Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Friday, August 06, 2010
Bulldog Baird
This is an item I just read online - "Baird is an outspoken and colourful politician, known for his combative nature, acerbic tongue and mocking tirades against the
opposition in Parliament." The Canadian Press-online.
The article it was in was talking about a cabinet shuffle in the Harper dictatorship. One of the jobs as house leader, Baird is supposed to get along with the other parties to try and make this minority government work. This is a clear message to all Canadians, that Harper does not want to get along with the other parties; if he did, he would have put anyone BUT Baird in that position. I am looking forward to the show he will put on(like a little kid having a tantrum).
Monday, March 16, 2009
best day so far for this year.
Today has been one of the best days for me in a long while. While I am working on my online businesses and working online as a Tarot Reader at Psychic Access, I went and got my mail. In the mail was an unexpected cheque for $1300.00. Lately I have had to juggle money from one account to my bank account in order to pay my mortgage, since the money I get from being a reader comes in American funds and it gets held up at the bank for 20 days till I can use it. I have been in the terrible position of having plenty of money in my account for the mortgage but get dinged for NSF charges because it was not available. I hate when that happens. You look at your account and think you have plenty. Wham-NSF. Well today I have more than enough. I even had enough to get my property taxes up to date. I was a month behind on them. I decided to celebrate and splurge a little. I have been looking for some way to read digital text on one of those small MP4 players. I got one of them and I am listening to music I have already loaded on it. My rational for this item is that I can easily power it of one small solar panel and I will have access to some of my more critical files if I have to leave behind my laptop or the laptop stopped working after TEOTWAWKI. That has been on my to get list for a while and now I have it. another item I am looking for is a terabyte memory to back up everything on. I want several different mediums for redundancy purposes. The Internet could go down some day and I want to be able to provide some sort of digital form of knowledge and entertainment. I also want you to see the first post from my brand new blog called Mike's Bikes and Trikes. I feel great.
Why I love my Trike!
Hi folks.If you have seen any of my other blogs, you would know I am a man of many talents and interests.
I have been reading articles and watching stuff on YouTube about the coming money collapse. Where I live, in my end of the city there are no grocery stores in walking distance. The one I like going to is about 10 blocks or more away, so I take my bike or my trike. I took a shopping cart in and got a lot of the basics and it ended up being close to $120.00 (Canadian). Lucky for me I know how to pack things in boxes and bags and I arranged all of it on my trike. It was touch and go and I though I may have to give away some of my food. I also had a couple of bungee cords that came in handy. It was so over loaded I thought I would have to walk all the way home pushing the trike, but I decided to give it a shot and see if I could ride it. I went very slowly but it got me and all my stuff home. After I took all the boxes inside, I was curious to see just how much weight it had just carried. I weigh about 175 pounds give or take and I did a calculation of the food. It came to at least 60 kilos ( since everything here in Canada is metric) which equals at least 132 pounds with me on the bike that means the trike was carrying over 300 pounds. I ave a modified frame that has a plate welded on the back to tow a heavy duty trailer. I have seen it at work towing a a huge load when the last owner used to transport recycled metals in the trailer. He was the one who modified it. That is one hell of a good transport system . The food, if you are interested , was mostly rice and beans and some canned goods as well as some cooking oil. The cashier was very curious as to why I got what I got and made the comment "you are going to be busy" a couple of times. She also wondered what I was going to do with all that rice.
First off I like rice, but it also happens to store extremely well if it is properly packed. The beans and chick peas means I will be able to make a lot of chillies and hummus and other good stuff. Beans and rice together is almost all you need to live off of. Lucky for me again, I will be expanding my garden once more. I have more than tripled it's size in the last few years and I am growing more herbs than I can now consume in a year. I hope my potatoes do well this year. The other great thing about the Trike is the fact that I am able to load a few bags of soil on it with no problem. That helps a lot when buying extra soil. Last but not least I got a very good work out in the process of getting a couple of months worth of groceries. As a basic out lay( not including stuff like milk and eggs) $60.00 a month for food is a great deal.
Have fun, stay safe and use your bikes and trikes well this year.
