I hope it all right to put this in this forum.
Since I found this sight I have been reading a lot. I have made a couple posts but I havenât gotten any input. I thought that I may need to introduce myself and a little history. I am afraid this may get kind of long.
I lived with my grandparents for 5 years, from the time I was 5 - 10 years old. During this time I learnt to value things. So I put sentimental value on things most people wouldnât even think twice about.
My grandparents were raised on a farm. They always talked to me about someday moving back to the country and getting some chickens, sheep and other animals. So now 40 years later I am living the dream that they planted in me. I have 3 dogs. Jack Russell Terriers. Some chickens a rabbit and trying to think of a way to sneak some goats in past my wife. She is not an animal person. The garden is my farm crop. It seems to grow larger each year we live here. This year it went from 30âx 90â to 55âx 90â. We have 4 apple trees that I have been trying to get trimmed back into shape. We own 3 acres and I have been thinking of a way to buy some more. It may be possible!
2 year ago I started doing a lot of canning. My favorite is tomato juice. I have canned a verity of different vegetables. Some have turned out good others, well we wont do that again.
I also hunt a lot. I make a trip to Georgia where I have family, to hunt deer. Last year I brought back 5 deer. I have been collecting the equipment to process my own meat. So my son and I made 30+ pounds of venison polish sausage last November. It is almost gone now. It was very good. Adventually Iâd like to raise a hog and process it myself. I saw the PBS show on homesteading a couple years ago and thought that would be for me. Although I knew that my wife would never go for it. Well we have three acres with a small barn so I thought I would have my own smaller version. I donât know if âHobby Homesteadingâ is looked down on here, I hope not. Not everybody can (or would want to) drop their current lives and go hole hog into homesteading.
I have been working at my current job for 22 years. It is a military surplus electronic mail order store. The business seems to be dying so I took a part time job at a store called Menards. I really like working at the new place. As I work in the hardware department. I have also been a carpenter years ago. And have worked at this for 30 years on my own projects. So I am putting in 60 - 70 hours a week at my 2 jobs. As soon as I get some bills taken care of I hope to buy a lathe and milling machine so I can start doing some of my own gunsmithing. I have been reading and studying up on designing and building my own single shot rifles. Wouldnât be able to sell them but it will be fun to hunt with rifles that I built myself. I have built a couple muzzleloaders from kits. These will be center fire rifles. May be design my own wildcat cartridges! I guess I have too many wants in this world.
I guess I have rambled long enough. Kind of long But I hope you enjoy this and now know me a little better. Got to get busy, things to do!
Steve
Since I found this sight I have been reading a lot. I have made a couple posts but I havenât gotten any input. I thought that I may need to introduce myself and a little history. I am afraid this may get kind of long.
I lived with my grandparents for 5 years, from the time I was 5 - 10 years old. During this time I learnt to value things. So I put sentimental value on things most people wouldnât even think twice about.
My grandparents were raised on a farm. They always talked to me about someday moving back to the country and getting some chickens, sheep and other animals. So now 40 years later I am living the dream that they planted in me. I have 3 dogs. Jack Russell Terriers. Some chickens a rabbit and trying to think of a way to sneak some goats in past my wife. She is not an animal person. The garden is my farm crop. It seems to grow larger each year we live here. This year it went from 30âx 90â to 55âx 90â. We have 4 apple trees that I have been trying to get trimmed back into shape. We own 3 acres and I have been thinking of a way to buy some more. It may be possible!
2 year ago I started doing a lot of canning. My favorite is tomato juice. I have canned a verity of different vegetables. Some have turned out good others, well we wont do that again.
I also hunt a lot. I make a trip to Georgia where I have family, to hunt deer. Last year I brought back 5 deer. I have been collecting the equipment to process my own meat. So my son and I made 30+ pounds of venison polish sausage last November. It is almost gone now. It was very good. Adventually Iâd like to raise a hog and process it myself. I saw the PBS show on homesteading a couple years ago and thought that would be for me. Although I knew that my wife would never go for it. Well we have three acres with a small barn so I thought I would have my own smaller version. I donât know if âHobby Homesteadingâ is looked down on here, I hope not. Not everybody can (or would want to) drop their current lives and go hole hog into homesteading.
I have been working at my current job for 22 years. It is a military surplus electronic mail order store. The business seems to be dying so I took a part time job at a store called Menards. I really like working at the new place. As I work in the hardware department. I have also been a carpenter years ago. And have worked at this for 30 years on my own projects. So I am putting in 60 - 70 hours a week at my 2 jobs. As soon as I get some bills taken care of I hope to buy a lathe and milling machine so I can start doing some of my own gunsmithing. I have been reading and studying up on designing and building my own single shot rifles. Wouldnât be able to sell them but it will be fun to hunt with rifles that I built myself. I have built a couple muzzleloaders from kits. These will be center fire rifles. May be design my own wildcat cartridges! I guess I have too many wants in this world.
I guess I have rambled long enough. Kind of long But I hope you enjoy this and now know me a little better. Got to get busy, things to do!
Steve