Welcome BACK and how did you survive the 10 days away?

[AngieM2]

Hi to the folks I missed during the 10 days away from HT.

Many of you found the little site I set up:
Country Friends Gathering Palce
http://www.runboard.com/bcountryfriendsgatheringplace

I never expected to be there so long, but I am so glad many folks came by to say HI and get news.

Where on the internet did you hang out? Or did you clean the house and barn from top to bottom?

Withdrawals from your HT family?

And - this site is suppose to be much more robust, but if something happens to the lines between here and you, how do we communicate?

Angie

[JIL]

my thoughts exactly we should have a back up plan there is so much useful info that needs to be shared and just plain looking out for each other. I checked everyday to see if HT was back started getting worried that it was finished. Does anyone know what happened? you know my tinfoil hat was on pretty tight there LOL! So glad it 's back!! JIL

[Batt]

I found the outage very interesting...sorta like a mini-trial run for a "no-internet" HTF situation. I came to realize how much I depend on the input from the members of this forum. While there were other forums around, it just wasn't the same.

Thanks to all who worked so hard!!

[AngieM2]

What happened....

Site DOS attacked.
REally went down.
Matt/Kung with help from Dean (who's working lots of hours per week), but could not get HT back.
Stripped the server of SW and reloaded updated OS s/w and then security and then tried the HT files, and they would not work, overloaded that server.

Conversatations with Chuck, Matt, and Dean
Then Chuck decided on new server with more everything - note in the Admn forum from Chuck - after new server, he hired a VBulletin tech to put the site back up. - Took awhile to reload the tables that is HT.

So we are back, if you see any problems post them on the thread in the Admin forum.

Angie

[Horsefly]

Good Morning Angie! It is good to have you guys back online. At first I thought something was wrong with my computer. Which wouldn't of surprised me, it's 7 years old & very outdated. Well during the downtime, I've been working a lot of hours, chasing a toddler & trying to run the house. But I did get the majority of my christmas shopping done! Which is a blessing! As our families get bigger the lists get longer. Well, I have lots of reading to catch up on. Take care & have a great week!

Horsefly

[freegal]

At first I thought that I wasn't able to get to HT because I joined a new forum run by vBulletin and there was a conflict. But I heard from Martin that HT had crashed. I didn't know where to find anyone anywhere else! I have a new computer and didn't have any of the old links.

Why didn't they put up a list of other sites, like they used to?

[amylou62]

Thank goodness for Facebook and Country Friends! So glad we're back! Yea!!!!!!

[timfromohio]

Still getting over withdraw symptoms. Joined the BackWoodsHome Magazine forum - looks like nice folks and good information, but not the same as here.

[AngieM2]

Why didn't they put up a list of other sites?

The server could NOT put up anything at all. This has caused the s/w to be completely taken off the old server, reinstalled with newer operating s/w, and then that didn't work. Get a new, larger capacity server, reload from operating server s/w all the way to where they could load vBulletin s/w and then the backed up files that were HT.

During this time, there was no server to put the usual page up.

Many were getting updates at the Homesteading Today Facebook page, Melissa's back up Country Families site, Shrek's back up Singletree site, and the one I ended up creating on Runboards.

We tried to find as many as we could. Heck even posting in Barker Hill updates.

That's why no page as usual, this was a HT SHTF occurance.

Angie

[wyld thang]

HI! I think it was good to have the Facebook place. just goes to show have back up communications. I dunno, I had a good time

I love this time of year here, the weather and light and atmosphere changes almost by the moment and I just can't keep from watching Fall unfold. It's like I want to eat it it smells and looks so good, like it's a juicy apple or a mushroom stroganoff. I felt like I was getting sick too, but snarfed the chili powder and oj and I think I'm in the clear. I got some aches but nothing happened. By chance I learned a little more about the thymus--I felt this heat in my chest like something in there was all fired up whirring away, and I think it was my thymus(if it's active it pumps out white blood cells, or boosts them or something), anyways, it must have done it's job!

