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This is a working farm...expect to be put to work.

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Re: This is a working farm...expect to be put to work.

Unread postby roccman » Tue 06 May 2008, 09:44:14

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('FreedomSlave', 'R')occ,

Are you going soft on us and developing some sort of hope? 8O

What happened to sitting back with a cold one and watching the die-off work its magic? [smilie=5eek.gif]

Seriously, I like your thinking on this. Great thread. I'm just curious if you've mellowed some...

You might also want to start to work on your list of "jobs" on the farm, too, including a healthy smattering of arms training/fabrication/maintenance and perimeter integrity/inspection tasks.

And butchering. [smilie=5zombie.gif]


Nope - not soft - just tired ...

Tired of that feeling that no matter what provisions I amasse or skills I learn and pass on...my kids are gonna more than likely mature to have a profound dislike for me and all that lived before me.

Tired of hitting the 5 ring.

Tired of the lies, lies, and more lies.

No hope...just tired.

I like the list of jobs idea.

Keep well.
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Re: This is a working farm...expect to be put to work.

Unread postby PrairieMule » Tue 06 May 2008, 14:37:47

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Tired of that feeling that no matter what provisions I amasse or skills I learn and pass on...my kids are gonna more than likely mature to have a profound dislike for me and all that lived before me.



That can turn around.

I was nine when we started our family ranch and I resented my Dad for years. We would work our asses off in the Oklahoma sun fixing fence or fighting soil erosion. All for $1 a day. At age 38, I command a salary of a cappachino at the E-Z mart on Sunday after a weekend of labor.

The is a payoff down the road when your kids figure out food is not grown in a supermarket. For me, things just clicked at 22.
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Re: This is a working farm...expect to be put to work.

Unread postby PrairieMule » Tue 06 May 2008, 14:38:02

From my experience, every succesful ranch is run by a tyrant.
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Re: This is a working farm...expect to be put to work.

Unread postby PrairieMule » Tue 06 May 2008, 14:38:13

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Re: This is a working farm...expect to be put to work.

Unread postby dinopello » Tue 06 May 2008, 14:54:18

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Tired of that feeling that no matter what provisions I amasse or skills I learn and pass on...my kids are gonna more than likely mature to have a profound dislike for me and all that lived before me.



That can turn around.

I was nine when we started our family ranch and I resented my Dad for years. We would work our asses off in the Oklahoma sun fixing fence or fighting soil erosion. All for $1 a day. At age 38, I command a salary of a cappachino at the E-Z mart on Sunday after a weekend of labor.

The is a payoff down the road when your kids figure out food is not grown in a supermarket. For me, things just clicked at 22.


I thought he was talking about the idea that his kids would realize how bad everyone before them screwed up the planet. Anyway, I wouldn't expect that people think that way - and the Roccman seems like he would have the admiration of his children regardless. However, I do have to correct his list (mods in bold):

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('roccman', 'T')here really are only a handful of options:

1) dive in a bunker and slam the lid, and die

2) stay in the city and die

3) get to a geographically isolated place with 60-80 folk like minded folk and never sleep, and die.

I don't think there are many other choices...
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Re: This is a working farm...expect to be put to work.

Unread postby Ferretlover » Tue 06 May 2008, 15:09:14

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('roccman', 'T')ired of that feeling that no matter what provisions I amasse or skills I learn and pass on...my kids are gonna more than likely mature to have a profound dislike for me and all that lived before me.


Let us know if this is true when your kids mature and compare what has happened to the rest of the world, and what they have developed at home.
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Re: This is a working farm...expect to be put to work.

Unread postby PrairieMule » Tue 06 May 2008, 15:17:22

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I thought he was talking about the idea that his kids would realize how bad everyone before them screwed up the planet. Anyway, I wouldn't expect that people think that way - and the Roccman seems like he would have the admiration of his children regardless. However, I do have to correct his list (mods in bold):


Maybe he was, my mistake.

Still I have the most sobering converstions with my father about the world going to shit. How blissfully clueless folks are when it comes to our oil dependence. Fifteen years ago he railed on about what he was seeing as a offshore engineer in oil industry. He would tell me "You will see the end of the petroleum age in your lifetime" and "You need to step up and learn how to run the ranch". A few years ago his mantra changed to "People will be screaming for oil in the next 10 years" and "People like to eat".
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