Rural Wisdom and Know How #1

News From Around Carter Homestead:

Here in the South the weather is chaotic, one day the high will be the low 50's and two days later the mid 70's with night time lows ranging from upper 20's to low 60's. Our weather makes things interesting. For tonight at least I am sitting by the fire.

My wife is in full on "Let's get this Christmas shopping done" mode. Most of the shopping has been done on Amazon so far. She is incredible. No procrastination going on with her.

We have two birthdays this week both my wife's mother and mine. We also found out that my wife will be having to work Thanksgiving day and the weekend before, so we will be having to get creative in our celebrations this year.

I would like for this to turn into a real conversation. I would like to get to know all of you and give you a chance to get to know my family and myself. In that spirit I am going to post some questions each week and give my answers. I would like for you all to answer the questions in the comments.

(1) As we are coming up on Veterans Day, are there any veterans in your family?
(2) Do you do anything to celebrate Veterans Day?
(3) Have you started your Christmas Shopping?
(4) When do you start listening to Christmas music?

My answers (1) I am a veteran as are both of my grandfathers. Both of my grandfathers served during WWII. I have my paw paw's WWII flag that was on his casket and his father's WWI flag. (2) Sadly, I do not do anything special. I will have to work. (3) My wife is on this with a vengeance. (4) I listen to Christmas music anytime the mood strikes me February or even July is fine by me. My wife thinks it should wait till the day after Thanksgiving. Now it is your turn.

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Welcome to the first ever Rural Wisdom and Know How blog hop. It does not matter if you live on a 1/2 piece of ground like I do or if you live in an apartment or 100 acres or anything in between the skills that help one of us can help us all. I would like this to become a community of people sharing ideas and helping each other to become more self sustainable. I generally share posts a couple of days a week, but I am always looking for more knowledge and I believe this is a way to get it while sharing posts from wonderful people all across the country,continent, and maybe even the world.

For Bloggers here are the simple rules:

(1) All posts should be self reliance, homestead, or DIY related. That means cooking, crafts, skills, livestock or anything like that is great.

(2) No bashing of anyone. I will not put up with that period.

(3) No violence or pornography.

(4) Treat others the way you want to be treated. Plain and simple.

I would appreciate you grabbing the button below and placing it on any posts you share so people can come back and visit all of the other wonderful posts by others.

Thanks and 

Keep It Rural

1. The Rural Economist: The Worlds Easiest Fudge	2. Eliminating Wasted Leftover Food - Zero Waste Cook	3. Grandma's Cooking - A Lost Art? #TaylorMadeRanch	4. Preserving The Harvest: Dehydrating Potatoes
5. Preserving The Harvest: Pear Preserves #TaylorMade	6. Preserving The Bounty: Freezing Fresh Eggs #Taylor	7. Using Solar Energy Instead Of Kitchen Appliances	8. KarenLynn@LIlSuburbanHomestead
9. Ugh Our Rosemary Plant Is Infested & The Winner Of	10. Close Up On Our Bees » Lil' Suburban Homesteads	11. Living On One Income & Thriving	12. Herb Of The Week – Cuban Oregano
13. “Kale Is The New Spinach” » Lil' Suburban Homestea	14. Cajun Fish Stew & You Have To See This Puffer Fish	15. Homestead Fencing Options	16. Making a Pallet Barn
17. Milking Supplies for Your Homestead	18. Make Your Own Knitting Needles	19. Pumpkin Cheesecake	20. The Escape of the Billy Goats
21. Tips for Taking Better Animal Photos	22. Daddykirbs Farm: How To Save, Store & Use Egg Shel	23. How I got into archery and eventually bowhunting.	24. Cooking Fats in Food Storage
25. How to Make Your Own Salves, and Potions	26. Chicken Keeping Honeymoon	27. Getting Started With Traditional Foods	28. Predator/Wildlife Outdoor Camera
29. Caging the Apple Trees for Deer Protection	30. Chicken Cam: All Chickens on Deck!	31. Homemade popcorn from a dried ear of popping corn	32. Prepare the Homestead for Winter
33. Saturday Night Beans	34. Venison Roas with Pressure Cooker	35. Foraging: Raspberry Leaf Tea	36. Practical Pumpkin
37. DIY Sliding Barn Door	38. Goodbye Grandpa	39. Mountain Woman Journals Homesteading with autism	40. How to Cull Your Old Laying Hens
41. Maple Pumpkin Pie w Salted Pecan Brittle

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We have a giveaway going for copies of two eBooks. The Urban Chicken and The Gardening Notebook. You can enter for this giveaway either on the posts about these books or on The Rural Economist Facebook page. We are looking forward to hearing from you.