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i have use the screen name red yucca and red yucca trail and yucca doo and prickily pear for years.i didnt no sumone else has registerd this name so if you want i can change my name if you say this is best. i was not trying to be anyone but me.i have never eaten any yucca but in mexico people do.it grows from tubbers that are huge and spread under soil. you cant destroy easy and it's hardy and intesting looking.i like to think i am strong and hardy and able to grow anywhere in any soil.ive been through sum stuff in my life and come out the otherside okay so i feel like i am a bit like a yucca. i got the idea in the firt place becasse the street i lived on was red yucca trail and that is in tucson az so that is where i got the idea from but i dont live there now.do you have a introuction thread as then i can say more if you want.im sorry you think i stoll your name litlerose but when i was alowed to resgister the name i thoght it was avalable.no prob-i can be prickly pear if thats free but that name makles it sound like i am prickly personality maybe and im not.its just a cool plant.yes you are right i spell badly. sorry.i text a lot and am careless i guess.i'll try to do better. :P i need spellchecker. :(

as far as spellchecker if you use safari web browser it underlines any misspealt words in red im using IE at the mo though lol

Yucca, there's no problems about you using that name. I think that Little Rose used that some time ago on a different forum, but there has been an internet troll stalking her, and so when she saw your name she kind of freaked out that you were that person, trying to let her know that he knew that she had once used that name.

Anyway, that's all history now.

There's another guy here who posts using a mobile phone (Glenn) and his spelling is pretty bad too. I'm not sure that program Jackie suggested would work on a mobile phone, but if you have one of those that guesses the word you are trying to spell, that would be great, because you only need to get the first few letters right (if I'm not mistaken) and it will guess the rest of it and spell it out for you. Of course there IS the problem with getting the first few letters! lol

Yes, redyucca, it is all history and no problem at all. Someone was playing pranks on me and got me to the point of jumping too quick, that's all.

I am glad someone else appreciates yucca and prickly pears! :)

no problem little rose. thanx for tips on spellchecker.i do text lots from my phone.also people use text speek so much now bad spleeling is more acceptable to sum but it bugs me when i see my mistkaes.hey is there a program to do better on the quizzes?i just try one quiz and got the rating of dummy.guess i dont know as much about billy gramah as i thougt. only got one right.better try again.they were hard questions.

Well I just got home to discover that the guy who mows the lawn for the landlord left a thick carpet of mulched grass on top of the lawn. So I gathered some of it up to flatten out the area around my tiny patio space and it got me to thinking.

When I was a child we used to gather up all the grass clippings in the neighborhood for one family that raised rabbits for meat and kept chickens. This was right in town, too.

There are quite a few ways people can quietly start to discretely raise their own food without going full-country. Rabbits are one. They are also portable for people living the caravan life. You can have a breeder pair split up between a couple of vans and from time to time when you are settled somewhere for a while you can put them in the same cage.

I know bin-raiding is a big part of the JC life, but if the reason for bin-raiding is to remove oneself from the money-trap, then raising food and wild foraging is not outside the standard, is it?

Great idea, Denise. Space of any sort is pretty cramped in most of our mobile homes, although Cherry and I shared our bed with a kitten for a while.

Yucca, it sounds like you are trying to do the quiz without reading the studies that the questions are based on. I'm not up on how it all works since we switched over to this new "joomla" set-up, but I'm assuming there is a link to click on which shows you the article first, and then you read it before clicking to take the test.

BTW, Dave, Sir Chirpsalot is bin-raiding, budgie-style. He has given up regular store-bought seed for the fresh seed-tops I bring home from my walks! *LOL*

Hi Rose,
Thanks for the suggestion re raising rabbits, though there could be some complications with regard to its compatibility with mobile living. Nevertheless, it is a consideration.

About bin-raiding, though... apart from providing free food, it also improves the environment. So it's pretty much a win-win all around (reduces waste, improves the environment, makes the most of resources, etc.).

I have been exploring a money-free lifestyle as urban homesteader and although I am not yet implementing many of these ideas, I am working towards it.

I use solar lights indoors, for example, by setting them out every day. I just started this and so I don't have enough to have reading-quality light inside, but I get walk-around lighting. I'm looking for one of the bigger ones to get that better light.

I have an old sierra stove. I think a clever person could make one from cans. It burns twigs and straw, and you can actually cook a meal of pasta and extras with about four handfuls of twigs that will burn for fifteen minutes at a boil. I used to hate that it uses 2 AA batteries, thus never going fully independent, but these solar lamps actually have batteried in them, being re-charged, and so I think it might be possible to get off-grid that way.

Here is the sierra-stove:
www.zzstove.com/sierra.html

Here are some coffee-can stoves:

www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=e...84TmBwAAAKoEBU_QAiTR