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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

Gene GeRue wrote:

> Watching Wonder Woman fall off the homestead wagon causes great 
> mental consternation. The juxtaposition of home-grown almost- 
> everything with a Reuben sandwich of store-boughten ingredients is 
> overwhelming. I feel faint; I must go lie down.
>
> Ready yourselves; her chemical balance is as a tsunami.

Now hold up, Gene..;)
My reuben sandwich is made of homemade rye bread...I can't make pastrami
at home (yet)..I just learned to eat sauerkraut last year and I am going
to be making my own this year if the cabbages perform...(100%
germination and growing well so far)  I don't have milk to make cheese,
either, so I have to buy that...I can't grow mustard here, either...
Mostly, I bought things that were to replace the food we have been
eating over the last 6-9 months..things like rice, sugar, beans, dry
milk, grits, flour, and such.  Yeah, I bought some seafood and stuff
like sardines and mussels, too.  I also bought organic sweet potatoes to
grow slips from, as well as other fresh veggies and stuff like butter
that I sorely needed.  My friend came for lunch today and said, all
those groceries and no chips? no dip? no coke?  no sweets?  She couldn't
believe I could go to the store and leave without any 'snackfood'.
Before this last dry spell, I kept a year's supply (plus) of food on
hand.  Little by little over the last couple of years, it has dwindled
down to almost nothing.  I maybe had 3 weeks of food left.  For me, that
is totally unacceptable.  So yeah, I stocked back up, spent a fortune,
but I did not buy junk.  I may be getting another dairy goat next month,
and if that happens, I will buy even less.  I simply did not plant
enough last year to get by and am already out of things like tomato
paste and sauce.  This year, however, my garden will be 250% larger than
last year, and I'll be putting up more..
So there bucko...swoon away and have a beer...at least I am trying! ;)
Whoever said I was perfect anyway?  I gots lots n lots a faults!  ;)
And besides, those who leave glass beer bottles in the desert shouldn't
throw stones...lol...I'll bet my semi-annual grocery bill is less than
your monthly beer tab..lol...my tsunami crasheth... :)

Bev
p.s. (I hope you realize this is all in fun..I've had zero sleep in
going on 38 hours, so I am feeling my cheerios, um, my heart healthy
generic cheerios )
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EarthNSky Farm   Somewhere in the ocean's depths, MY son is protecting
OUR freedom.   He's only 19, and his sub won't be back until 7/29/07.