/round. It is far more effective than most FMJ of any kind. Have shot up many cases of the stuff. Even if I had enough FMJ, I would still want at least one case of 8M3, or soft points that can be loaded every other round with FMJ to ration. I prefer Tulammo or Wolf soft points, but 8M3 is still far more effective than FMJ within 75 to 100 yards. Yugo M67 would be last on my preferred list as it does in fact yaw almost immediately, and would be more effective than standard FMJ or hollow point. All will hit same POA. Here is UNAmmo’s description of 8M3:

   “7.62X39 Russian 8M3 124 Grain Hollow Points. These are nasty rounds on soft tissue. This would be a surgeons nightmare. It’s really the only Russian HP that works and it is a devastating round. Mfg. in Russia by Tula for Wolf. It not only expands it fragments on impact. This is Primer and Bullet Neck sealed which is made to Military Spec. We probably are the only ones in the country with this ammo too. Packed 20 rounds to a box with 50 boxes to the 1000 round case.”

   https://unammo.com/#Rifle

   1. 7.62×39
      http://www.luckygunner.com
      http://www.bulkammo.com
      http://www.laxammo.com
      http://www.ammotogo.com

      you can still find 500/1000 round packs
      1k rounds shipped under 300 thats including shippong etc

7. There are a gazillion 345 watt 36 volt panels, 11 months old that are available on the internet because of a hail storm damaging a solar farm in Texas. $150.00 each. Only a small percentage were damaged….it was a 10,000 acre solar farm. That’s a lot of panels. The insurance company replaced ALL the panels. So you can get these for a song. They looked brand new to me. Made in Korea, they are top tier panels.
   I picked up a bunch just for spares, as EMP does not annoy unused panels one bit. It’s only when you have long, unshielded leads attached to them that makes them vulnerable to degradation. So $1500 gets you 3400 watts of clean power.

8. It’s under the television portion as it was on hbo.

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