A brother in our branch use to work for the State Dept. in the foreign service. He was talking about some of his experiences abroad and specifically mentioned his time in Liberia. Liberia is a country founded by former slaves and has been devasted by internal warfare and famine.
There was a branch there and he learned what the members would do for food as there was little to be had. Any obvious food like tomatoes, peppers and such were obvious and subject to theft and usually were. The people planted vegetables that grew underground, potatoes, beets, carrots, etc. They would plant them along drainage ditches, out of the way places, this way people would just think them weeds and not notice them. This is how many people get the only food they eat.
This may very well be something that we may need at some point. Some people in my branch had a garden and the sister came home to find and elderly couple in her yard with the car backed up to the garden cleaning it out. She told them to leave and stop, they would not. She called the sheriff's office, they showed up three days later. My dad's fruit trees in his backyard were stripped of the peaches. I think I lost many of my grapes the same way.
Stealth gardening may become a need some day.
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Lo, there I see my mother, my sisters, my brothers Lo, there I see the line of my people back to the beginning Lo, they call to me, they bid me take my place among them In the halls of Valhalla, where the brave may live...forever
So did this sister in your branch get out the camera, video camera, record the license plate number, etc, to give the sheriff something to work with? I'd climb in the passenger seat and get the registration papers if I could.
I'm surprised you didn't camp out in your vineyard with your shotgun and protect your food, like you always say you will?
This may very well be something that we may need at some point. Some people in my branch had a garden and the sister came home to find and elderly couple in her yard with the car backed up to the garden cleaning it out. She told them to leave and stop, they would not. She called the sheriff's office, they showed up three days later. My dad's fruit trees in his backyard were stripped of the peaches. I think I lost many of my grapes the same way.
Well, my cousin has a large garden and last year he thought someone was stealing from it. He saw corn strippings all over the garden. Someone took the corn, stripped it of the husk and hair and disappeared.
So, he sat out one night with his shotgun and waited. He saw the racoons go into the field, come out with a ear of corn, strip it down, then take off. Racoons! Were taking the time to clean the corn! I asked him if they stopped to ask for some butter.....
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When the average Joe feels real hunger for the first time, he will stop at very little. I don't think we in the US/Canada really have a clue about this yet.
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Life is tough but it's tougher if you're stupid. -John Wayne
People used to sneak into my dad's yard and steal the fruit off his fruit trees all the time. That is until he got a mean old watch dog. Of course, the dog wasn't really mean but had a really mean bark. It never bit or even jumped on you. You could just walk right on past it and it would just keep barking. But it looked very ferocious. A few nights after he got the dog my dad would hear the dog bark and bark. Then after that...nothing and no one stole his fruit again. Good watch dog.
We had some people steal some hay from us a couple years ago. Now the 'burbs are moving in and there's more traffic, so I don't think that'll be as big of a problem. More eyes...
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Life is tough but it's tougher if you're stupid. -John Wayne
This won't be a problem for me. I put so much time and money into getting a garden and some berries and fruit trees going, just in time for a big heat wave. Nothing is doing well. I'm praying that my plants will pull out of it. :(
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"There is order in the way the Lord reveals His will to mankind. . .we cannot receive revelation for someone else's stewardship." L. Tom Perry
Valhalla wrote:elderly couple in her yard with the car backed up to the garden cleaning it out. She told them to leave and stop, they would not. She called the sheriff's office, they showed up three days later.
I bet her conversation was nothing like this:
"Hi, I need an officer out to my house right now. People are trespassing and stealing, and when I confronted them, they refused to leave. I've locked myself in my house and I've got my gun, but I will not hesitate to kill them if they try to break in."
It's all about knowing how to motivate people.
-- Edited by LoudmouthMormon at 18:47, 2008-05-20
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And I'd discuss the holy books with the learned men, seven hours every day. That would be the sweetest thing of all.
"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
I'm not about to advocate you lie to dispatch if you call in, but here is a story about reality.
Dispatch sends me on a home invasion in progress, so I'm rolling fast. Then dispatch says, "shots have been fired, dispatcher can hear the gunfire in the background". Now I'm rolling hard to get there...
*remembering... if you must call the police, fire shots in the background to speed things up*
Police: Who was firing the gunshots? Coco: What gunshots? Police: Dispatch heard gunshots. Coco: *furrows brow* Huh. Police: You didn't hear any gunshots? Coco: I coughed really bad a couple times. Police: There's distinct gunshots heard in your phonecall. Coco: Wait- are you yanking my chain? Police: No, Ma'am. Coco: That's weird... well, since you're hear, could you kick this dipshmuck out of my garden?
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Drop the rutabaga NOW, maggot!!
