Post Apocalypse Job Search

When I was in Law School, I read a most interesting book by Sameul Clements (Mark Twain). It was called "Letters from Earth", there was a chapter called "The Adam and Eve Diaries"; it has always stuck in my mind.

The Angel, Lucifer, was sent by God, down to earth to report on how things were progressing.

Lucifer stole the diaries of Adam and Eve and sent them back to God, in an edited fashion, to give an indication of how the Creation was progressing. "Today, we named tadpoles and other members of the whale family..."

When I awakened in my cave bed this morning, I had no indication if it were day or night. It was still very over-cast and squalls intermitantly came through the area, but I still decided to set out on an excursion. I tapped three pines to collect resin, using plastic jugs that used to contain milk and antifreeze. I also carried a copious amount of wood back to the cave and after studing the entrance, realized I could erect a single wall from boards and logs located along the river bank that would allow me effective shelter beneath the over-hang and prevent the wind from blowing rain onto my bedding. This took most of my morning to accomplish but I am so very satisfied with the results. The ammonia smell of guano isn't nearly as bad out here and there seems to be almost a breeze coming from inside the cave. I was able to build a fire and boil a tea from Birch bark and pine needle. It did not taste as bad as I had anticipated and I made enough to drink throughout the day. With just a few strategically placed stones, I was able to improvise a very effective fire place and I am sure I can use it as a oven as well. The heat reflects nicely from the stone wall behind me.

I made a meal of the turtle I caught a couple of days ago. I had pierced it's leathery carapice with my knife and tied it to a tree with a piece of line from inside a parachute cord. I discovered that I can remove the small lines from inside the para-cord and use it for a number of things; turtle leashes, for example. It also does a reasonable job as dental floss and that set me to looking for something to utilize as a toothbrush. I chewed several small limbs to one that would frey into something sort of like a toothbrush and used some of my salt to clean the gunk from my teeth but I know my breath cannot be pleasent. I ate almost all of the turtle, including the shell, which surprisingly enough, was fairly tender after having boiled for a couple of hours. I wonder if I can use the small lines to catch fish? I did find a hook, sinker, and bobber stuck in a willow tree but the hook has rusted until the barb has broken off.

One squall had very strong wind and it forced me back inside the cave for a while. It blew apart my wall and I had to reconstruct it but learned a number of lessons from the initial failure and a subsequent squall produced no damage at all.

Do only child-bearing cows give milk? If I shoot one with my shotgun, can I milk it after it is dead? Mr. Seacowboy, these are basic regular cows, red and sort of square with white faces.

The high point of my day was a real treasure find! I found a plastic bottle of dish-washing detergent. It had nearly an ounce of Dawn left in it! I am so excited. I will take a spoonge bath tonight using my clothes and wash them as well.

 

The cattle you are describing sounds like maybe they are Herefords. that is typically a breed raised for meat production and not for milk. Naturally, they give enough milk to feed their young but it is a very rich milk and generally in lesser quantities than you would get from say, a Holstein cow ( a real milker).
You can milk a beef cow but I imagine they are quite hard to catch; maybe you can trap one?
I once found a dead coyote that had two pups still nursing on its teets. She had been ran over by an automobile. I would guess that you can milk a recently killed lactating cow. If you kill one. you would not want to waste the milk but I would think you would be killing the calf as well so you consider killing a barren one rather than one with calf for the meat and blood. A beef cow typically dresses out at about 50% weight so a 600 lbs cow will produce 300 lbs of usable meats and that doesn't include the hide, hooves, or bones, all that can be useful. Does the cattle have horns? it is a lot of work to process and preserve a whole big cow by yourself; what would you do, dry it into jerky?

 

Dude u shoot a cow thats not yours you will be with a whole lot of 99$ divorce lawyers.

 

Here Lawyer Lawyer *keeps rope hidden behind his back* Here Lawyer Lawyer

 

Wonder if these guys would have less problems understanding the intent of this tread if Frank drove a Budweiser truck?

 

With all respect I think this thred is a complete fruad....

Shoting someones livestock is a crime that will get you killed QUICK. DONT DO IT......

Finding a cave on a cattle ranch that is unknown with cattails and green trees is extremely unlikikley this time of year.

It tink the feller is living in Seacowboys back yard LOL

 

Actually, I have no problem understanding it at all.

#1 The fictional character created by a member, most likely yourself, is placed in a situation with the barest minimum of "prepperware" items as well as a laptop PC, having lost the majority of his "preps" & is trying to survive in the middle of nowhere while trying to maintain a low profile.

#2 I don't drink beer, I prefer rum or tequila.

#3 Larry is taking this thread way too seriously

#4 Did ya have to make him a Lawyer, or was that a psychological ploy? Making the occupation one that the majority of people would think of as a useless being, outside a courtroom that is?

Now, which way did he go?


An yes, I see its Prepper Educational Value

 

L:arry, please quit being a dick; we know you opinion and it doesn't matter. many of us are enjoying this thread and see it has valuable content and you are just being an ass.

 

This is a great thread, even if Mr F. is not real, the thoughts he provokes are. I'll admit, my first thought is that he is real, but not in the circumstance he describes, but it does not matter. What he has done is draw us all together, made us think, and given us a glimpse of what may soon be, that is why we are all hear in the first place.

Mr. F, if you are real, I hope the best for you and you have some good friends and advice right here. If you are not real, THANK YOU!, for making us think as a community for a common cause that may be ours very soon.

And if this is Gunkid........Stang, get the rope!!

 

This thread is three days old with nearly 2000 views, someone is finding it interesting.

 

RH, please don't ask me if I ever read a book also or I might actually die of laughter. As of last count I have over 600 paperback books alone. Catch is, thats not counting hardback books, How To Books, Instruction Manuals, or other "Educational" books. Oh, an I ain't counted them in three years.

 

An addiction to reading seems to be a common thread among Monkeys.

 

That comes under Educational, How To, as well as Instruction Manuals


An I never include my "Bad Things" books in my counting either.

Knowledge is Power.

You can gain Truthful & Useful Knowledge even from a Fiction Tale/Book

Knowledge Without Actually Learning Is Useful Only Mentally, Not Physically

 

Well give that well-read paperback collector a gold star. But you only missed a couple of points. As much as I'd like to take credit for such a creative idea, Dude I'm waiting with everybody else to see if he'll kill that goundhog tomorrow and eat it.

 

naw, trying to get people to think about how to actually SURVIVE & not just stockpile things as well as pass the Real Deal Info on Surviving along to new members as well as Old. So naw, i'm pretty dead on

 

I don't know George, to Frank, the **** has hit the fan and that cow is survival. now he might have to defend himself against someone that stakes an ownership claim on the cow but Teotwawki has happened. that cow is like a deer in a fence. BTW,there aren't any rocks or caves or hills, for that matter, in Gulf Alabama