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PerSueTheDream
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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 6 ม.ค. 2016
Dream: to contemplate the possibility of doing something
My dream is to make the best use of the time I have left. Life is a terminal illness and it is only by the grace of good DNA that I am in good health now. But I've entered my 60's, officially "retired", divorced, and my children are old enough to be on their own. What now?
Sweet dreams are made of this. My dream was to travel SO I bought a 1979 Dodge Honey, fixed it up, and made it into a home. But that was to big so I scrapped it and got a cargo van. An E-250, 2004, one owner, already bare to the bones. I fixed it up and made it into a home. That's what I've been traveling in. I go east in the summer and west in the winter. My channel is about what I've seen and learned along the way.
In the last 4 years I've seen quite a bit. The van doesn't have a passenger seat but you can come along virtually as we PerSueTheDream.
I hope you will
Sue
My dream is to make the best use of the time I have left. Life is a terminal illness and it is only by the grace of good DNA that I am in good health now. But I've entered my 60's, officially "retired", divorced, and my children are old enough to be on their own. What now?
Sweet dreams are made of this. My dream was to travel SO I bought a 1979 Dodge Honey, fixed it up, and made it into a home. But that was to big so I scrapped it and got a cargo van. An E-250, 2004, one owner, already bare to the bones. I fixed it up and made it into a home. That's what I've been traveling in. I go east in the summer and west in the winter. My channel is about what I've seen and learned along the way.
In the last 4 years I've seen quite a bit. The van doesn't have a passenger seat but you can come along virtually as we PerSueTheDream.
I hope you will
Sue
Collecting Rain Water For The Garden
I don't have the ability to hook up a hose and run water down to my gardens. Last year I had a laborious way of collecting and delivering rain water to the plants between rains. Because it was so hard, the garden didn't get watered as much as it should have.
So this year I bit the bullet and installed rainwater diverters and have 300 gallons collected already. (it rains a lot here in the spring) . The reason I didn't try these last year is because I thought it would be to hard to cut the downspout and/or I would screw it up and then where would I be.
I'm here to tell you it's pretty easy and even a hacker like me can do it. Successfully gathering water from the sky that is better for your plants when the chlorinated stuff coming from your faucet.
I have installed 3 different diverters:
Oatley Mystic. This was the easiest and simplest to install. It drains from the side comes with a cap to stop it, and you can divert to the left or the right by turning it around.
Flexifit - just one hole in the side of the downspout and you're done basically.. Fast and easy. You can't however, plug it up to stop the flow without taking it all out and covering with a special plug that they provide.
Rainwater Reserve- Allows you to open the front and pull out roof junk, has two discharge holes (you could fill two barrels at the same time0 . Install was not to0 bad but more difficult then the others.
Before installing any diverters and collection barrels, however, check your state and local laws. Some states will give you a tax credit for the cost, other states restrict how and who can collect water. It does seem that all states allow you to gather water from your existing roof system.
Hope this is helpful.
So this year I bit the bullet and installed rainwater diverters and have 300 gallons collected already. (it rains a lot here in the spring) . The reason I didn't try these last year is because I thought it would be to hard to cut the downspout and/or I would screw it up and then where would I be.
I'm here to tell you it's pretty easy and even a hacker like me can do it. Successfully gathering water from the sky that is better for your plants when the chlorinated stuff coming from your faucet.
I have installed 3 different diverters:
Oatley Mystic. This was the easiest and simplest to install. It drains from the side comes with a cap to stop it, and you can divert to the left or the right by turning it around.
Flexifit - just one hole in the side of the downspout and you're done basically.. Fast and easy. You can't however, plug it up to stop the flow without taking it all out and covering with a special plug that they provide.
Rainwater Reserve- Allows you to open the front and pull out roof junk, has two discharge holes (you could fill two barrels at the same time0 . Install was not to0 bad but more difficult then the others.
Before installing any diverters and collection barrels, however, check your state and local laws. Some states will give you a tax credit for the cost, other states restrict how and who can collect water. It does seem that all states allow you to gather water from your existing roof system.
Hope this is helpful.
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How to Process a Human 101
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I had a personal New Year this week. The completion of a solar rotation around me. One my New Years Eve I butchered 4 roosters...my first time killing anything larger than a snake. Based on a life that has not been on a farm or around farm animals, this video is my experience of harvesting the excess roosters. It's not a how to on killing chickens but a how to process what arises when your drea...
Too Many Roosters!
