Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[tsetse9]

I bag up as many leaves as I can. I fill the runs with leaves, and add bags randomly until I am out... THEN.. they are SOL until spring.

I want to do this but was worried about the leaves getting moldy...any issues with that?

 

[preciouskitty]

I bag up as many leaves as I can. I fill the runs with leaves, and add bags randomly until I am out... THEN.. they are SOL until spring. Last year, not enough bags, this year, I will do double.
Hey, maybe it was a bargain deal for him... Never now... LOL

ANYWAY totally off chicken subject, but some might find it of interest if you haven't started your shopping yet...


Well, I went and did some checking on what my mandatory health care costs will be. I am 117% above poverty. My health care plan will cost $1000 a month of which $413 will be subsidized, leaving me to pay $587 a month. So roughly $146 a week. Note... Being self employed, I might have $400 a week come in, but I have roughly $120 go out just in job expenses. On occassion, more than that. When asking for my income they asked for before expenses and taxes. Hmmm... So... I make $1600 - $480 Which goes back into work, so, $1120-a month since having lost pay from downsizing and cost cutting measures, I am barely making ends meet. Now another near $600 is going to go out for my families health care. This will leave me $500 and change to pay bills, house payment and buy groceries.

I think I will take the fine for a few years until I am able to find higher paying employment... OH WAIT! I will lose that to childcare, a cost I do not have currently wth my job. I raise my kids, not some one else.

I guess I will also be putting in larger food plot than was planning come spring.

This is such a great law of the land.

But wait. I thought this law was gonna make everything better for for those currently uninsured? It is called the AFFORDABLE Care Act, right? I mean, that's what I keep reading in the media....& what the Pres is saying to Congress while I sit at home furloughed with no budget being passed. (HEAVY SARCASM)

Sounds WAY cheaper to pay the fine...oh, and have a roof over your head & food to eat...

Seriously...I am really sorry ... That is just ridiculous...

 

[preciouskitty]

don't knit but DD does, hope you show a pic when you are done

grandson will need ins. don't think he can afford it either, makes maybe $18000  a yr if he is lucky, less then 15 last yr. wonderful to know we can have ins. rather than eat

Actually, not "can", "HAVE to buy" insurance....

Ok...now I am really getting ticked, here are just 2 stories on our forum...wonder what we are gonna be seeing over the next week or so (assuming the media reports the good & bad fairly...LOL!!! Right !!!!! (More heavy sarcasm))....

Sorry, I am usually "the glass is half full" kind of person....but not at the moment....

BUT, speaking of putting food on the table.....SUCCESS! Fresh venison! Got me a nice doe this evening. Same as last year...first deer on 2 Oct!!

 

[NovaAman]

I thought being under 137% of the poverty level qualified you for medicaid?  thought i heard that on NPR on monday.....

But I am 117% over...

I want to do this but was worried about the leaves getting moldy...any issues with that?

No, the birds turn it quite often. I also have my water-er up on a skid, so it stays out of the leaves.

Actually, not "can", "HAVE to buy" insurance....

Ok...now I am really getting ticked, here are just 2 stories on our forum...wonder what we are gonna be seeing over the next week or so (assuming the media reports the good & bad fairly...LOL!!! Right !!!!! (More heavy sarcasm))....

Sorry, I am usually "the glass is half full" kind of person....but not at the moment....

BUT, speaking of putting food on the table.....SUCCESS! Fresh venison! Got me a nice doe this evening. Same as last year...first deer on 2 Oct!!

I am really sorry you are being denied pay. It's really BS that the 535 persons in congress aren't. We can get a whole argument/debate going here, but I have to say that I for one am happy that the repubs are still taking a stand. Do I think everyone should have affordable health care? Why yes, yes I do. Do I think this is the right way to do it? No, no I don't. To many kick backs and slush, and exemptions for big business, those in seats of power. 75% subsidies for the elected and their staff? Well, that really ticks me off. AND THEY DON'T HAVE TO HAVE WHAT WE ARE FORCED TO HAVE. That should be illegal. Forcing people to go on medicaid to meet the govt mandate, so govt run health, to be decided by the secretary, is what you get. You can read the bill, the whole obama care bill that was "pass it and you can see it" and you'll get a nice little shock. WOOHOO!

 

[NovaAman]

OH, I hope the neighbor gets one this year. I'd LOVE a bit a venison. Haven't had any since my last hunting trip with my car...

 

[tsetse9]

I mean the leaves that are stored in the bags for use over the winter. Don't those get moldy in the bags?

 

[NovaAman]

Not if you bag them when they are dry and store them in a dry spot, like a garage.

 

[Totalcolour]

Not if you bag them when they are dry and store them in a dry spot, like a garage.

hard to collect them here when it's dry - it's never dry.

And I wish you luck with the health care. This is not the way to go.

 

[NovaAman]

Ah... I am just belly aching... I mean... just give it a chance. After all, it wasn't like Apple didn't have glitches in their new OS... They'll get it right and everyone will be happy.

 

[preciouskitty]

OH, I hope the neighbor gets one this year. I'd LOVE a bit a venison. Haven't had any since my last hunting trip with my car...

OMG. I just literally laughed out loud!
Yep, always have a tarp & buck knife in your car...just in case

And, having worked for the federal gvt for almost 25yrs, I am used to dysfunction; got to participate in the '95 shutdown, tho us Defense employees were only off 3 days & got back pay; don't see that happening this time. The dysfunction has truly reached an all time low...and they really are using us as pawns right now ...

But. Being my optimistic self, out of my control, so am gonna use this unexpected vaca time wisely! Will tackle a bushel apples tomorrow ... Harvest taters, hunt some more (we literally have not purchased beef in 5 years...& donate any extra to local families in need & to local food bank...DH REALLY likes to hunt...and is VERY food at it!) & finish getting hardware cloth buried around pen extension so my babies can use it