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[modern_pioneer]

Free, yes I think anything hallow would work fine, just be sure to angle your hole upwards so water doesn't damage the tree once your tap is pulled.

I asked the same question yesterday. The buckets were once placed on the ground but some critters and the hogs would get into the buckets and drink the sap. I guess the settlers use to allow their hogs to free range.

Gathering the sap seemed pretty straight forward, cooking it down is simple, but the finishing of the batch off to get your final product correct is the tricky part.

I so say do it, nothing better than seeing a primitive approach to gather sap, no matter how crude or simple it is. Sometimes making something crude involves a lot of cleverness, and sometimes doing it simple makes people wonder why they didn't think of it.

 

[freemotion]

Another project in the works!!!!

 

[lorihadams]

I was just reading about making syrup last night! It seems really interesting but I don't know where I would do it around here. :/

 

[modern_pioneer]

So its tater time, and the seed taters can't wait.

Because basket growing has such a big interest, and it produces great yields, lets start from the basket.

Building your basket is simple, a ten foot piece of chicken wire. But you have to also support your basket, I started with four tomato stakes at positions on a clock, 12, 3, 6, and 9. Once your location has been selected, you will hammer the tomato stakes in the ground on the outside of your basket. Attach your basket using twine, wire, or what you have on hand.

I am no expert, but I like a area that gets at least 6 hours of full sun, and easy to get water too. Growing taters in a basket requires 1/3 more the amount of water than growing in hills I think.

Now that I have chosen the place where my taters are going to be grown, I used land scapers cloth or just a garbage bag on the floor of the basket. I don't know if one is better than the other, I used what I had on hand.

Fill the bottom with 6-8 inches of dirt, compost, straw or garden bedding. Because this is your starting base, you will want the plant to be able to feed from your base layer for at least 2 months, so make it good.

This year I decided to add two more different strains that I have never grown, Desiree and German Butterball.

My goal is to have a good roasting potato as well as a good keeping potato through the winter months.

I will be sharing more photos of basket planting Friday, as I put in my own crop.

 

[freemotion]

And then.....my guess is that rather than hilling, you add more dirt and compost periodically until the basket is full?

 

[modern_pioneer]

It is with a heavy heart I post into my journal, my emotions can't be discribed. One minute I am angery at him, next at me, next worried about the impact of what is a good leader to my son and our love for Scouting.

First to make clear, my son and his fellow Scouts within Troop 5 in Butler PA have not been harmed. He was our Scout master just had a meeting last Sunday with him.

Here is what is/has been reported. http://kdka.com/butler/Butler.doctor.sexual.2.973486.html

I alone will talk again about my service in the Army, I don't want to answer your questions or talk to you about it. I was a soldier, and I did my job as I was directed to do. I was well trained, and a part of a semi elite fighting force.

I stomped the grounds in Panama in 1989 during Operations "just cause", I halo'd (high altitude low opening) into Kuwait, and I marched the surface of death highway. I have seen, tasted, and smelled enough killing to last me a lifetime. The truth is, sometimes I was so scared I just wanted to go home. Other times I was too busy trying to make the other guy die for his country. Part of my job was to make sure my fellow soldiers came home too.

But a man in a leadership position that rapes children, sorry folks, not on my watch. When it comes to my familys safety there are 3 types of laws, Gods law, mans law and my law. Not the best choice, if my son had been hurt, I would deal with Doc by my laws. See, I am posting and not in jail.

As I sat down to watch the news at 10 last night, like I do every night, Breaking news than they started to play.

I watched about 20 seconds of it, paused it, ran back to the bedroom where my wife was reading. I was trembling, my whole body at that time I wasn't feeling anything, I don't think it had sunk in yet. I rewinded the news and sat with my wife as we both watched the news.

I looked at my wife and tears ran down her face, just at that moment feelings I had in combat surfaced. Somebody had hurt my family, both my wife and son. My head started to hurt, I just needed to stay clam for my wifes sake. We started to talk about it, and our focus is if anything ever happened to our son. So after the shock, I woke my son up and we all sat on the floor and talked about it. Son said nothing ever happened to him or his fellow scouts that he was aware of.

I prayed today and thanked God for saving my son, and for keeping me out of jail.

Tonight yet another victim has stepped forward, it is reported that he had been molested over 100 times by David Evanko while in his old troop 10 in the late 80's early 90's. A rumor is that the first man that called CPS was in treatment for emotional problems when he was advised to call police. The gentleman didn't until he saw David Evanko in the store wearing a Scout Master uniform again after the meeting Sunday evening.

Please feel free to post your feelings and comments, I need the encouragment and wise words of more peaceful people.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

I am angry for you!!!!

But at the same time, I'm grieved. This brings up too many bad memories and emotions for me. Unfortunately I know from experience what these young victims are feeling. My heart is heavy for the children, and my prayers will be for them tonight.

 

[TTs Chicks]

Words could never say how sorry I am that your family has been touched by this. I am thankful that your son was not hurt by this man. I feel the same way you do about the kind of person who could do that to children.

 

[reinbeau]

My boys were in scouts for years. It's such a good organization for them - but to think this creep could infiltrate and last for so many years

Thank goodness he didn't harm your child. My heart breaks for his victims and their families.

 

[gettinaclue]

I am angry for you, your son, and those boys that this evil touch.

I believe your feelings are normal. They are what I would be feeling, indeed what most of us would feel.

It is in times such as this when I reach for the Lord. I will pray for you and your family, and all the families that have been effected.