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Quail_Antwerp.......Quail_Antwerp said:OK, these are the skills I've learned this year...
1) Use of hammer
2) Learned how to put pills down a calf's throat (virtually the same for every animal, but I won't do cats!)
3) Learned to use cross cut saw
4) Learned how to use manual post hole digger, and dug posts for new poultry pen.
5) Learned how to clean a horse's (or in my case pony's) hooves with a hoof pick.
6) Learned how to trim that same pony's hooves.
7) Learned to use a weedeater
8) Learned how to make jam! with a water bath canner.
9) Learned how to take an alternator off my Jeep, and put the new alternator on!!!!!!
Skills I already had:
1) chickening
2) can ride a horse (if it's already broke!)
3) mow
4) can read a measuring tape
5) good with housekeeping
6) CPR certified
7) I know how to assist an animal with delivery
8) Some medical training (ie. I can check blood pressure, temps, pulse, respiratory thanks to medical assistant classes)
9) Can grow a garden, but not the greenest thumb I know
10) I can fish, just don't make me clean 'em
11) I can cook over an open fire
12) I can wash clothes in a large kettle over the same open fire (after dinner)
13) I know how to sew by hand
14) can do machine quilting
15) I know how to barter
16) I know some of which wild plants are edible
17) I'm loud and can be heard from quite a distance, comes in handy if someone has lost the direction back to camp...
18) Thanks to DH, I can recognize and name several different types of trees
ETA: #18
You will join FD in getting the garden ready as well as planting. Your in charge of making chairs and benchs, remember some of us are larger than others so build them well. You will also help TH make breakfast in the mornings for the whole camp. With your pill skills your also assigned with BB for medical services. You have been assigned a new skill, you will be a profit gatherer. You will go into the woods, walk up and down the roads, dumpster diving to look for materials we can use to not only make camp a better place, but also to barter and sell. We will work together dumpster diving and looking through others peoples junk for a profit. Once we get the money for scrap metal, made items that are sold, you will join free and go out shopping for the camp. Your DH is assigned to making snack lunches as well as to Wifezilla for loom duty. He also will be straighting nails that are gathered to use to build. He also is now in charge of inventory/rations for the camp.
I also need soap makers, candle makers, and basket makers. I can make baskets from items gathered in the woods, some can be made nice enough to sell.
Also there will be none of "that" 
mixed with conditioner for protien, I know we're trying to be SS but thats where I draw the line. 
her cool stuff that she does, now I have a group of folks that wanna join in and learn some of the SS stuff she does. I would have felt odd if I was all alone in my quest. So many times I have read other posters mention how much they want to learn some of the SS stuff free does.
