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I'm here in Texas. My well broke I was without water 34 days. Back good now but yes it was challenging.
P.S. all those smart fridges…they crapped out in the power outtages. They don't like those rolling blackouts not one bit.
Your channel popped up in my feed this morning and I thoroughly enjoyed listening to your wisdom. You're absolutely right…life will never be the same.
Patara, I am slowly trying to get more self sufficient, learning how to raise and grow things. I am interested in trying to find a wood cook stove also and was wondering where to look for one? Thank you for your very helpful information you provide on your posts. I truly enjoy them!
Where are you buying the wood cook stove? We lost power for 3 days with babies
just found you – love ya! but… jumped on this one because "TEXAS!"…. so… I kept saying just get to the Texas statement!!! LOL keep doing you/ya'll – will check back with ya'll soon. Be blessed!
My brother lives over the ridge from you in East North Carolina, Yancey County, almost 4000 feet up. The home has been in the family for decades, years ago I ran the lines for propane in the house because I am on other things have been a journeyman gas pipe fitter. He has gradually been weaning himself off of it, the first was switching to an electric water heater, and just this last year he got two mini split heat pumps which he’s discovered keep his house warm down to 15 above zero and possibly lower, they are rated to go all the way down to zero in terms of being able to still put out heat. His electricity is both reasonably priced and reliable, he rarely has power outages. And he also has always had a propane stove. The original one was built in the 30s and I gave it to my mother as a gift for the house, an old magic chef that stood up on legs. But he finally decided he wanted a newer stove so I went to Home Depot and then those days they had a line of appliances called Americana by General Electric that were actually made in Mexico. The basic stove still used pilot lights, Including to operate the oven. Most gas stove top or in the oven but this one was very basic and very simple, and it was also less than $400. He has been using it now for almost 20 years and loves it.
My aunt Velma Yearwood cooked on a woodstove most of her life. A good woodstove will also keep your house warm in the winter and save you a lot of money on propane. But in the summertime you better be ready to get all that heat out of your kitchen unless you like perspiring or getting up early in the morning so that you get all your cooking done before the house warms up.
The other thing about all petroleum products he is yes the prices are going to go up because a lot of it comes from the Middle East, or through hydraulic fracking which is horrible for the environment. Every time you buy a gallon of propane or gasoline or anything else that comes from petroleum you are giving money to some very evil people, people who in this country want to keep working people down, and people in the Middle East who want to murder anyone they disagreed with. I decided I didn’t want to participate in that anymore so I have solar panels and an electric car and an all Electric house. But I also live in a city where the city owns the electric company so they don’t gouges for electricity and most of it’s generated by Hydro electricity or hydroelectric dams on the Columbia river. But it’s important to know when you spend a dollar who is that dollar going back to and what are they going to do with it. My brother also has a wood-burning stove for heat in his living room but he can cook on it if he needs to. It’s all about adaptation, and being content with what we have because most Americans have so much more than anyone else. If you really want inspiration start watching the channel here on YouTube de mi Rancho a Tu cocina and see the old Mexican grandmother cooking on a concrete block stove with an oil brown lid as the cooking surface and all of the wonderful and amazing things she cooks on it.
You’ll figure it out, and yes Texas was very specific situation because it’s the only state in the country is not sure of our grade states, and the whole thing was never winterized, very typical of an attitude in politics that says we want to be rugged individuals and not have to listen to anyone else. Well we saw what it got them.
I am enjoying your posts and your channel because it reminds me of my relatives in North Georgia back in the day. I’m 71 years old, and my mother’s family with a scotch Irish as it gets.
I love this woman. She reminds me of my aunt Velma who used to hand Pat each of her biscuits rather than roll and cut them out, and who made some wonderful meals on her seers wood burning stove, in her kitchen, in Mount airy Georgia. It was a four room tarpaper house with a single floor, well in the backyard near the smokehouse, and an out house at the end of the path behind the guard. My brother and I are so grateful that we were exposed to that life when we were kids because so few people are these days. Here is the channel of the Mexican grandmother who makes amazing meals on her concrete wood-burning stove that uses an oil drum lid on the top for the cooking service. I live in Southern California, and I live in a neighborhood that has lots of people from Central America. They are incredibly industrious and creative and anyone who gets to know some of them is very blessed. https://youtube.com/c/DemiRanchoaTuCocina.