มุมมอง 2362 ปีที่แล้ว
Our original 6 chicks grew into 5 hens and 1 rooster. They had 8 babies which grew into 2 hens and 6 roosters. That's too many roosters. I have been procrastinating about my rooster problem and should have handled this a month ago when the youngest 4 reached maturity. 7 roosters after 6 hens (and all desiring a shot at Dum Dum) was not working. I constructed a separate area just for the rooster...
Preserving the Bounty
มุมมอง 552 ปีที่แล้ว
Where did the summer go? I have been filming this video about preserving what we grow for months. LOL. I started in August and two months later I've gotten it done. I wanted to show you the various ways I have tried to preserve....my first time doing any canning, fermenting and dehydrating. Canning is the most involved method but it was worth it because the pickles and canned tomatoes are fabul...
The Worlds Greatest Mine Fire
มุมมอง 4552 ปีที่แล้ว
There are over 100 underground mines on fire in the United States so this may not be the greatest. Hoever, the New Straitsville Mine Fire has been burning/smoldering away since 1884. 6 mines (although the local paper declared 7 at first) were intentionally set on fire by disgruntled miners, Who had been non strike for 9 months. The United Miner Workers was formed 2 years earlier, it's birthplac...
Paynes Crossing Ohio: An early African American Settlement
มุมมอง 1472 ปีที่แล้ว
I'm always amazed to find historic places that I had never heard of and historic events that I never learned about in school. History goes to the victors they say but that has made history flat and boring. Until recently when some silence voices are emerging. Many of us, for example, have heard of the Black community of Tulsa that were massacred in 1921 by a white mob. It's known as the Black W...
From Fiberglass Batting to Reflective Barrier: Replacing Basement Insulation
มุมมอง 1212 ปีที่แล้ว
The basement was so gross we didn't even go down there for almost a year. Ha. With only electric heating, this old house spun the meter hard and I'm hoping to cut it in half this winter. That meant I had make this my next project. Much of the fiberglass batting, so common in houses, was falling down and moldy looking. It was maybe 30 years old. Or more. We started by removing all of it...about ...
Rendville Ohio
มุมมอง 4262 ปีที่แล้ว
There are a lot of small towns where I live in Perry County Ohio. I encountered this one, Rendville, by accident when I pulled off the road to see what the historic marker sign was about. There was a coal boom in this part of the country that started around 1870 because of new railroad lines. William Rend owned a shipping business in Chicago and then diversified into the coal mining business. H...
Patching the Porch with Quick Set cement
มุมมอง 1003 ปีที่แล้ว
Even the professionals admit that mixing, pouring, and patching with cement/mortar is so easy that anyone can do it. For smaller jobs you can buy 10, 20 or 50 lb tubs that have been formulated with the right amount of cement, sand and additives so that all you need to do is add water. It's like making a cake from a box mix. There are some basic principles to keep in mind 1. Clean the area. Get ...
Summer Garden Tour
มุมมอง 543 ปีที่แล้ว
Hard to believe it's July already! I've been working on creating this garden since we moved in...almost a year ago. Time is a funny thing. I showed you how we made the Hügelkultur raised beds and now I'd like to show you what the garden has become. Like most of America, it's been very hot and dry here. Our water barrels were running low until yesterday when we had a good hard rain. With gardeni...
Chicken Proofing the Garden : Hoops and Nets
มุมมอง 863 ปีที่แล้ว
Eggs are just one of the benefits of backyard chickens. The other is that they eat a lot of insects. So we want them to be roam around the garden area but not in the garden beds. Mostly, they are, interested in the dirt not the plants themselves so, given the opportunity, they will destroy a bed by digging in it and uprooting everything. In a matter of minutes. I got this idea of hooping the be...
The Story of the Pelted Peacock Eggs
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Here's what happened with the peacock eggs? Watch to find out
Is Any Body There? Hatching Peacock Eggs Bought on Ebay
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I never thought of myself as a bird person. I could imagine being known as the crazy cat lady someday, but not the crazy BIRD lady. However, I like to feed the wild birds and thoroughly enjoy my little chicken flock so I thought I would branch out to something less common. When I was a child, there was a farm behind our house and through the woods, that had many animals. Peacocks among them. Th...
Whackin' and Shredin',
มุมมอง 523 ปีที่แล้ว
A decent wood chipper, something that will chop up more than sticks, can get pricey and hard to find. Last fall there was nothing in the local stores. I ordered this one from Amazon. GreatCircleUSA Wood Chipper Shredder Mulcher runs around $650 and that places it almost exactly in the middle of whats on the market. This has a 212cc Gas Powered engine that can handle up to a 3" Inch diameter. If...