It's mushroom season around here, so I have fun hunting them and bagging them with my camera. I'm not allowed to eat any per the husband man. These are pix from the last few years.
http://www.facebook.com/wyldthang?re...4&id=616102765

I also learned about an awesome MANLY MAN, on "VOyages of Discovery on PBS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fridtjof_Nansen
Fridtjof Nansen, explorer, scientist, ambassador. He tried to get to the North Pole(would have been there first), couldn't do it, and had to turn back and he was out there in the Arctic surviving for two+ years! At least go read the wikipedia page...I'm in awe of what he accomplished and also how varied his talents were. He designed his boat(which you can see in Norway) to survive being iced in. He made discoveries about the ocean and the brain. Total genius up there with Einstein(so freakin why don't we get to learn about hiM in school???)

I hope I can find a nice long book about his life and the artic expedition.

BTW, he included hordes of CHOCOLATE in his food stash on the boat yeah Norwegians rock!

[radiofish]

Well I discovered the site's situtation, after my return from going to the San Francisco Regional VA Medical Center. I had thought that my laptop computer picked up a nasty virus, like I did during my 600 miles roundtrip. Ain't no virus, like a city virus - let me tell you!! It makes the yearly local 'Humboldt Crud', seem like a walk on the beach on a sunny day!

Of course I was in a huge VA hospital where my chances of exposure to a nasty virus were pretty high, even with extensive preventative measures in effect!!!

So besides my being sick as a dog/ but not with the H1N1 Virus (I was tested for it), I spent a lot of time with the sweats/ chills and felling pretty puny.. I did get the opportunity of cleaning and oiling every firearm that I own, in preperation of the "rainy season" that is rapidly approaching!!

Today is the very 1st day that I can breathe through my nose in about 8 days, and I actually have an appetite!!

Besides listening to lots of foreign radio broadcasts and watching satellite TV while I have been ill. I did some surfing and found where others had surfaced on Melissa's forum, Tree Of Liberty, and a couple of other sites. I wandered by another Homestead site where I used to hang out at, but it was not the same. It is nice to see this familiar one back up and running again.

Many thanks, to all that were on the repair crew!!

[soulsurvivor]

I was beginning to get worried after about the 5th day, and I'm really glad I had seedspreader's forum to visit during that time. Nice folks there.

As for what I did, about the same as usual. Still tending to the daily things that need doing and enjoying the fact that DH and I continue in fairly good health.

Sure is good to be home isn't it?

[bee]

How did I cope??? I SUFFERED massive withdrawl symptoms, thats how!! I learned just how limited my contacts are..there was no one on my e-mail contacts to get info from as my sole contact with the forum is thru the forum. YEESH, just found you all back up and now I have to go to work...figures! Long live the HT Family!

[Lonesomelov]

There is a Facebook page!!!!! Now I am peeved! It took me DAYS to remember one of the links someone here had mentioned (www.homesteadinghousewife.com) and I twittered her to find some info.
I thought it was someone's way of saying they didn't like me anymore...talk about a complex!
So anyway, there is a Facebook page???!!! Where would someone have known about that? I am so befriending ya'll....you can't run from me anymore!
Really I missed you!
L

[~taylor~]

though I very seldom post, I've been reading over this website for the better part of two years. I have been LOST without it. many thanks to the guys who spent their time working in order to restore my favorite dot com

[Ohio dreamer]

Honestly, I don't get to spend as much time here as I'd like these days, so I only had and extra hour or so a day to fill. So, I kept buying apples on the cheap and kept filling up the dehydrator. I should have been unpacking boxes, but I didn't. And of course I spent time reading updates at Facebook and checking out all the "backup" spots.

[MOgal]

Major withdrawal and freezing/canning 24 chickens we butchered during the outage. I'd rather be on HT and couldn't face a meal of chicken right now if my life depended on it. UGH. They will taste better than a snowball this winter.

Sure appreciate everybody's hard work getting it back and site Angie set up.

[Rockytopsis]

I now have the other sites mentioned in favorites, thanks.
Nancy

[Becka]

Although I don't post much, I had severe withdrawal for several days without reading HT. I spent my time watching "1940's House" from Netflix and studied up on WWII rationing and recipes.

It was time well-spent, because I learned a few things that would come in handy for a shtf situation that I hadn't previously considered.

[Wisconsin Ann]

It was down?