BaZooKa ATS Intro

Wow no pressure here....lol

I am glad to have found this site that debates/discusses so many interesting topics, but I guess this is my chance to talk about me.

I have had an amazing last 6 months and I consider myself to be one of the lucky ones in life. We (my wife and kids) were given an opportunity to become caretakers on a 100 acre farm on a small gulf island (pop 300 approx)

For animals we have beef cattle, ducks, peacocks, chickens, a lake with trout (resident & searun) and streams. The property is waterfront with a large crescent bay & creek mouth, we have a late 18th century barn, early 1900's chapel, guest cabin, large shop & farm cottage.
The owner who for reasons I don't really want to divulge is unable to come out to the farm and will not be able to for quite some stretch of time. They pay us a wage & provide us with cards/accounts for all farm purchases, 4X4 vehicles, boats, farm tractors/equipment etc.

I met my wife and oldest daughter 10 years ago, we have had 2 son's since. My wife and I clicked the first night we met and that night I knew she was the one. We have had this dream of living off the land close to nature and talked about this dream for years with our family and friends to the point of annoyance. I used to describe the perfect property for us to live this dream and it consisted of an acreage with a lake, streams, forest & ocean bay. I described the grade of the land from the lake so that I could set up a water tank for electrical generation & water pressure and even had an idea of the view of the mountains across the strait. We would eat from the land, lake and the sea and raise our children to learn survival skills instead of how to be good little consumers.

Well as I already gave away, 6 months ago this vision manifested into reality for us, everything we have been talking about is here, even the cider house and orchards (15 acres of every kind of fruit and nut treee). We are still letting it all sink in as its such a shock to go from a bad situation to this. I am thankful to the universe for this place we are in and the beauty & life this land offers.

We have a huge garden planned and I built greenhouse boxes (didn't get the greenhouse repaired in time this year) that are full of hundreds of pots of herbs and veggies for transplant to the garden later. The garden is about half an acre with an artesian spring bubbling into an underground cistern (The water is from a large underground river system sourced back to the Olympic mountains).

We are living healthy and learning to be self sufficient. We both have talked about what is coming for years and now we are in a position to learn to survive it. (Although a Tsunami could be a grave threat as we are in a location off Vancouver Island that is expecting a large quake, The Cottage where we live is about 60' +/- above sea level).

My forum name I know does not seem to fit in here, it is a long story but results in this name being used on most of my online appearances.

I look forward to reading from all sides of many interesting & important topics, I wish to hone my critical thinking skills as well as learn new skills. I hope someday I can contribute something new here but for now will quite happily read and comment on the revelations of others.

Cheers

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Welcome! Glad to have you here. but....,you might not want to give out all your info like that in one handy post. (especially about using this name all over the internet.) Or maybe my tin foil hat is on a bit tight?

Living off the land sounds wonderful, I am in a major city and do not relish it at all. Now that it's spring, I can go horse riding on some weekends, that's the closest I get to farming

Hope to get to know you!

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Welcome to ATS!

As for bad stuff happening, in my opinion there is a solution and it is simpler than most people imagine these days.. I believe the solution is within people and if they are good people they will be ok.

I sincerely recommend you to read the book Zhuan Falun in my signature link below. The book explains all the secrets about how to become a truly good person, opening your third eye, developing supernormal powers(inborn powers) etc etc.

The book was a bestseller in China during the 90s and then the communists banned it and started their terrible persecution of 100 million Falun Dafa practitioners(as you may realize the reasons of that persecution are no coincidence either, we live during the end of times - as we know them, in my opinion, and Falun Dafa has a massive role to play during this age, as Nostradamus, the vikings and others predicted) ages ago.

In my opinion this is the most important book published since this civilization began 5000 years ago. Read it and enjoy.

/Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good, Falun Dafa is good

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Goedendag Bazooka...

We are living healthy and learning to be self sufficient.





As sad as it is, I really don't understand the sentence above...but only because I'm tainted from living the dream.


I can't believe there weren't more replies to this Intro...such as - how about a picture of your current residence so we can all feel less-than..? Or, maybe tells us how you came to find yourself with this awesome opportunity...but only so we can try and mimic it.


Whatever you do, don't give out coordinates, or you're gonna find some 2012 believing members showing up at your front door...actually, I would show up anyways as your situation sounds tops!


Cya on the boards...