Joy - thank you for those links, They are good reading. For me, I am one of those people who does not have any luck with plants at all. If I touch it then it dies basically. If I do plant anything, it will be something that has a good yield and which does not require vast amounts of weeding/work(Potatoes maybe) Something that stores well over winter fairly well will be a good choice.

Thanks Doug, I fully agree about the moving thing. I would rather drive to hell on a greyhound bus than move again. Since joining up I have been in Gage town, Halifax, Edmonton and now here. I hope this is where I can finally throw some roots out. I hate to pass back and forth on the forum like a yo-yo but that’s my life for now. Over half of a year I am somewhere other than home. As I think about it, maybe 30 days will be more of a realistic goal to maintain. With the resources nature has provided here I am sure I could get by a long time if I had to. I have 10 acres to call my own now and it is 95% forest. My nearest neighbour is about 2 km away so I can get outside and enjoy it without even leaving my yard. The more I look around the more I find. I found a bunch of cherry trees this evening. sweeeeeeeet. The missus makes a mean cherry pie.

There is lots of crown land for me to hunt on. Maybe I will let the deer here alone a while. At last count there were 9. The only one that I need to deal with is the big buck. Every day I see him at the far edge of the mowed part of the lawn. Unlike most bucks, this one stares me down instead of running like the rest do. I guess they are not afraid of people. That and he really likes to eat the flowers in the rock gardens there, as well as the wild raspberries. I named him "chuck" the buck because there is no mistake that it is him standing there every morning with that same smug look on his face. You know, that "yeah, what are you going to do?" look. By the time the rut is in full swing, this brute will have a huge rack on him. Most likely the biggest deer I have ever laid eyes on. I do not trophy hunt, but since he is calling me out I will make an exception with him. If I do not make an example of him, he may lead an attack on me one day. He is the leader. If I walk across the lawn then he will follow me with his eyes before he struts off. Every day he looks a little longer and this evening two of the hairy bas****s were sizing me up for the kill. If I didn’t know better I would say he was smiling. Creepy frigging deer. Always watching......waiting.......

Come September, when bow season starts and he finds all the unleashed hell of a 125 grain fixed Brodhead flying through his chops we will see who is smiling. I have a plan to introduce "Chuck" to my butchers table, the smokehouse, a sausage maker and then my BBQ.

Muaa ha ha ha.