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@pops @ patience

See here the power of deception. Might seem that we're not preparing.

In reality were letting you do all the prep work, while we are accumulating the resources to fund our private goon squads to kick you out of your post apocalyptic rural hideouts when the time comes.

Just browsing these forums to see what we're up against.

[lowem]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'W')hen the oil price went north (and the economy went south) I think it scared the begeebus out of 'em. We thought there would be this huge surge in traffic but just the opposite happened, even including the staff - go figure.

[jdmartin]

Let's see, bump for my date..

EDIT: Ok, so I've been on here 6 years. Not too many posts for 6 years. I do a lot of listening around here . Actually, if you counted my lurking time, I'd be here almost 7 years because I was lurking for 7 or 8 months before I went ahead and signed up for an account.

I think the post about moving to prep stage is spot on - I believe I post less (if that's possible ) because I spend a lot more time working a garden, learning to can and dry, becoming more self-sufficient. That all takes a lot of time, and cuts down on the amount of speculative adventure I can engage in on the board.

Nevertheless, I continue to post here and there and I still learn lots of stuff from (most) everyone here, especially on this planning forum.