When Hurricane Sandy hit it really woke me up. I only had a small gas generator and we lost electricity for two weeks. Very little gas was available on Long Island. Long lines at gas stations, fights broke out. It showed me what can happen when "normal" disappears
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wow, photo quality is so much nicer.! something happened? @ekzyis
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If things get really bad I have my Remington Wingmaster ready to feed the family. Until then, Bambi can rest easy.
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so now I am interacting directly with people who have the skill themselves instead of relying on all these so-called big companies.
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Yep, and it took a minor thing like that hurricane to wake me up.
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Now we grow as much food as we can and we preserve some for the winter. Growing vegetables is very difficult because the deer are everywhere. They reached over our fence this summer.
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that's cool; I recently learned a new dish called Lutenitsa, from Bulgarian, mixed with tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers. It's a great way to preserve those delicious summer tomatoes.
You can easily find out how to make it on YouTube, and it is sooooo delicious!
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Sounds good. We're not so fancy. My Italian grandfathers were both vegetable gardeners, so I'm used to just picking the tomatoes off the vine and eating them. The ones we didn't eat went in the sauce.
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