I must say I have reached the saturation point of all things Obama about the 12th time over now and I just must break free, run wild and heap Davidic love upon Lodibar.This constant doldrums of Obama is so much the antithesis of what I envision and then having to deal with those little souls God will dispatch in do time for thinking He never sees nor records all their doings aimed at this site, is just like sitting in school on Saturday with the sun shining.
So in thinking of the high Sierras, pine martin, old trappers and spelt pancakes, I have decided to unhalter the one trick pony and do the best. One trick is a range horse, whose one trick is she tries to kill me when my back was turned. I delight in things dangerous as it makes life the nectar of God.
Like all good things though patience in life gauged upon horse seasons is the best patience for a human to live one's life.
As Barack Obama is about to destroy the United State economically with his suckling friends, I have some recommendations beyond buying guns and ammunition for the upcoming peasantry which do need stating.
If you have the room, a garden would be a splendid idea in this ode zur freude am frühling, joy to spring.
The idea of gardens is to grow things. That might sound odd, but far too many people put things into a garden they have no intention of eating or being able to grow. I like wire livestock panels as they keep out bunnies, possums and most coons at least long enough for one to say shoo or pot them.
The panels provide a wonderful home for snap peas and pole beans of the Kentucky Homestead and Wonder series which will produce in abundance.
I prefer the Imperator line of carrots which are like those in your grocery store. The Nantes and Chartenay do nothing for me, nor do parsnips which are just a white carrot.
Beets, of course, Detroit Dark Red, although I is on a journey of yellow beets this year in still testing things I should not be.
For greens, chard is the answer in most cases. Yes it is at times not as good as lettuce and spinach, but it grows like a weed and suffices in salads and greens.
Greens, I always splurge and grow green onions by the hundreds for fresh vegetables lightly salted.
One can choose the cucumbers they prefer, but I like the little Australian lemon, which is round and does quite well for fresh eating.
Cabbages, are a very productive food source and they keep quite well.
On the fruit side of tomatoes, they are still regional in scope for the most part and at times it is difficult to find an all around variety. I have had wonderful success with a late season Amish Rose, that has huge fruit, but as stated is late. It has though the benefit of taking a great deal of neglect.
If one is interested in paste tomatoes, I did find one which does well in Texas and Missouri type summer conditions, and will handle cool weather also in Roma Rio Grande. I do not ever parboil my tomatoes as it is inefficient in my time consumption. I simply slice in half these nice, firm tomatoes, gut the seeds, and then put them in my blender and paste away.
A slight cooking time, seal them into a canner and I have all the non pesticide, herbicide, preservative and anti caking food anyone can ask for.
Try this on Fried Spanish Rice and hola to a fantastico cheap food that tastes up town.
On touching on canners, everyone should have two and cases of canning jars. One will be amazed in canned beef keeping for years and how good it is with just salt and pepper, to bay leaves for the old Army standby SOAS, something on a shingle.
I prefer the heavy old caste aluminum as it bleeds heat around the jars better for a better cook rate.
If you can add 2 plus 2 and get 4, then by all means invest at some thrift or yard sale in a Presto or Mirro pressure cooking pan. They have weights on top to keep steam in and are the original microwave. They also make horrid tough cuts of meat tender.
Back at the ranch and the loaded 30 30, Melons are not a first time crop, but if you care to put down black plastic, keep you fingers off the plants so they don't get diseased, water them with manure tea, keep the cucumber beetles dead with bug dust, then you will find some lovely sweet melons you never dreamed existed in honeydews of the winter melon class. I have had great success with a Russian melons, called Collective Farm Woman. Grow though what you like, but it does seem that certain areas of North America grow different colors of watermelons better.
Whites seem to grow best in the far north as Canada, orange or yellows do well in the central states and the south seems good for the red and pinks.
Squash, grow what you prefer as most will grow like pumpkins in having a bushel too many of them.
Potatoes take up room, but the newer mid season potatoes do quite well in any color from blue, yellow to white flesh. Early potatoes set on quickly, but not large crops. Late will be harmed by droughts and moisture not being in abundance late in the season when you probably are more inclined to sipping sun tea than watering, so midseason types are a bucket of delight.
They just need an inch of water a week and will do splendid.
The nesters really liked turnips too. Turnips though need cool fall weather to mature or they are strong tasting. I do love rutabagas, but splurge and grow mine in the store as they do not have to deal with cabbage moths and the long growing season problem.
Speaking of nesting, if you can get a few chickens, by all means do. I prefer the chickens who have sex as most hatcheries now have machines giving hens the sperm donation. The reason I prefer chicken sex is then they most likely will set and raise their own chicks.
As chickens make noise, muscovy ducks do not and breed like rabbits. They scratch though, but eat piles of bugs and West Nile Mosquitos.
Rabbits, by all means, but I in my rootin' tootin' lookin' like a Clint Eastwood Unforgiven type, just don't have it Michael Moore in me to be chewing on bunnies. Have ate worse, seen worse ate and know of people having to eat human turds to survive, but bunnies I have no current heart to dine upon if I can avoid it.
Goats, yup, but they take livestock panels as so sheep away from the Obama hordes.
The only thing nice about the Obama hordes is those folks always have papers filled with critters they are giving away. So often if you are looking to start up it is just a drive over cheap.
Just don't tell people where you live or they will come over visiting "their" pets which you are now feeding for them.
That about wraps up goat herder university today brought to you by the fine English pounds invested in public service, well not really, but am looking to wrap this up and go play.
In closing though, the gal pal above is not a facsimile of me or anyone I share covers with, don't even share the same blanket with that there horse. Just an illustration, so you groupies and maniacs can stop thinking you got a bone to chew on. That woman would probably or her man put a great deal of hurt on you for picking at them as they are not Godlike tolerant as I tend to be in dealing with the bleaters.
I leave it all to God to deal with people and lightning from heaven or appendicitis complications the grim reaper just seems to hunt up the to do list and it is done. God says no one every prosecutes Him for avenging His children or doing His things, so that is a much more peaceful way to go as the circus goes by.
Well at least Obama isn't prosecuting God yet.
Who knows though on that one.
Bon apetite Earl Peroux.
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