DAC - Desperate Measures?

[00:00:00] Music Person who appliqued some practices prepare to disrupt their daily routine. That is a Prepper. Hello everyone out there on internet, Radio Land. Are you ready for any event that would disrupt your daily routine?

[00:00:37] That is a Prepper. Oh my gosh. After I listened to the Intrepid Commander's news, daily news, I was saying to myself, Desperate Measures? Desperate Measures? Because one person's Desperate Measures is another person's lifestyle. Yeah, I don't think I'm taking Desperate Measures here. I published in the back channel.

[00:01:17] Okay, we processed three huge geese and two turkeys. We're going to do the rest of the turkeys tomorrow because you know what? Marie and I are not spring chickens anymore.

[00:01:36] But it took me a while because I had to run some errands this morning and I didn't get back. We didn't really get started until like two o'clock in the afternoon which is not a good time to start.

[00:01:50] You want to be fresh first thing in the morning before they have their feed and fed and all that kind of stuff. But tomorrow, tomorrow is a good day. And the pictures I published, oh my gosh.

[00:02:07] Because turkeys, okay. First of all, all of them, all the different birds that you can raise are all different. Okay? So ducks and geese, they are messy. They require a lot of water. They're dirty and loud.

[00:02:32] So the three geese was top on our priority. You have to give them extra water just because they're geese. And one time we had like 12 ducks. She got two of each kind of duck just to see which duck was best.

[00:02:58] Yeah. So we processed these. The turkeys are huge, 18 to 20 pounds. This is like a home. An infant. I mean these things are heavy! And it was a chore.

[00:03:20] So we decided to just leave the set up and clean everything up and pick it up first thing in the morning. Which we've had good weather here today was just beautiful. No humidity, cloudy, like 80 degrees and it was nice.

[00:03:44] So this was perfect timing. But desperate measures? I'm not so sure. So one thing I've learned a long time ago was the difference between successful people and people that don't have success. The successful people are willing to do what the others are not. Okay?

[00:04:17] So if you're willing to do what other people will not, you'll be successful. And this is...you can throw that template on anything in life. Anything. I remember hearing a story about the founder of Blockbuster that came to this country as an immigrant.

[00:04:40] And the first job he was offered was garbage collector. And he said, yes! Yes, I will do that. And he collected garbage. And he did what other people were unwilling to do.

[00:05:00] Anyway, you know why I take the bath water out of the bathtub? Yeah, it's a lot of work. But it saves my well. And it also saves my plants.

[00:05:19] So you have to be willing to do the things that other people would say, eh! Let it go. Let it go. Let's just not do that. And that's the difference between making it and not making it, basically.

[00:05:39] Yeah, it's not desperate. It's just willing to do what needs to be done. Other people will look at it. The outside world will look at it. And you know what I tell people at my school? I live a preparedness lifestyle.

[00:06:04] That's exactly how I describe what the Jones Homestead is. And I'm telling you, most of those people get it. It's a Christian school. They see the writing on the wall. Anyway, a lot of people strive to have what we have.

[00:06:33] And you just have to... Boy, that sounds conceited, don't it? No, you just have to do the things. Do the things. I don't have any secret knowledge. And I've been doing it for years. Don't think you're going to do this thing overnight. Not like that.

[00:06:55] It is baby steps. Baby steps. Always... You know, it's like establish a position and improve upon it daily. What did you do today that makes you better prepared for tomorrow? That's it. I mean, James was talking about tilapia and quail.

[00:07:23] And I can't wait to hear his feedback on tilapia. Because we've been dancing around this for years, years. And we want to do tilapia in the summer and trout in the winter. And that was the whole idea behind the greenhouse.

[00:07:42] So... And you never know until you try something. Boy, I'll tell you. The more experience you can get now before the grid goes down, before, you know, China invades Taiwan. Because they can see Trump is going to be elected.

[00:08:06] And if you don't think that's going to go down... Anyway, I'm just telling you what we're doing here on the Jones Homestead. And I'm happy we're done with what we did. And we're picking it back up tomorrow. So everybody in the back channel, expect more pictures.

[00:08:30] So Maria got me this denim apron. And it is really nice. I mean, really, really nice. I can see me wearing this for a whole bunch of different things. You know, carpentry work, metalwork, whatever. So I put this on for the first time today.

[00:08:57] And I was removing heads from turkeys. I'm telling you, I look like I'm Hannibal Lecter or something with this hatchet in my hand. Maria says, wait, let me get a picture. It was pretty crazy. Anyway, I think I'm going to have to click explicit on this one.

[00:09:22] Just because of that. You know, some people... Some people can't cut heads off. You better find someone they can. That's all I'm saying. Take care and prep on.