[MikeD]

I watch Suspicious Observers as well.

[DeepSouthBamaGRITS]

Thank you kindly for responding. I’ve watched them for years and what they speak of going on with our solar system, the changes in the weather, the Magnetic Reversal Pole Shift, the Solar Micronova event, etc., is happening right before our very eyes. The Grand Solar Minimum/Maximum that happens every 300-350 yrs is here but WHY doesn’t anyone pay attention to these things. These are the things Danny with DSH speaks of but can’t elaborate on or have his YT channel taken down. I’ve had no likes or responses from this post except from you. I posted it separately on the activity feed as well but absolutely no likes or comments.

Oh well, at least I made an attempt to get people to see what is happening around them.

[KimC]

Maybe others are in a similar situation to me: Seldom enough time to read all the posts or watch all the links that everyone recommends, yet hearing bits and pieces from multiple sources (like Danny and a few others) along the way over time has provided enough of an overview that I “get it.” I just don’t often post or chime in on various topics because it’s already been said. There’s little I can do about these concerns that are out of my control, other than continuing to prepare for the many scenarios that we’re facing (which again, leaves less time for watching, commenting and the like). If I watched every video I set aside to view on a given day, I would have no time for anything else other than being on the computer constantly. That’s unsustainable for me.

I appreciate you giving the heads up. I think it’s a great benefit to know the info is here and if/when I have the opportunity to dig deeper. I can always come back to it and watch or listen. And the fact that it’s here hopefully means others who are not yet aware will see it and learn, and be incentivized to take actions they deem prudent.

Please be encouraged. More people are likely seeing this than you realize.

[DeepSouthBamaGRITS]

Hey Kim,
I totally understand about not having time to get on the computer much. I usually check my msgs/email in the morning while having my coffee and if weather permitting, I’m then outside for most of the day trying to finish projects or getting ready for spring planting. It is now 7:15 pm (CST) and I haven’t been on the computer all day, not even my cell phone to check YT’s. I have over 35 tabs open on my PC to eventually get back to reading articles and my YT has 126 video’s in the queue to watch. Most I need to delete since they are now old news & others are relevant to something I am researching or need to know how to do. Just don’t have enough hours in the day, like most other homesteaders. So I totally understand as I have priorities every single day in order to be able to get things done. I must utilize every minute wisely, just as most others also do.
I also know there is absolutely NOTHING I CAN DO TO CHANGE THE EVENTS COMING, nor do I worry or stress myself as that would do nothing but hinder my work & preps. I have & continue to prepare as best I can for whatever happens & pray it is enough as I KNOW I have done the best I can and could do. That is really all any of us can do.
It was just weighing heavy on my heart to try to reach out to people that don’t know much if anything about all the unusual events coming. I had seen some comments on Danny’s Porch Time last week where people were wanting to know how to find out about the “explosions in space” he mentioned. I told them about Suspicious Observers. But there is also David Dubyne of Adapt 2030, Christian with Ice Age Farmer & others with the same info. I just assumed there was a greater interest in the matter so made the post so all could find the info, if they were inclined or interested. I had talked to several people a few days prior that had no clue what is happening or going to happen. As usual, some didn’t know ANYTHING, some don’t care, some don’t want to know and others think I’m NUTS…LOL!! To each his own…
Thank you for replying and relieving a bit of my frustrations as to why no likes/responses on the post I thought would draw a bit more interest. Different strokes for different folks.
I know that I’m guilty of scanning the activity feed and passing over links/articles I’m already aware of or don’t have time to read/watch or go thru the steps of being taken to the discussion and the hoopla of finding who I’m replying to…that is so aggravating to me!. Maybe that is the case here, too. AND DO UNDERSTAND that I am not the kind of person that expects praise or thrives on attention. It was more like a Deja Vous moment from being on FB where posts were censored, shadowbanned & not available for people to see, which is not the case here on Freesteading. Regardless, I’ve done my part so I’m letting this sleeping dog lay..
Blessings to you & yours & again, THANK YOU for your response!

