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  • MartHale7

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    September 21, 2023 at 5:29 pm in reply to: Tip.. for vacuum sealing.

    I have been been picking up food savers up at garage sales and thrift store for 5 – 10 $ I am now up to 4 of them.

    I have made my own vacuum chamber, and I like this video of how to make a vacuum chamber as it is cheap and cost effective, and allows you to use like an instant pot – pot for your chamber.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_muUXPfTgq8

    I like how little you have to put into this design…

  • MartHale7

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    September 17, 2023 at 4:30 pm in reply to: Is it blight?

    Looking at how green he leaves are I would consider this ->

    That said, it is very hard to isolate problems. Just after planting a plant it has to develope a new network of bacteria in the roots and adapt to the new soil conditions. Too much water too little water can cause similar issues.

    George Washington Carver used to say that plants are like people some can live on rich fudge for every meal others just need oatmeal to keep them happy. Too much fudge as a diet can make the tree sick just like us.

    https://southsideplants.com/blogs/plant-care/what-happens-when-a-plant-gets-too-much-nitrogen

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hOKoAjLYV0

    Yeah, this video showed me this is viable. In another video they used contractor trash bags to put the store in.

    Others videos use trash cans to store sweet potatoes in with good results.

  • MartHale7

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    September 21, 2023 at 1:23 pm in reply to: Tip.. for vacuum sealing.

    I am moving away from bags, and I am moving toward Mason jars. They just work…

    I am working on using my bicycle pump to get the job done with the mason jars…. Will give that a try.

    I don’t have good success with tattler lids with vacuum sealing.

  • MartHale7

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    September 20, 2023 at 11:58 pm in reply to: Banks closing coin dealer accounts.

    I like having more than one option. I have my credit cards as backup. I don’t like debit cards because of the fee to deal with them, but I do like the idea of having a card with a limit that they cannot have access to my main credit card.

  • MartHale7

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    September 20, 2023 at 12:57 pm in reply to: Banks closing coin dealer accounts.

    Thus the need to have $ in multiple forms, Pay your bills ahead, food on the shelf, extra propane on the shelf, silver to pay your taxes, and a plan to bug out if our gov decides to have a chemical accident right next to your home, as the gov is NOT coming to save you.

  • MartHale7

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    September 18, 2023 at 5:09 pm in reply to: Banks closing coin dealer accounts.

    I had my friend had a call and told them that their bank account was zero.

    It took time but they got their money back….

    But it seems the better place to have one’s money is in a credit union, and perhaps 2 of them might be even better.

    I try to keep only what I need to pay the bills for the next 3 months in the bank, then I replenish the account for the next 3.

  • MartHale7

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    September 18, 2023 at 5:06 pm in reply to: Banks closing coin dealer accounts.

    The new ones are placed INSIDE the gas pump, you can’t see it or pry the device off 🙁

    Cash is starting to be king with me again, but I am mindful of how much I carry and I want to remember to put the cash in my pocket and not open my wallet to put the cash in that other can see what cash i have in my wallet. I go out to my car and put the cash in my wallet there.

    Heads on a swivel…

  • MartHale7

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    September 18, 2023 at 1:17 pm in reply to: Banks closing coin dealer accounts.

    Yeah, I would rather use a credit card, however cash still works when cards don’t…

    However, when you carry cash one has to be careful who sees you have cash.

    I have been thinking out hiding places in my van of where I can put cash, so that I can have only a little over the amount of cash I need for like filling up my gas tank. With all of the fake displays on gas stations and imbeded systems that can steal your credit card info I have moved to spending the extra time to pay for my gas ahead of time verses risking having my credit card data stolen.

    In one place I have cash for gas, and another place cash for groceries, and yet another cash for emergencies, so my van has become my ATM 😉

  • MartHale7

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    September 18, 2023 at 3:22 am in reply to: Re-Run… on Prunning.

    👍

  • MartHale7

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    September 17, 2023 at 5:04 pm in reply to: Is it blight?

    I used to put heavy amounts of urine, and chicken manure around my trees, I then noticed great green leaf growth but it became so green that they seemed to be more prone to fungus. Since then I go out to the leaf line of the tree and put down small amounts of nitrogen fertilizer, you get to watching the leaves and the new growth and it will give you feed back as if you are giving it too much or to little.

    I have learned to look at the new growth to get an idea of how well a tree is doing.

    Rain will dilute the fertilizer over time. However if it is in a container it has no where to go, re-poting may be a solution.

  • Yeah, I have an old temp capture device that I am waiting on batteries for.

    But my wifi temp has worked off and on even under 3 inches of sand!

    I believe I will put in a bag or two of vacuum sealed grain and give it a test run.

    Below are temps for a week. All under 80 deg, I believe I will go a food deeper under ground after my replacement battery comes.

  • MartHale7

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    September 13, 2023 at 4:18 am in reply to: Banks closing coin dealer accounts.

    Obama came after gun dealers….

    IRS went after anyone conservative….

    They must remove any option other than CBDC…..

    Barter, creating your own food, and getting right with God all seems like good things to move into now ….

  • Outside temps have peaked up to 97 degrees then down to 70 at night.

    I have a temp monitor in a room inside, and you can compare that temp to the barrel in this graph. The difference is remarkable.

  • Yeah, I will try to keep updates going, I have temp monitors going, even with the initial data This looks very good to me.

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