Incubator Test Run
มุมมอง 3.3K3 ปีที่แล้ว
I wasn't thinking about hatching my own chicken eggs when I bought the "KEBONNIXS 12 Egg Incubator with Humidity Display, Egg Candler, Automatic Egg Turner, for Hatching Chickens". You'll have to watch the video to see what I'm planning to hatch. I'd never done this before and wanted to make sure I understood how it worked and what I had to do, so I loaded it with some of my flocks eggs. I have...
Hugelkultur Garden Beds, Whats happened in 3 weeks
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Hugelkultur Garden Beds, Whats happened in 3 weeks
My Stay-In-Place place; Projects and Poems
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My Stay-In-Place place; Projects and Poems
State Park Camping 2020: Reserving a site. What will that cost?
มุมมอง 1934 ปีที่แล้ว
State Park Camping 2020: Reserving a site. What will that cost?
love the colors!!
Awesome! thank you! I've been enthralled by Savannah and it's history, this is so similar.
I have a 1979 dodgecorp honeybee!!!
They are pretty great aren't they? I miss her but she's in good hands. Do you travel in yours?
Did any hatch?
What a ripoff
Rah-TONE NM!
Why do people think they have to kill their roosters if they have too many? I have 9 that I got stuck with and you just have to deal with it! It’s a hell of a lot of work but the way I look at it is if you hatched them and brought them into this world then you should be responsible and take care of them! You don’t kill animals just because you don’t want to pay for their food and they don’t provide eggs! I chose to keep mine alive and I love every one of them regardless of how much they eat because I hatched them and raised them from babies so would never think about harming any of them! Don’t kill the poor roosters they make great pets just ask around and find someone to take them!
the hens had a different experience of so many roosters.
@@persuethedream9862 Yes I have to keep my girls separated from them at all times or they will tear them up!
Very well done, 👍Thank you
I now own faith and God has me and my pregnant wife in a home after homelessness and we manifested faith 😊✨
For real!? I've been thinking about her lately....I'm building out a skoolie now. That's awesome...congrats on both
Thank you Sue!
💜 Thank you for filming this area…while researching my family I learned that I’m a descendant of Ephraim Lett, who was part of that founding community (Paynes Crossing) in 1860. (He was from Virginia, and free, prior to the Civil War)
So awesome!
-It was actually revealed by LIDAR imagery that nearly 300,000 acres of swamps and marsh were developed for rice cultivation. -Flooding was historically used to discourage weeds. - Slaves were not fed rice “hulls”. Rice hulls are not digestible. They ate broken grains called “middlins”. The whole rice grains were sifted out and exported. -Rice slaves specifically worked the “task system” . Which meant that when they finished the assigned task(s) for the day, they had the rest of the day to tend to their own animals/vegetable gardens. Make no mistake that the motive behind this system was purely for financial reasons. What the masters discovered was that if they allowed slaves to tend to their own sustenance, it was less they would have to worry about feeding them. Also, because rice was so profitable, they did not want to overwork the slaves in the already dangerous conditions of the rice fields. The unhealthy conditions took enough of a toll without being overworked.
The single largest problem with them (CSW 1020 models) is they don't have replacement parts !!! Something really simple can go wrong with it and you are screwed !! Don't buy it!!!!! And if you have on.....plan for another!!!
Love this video such a interesting part of our story out west.
Too many roosters, always seems to be the dilemma. 😂 I imagine that is a big part of chicken math. We have a rooster flock for now. I’m really hoping to adopt mine out. I wish I had the stomach to process chickens. Maybe I’ll get there someday.
Every land business etc was owned by American blacks before these other nations came and burn them down just did a whole genocide extermination assault on black ppl that was on this land like they acclaim it was in Africa. America story have to be corrected with no more racial criminal narration against the truth of a race of ppl. It's really in the section of CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY OR LIFE. It's beginning to feel like cancer in consciousness killing intelligence and it need to stop.
The pottery history is in Crooksville and Zanesville ...there is actually quite a bit of pottery history in Ohio ...great video by the way !
I live about 15 minutes away from Rendville ...very interesting town and history..my mom grew up in Corning which is the town right next to Rendville
I enjoyed hearing your perspective. Then ended with a good laugh. 😊
An oasis is like a picture of Gods love.
It does fill one with awe.
I visited here last week. Amazing. Wonderful.
Nice video. Brought back memories when 20 years ago did some field studies on the endemic fish that live in that little creek you showed.. And YES, those date shakes are delicious!! Thank you ! The little fish are called Speckled Dace. They're about 4 inches long and brown speckled, VERY hard to see in the water. They blend in with the gravel on the creek bottom. There are Crayfish in there too and they are even harder to find!........
The abundance of life the desert is always a delightful surprise. How cool that you got to study them. Thanks for sharing that.
