A new edition

Well little one has a new pet today, a desert tortoise... Yep that's her hand that it is resting in. It hatched on Sept. 5th 2011.



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Light fall project...

Ok let me try this again, my phone has decided to send every time I hit spell check...

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Subject: Light fall project...

While at work, the wife started to freshen up the exterior paint of the sheds. Each one will be given a different color to give it it's own personality. The idea is for it to look like a town, built by different people, for different purposes. The first one she painted is known as the power house, it houses half of our solar system, and laundry, green is a great color for it, what's more green than solar power? So far I think it looks great. Next one will be the pantry, that will get a red paint job, but that will not be until next week sometime, on Thursday we still have to finish the chinking of the back wall of the saloon...

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Not a lot of work...

We took it a bit easy yesterday, only chinked half of the back wall. Realistically we probably have another day and half of chinking left. We are all dealing with a bit of hay fever, so I thought it best to call an early quit and relax for the rest of the weekend.

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My latest read on the Kindle...

Well I finished Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse -- by James Wesley, Rawles from Ulysses Press (for a link you can look at my Twitter feed on the right-hand side of the blog)

Let me start off by saying it was a great read, loved the book. Good storytelling, good character development, although in one of the early chapters a couple of interesting characters were brought in. Very interesting background, I was excited to see were they were going to fit in the story... They were not mentioned again till the finial few chapters, and then it was almost just an afterthought appearance to finish the story.

But with all that said. I still enjoyed it. Now for the actual subject matter. The book follows the main character from the prepping for a disaster, through a social-economic crunch of what first appeared as a world-wide event, later on it sounded like only an American event (the UN fighting to take over the US, importing troops from around Europe, if they were as badly impacted as the US they also would not be able to mobilize.) But again that didn't bother me. Still a good book. What bothered me, from a prepping stand point was the over militarized group the book was about. This group in a real life setting would be .1% of the population. For starters you have a group that mostly make over 100K ten years out of college. They highly educated, attempting to be self-reliant. Yet they do not have a reliable PV solar battery charging station, and instead have to use a hand-crank generator to charge small electronics. While the group installed an underground 1k gallon storage tank for diesel and Gas, they did not have propane appliances. While they were able to build claymors and thermite grenades they could not impede vehicle traffic to their location.
Now this post is not a sideline second guess on the plot or anything, just an honest review of a good read, from my point of view.

I will start the second book (Survivors) sometime this weekend, in the hopes that it will be a little more down to earth. My biggest hopes is that it have the same quality of characters and character development.

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After dinner treat...

A shot of D3 Dark Rum (Want to learn more about D3? See my links below, they are a local distillery specializing in rums), a Coke, and a Hershey's bar! That's what I call a good afternoon!

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Food porn!

Something I usually post on Facebook, but today I thought I would post it here. I wanted to do something nice for the wife, and wanted too show how much she means to me, so after work I went and picked up some chicken, bacon, beans and rice, and cilantro to make dinner. I also saw a cute yellow flower to take home also! I'm so not sleeping with the dogs tonight!

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Couple of good Blog posts

Over on my "Jatico Shared" thingy, You'll see a couple new blog posts I shared from Google Reader, the first is from MDR (Modern Day Redneck) and the second is from I Wish on Shooting Stars (which is MDR's oldest daughter) A couple of great posts on the need to be prepared, I don't want to give too much away, I just would like to give everyone a heads up and take a read if they can... Now back to work!

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