Posted by Chris Dont tread on me Lublin on Monday, January 06, 2003 at 0:30AM :
In Reply to: Re: Is anybody else starting to feel like me here? posted by Chris Dont tread on me Lublin on Sunday, January 05, 2003 at 11:59PM :
I hit submit too soon.
Anyhow, here we go:
I live on a dairy farm. We get $11. a hundred lbs of milk. Ok, so if milk is currently selling for $2.39 a gallon, you are paying that much for 7 LBS of milk and we get $11.00 a hundred LBS! 4 months ago, we were getting $8.00 for 100LBS! Thats bad...We raise hogs too, and right now at auction, hogs sell between 25-30 cents a pound, live weight. I sell USDA packaged pork out of my freezer for $1.45 a pound while local pork prices in stores are $2.69 a LB! Explain that one!?
In life, I do as much as I can. I learn as much about things as I can so I can save money and such. One of the reasons why I bought my land is I wanted at least 10 acres. I bought it in an unzoned township (a very rare thing here in Michigan) and I can have livestock and farm. I plan to raise a HUGE garden, have Hogs and Beef Cattle and have a smoke house and small butcher shop to do up all my own meat and food. I will can and freeze as much as I can. I plan to heat my house with wood. I collect old tools like bucksaws, crosscut saws, Adzes, axes and such. I buy ones in good shape to use! ......as you can tough old trucks like Power Wagons fit my lifestyle!
I have already had my go around with the Blight ordance and the permit man with my place. The way I feel is that if a man owns his land (meaning either paying on it or has it paid for) AND keeps his taxes paid up on it(meaning you never really own it anyhow...) he should be able to do as he pleases. I have gone round' and round' with the local ordinance about the junk car thing. I make lots of money off selling parts and scrap. Jeeze.....It no surprise why Militia groups have sprouted up around the country in the last 10 years. People have had enuff!
I try to live a very simple, back-to-basics lifestyle. its been more than 2 years since I sold my TV and VCR and I have not missed it or looked back! I dont have a Cell phone and dont plan to get one! If I have to, I will sell my tractor and get a team of mules to plow the garden with! I am trying to escape interet too, but it has not worked yet.
I am not out to impress anybody...I have no desire for a huge house. Heck I could live well in a 2 room cabin house. I dont care about having a nice house and a new truck...I dont want to live in a trash dump either tho. I dont really care what the world in general does or thinks about me. Id be very content to live in the woods and go to town once a month.......If I could, I would! Id love to be able to live self suffiecently and hunt and fish and farm....I love that simple life.
Down here in southern Michigan, its getting really bad. It is getting to a point where you have to have a permit to pass gass sometimes! I can already see the writing on the wall...One of these days, I am gonna get sick of it and sell out and move to the Upper penninsula or head down to the hills of Tennessee....
I am done with my rant. God Guns and Guts made America, lets keep all three! Dont let anybody tread on you and keep yer powder dry!
God Bless.
Chris "Lube" Lublin
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