@@persuethedream9862 You're very welcome... Those Quail you saw are not Cal. Quail, they are called Gambel's Quail... They are the only ones that live in the Mojave Desert......
Don't go there in July in daytime
For sure.
Very nice video! I need to know the map you're using here. Starting my plans for a cross country trip and I'm looking for best suggestions for other than internet-dependent mapping. Thanks!
It's a good old dependable Rand McNally (large print edition)
@@persuethedream9862 Excellent! That's EXACTLY the one I just got from Amazon. I can't stop looking at it...mostly for campsites; it has everything!. Love the large(-r) print!
I've been to Death Valley many times. My father thought this was the most beautiful place on earth. I haven't been down there since 1977, but I'm sure it probably hasn't changed much.
Been there. Fascinating place. My gg grandfather was Moses Gibson that was mentioned in your video. His son Rodney was my great grandfather. He died at the age of 18 of a burst appendix. It would have been a hard life living there before electricity and indoor plumbing in their houses.
I don't think anyone had electricity and plumbing in those days in this part of the country. That's very cool that you are a dependent. Thanks for watching and commenting! If Rodney died at 18, so young, I'm assuming he fathered a child, your grandparent, at a young age too.
So I visited my grandmother today she is 90. She tells me the story about Captain Asa Haynes. That was her great grandfather. Apparently he was a Jayhawker. This is pretty interesting. I have one picture of him.
Hey Sue....hope all is well. Let us know how the homestead is coming along.
Happy Early Bday I love your 49er Death Valley video Very nice
Thanks! It's offical...I'm old. 70 today. Yikes
How did they grow cotton in the desert in the 1800s?
The Muddy and Virgin rivers meet nearby. They were, ofcourse, much larger than now. I imagine they irrigated areas.
Hoping all is well with you! Missing your videos popping up every now and then.
I am good! I have been lazy I guess, ha. The garden and some inside projects took up all my energy. Thanks for asking. Maybe I'll get inspired
Hope you are also good. Happy holidays
Nice share 💖
Isn't it dangerous to be there by yourself. By the way I enjoyed the video and the music made it better,good choice Sue A friend in Tennessee.
Great video! Thanks for sharing!... ❤️🤠
I guess meth is pretty whimsical lol
my Great grandmother grew up in St. Thomas, and literally watched the waters slowly encroaching on her hometown. she said once it was in sight , the lake just grew and grew, faster than they could have imagined. I couldn't even imagine, watching my home be swallowed up. but now I get to see the desert reclaim itself, like a rewind version of my great grandmothers experience. losing the lake I've always known to exist, is sad, knowing my family is a part of the whole thing, before, during and after its existence is incredibly sureal.
That would have been awesome and horrifying to watch I imagine. How old was she? Thanks for the comment!
@@persuethedream9862 she was born in 1919, and i believe the last resident to leave town was in 1938, but he was stubborn, and I thunk he actually lit his house on fire before he paddled away on a boat . Lol, so she spent her life there, into her young adult years, and went on to raise a family in Logandale. My family still lives in both of her homes there 🥰
So she was a young women at the time...watching her home town flood. Wow. Must have been so bizarre!
"Whimsical" wouldn't be the first, second, third or even forth word I would pick to describe this place.
Thanks for your informative video. Your photos are lovely and helpful. I hope I can make it to Ghost Ranch.
My great-great-grandparents live there they were forced to leave they can only take what they could load in a horse and waggon
At the end of your film , its not a cloud , its a weather balloon from the military base nearby ?
Another great video.
I missed this video somehow but I'm caught up now. 😁👍
AS SOON AS THE STATE TOOK CONTROL OF THE SALTON SEA BACK IN THE 60's IT STARTED GOING DOWNHILL. THE POLITICIANS RUINED SALTON SEA FROM GREED
Nice video
I was a painter for many many years there's a process that you have to go through when chipping paint on a lead painted house don't let the city see you doing it they will penalize you very hard.
You need to test the paint if it has led you're gonna kill yourself you're breathing in the lead dust sanding that. Please be careful they have a lead test kits at Home Depot very simple to do
Very nice video I know it's an old video but very nice all the same it's 2022 now and me and my wife we're going to Host at the Salton Sea State Park coming up in a few months thank you for the info give me a nice Birdseye view hope all is well
Wow. Very nice. More relevant now than ever. Thanks. Will definitely share.
Thank you for watching. Such an interesting story
Next Video please Remove all the CLINKING STUFF on your Dashboard.. And the Brown Bronco at 2.30 👍.. Have Fun 🤙🤙
please leave the words up a little longer. it's too short if a time to read. thanks.