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[william Eggers <wce1482 AT yahoo.com>]

I don't usually comment, but I guess I will.  I get VA compensation and my 
wife gets retirement income from teaching a lot of years.  If worse comes to 
worse, we could loose those incomes or if inflations takes hold, they my not 
be any good.  However, we have an orchard and raise, cherries, plums, grapes, 
peaches, nectarines, apricots, blackberries, plears and apples.  If 
inflations comes, we may be able to sell fruit for enough to get by, or mayby 
trade it.  The only problem is that we put a now house on the farm in 06 and 
have a mortgage on it.  Will we be able to sell enough fruit to keep up a 
mortgage?  That is the question.  We have rural water, but I have well 
drilling equipment, so could probably drill one.  We use LP for heat, but 
have a fireplace and 35 acres of woods.  Electricity may be a problem, but I 
think we could learn to live without it.  You asked what others would do, and 
this is part of what we may be required to do.

--- On Mon, 9/29/08, rayzentz AT aim.com <rayzentz AT aim.com> wrote:

From: rayzentz AT aim.com <rayzentz AT aim.com>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] The future of this wannabe..
To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Monday, September 29, 2008, 5:25 PM

Yep.  Matter of getting stuff while it is still available.   My only 
favoring of the bailout was just a bit more time to prepare.

Ray


-----Original Message-----
From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>


Whether or not to borrow is not for me to comment; but if you 'know' 
that you
are to borrow, now is the time.  Credit drying up. ...bobford


--- On Mon, 9/29/08, rayzentz AT aim.com <rayzentz AT aim.com> wrote:

> From: rayzentz AT aim.com <rayzentz AT aim.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] The future of this wannabe..
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Monday, September 29, 2008, 3:45 PM
> My wife and I have actually been toying with getting a loan,
> and buying
> up the rest of what we need for our storage.   if nothing
> happens,
> great, we pay it off.   If it does, well, I'll have
> plenty of food.
> and stuff.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Sent: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 3:39 pm
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] The future of this wannabe..
>
>
>
> I won't comment on the other stuff, but I certainly
> wouldn't call you a
> "wannabe".  You've accomplished a lot there
> over the years.  I remeber
> when you
> were debating sending son to regular high school, now
> he's on a real
> big boat,
> not in jail.  If you just have a big garden and shoot a
> freezer full of
> deer,
=0
A> you have veggies and meat.
>
> Maybe , like me, you feel like you could have done more,
> already.  But,
> don't
> diregard what you actually have done ...bobford
>
>
> --- On Mon, 9/29/08, Akka Homestead
> <akkabhomestead AT yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Akka Homestead <akkabhomestead AT yahoo.com>
> > Subject: [Homestead] The future of this wannabe..
> > To: "Homestead List"
> <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> > Date: Monday, September 29, 2008, 3:18 PM
> > I live very close to the edge.
> > One of the reasons we moved here was so that we would
> hurt
> > less if something like this happened. We would be able
> to be
> > more self sufficient and less dependent on commerce.
> > I've always been more of a wannabe, but it ki
> nd of
> > looks like my practice will soon be put to the test.
> If Beck
> > is right, and we are looking into the pit of the Great
> > Depression then I may not be a list member much
> longer.  I
> > consider internet connectivity a luxury.  I also
> consider
> > my television a luxury.  Those two things will be the
> first
> > to go.  Then, it will be the phone.  Finally,
> power.  In
> > a worst case scenario, it will take everything we can
> do to
> > make the mortgage should DH lose his job.  If there
> is no
> > credit, then folks won't be buying too many cars,
> or
> > fixing them at the deal
ership.  I'm not sure what
> we
> > would do....obviously, he'd do some shadetree
> work,
> > woodworking, etc., but is that enough to save the farm
> if
> > there is no regular income? I could rent the pasture
> > out..clean houses or whatever...
> > What about you all?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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It is now 7:07 p.m. and 91 degrees.  Will probably drop to around 80- 82 
before dawn (actually, right after dawn is always the coolest time of the day 
in the deasert).  Hopefully within a week or so we''l be dropping into the 
mid 70s at night.

One of my neighbors is planting her garden next week, she has lived in the 
house since birth & is older than me.  I guess I planted too early, but will 
it matter in the long run, as long as the plants stay healthy?  I ususally 
plant later and just wanted to get a jump this year........bobford


--- On Mon, 9/29/08, Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Tomatoes not fruiting
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Monday, September 29, 2008, 7:59 PM
> Bob,
>
> What's the night temp like there? I looked up Phoenix
> and it says the
> next few nights are 72 or higher. Is that accurate? When I
> was in
> Florida, I found that night temps were most important. I
> would just be
> planting tomato seed in Sept to transplant later in South
> Florida.
> Night temps below 70 for sure are good, under 68 are best.
>
> There was one hybrid variety I tried once that would set
> fruit with warm nights.
>
> Rob - Va
>
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:29 PM, bob ford
> <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I have 24 tomato plants, all kind of varieties.  They
> are all very healthy, growing, and have had blossoms for a
> while.  But, I'm hardly getting any tomatoes, just a
> very few on 2-3 plants.  It is right at 100 degrees today;
> yesterday was hotter
> >
> > I use miracle grow and water well; is it just the
> heat, still, Or, could it be a pollination proble?  I have
> not seen a single bee so far this fall.  Today was windy,
> maybe some pollen blew around ...bobford
> \