[KimC]

Glad to know I’m not the only one with so many open browser windows that seem to always be growing in number. Ha-ha! 😉

[DeepSouthBamaGRITS]

😏 Great minds, girl, that is all I can say! LOL! I was actually curious as to just how many tabs I DO have open so did a quick count & OMGosh, I have 62!! I need to get some of that info printed & close some of them!! Holy Cow, that is more than I thought, for sure! I print loads of info to put in my binders for times when there will be no internet. Another quick tip, which you may already do, is I have a program called CLIPGRAB (a free download program) where I can download video’s (from most platforms) to my PC. When I have a spare min or two I will burn those vid’s (Mostly DIY projects, How To Vids, etc.) to a CD or DVD. I have a small portable DVD/CD player with a screen I can power with my Solar Generator to be able to watch them later…if they don’t all get fried someday! LOL!
Will be multitasking tonight for a while as I made a grocery haul today and will be vacuum sealing lots of dry goods (things I CAN’T grow or make myself). While doing that I can listen to some YT’s…maybe I will get that queue cleared a bit!! LOL!! Pressure canned all weekend trying to clear out all my freezers JUST IN CASE, never know when the grid will go down. Will be planting my taters & onions tomorrow & potting up more pineapple tops I’ve rooted. Work never seems to end but I GITTER DONE! 🙃
Have a good evening.

[KimC]

Thanks. You too!

[Concealed-Kari]

I am in souther Indiana and watch him and Adapt 2030. Last year was definitely proof that there are atmospheric changes.

We have grown in our garden without covered beds until last year. I don’t know about others but we have been talking about a high tunnel or bed covers at the very least.

[MikeD]

All you can do is put the info out there. If they bite , they bite. You did your part. Most people say they don’t have time. I respect that. I grew up farming and ranching. I’m 50 now and still work from sun up till after dark. The thing is, I believe, most people don’t want to know and most people will wait until something happens and then worry about it. We all make time for the things we find important.

Thank you as well for responding to me. It’s nice to find like minded people. I am a nerd 🤓 when it comes to research and learning. I grew up wanting to know the why and how of things. So I guess I’m just a rare breed….lol.

It’s very nice to meet you!

[JMC]

Thank you for the info. This is on my must watch list! Ive heard about these events from watching DSH. Now maybe I can understand even more.

[DeepSouthBamaGRITS]

You’re welcome, JMC. Suspicious Observers has many other video’s on this if you have time to check out their YT channel. Some other good sources of info on climate changes & events & how they will affect us in the US & globally are David Dubyne with “Adapt 2030” & Christian with “ICE AGE FARMER” Adapt 2030 can be found on YouTube and Brighteon platforms and Ice Age Farmer was on YouTube, but not sure if he was taken down or if any of his vid’s are still available there. I know he has a website and is on the Telegram platform if you wish to check him out, too. There are others, too, but this will give you a good start and hopefully inform you better and answer any questions you may have about the events unfolding.
Thank you for responding & blessings to you & yours!

[Summerhat-n-Chicks]

Thanks for the link. As many here, I too am aware of the extent of what’s coming, but not in detail or up to date. I literally do everything here by myself and as mentioned before, the more time you spend watching videos, the less time there is for prepping, but 10 min can easily be fit in. 👍

[DeepSouthBamaGRITS]