Oh my, I can relate to all of this. We had a cash flow issue when the kids were little and my nat gas stove gave up the ghost. Cooked for six months on an open fire in the backyard- including thanksgiving dinner! Saved up for new stove, but I never lost the knowledge and self reliance I gained in the duration. I also washed clothes for a family of five in my bathtub for months while I saved for a new washing machine. Now I’m very blessed to have a fantastic job, but I still whip out my primitive cooking skills every so often to keep ‘em sharp. My wood stove is a small one – but it can get the job done if needs be.
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It's crazy to be honest how prices have gone up. My parents have been putting off upgrading our air conditioning for a few years now thinking she had one more year left in the two we have for our home (both of them are swamp coolers) but they just simply don't work well anymore and boy is it the wrong year to be replacing air con units. Adding 2 refrigerated air units would have cost her about 6,500 just 2-3 years and now with prices increasing it's gonna cost her $6,000 alone for just one unit. She's definitely regretting the decision to wait.
Amen! I'm in Texas and you are exactly right. No water or heat for 8 days. It was 9 degrees in my kitchen. Never again
I would love of the mama turkey with the baby duck's head sticking thru the turkey wing. This is so symbolic in many ways. Thank you for sharing.
You are so smart and wise.
Word of warning about electric oven. Husband wanted to upgrade kitchen and bought stainless steel. (I didn’t care because I want to move to country). It’s a KitchenAide Oven/Convection. I never cooked convection before. Anyway, this is the worse oven I have ever seen. I put my bread in it to rise, turned oven on a bit to get it a little warm and What??? It heats up from the Broiler!!! I had burned the top of my rising bread. Of course, I put it near the top so it wouldn’t burn from the bottom. Also, the fan turns on ‘whenever’ and cools things off weather you want it not. —-Not a happy camper in the Burbs—. Wish I had a wood stove n lived in the country.
What book is at the beginning?
Awesome advice
Smart moves
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I know this is really old, but would love an update on your wood cookstove
I'm late to the party, but I finally bought a solar generator in April. I'd been thinking about doing it in 2020, but we know how that all turned out. :-/ I bought a kerosene heater last fall, along with a rocket stove for outdoor use. The Texas mess motivated me to get the generator. Even if you can't afford one of the big whole-house solar systems, there are smaller ones that will run fans and small fridges, charge rechargeable batteries and juice up solar lanterns such as the LuminAid lights (love those).
When pricing appliances. I would think of outdoor camping stove for canning. I am planning on having a indoor and outdoor kitchen.
I agree with you on the glass top stove. Ours came with the house as well and my husband has been promising me we would get rid of it but 7 years later, we still have it. lol My husband won't let me put a wood stove in the kitchen so I'll settle for a gas stove and use our fire pit when I want to cook with wood. When the electric was out for a couple of day the fire pit was wonderful.
I'm going back through your old content, clicking like and tossing a comment or two, because youtube likes those clicks. Having lived through Utah rural winters with coal/gas/electric heat over the years, the West Texas winter event was amusing, rather than alarming to us. We were fortunate to have power 30% of the time, with the blackouts. Water, nope, but we had cases of bottled water, and a river is only 4 miles away, and I have water filters. Not worried. Used snow to flush toilets and we have a fireplace. However, like a lot of people, we had a wood supply for a normal Texas winter. Which is why, this week, I'm having 3 cords of wood delivered. That's usually a 10 year supply, but you don't prepare for 'usual'. Unfortunately, most of the wood I have access to here on our place is akin to cedar and it pops pretty badly. Not the safest wood to use, and the screen across our fireplace isn't what I'd trust with my life. Am I going to use this wood? Yes. But I'll be right there in the room when I do, until it's gone. The oak and pecan that's being delivered, I'll save for when it's needed. We'll be set for whatever comes, and able to help someone in our inner circle some, as well. I have a jeep and a trailer, I can get them through a couple weeks. But honestly, having experienced this early this year, if anyone isn't ready, I'm not sure they should be helped. The painful lessons are the ones that stick with you the longest. Obviously, gramma and the disabled get a pass, but if you have a working spine, but not a brain, I don't want you in the gene pool 😛 Mother Nature is harsh, because she needs to be. Life is easy…until it's not. And that always happens. Prepare for it.
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Patara, did you ever get that wood cook stove?