Hey, we fixed our first garden salad today straight out of our y2k garden! (this will piss off everything who is freezing their buns off up North). We had our own lettuce, radishes, Tomatos, green peppers and --- what else? oh! yes.... mandarine oranges! They count becaue they came from BJ's in a large quantity for y2k. It was delicious!

-- JoseMiami (caris@prodigy.net), January 24, 2000

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Oops! I guess a garden salad is not as exciting as all the other neat stuff that is being posted here.

Sorry folks, I feel a little sarcastic tonight. You know that is not my normal style. however, the garden salad is real. and so is the garden.

-- JoseMiami (caris@prodigy.net), January 24, 2000.

I am jealous!!!!!! But...bona petite' =)

-- Dee (T1Colt556@aol.com), January 24, 2000.

thanks Dee! One of the benefits of living down here. (smile)

-- JoseMiami (caris@prodigy.net), January 24, 2000.

Ahhh but do you brew your own beer??? Gotcha!

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), January 24, 2000.

I look forward to our garden every year. Same basic stuff, but corn instead of oranges. Sure would be nice to have one now, but it doesn't work too well with this snow. I'm jealous... <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), January 24, 2000.

Headcase brings up a valid point.

What happens to the neighbors when something dreadfully serious happens and they are caught with their pants down? More, important, what happens to YOU? They know that you are supplied.

In the event of a calamity they will flat out disregard your property rights. A one day outage, a two day outage, no problem, you can help people. If it gets worse than that, your neighbors become a liability to your family. Where do you draw the line? When you have a month's worth of food left? Two weeks? One week? A day's worth?

Inform your neighbors that they would have been in deep shit if you had not helped them out. Tell them that THIS was their wake-up call to do some preparation of their own. Tell them that NEXT TIME you will insist that they be prepared by way of their own devices.

Paul Milne

-- Paul Milne (fedinfo@halifax.com), January 24, 2000.

Andy! You got me! However I did prepare for a 3 day holiday weekend (after I prepared for 6 months) by going to BJ's and buying a case of corona. Sadly, It did not last long into the new year.

Wow! the famous Paul Milne (some would say infamous) has visited one of my posts! And to defend Headcase, who was a troll from DB and advocating blowing people away with Shotguns instead of loaning them a little kerosene. What can I say?

-- JoseMiami (caris@prodigy.net), January 24, 2000.

Thanks, Paul. You put it quite a bit better than I did. I guess I was a tad too flip with my post, but I stand behind the message of it.

No, Jose, I'm not a troll. I just think you've put yourself in a precarious situation announcing to your neighbors what you have. If it is their kids on the line when TSHTF, your "neighborly friendship" with them goes down the drain.

Unless of course, you're willing to stock up for everyone in a 50 mile radius for the duration...

Good Luck!

Headcase

-- Headcase (nurse@ratchet.com), January 24, 2000.

Headcase: Sorry if I mistakenly called you a troll. It is late. I understand the need to defend ones family: I have a concealed weapons permit and I am well armed. However I have to disagree with the spirit of your post. There is no way you can survive alone without some kind of "community" of people working together. My guns are for gangs, looters and theives, not for my neighbors. I will risk my families survival on community cooperation rather than violence. I guess we can agree to disagree.

You take care as well.

-- JoseMiami (caris@prodigy.net), January 24, 2000.

You didn't make any mistake with headcase. As you can see, sysops have deleted. The idiot trolls plant posts here about doooomers fondling guns and dreaming of shooting their neighbors so that Y2K Pro can add it to his cut and paste and SPAM the forum with it.

-- (BillyBibbit@Nest.now), January 24, 2000.

Jose-- Nice garden. As soon as it hits 30F again here I'm going to check the kale I have growing in ours. It's supposed to withstand very cold temps with just straw covering. It has been fine up to 0F--let's see what -18F did to it. This Kale was my answer to sprouting wheat berries so I hope it worked.

-- Pam (jpjgood@penn.com), January 24, 2000.

My cauliflower turned into brocholli. I have to admit I was suspicious. So far that and the onions are doing good. I have some lettuce that will make it and some summer squash that might emerge... Been eating grapefruit I got before the end of the year--a bushel.

-- Mara (MaraWayne@aol.com), January 24, 2000.

Don't eat your preps without replenishing them.The fat lady hasn't sang.

-- the fat lady (still@prep.com), January 25, 2000.