I totally get you on doing everything on the homestead here by myself. At one point this summer I had so much going wrong at one time I was having to make an appointment with my bed to get some sleep. Days & Days I was working almost around the clock with just power naps. Leaking roof in my barn caused some of the roof rafters to rot that started collapsing. Had to jack up the roof & put in telephone pole cut offs to temp fix. Barn built in ’82 and an addition added to it a few yrs later. Valleys in the roof not constructed correctly so had water pooling in areas & running. The original construction of barn telephone poles used for corner posts, buried, rocks added & cemented in ground. I was given a beautiful German Shepherd that grew to be 140+ lbs. Had him on an overhead trolly 150 ft long connected to a corner post on the barn & a corner post on another outbuilding. He is the protector of me & my property being in such a very rural remote area; I let him run loose when I’m outside but have to contain him at night & when I’m not here or not outside (until I can get him a LARGE kennel with a run built). Something spooked him one night and he literally pulled the corner post OUT OF THE GROUND of the barn & had it drug up the driveway. A telephone pole with a huge concrete slab (that secured the pole in the ground)!!. Pulling out this corner post started the snowball effect of the barn roof collapsing. More jacking up, bracing as this event caused my pump house built in the barn (with it’s own room, on it’s own slab) to start collapsing. NO ONE WANTS TO PHYSICALLY WORK these days so finding some HELP was impossible. Promises were made to come help, but a yr+ later, they still haven’t shown. I began tearing the pump house apart but had to take one board out at a time (like a Jinga Puzzle) trying to leave those supporting the roof were not stressed for it to totally collapse on me while working on it.
Then had some severe storms with lots of lightning roll thru in late August last year. Lightning ran the ground all over (I live on an IRON ROCK hill that is a lightning attractant). Started having power issues when they replaced all old meters with the NEW SMART METERS. No opting out. Being very rural, we have power poles the power company attaches their main lines to to the meter box. My main transformer blew on the power company pole. Many times they had to come out to reset the transformer until they finally replaced it. More problems that left me with only 110 power to my house (My subpanel breaker box is in my house, not on the side of the house, which is common here). The last major thunderstorm we had caused a strobe light effect inside my house for about15 seconds then power went completely out. Power company lineman came out to restore power. When he would, it would short the transformer. I was at wits end not knowing what to do. He was kind enough to do what they were NOT ALLOWED TO DO and started tracing my problem using these high tech meters. After several hours of trouble shooting, he found I had either a broke wire in my MAIN POWER LINE from the meter box 160 ft to my subpanel breaker box in my house or said it could be fused from lightning that was causing me to only have one leg of 110 power instead of 2 for the 220 power to my house. He said I either had to dig up the old line (buried 3 ft+ deep & 160 ft long) to find & splice the break/fused wires or replace the whole power line. He left & I had power to house but only 110. HEAT WAVE going on so couldn’t run my 220 one ton window unit. Rained heavy again & lost power at 7pm, called in outage. Thunderstorms were pounding my area. At 9:30pm a lineman & his supervisor came, and supervisor said they were pulling my meter until I could get power issue resolved. No if’s ands or buts. In the middle of this massive storm I am without power, can’t see my hand in front of my face & they pull my meter. I’m 66 yrs old, have a very sick little dog that must be kept cool or it aggravates his collapsing trachea & autoimmune disease. Where do I go, I can’t see to get my gas generator out of storage shed in the pouring down rain, had NO HELP. So we slept in my full size van. Next morning I began trying to find the correct power line I needed to replace. NONE TO BE FOUND (supply chain problems). Warehouses for companies that supply this line were out of stock. So I began digging up the old power line. I couldn’t even get a big pick axe to break the ground as it was red clay/rock & PACKED tighter than concrete. I went to a small locally owned building supply company in tears explaining my problem. I had been hunting this wire at the BIG BOX stores & Chain Electrical Supply stores in a 200 mile area of me. DO YOU BELIEVE THIS SMALL MOM & POP STORE HAD MY WIRE???? They had 162 ft (I needed 160 ft). The girl at the counter helping me called her father that was an electrician. He told me exactly what I needed to do. Either bury the new line 2 ft deep (& in my area of iron rock) I had to go deeper to allow for sand below & on top of the new line OR bury 18 inches deep in conduit. This conduit was $100 for a 10ft section which he said was in short supply & the cost would be $1600 JUST FOR THE CONDUIT, not including the $1200 for the wire. He recommended burying it deep without the conduit to save costs. THEN I needed an electrician to disconnect the old line and reconnect the new line $$$$. I had $600 to my name, no way to get a loan (on fixed income), no family that had that kind of money to loan me…I was screwed. My sister loaned me $600 to add to what I had so I could at LEAST get the wire. Then I begin digging the 2ft+ deep trench from the power pole by hand using a small pick axe, small sledge hammer & a BIG heavy duty chisel of sorts (used what I could find to pound into the ground to break up that almost concrete dirt. (BUT that was after I had to call 811-CALL BEFORE YOU DIG to have phone line that was buried located or be fined big bucks if I cut that line). 