The Old Folks Home

[bruceha2000]

Costco, not a option here. Just looked them up, 112mi 2h or 160mi 2h 45m.

They have a web site Beer I don't suppose it is true for everything but I've gotten some stuff with free shipping. Cheaper than driving the 20 miles to the store. But I go past it once a week anyway since the "healthy food" store with things I can't get elsewhere is down there.

Stick around Cryss and sooner or llater we will deal with the things you mentioned.

Sooner if you bring them up

I thought about building a wooden box for that.

I had a sign made, specifically for the Fed Ex guy who thinks dumping boxes in the snow outside is acceptable even if we are home. Doesn't even ring the bell. The sign is attached near the door handle to the enclosed porch and in black text in a "field" of yellow says "Please put packages inside". First Fed Ex delivery since I put the sign up will be today, will see if the guy even looks up to see it.

My eldest daughter, her hubby, their 2 adult kids, my hubby, and myself live together in a bilevel on 1 acre like old fashioned farm families used to do.

t's weird that they won't hook into the city rural water but they will spend 400$ on an osmosis water filter from Lehmans.

If they are "hard core" Amish, they eschew anything that uses electricity. "City water" is pumped. Aside from that, perhaps they prefer not to rely on "city services" preferring to be self sufficient.

 

[Beer can]

I always thought 'off the grid' was all the people here that live off town roads and rather than pay thousands to have electric and phone line run they just make do with what they have, generator, wind mill, now solar.
Now 'off the grid' is the cool thing to do where this is access to all that Lol!
Only the bigger towns here have water and sewer, all the small towns, the majority have their own wells and septics.

 

[Beer can]

Nigerian Dwarves! I have had meat goats and big milk goats, but the little ones will be cheaper to feed and babies are cute as can be!

I've been wanting to get Kinder goats for a few yrs now, they're a small dual purpose. Pretty pricy here though, only a couple places have them within driving distance.
I might have to just get Nigerian dwarfs. I'll have to use my big coop for them though so I'll have to build another small one.

 

[chickadoodles]

The government won't mess with the Amish over the utilities.
But it is illegal to live off grid and they are cracking down on the folks doing it.
I think it's terrible! Their are still folks living in the mountains that have never had utilities.
But for some reason they think our society will collapse if everyone is not connected and paying taxes!

 

[Alaskan]

luckily up here in Alaska it is legal to live however you want.. in a tent year around, in a bus, in a tire house, whatever.

lots of houses have zero utilities.... especially water.

The local grocery store has a town pump for people to get water for free. We had to use it for 2 years... I would bring 4 or 5 jugs each time. Each jug was 5 or 6 gallons.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Not to be rude but are they the ones play dead? The screaming goat video was hilarious.

Nope, you are talking about fainting goats.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I've been wanting to get Kinder goats for a few yrs now, they're a small dual purpose. Pretty pricy here though, only a couple places have them within driving distance.
I might have to just get Nigerian dwarfs. I'll have to use my big coop for them though so I'll have to build another small one.

Kinders are mixed breed, like meat goat crossed with small goats like Nigerians i think, right?

 

[CapricornFarm]

The government won't mess with the Amish over the utilities.
But it is illegal to live off grid and they are cracking down on the folks doing it.
I think it's terrible! Their are still folks living in the mountains that have never had utilities.
But for some reason they think our society will collapse if everyone is not connected and paying taxes!

I think it is awful they are doing that. Live and let live.

 

[Beer can]

Kinders are mixed breed, like meat goat crossed with small goats like Nigerians i think, right?

Pygmy and Nubian. They're small but grow out real fast and are meaty for their size, breed all yr round, and give a good amount of high butter fat milk.
I'd love to have them but DW doesn't want to spend that much.
I'd like to stick to a small goat so it's easier for the kids to help take care of them. I think those Nigerian dwarfs make a better milker than the pygmy? Plenty of both of them around.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Pygmy and Nubian. They're small but grow out real fast and are meaty for their size, breed all yr round, and give a good amount of high butter fat milk.
I'd love to have them but DW doesn't want to spend that much.
I'd like to stick to a small goat so it's easier for the kids to help take care of them. I think those Nigerian dwarfs make a better milker than the pygmy? Plenty of both of them around.

Yeah, Nigerians are great producers.