http://amy-toby.blogspot.com/2012/03/canned-food-storage.html
Nicely done. A little more planning and measuring would make it perfect, but for a quick down and dirty shelf, this is great. I think you could make something like this out of a recycled pallet too.
Radical for Freedom
A political blog about a variety of our freedoms and the assaults on them.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Opportunity Costs of Government
One of the hidden costs of government is opportunity costs. That is, money spent on government can't be spent elsewhere. Money taken from you means you can't invest that money in your own future. Just as when a politician shows you a warship or a person who has benefited from taxpayer money, they can't show you the people (or won't show you) that have been unable to pursue their dreams because of the cost of government.
This site lets you calculate how much government will REALLY cost you over time.
This site lets you calculate how much government will REALLY cost you over time.
sPreserving Freedom: Gary Johnson Interviewed on Your World with Neil Cavuto
Preserving Freedom: Gary Johnson Interviewed on Your World with Neil Cavuto
I promised my mother-in-law I'd look up this interview. It's also a good opportunity for me to link to someone else' blog.
Despite all my previous posts, and hyperlinks, I hadn't linked this way before.
I promised my mother-in-law I'd look up this interview. It's also a good opportunity for me to link to someone else' blog.
Despite all my previous posts, and hyperlinks, I hadn't linked this way before.
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Trampoline Greenhouse
http://www.howdoesshe.com/how-to-create-a-greenhouse-out-of-a-trampoline/
There's the link to turn a trampoline into a greenhouse.
I had asked myself what you could do with a trampoline. I see them for free on Craigslist fairly often. I imagine most of them are picked up by scrappers who get $10-25 dollars for the frame. It seems an awful waste of worked metal. I hadn't really put any thought into it before, but I want to build a green house and have some old sliding glass doors and lumber that I'm going to repurpose. The plastic cover method doesn't seem workable for the extreme sunlight and wind I get in my area, but hopefully the idea inspires someone.
Why do people give them away? I imagine people moving just don't want to take them down, or the kids outgrow them, and I know pediatricians recently came out saying trampolines are unsafe for children (darn killjoys! how do you learn to be prudent without hurting yourself or watching your friends hurt themselves?) I also know that trampolines are considered an attractive nuisance by insurance companies, so perhaps there are landlords and banks giving them away when renters or homeowners vacate the premises. I think there may have been one left on my a property during my 15 years as a property manager.
In any case, maybe you can get a frame cheap or free these days, and put up a greenhouse quickly and grow some food later.
Anyone else have any good greenhouse ideas? Or if you want to do an improvised Amish greenhouse raising with me in the CA high desert, email me, and I'll help you in return. Or maybe help you up-front if you're just about ready to go. :)
There's the link to turn a trampoline into a greenhouse.
I had asked myself what you could do with a trampoline. I see them for free on Craigslist fairly often. I imagine most of them are picked up by scrappers who get $10-25 dollars for the frame. It seems an awful waste of worked metal. I hadn't really put any thought into it before, but I want to build a green house and have some old sliding glass doors and lumber that I'm going to repurpose. The plastic cover method doesn't seem workable for the extreme sunlight and wind I get in my area, but hopefully the idea inspires someone.
Why do people give them away? I imagine people moving just don't want to take them down, or the kids outgrow them, and I know pediatricians recently came out saying trampolines are unsafe for children (darn killjoys! how do you learn to be prudent without hurting yourself or watching your friends hurt themselves?) I also know that trampolines are considered an attractive nuisance by insurance companies, so perhaps there are landlords and banks giving them away when renters or homeowners vacate the premises. I think there may have been one left on my a property during my 15 years as a property manager.
In any case, maybe you can get a frame cheap or free these days, and put up a greenhouse quickly and grow some food later.
Anyone else have any good greenhouse ideas? Or if you want to do an improvised Amish greenhouse raising with me in the CA high desert, email me, and I'll help you in return. Or maybe help you up-front if you're just about ready to go. :)
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Knowledge is Power--Here's a site to increase yours
http://stackexchange.com/
Stack exchange has a number of experts across different field of geeky topics like electronics, computers, photography. I haven't had time to do a lot of browsing, but I've bookmarked it and plan to spend some time perusing it.
Stack exchange has a number of experts across different field of geeky topics like electronics, computers, photography. I haven't had time to do a lot of browsing, but I've bookmarked it and plan to spend some time perusing it.
How did we come to this?
A friend recently asked me:
How did we come to this?
It's been a slow spiritual journey that started with questioning God's Commandment, "Though shalt not covet ..."
Just as the Serpent taught Eve to question God regarding the fruit,
our society has been taught to question God's law about covetousness.
We've been told that it's good to covet the possessions and wealth of
those who are millionaires. Than we can covet the possessions of
those who are $250,000-aires.
Once you covet another man's possessions, it's a short step to
stealing them, and if he resists, then it's a short step to killing
him to take those possessions. This is especially true if we can tell
ourselves that we're doing it for “a good cause”. Who can't think
of someone more deserving of money than “that greedy millionaire”.
So, in our own pride, we've supplanted God's Law with our own
judgment as to what is right. We take it upon ourselves to supplant
God with Man.
All of the Commandments are tied together. For as we are made in
God's image, to sin against another man is to sin against God. But as
it is evil for a rich man to forgo charity, it is equally evil for us
to exalt ourselves to the position of God, or deem ourselves more
knowing than God, and say to the rich man, “We are going to take
your money by force and distribute it as we see fit, for we are
higher than God and we know better than God how to allocate that
money. God made a mistake when he allowed you to have it, and we are
here to fix God's mistakes”
Do you think people that have already told themselves they are smarter than God, and more fair than God, will hesitate to disobey any other commandments? To justify covetousness, is to justify theft, and to justify murder. Just as Jesus said to lust after another man's wife is adultery in your heart, and hating a man in your heart is murder, once you covet in your heart you've committed the theft. Once you convince yourself to hate the millionaire, you've justified his murder in your heart.
Do you think people that have already told themselves they are smarter than God, and more fair than God, will hesitate to disobey any other commandments? To justify covetousness, is to justify theft, and to justify murder. Just as Jesus said to lust after another man's wife is adultery in your heart, and hating a man in your heart is murder, once you covet in your heart you've committed the theft. Once you convince yourself to hate the millionaire, you've justified his murder in your heart.
But at the heart of the matter is lack of faith in the principles of
God's Word; an unbelief that what is written is true.
If you're not a Christian, I'll quote Yoda “Fear is the path to the
Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to
suffering.”
This fear of not having enough leads both the greedy and the covetous
to sin. But neither groups' sin excuses the other.
Eventually, we end up in a society where everyone is using legal
means to keep their temporal possessions or take those possessions
from someone else and we lose sight of the spiritual truths as our
focus is drawn to rest squarely on the physical And when we're only
looking at our physical well-being, the spiritual withers and dies.
Once we lose our faith in God, and put man, or government on God's
throne we've lost the spiritual battle. And once that happens,
everything evil is possible.
Of course, that's a shortcut.
Of course, that's a shortcut.
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