Off The Grid

clean gauze and sterile water stashed in your barn.

Any of yall in the market for a flashlight, this is a good one. Just shined out 300 yards in a 25' diameter spot and could see the horses like daylight. https://a.co/d/2XeJCCj

...because why not? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbCOkqKRoI8

Extending a little DIY pole barn. This was an old pig barn years ago and all that was left was the cement slab. Obviously we didnt have any need of rebuilding a pig enclosure since we raise ours differently on pasture. So the cement was repurposed as a pole barn for lumber. Now were working on adding to it to double the size.

Heads I win, tails you lose. When a central bank inflates the currency they print money and give it out to their inner circle. Those people / institutions have access to more money early on. Think of throwing a stone into the middle of a lake. The stone makes the water level rise and creates a ripple. Those closest to the middle feel the water rise earlier. By the time the ripple propagates outward to the working poors, another stone has been thrown in the pond and another ripple has benefited those closest to the center. On the other hand when it's time to deflate the currency, your wages will fall but you'll still owe old money. We cannot win when money is rising and we certainly don't win when it falls. Heads I win, tails you lose. This is not a financial forum. I bring all of this up today in the context of you better start prepping. Nothing motivates people in to compliance like being hungry.

I'm listening to financial podcasts lately and what I see is that our politicians and federal reserve have been kicking the can down the road so long that the range of choices they have has significantly narrowed. Right now they can choose between raising interest rates at the fed to stop inflation but at the cost of bankrupting companies. One school of economics is Keynesian and it uses terms like "the velocity of money". Imagine a coin circling one of those fun house funnels. The coin goes faster and faster until the moment when it finally falls out the bottom of the funnel. The people in charge of our money are not in it for the long run. They are in it to make as much money today as they can and we'll deal with tomorrow when tomorrow gets here. Why you should pay off your house. Deflation. Let me explain. Inflation is when central banks print more bank notes and dilute the currency. The central bank might choose to remove those dollars from circulation as a market correction. The good news is that prices fall. The bad news is that contracts written before today use inflated dollars. Let's imagine the central bank decides deflation is the way... they remove 80% of currency from the market. The price of a loaf of bread is now 20c on the dollar. Your wage will drop to 20% of what it was. The problem is that your mortgage was written in inflated dollars. You still owe $400k on a mortgage but you make 80% less per year. It will hit farmers too. Farmers buy seed and equipment on credit. If deflation comes along just before the harvest, they will be on the hook for inflated dollars but their crop will only net deflated dollars. The result is that you loose your house to the bank. The farmer looses his house to the bank. If the government and fed reserve are able to manipulate the currency, then they are still in power. And that means the courts are still in power and you can bet your ass the courts will give your defaulted house to a bank.

We bought a significant amount of silver 3 years ago at $23/oz. As of yesterday it has tripled in value. Gold has doubled since 2020. But the gains are not real. The "gains" are actually the loss of buying power / confidence in the dollar. I hope you see where this it going. I said this many years ago... buy durable goods. Lock in the value of your existing dollars. They will be worth less and less tomorrow and next week. Pay off your house. (more on this in the next post).

Here's a shipping container with a sliding wall cover on tracks. When you cut out for the patio door, save the wall material and mount it on tracks. Now you can slide the door shut when you are gone. From a distance it'll look a normal shipping container.

Goat day.

Here's a survey for everyone which one is correct number one or number two please leave your comments below I will answer tomorrow

UK to eliminate jury trials and right to appeal. 🅅🄾🄻🅄🄽🅃🅰️🅁🄸🅂🅃 🄼🄴🄼🄴🅂