Michael J. Kaer, author of "What Money Can't Buy" part 1 & 2
Ps. Tell me what you think my first post at the new blog.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Organic Foods Easy
Kaer Package is the runt of the litter when it comes to my most of my blogs. It is the catch-all blog that gets the odd stuff I can not find a place on my other blogs. I have a website at http://www.mikesworms.com that talks about worm composting and I have a bunch of pictures showing my visitors how to make a worm bin, step by step. I got a new program from one of the many sites I am affiliated with called instant bonus page. I set up bonus pages to give away to people, so they will take the time to go to my websites. One page I just created is called Organic Foods Easy and the link is http://www.ProductAndGifts.com/organicfoodseasy . You may want to check out the page or you may actually be interested in the program. You can get the program at
http://www.instantbonuspage.com/?id=17723 . Yes I know it is an ugly affiliate link but if I was getting tricky I could have made a sub domain on one of my websites and get it to forward the link from there. I have done that for other programs I am promoting, but I am not going to bother with doing all of them like that. I use GoDaddy as my hosting and domain service. They have good service and low prices. Here is another one of those ugly links pointing to GoDaddy;
https://www.godaddy.com/default.aspx . One of the reasons it is ugly is because I am not getting a dime from then for this, I just think they are a very good service. That is high praise coming from a guy who has signed up to hundreds of affiliate sites in his life. It is past my bedtime so I have to wrap this up.
Labels: composting, green, organic food, worms
Friday, April 11, 2008
Organized Chaos
What can you ask of yourself?
Michael J. Kaer copyright 2008
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Pop Bottles
Pop Bottles
What do you see when you look at a pop Bottle?
I am specially referring to the plastic ones not glass. Most people see a thin wall of plastic that holds some carbonated sugar water and the container is just junk.
I see possibilities!
I see a certain amount of design and energy being put into a one time use container which can be recycled. I also see it as a container to sprout seeds in, an airtight container to store dried herbs and meats in and an airtight container for things like sugar or salt and harvested seeds. With the carbonated water still in it it can be made into a fountain if you add mentos to it. If it is clear and uncoloured , I see it being a simple way of making water safe if the water is left in the sun for a day or two. If one is painted black and water is put in it and a hose is attached to the screw on cap, it could be a simple still to evaporate water in the sun and the vapor is drawn to another one that is shaded or covered in tinfoil to make it cooler. With the use of a knife, I cut the top off of one and inverted it into the bottom part, taped it in place and put some vinegar in it to become a fruitfly trap. It can also be a wasp trap if sugar water is put in it. Different parts of the bottle can be used in gardening. For deep root watering, dig down by the roots and stick the bottle top side down in the soil and cut the bottom off to form a funnel. The bottom part can be used as a tray for seeds or to be placed under a pot to keep water in. The midsection could be cut out and used as glass for a green house. These bottles could also be filled with packing “Peanuts”, sealed up and combined together to make and unsinkable raft. For larger pontoons the same idea could be done to the one time use water bottles that hold about 5 gallons at a time. If there are partly filled with water and the cap left off, you can freeze water in them to be used camping or on picnics(just save the caps to put on later).
I know there are hundreds of other uses for these wonderful containers but the point I am trying to make is instead of looking at an item(any item) as a piece of trash or to be recycled, why not take that next step and by pass the whole system buy reusing it.
My girlfriend is always bugging me about holding on to everything. I would be caught under a pile of trash if I saved every last scrap, but I do try my best to reuse things as often as I can. So can you. What are your ideas on this?
Michael J. Kaer copyright 2008
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Psychic Access And Yuwie
I'm back and busier than cat with 2 tails. I am a new Grandpa (kind of), my girlfriend's son is a new Dad to little Emma, so that makes me a grandpa by association. I have started a prosperity group out of my house, started giving Drum lessons on a regular basis, more than doubled the size of my veggie garden and added a herb garden at the front of the house, made a rain barrel to water my garden and kept up with the other things I have been doing like cutting lawns.
I was recently introduced to a site called Yuwie and I have been doing well with it so far. I also just signed on with a site for online psychics, since I am also a Tarot card reader and teacher. I had my first client today. It makes me feel good that I can do what I love to do, get paid well for it and live a full life. That is the true meaning of prosperity. Good luck,have fun.
Michael J. Kaer
Labels: grandpa, psychic, Psychic Access, Tarot, Yuwie