w w w . h a t r e d . n e t » nate

Farming

nate — Sat, 12 May 2012 15:51:19 +0000

Well there’s more to life living in the south. Everything’s going pretty damn well so far.

Tweets for the Week of 2012-02-05

nate — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:56:00 +0000

bc on the shell is probably the most useful thing in the entire world unless you count vi, sed, awk and xargs #

Rule Number One: Cardio

nate — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:38:04 +0000

Alright. Everyone has seen Zombieland right? What is rule number one in that film? Cardio. I will have to step up to the plate and admit that this is true. Moving here has beaten my ass into submission. I’m exhausted and sore quite often just because of outside work.

I have sat on my ass for a very long time because of the job. I know that I cannot keep up with someone that is actually in shape. Does this bother me? Absolutely not at the present time. The reason behind this is that I do push myself to get things done and I’m doing more than most people.

Not only am I gaining strength and endurance right now. I am gaining knowledge and skills that will prove useful in the future. I believe that getting both at the same time is a wonderful way to live currently. Now let’s see how much I can pack into a weekend and attempt to have a social life on top of that.

Garden Day

nate — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:39:50 +0000

Found someone on ever famous list of craig. A dump truck full of compost was plastered onto the lawn and some of it has migrated into the garden. Yup, the garden is now tilled and ready to plant. Even migrated some berry of some sort, either black or ras we’ll see when they start to grow.

New Food Source Acquired

nate — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:25:23 +0000

Just like back in San Diego one of our food sources will be rabbits. Picked up two does and a buck again. They’re 7 weeks old so should be breeding about may. This gives us plenty of time to get quite a bit of rabbit meat throughout the year. Yum, rabbit stews!

Here’s a few pictures of the cute and little food makers.

Saw Horse Build.

nate — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:14:20 +0000

So in order to build my damn shelves I had to build saw horses. Fun shit. Of course the home depot sells 2×4′s in 7 and half feet. Not the usual 8 feet length that you expect and is normal. Well needless to say I built some crazy tall saw horses. Eventually cut them down and have them at the right size.

Now it’s time to figure out the next stage of building in the room for storage and organization. So now that I have saw horses I can build my shelves. That was the goal of this weekend. Build my damn selves.

Here’s the stupidity pictures. I also have to say hand tools are awesome but suck due to the amount of pain I feel right now.

Hopefully soon I’ll get to those pallets and what they can be used for other than bon fires.

Starting a Garden

nate — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:28:53 +0000

One of the goals of having a place for both of us has been to make it sustain us and not really have to spend money. If that goal goes farther to where it also pays for itself then that’s even better. I’m definitely certain that this year we’re going to spend a lot less money on vegetables.

Not too many pictures, but this is the start of our garden. Don’t have the cash on hand to rent a tiller so 20 bucks spent for one shovel and one hoe. Two people for the hours power.

Who Needs a Grocery Store?

nate — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:11:06 +0000

I suppose you could say this is pretty damn hill billy. Yet it’s also a way of not wasting possible food. The first few days we were getting lost pretty easily trying to figure out better ways to get places we knew how to get to. Trying to get up to that shopping center proved out to be a good time to get lost.

It was a cold morning so we figured we might as well take a look at the possible bounty on the side of the road. After looking at it for a moment it was decided to toss the deer into the bed of my pick up and take it home.

Yes, these pictures are graphic but I don’t give a fuck, it’s my page and the venison has been very tasty since then. Really lucked out with this find as all it had was a broken neck and was probably 12 hours old or less.

My Yard, House.

nate — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:02:19 +0000

Here’s some pictures of the outside of where I now live. Getting it all ready for spring planting. Figure we’re gonna build a chicken tractor (not started yet), a new rabbit hutch (not started yet), larger aquaponics (not started yet) and of course our big ass garden.

First one is the front yard. Second is the house, notice the flag? , last three are the back yard.

Went and moved from California

nate — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:49:18 +0000

So I figure I’ll start a thread now that I have some time. Not too many pictures, haven’t gotten the out doors yet been working all week but here’s some of the goodness so far. Mind you we moved from San Diego across country towing a pick up truck behind a jeep cherokee. We filled up both vehicles and that means no furniture or any of those “nice” things. Basically living on the very basics that we have access to as we build things up. There will be a lot of things throughout the next few months as we build and get our new place of residence more sustainable.

I have to start off with my dog, my bad:

Forgot to buy a shower curtain, guess what we did instead with the extra one?

My friend and coconspirator smoking a cuban on night number one of living here:

Ooops, accidentally set my hand on fire with a giant USMC lighter:

The important things to build what we need:

Quick view of my room, I mentioned no furniture right?

Guess what my sleeping pad is

My trash can, cheap as hell

General storage of things like ammo, camping gear, cables and anything else that could fit into these

Laundry hamper:

guess the rifles before I build my new gun rack for the room

I’ll take some out door pictures tomorrow before we start working on my truck to get it running again so there will be before and after pictures.