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Hi... I'm finally strolling back here
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[quote:CourtDude:MV8xMzU4MDExXzIyMzg3NDgzXzVERjFBQTY2] [quote:ºEATº] Getting your non perishable food lined up right now is a smart smart thing. I myself might pick up some more coffee, rice, sugar, etc now before the prices skyrocket later this year. [/quote] Later this year? She just went shopping last night and came home with four bags for a total of $398 USD--an almost identical shopping trip five years ago would have cost us under $75 USD. As govt. employees we have not had a merrit or cost of living raise in over five years, I know many people have not, my point is 0% increase in income yet a 530% increase in food costs. This is hitting us hard and we make decent money, I can't imagine a family making $50K or less being able to keep a home and continue to purchase their food this coming year. When the GOM gusher was still in the news forefront I convinced my neighbor to turn a combined area covering one third of each of our yards into a common garden for us and we did well with tommattos and cucumbers. We have converted the flower beds around my home and the decorative gardens surrounding the pool into gardens for beans, peppers and onions which produced last summer but not nearly as well as previous years. The pool deck area is elevated about three feet above terrain as I essentially live in a swamp and next month we are having it expanded back into the woods and all brought to level to give us close to an additional 80 X 60 feet of garden space under partial shade. And everyone, Mrs. CourtDude and I are becoming self sufficient because of the knowledge we have gained here at GLP. Someday I truly believe I will be able to look back and say our lives were saved by what we learned on here. [/quote]
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Gotta admit though, that message on GLP last weekend had me worried. Yes, I am a worrier.
Glad to see all is well back here and that Trinity is ok.
BTW, the other place changes the name of GLP to Fetid Poo Pit. lol.
Oh well, this is the world we live in.
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