3 day wait for them to mark the ticket online NO LINE IN AREA-FREE TO DIG! WHAT? I knew I had a phone line buried that would cross the power line trench. So had to call BACK & another 2 days for them to get there to locate line, which would have been right where I would have been digging! I got the trench dug across the driveway which the power company said HAD TO BE BURIED as it would be a hazard/danger before they could restore the power…only 42 ft. that might as well have been 400 ft to me at that point! I worked around the clock literally, at night I had work lights hooked to my generator so I could see what I was doing. Worked in that brutal heat wave we were having, temps over 100(F) with feels like temps pushing 120(F). Two weeks after they pulled my meter I had the trench dug and luckily I found a retired electrician that offered to do the disconnect & reconnect for just gas money to come to my house! WHAT A BLESSING!! Power company came, inspected the connections, did testing with their meters, replaced my meter & I HAD POWER!
Did my initial problem begin with the new smart meter they had installed? I know the grape vine by the power pole with smart meter died, I have since had problems with the ECM (computer) with my car that had to be replaced (that was parked in front of that power pole, too). Try to prove any of this to the power company. Also when power restored my spare fridge wouldn’t work, my A/C was shot (only 2 yrs old but power surges burned up the control panel) and the control panel on my gas stove/oven is shot. I can only use the stove burners to cook & a toaster oven to bake.
All of this does not include the headaches trying to keep my animals alive during the massive heat wave, trying to salvage my garden that burned up & hauling water because my water well is 220 & had no water with no power.
MAJOR LESSONS LEARNED on what areas I was lacking in my preps for a grid down scenario. I am so far behind with the barn & pump house collapsing repairs (or tear down), getting my 2nd larger greenhouse built WHICH WAS A PRIORITY to me this year and then we get hit with the Christmas Freeze. Pipes froze but didn’t burst, I DID REDNECK FIX my pumphouse that prevented it from freezing but lost all my fall/winter crops. HOW DO YOU KEEP YOUR SANITY when the world seems to be crashing down on you every which way you turn?
I honestly believe the GOOD LORD allowed these events to happen to SHOW ME my PRIORITIES in preps to be able to survive grid down. Priorities change daily on a homestead when disasters occur so now I’m playing catch up and STILL working around the clock. But I take ONE DAY AT A TIME, Do what HAS to be done and work as I can on less important projects. Maybe it was a good thing I lost my summer garden/harvests so I didn’t have to worry about trying to preserve them. But losing my sweet potato crop to all the rain we had prior to harvest devastated me. I depend on the sweet potatoes I plant to get me thru the next year for a nutritious food source. I am thankful for all the work I’ve done in the past few years to have had a well-stocked pantry to take up the slack of what I didn’t get to grow/harvest this year. Things happen that set you back but I take it as a learning experience and a reason why these things happen & keep on doing the best I can..alone.
Apologies in advance for this very lengthy reply that has nothing to do with the discussion. Just want folks to know how hard it is trying to micromanage so many different things BY YOURSELF but survive even what you seem is impossible at the time. It all boils down to PERSEVERANCE, DETERMINATION & THE MINDSET TO SURVIVE no matter what is thrown at you. YOU CAN DO WHAT YOU “WANT” TO DO or throw your hands up and give up. NOT ME, I’M A SURVIVOR!

[Summerhat-n-Chicks]

Oh My… and I thought I had problems.

But you’re right, important list changes daily on a homestead. I still work 30h a week and are definitely behind my preps , where I want or should be.

I know you had it extremely tough and at this point I assure you, that having someone around that’s just too self involved, watching videos and tv all day can make things insanely frustrating because you know that so much more could have been accomplished. I don’t know where my journey leads, but if I ever get divorced, don’t be surprised if I show up at your door to help you. 😉

[SLINGSHOT]

Wow that’s alot of stuff you had going on. At least you didn’t give up because nothing gets accomplished that way. I thought i had it bad when only 5 things went wrong all at once. I love shepherds best ever. Take care.

[KimC]

Wow! Just wow. Please re-post this in the forum discussion on Women Homesteaders. I think it would be inspirational for many. https://freesteading.com/groups/homesteading/forum/discussion/women-homesteaders/