On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:47:07 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:49:27 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

Extended hiking, canoe and motorcycle camping trips plus a Native
American neighbor taught me to need less rather than have more.

I learned more about preparedness and survival from any one of Tom
Brown, Jr's books than I did reading that guvvy manual.
_Grandfather_
was really good, about a very savvy Apache who took him under his
wing. It sounds as if you were lucky that way, too. I'm envious.

Don't be. Running water for them was sending the little girl running
to my house to fill a jug from the outside faucet I left on all year
round. The son would be lying in the dirt working under an old pickup
truck without a coat when it was spitting snow. One winter
relatives(?) lived in the wrecked vehicles out back in the woods. I
can live simply, but not like THAT.

Ouch!


--
You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore
the consequences of ignoring reality.
--Ayn Rand