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Get Home Bag Challenge

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izl8sUnwVzI

FK – Mine is larger and does have a change of clothing because I travel hundreds of miles on my ‘commutes.’ Cotton and modern textiles will rot off or wear out after weeks or months in the outback. My goal would be not just covering ground but finding food and shelter on a regular basis because I’m not a spring chicken any more and wouldn’t expect to get home quickly unless I could ‘acquire’ a couple horses or mules.

My pack is a surplus army in multicam with a frame because I can’t afford the over-priced civy stuff and my back can’t take not having real support anymore. If things are ‘that bad’ you’d want to avoid major highways and built up areas anyway and hope you can stay hidden from over-zealous land owners. Remember, possums are your friends.

If things were ‘bad enough’ the focus might not be on ‘getting home’ so much as thinking globally and acting locally. I’ll leave the rest up to your imagination.

Preserving Fruit: How Does It Work?

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FK – That guessing thing is called the ‘grandma’ method.

Have you discussed wild strawberries? My grandmother would make a wild strawberry cobbler most every year. Far surpasses the domesticated in taste. I mean every year to try to find enough to do something with but never find my rountuit on that. Unless you find a really concentrated patch as we used to have in our hayfield/garden patch in central Kentucky picking enough can be time consuming as they’re quite small.

There’s also a another plant that produces a similar tiny red berry, don’t know what it’s called. They’re not as common as far as I’ve seen, and don’t have the same type leaves as strawberries and haven’t chanced eating one. Wild strawberries are just diminutive versions of what we see in gardens.

Something else that’s killing us:

FK – So is it ‘hydrogenated’ vegetable oil? Does that make a difference?

If you drink orange Fanta with your salmon does that help?

California’s water supply headed for collapse in just one year; state has “no contingency plan” – NASA scientist

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Add California’s water supply to your list of “things headed for imminent collapse.” The state has only one year of reserves remaining, warns Jay Famiglietti, the senior water scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech.

In a widely-cited LA Times opinion piece, Famiglietti writes that “…the state has only about one year of water supply left in its reservoirs, and our strategic backup supply, groundwater, is rapidly disappearing. California has no contingency plan for a persistent drought…”

But don’t worry: California has no plan for balancing its budget, either. Nor does it have a plan for how to pay for all the social entitlements it has promised its population of dependents. And finally, California has no real plan to fund its pension promises, either, which means that California state retirees not only face a future without water; they also face a future without a pension check.

FK – Commiefornia will have to be re-conquered.

Water hoarding begins in Brazil as one of the world’s largest cities runs out of water