The Old Folks Home

[bruceha2000]

I've seen it done with cribbing too.
Our 100+ yr old house needs some work, loose stone laid foundation is mostly good but a few of the beams (logs) are dry rotted, supported now with metal jack posts. I just try to not look at them lol. Lucky it's a small cellar and only under half the house. I'll have to replace them someday somehow, or maybe just move lol. Going to be a pain with the wiring running on them and heat ducts, plumbing.

I've now had 2 houses cribbed and jacked.

My foundation is worse though it is lime mortared. Major rot in the sills (pre Civil war post and beam) on the SW corner extending a significant distance east and north. Whole house "sinks" that direction. And some IDIOT many years back decided they wanted a door in the west wall not a foot from the corner. The entire corner is now collapsing. I found a guy who has been fixing fieldstone foundations and rotten sills for 50 years. He will be cribbing inside and out and lifting that entire corner of the house with an I beam running under the south wall to under the east wall, past the rot on both sides. I'm sure it is interesting tying in new poured concrete to old fieldstone. No nice straight vertical lines, not sure if they try to put rebar into the stone.

it is one of those days..... need to sell a few of my kids. I HATE grumpy disobedient children! !!!!!!

I don't think you can sell those, have to pay to get rid of them.

 

[chickadoodles]

 

[Wickedchicken6]

I have a hard time recognizing you with the new avatar.

 

[chickadoodles]

If anyone is interested in reading this.
My sister and I had a lot of problems with ibs, and digestive problems. My sister did a lot of research and contributed to this research study.

https://www.cornucopia.org/carrageenan-how-a-natural-food-additive-is-making-us-sick/

Since we have removed soy and carrageenan from our diets we have not had any more problems.

 

[ronott1]

If anyone is interested in reading this.
My sister and I had a lot of problems with ibs, and digestive problems. My sister did a lot of research and contributed to this research study.

https://www.cornucopia.org/carrageenan-how-a-natural-food-additive-is-making-us-sick/

Since we have removed soy and carrageenan from our diets we have not had any more problems.

Thanks for the information!

I do not eat much soy. I will make sure the stuff I buy does not have carrageenan in in it too.

Is it only in Organic food?

 

[CapricornFarm]

Thanks for the information!

I do not eat much soy. I will make sure the stuff I buy does not have carrageenan in in it too.

Is it only in Organic food?

Nope, i believe it is used as a thickening agent in ice cream , jello etc.

 

[ronott1]

Nope, i believe it is used as a thickening agent in ice cream , jello etc.

This is another reason to try eating as close to whole foods as possible.

I remember when the sea weed craze hit! Will it ever end with adulterating our food for profit?

Lard and butter demonized by companies that make shortening. Sugar industry convincing us that all oils are of the devil. Now Salt is evil when we die very quickly if we do not have enough!

They are very good at it too. I still feel guilty when I have butter or lard even though they are nutritional neutral. Next it will be good for you.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/01/health/butter-health-study/index.html

 

[perchie.girl]

This is another reason to try eating as close to whole foods as possible.

I remember when the sea weed craze hit! Will it ever end with adulterating our food for profit?

Lard and butter demonized by companies that make shortening. Sugar industry convincing us that all oils or of the devil. Now Salt is evil when we die very quickly if we do not have enough!

They are very good at it too. I still feel guilty when I have butter or lard even though they are nutritional neutral. Next it will be good for you.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/01/health/butter-health-study/index.html

yep....

 

[chickadoodles]

Thanks for the information!

I do not eat much soy. I will make sure the stuff I buy does not have carrageenan in in it too.

Is it only in Organic food?

It's in a lot of foods so read your labels.
It's to make foods smooth in your mouth. It's in Gerber baby food also.

 

[perchie.girl]

speaking of whole foods and an interest in gathering from my land
I have a desire to investigate the following foods:

Mesquite flour
Yucca Pods (green are cooked like squash)
Yucca seeds (dried are ground into flour)
Yucca roots (potato substitute)
Yucca stems (green can be cooked and eaten)

then there are the herbals....
Mormon Tea
Yerba Santa
Red Shank

I need to get a recent book designed for foraging in the desert because there are things out there that are poisonous

deb