You're welcome, thanks!

You too!

You're welcome, and you too!

Thanks, you too Patsy!

Thank you :D

You're welcome Bob.

ROCK ON!
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You're welcome ... and you'll have more times like that, we all do, just remember you'll get through them. Winston Churchill once said, "If you're going through hell, keep going".

You doing fine!

ROCK ON!
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Thank Marcel. I've been around WA a bir, for a few days I was ranked #2 - now I'm looking to reach 666 just to take a picture of it. Kidding of course. I was hit by an 18 wheeler and the recovery as been a bitch and still is. It's going to be a long (and painful) road but not much I can do about it.

It's very nice to meet you and will see you around the threads.

ROCK ON!
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*not ranked #2 it was #3 (forgot Kyle and Carson lol)

You are very welcome, Eric. Wishing you speedy recovery. Thank you for your comments.

Marcel..

shhhh .... don't tell Kyle and Carson I forgot them. :-)

Thank you for the kind words.

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Hey Marcus how are you? I'm pretty beat up and in some intense therapy so I've not been on in quite some time. Still alive though.

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Oh dear, sorry to hear that. Are things worse than when we last spoke?

Cool, nice to meet you and thanks for the follow. Best success to you.

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Thanks Alexander!

Thanks Claudia.

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I'm worried about Eric. Hasn't been sight nor sound of him for months.

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I'm back man!
Thanks!

I'm in lot's of pain but mumblin' through.

If it were an easy road it would be no fun Heather. :-) I love passing along what I learn. The more we all know the better we are as individuals and as a whole.

Thanks for the link.

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Sure Lilian, I love trainings. I'll take a look.

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Thanx eric.
Your reccomendation will provide improvment and developments

Cool. :-)

lol - to hell with the man!

Damn straight!!

:-)

Check out my follow up question if you have time. I replied to your answers.

Thanks!

OK

Thank you Cathy . . . and I cannot confirm nor deny your considerations. :-) The mystery continues.

Yes it is working great Julie. Unfortunately other things in life haven't worked out so well over the last year which is the majority cause of my antiquated site.

Check these posts out and you'll understand - Tough Times for E Year One - Where it Began for Me So it's my Birthday ROCK ON!
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Thank you Maurice, knock any time you'd like. :-)

No worries Sadie.

Google does not have a deadline nor will they drop you if you haven't yet placed an Adsense ad. It looks like the email is simply a reminder for you to place an ad.

When you first place the ad you may not see anything right away. This is normal. I am glad though that you don't really see dead people. :-)

I looked at your site and did not see an adsense ad, should it be in the box in the right sidebar near the top?
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I don't see Adsense ads either but I just found this in my email

Congratulations!

"Your AdSense account is now fully activated. Within a few hours you’ll begin to see live, relevant ads, and can start earning money from your online content. In the meantime, get started with a few payment setup steps so you’ll be ready to receive your first payment later. ads either but I just got this from Google Adsense"

I guess I did something right, I just wish I knew what it was LoL
Sadie
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You did everything right Sadie! Excellent work!
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Hey there Jim good to know you. I had a Tascam portastudio long ago, great little box, I made a lot of music with that thing.

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Wow, thank you Jay. :-)

Happy Holidays to you too!

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Excellent Pat, your grandkids must have a blast playing with that Tweed and Telecaster.

I've played my share of pubs and taverns but I don't think I ever actually played a grange hall though we do have them out here.

-eric

Thank you Mike and you are welcome for my service. :-)

Thank you. :-)

You are welcome Sarah. I look forward to seeing you grow your business. :-)

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Thanks ... I've been here more than 65 days though. I started in January of 2015 so it's been almost a year. About 6 months of that time I was inactive (or barely active) due to an accident and neck surgery.

Awesome Alma, thanks!

Harmonica is cool. I am not good at it at all, lol.

The best advice I can give you for a niche is to choose something you really love to talk/write about. You want to keep your interest to keep the readers interest. All niche's are pretty much the same it's more about what you do with it that makes it valuable.

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That's awesome Devon!

What kind of music do you guys play? I've been in a few cover bands mostly playing alternative, grunge and classic rock.

I spent some time in SoCal, when I was in the military, San Diego to be exact. Beautiful area. I also had relatives that lived in Long Beach and Huntington Beach that we'd visit. I had good times out there, like a dream.

later on!

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We did a little bit of everything: Rolling Stones, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, Social Distortion, Talking Heads, etc. Like you, it was primarily alternative with a little classic rock thrown in.

Funny you should mention Long Beach and Huntignton Beach - I live right in between the two. I feel very fortunate that my wife and I bought our house when we did as I don't think we could afford it in today's market.

Thanks for the message back!

Awesome Devon, that's cool man!

Yeah the real estate is ridiculous now .... but your sitting on a goldmine if you bought early on. :-) Nothing wrong with that!

Great to meet you too Daisy!

I know you'll be successful too, it's a matter of time and sticking with your business and your goals. :-)

That's awesome Chris! We can ride together then!

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You got it bro!

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I was in one band that played metal and it was really fun to play fast and hard like that. It's also the band where I had my 15 minutes (actually a few years) of fame.

I play many genres and like just as many. If I had to pick only one it would be a toss up between punk and Pink Floyd (Floyd is there own genre as far as I'm concerned).

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Had I known about the deal I'd have stayed monthly Premium until the 27th. I'm locked in at $359/year instead of $299/year now. :-(

No big deal though because I've already covered my annual Premium membership price with income from what I've learned so far. :-)

I've never seen a better deal and figure it hard to believe there will ever be a better deal ... take advantage of it while you can!

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You're welcome Derek, anything you need just let me know. :-)

That is awesome Mike!

I've got a dozen or so chickens, same with ducks. Moving into turkeys and pigs during the coming year and expanding the garden too! Most of my 5 acres is beautiful hardwoods that I don't want to cut so I'm somewhat limited on space but I am good at making things fit. :-)

We bought a short sale property so the mortgage is only 260 which isn't too bad but it's certainly not 50 bucks.

I've got an old dodge plowtruck/farmtruck that I am going the same thing with ... welding, ductaping and scavenging parts to keep er goin'.

I'd love to get your thoughts on pigs sometime.

Boy Eric, first of all, have you got a litany of Niches there and , eh (that is Canadian!), do I ever envy you! Now I am sitting on a very small city lot with just enough room for a small homebuilt greenhouse and a couple of sheds. The winters are too harsh for the greenhouse and so it is back to the sh...y grocery store vegies. And all the animals we can afford here, and are allowed here are two cats. These old Dodges are indestructible, aren't they. I had about a dozen or so full sized 85 Dodge Vans in my later days; used them for tool storage and moving plywood and drywall. The GMC/Chevy trucks on the farmstead were mostly used to get firewood from down by the Bow River. I had an oil furnace but heated and cooked on woodstove fires.
The pigs are really simple. Mine did get all their shots, Vitamins, and the rest was simple. Just keep them CLEAN and no more then two or three per normal sized pig pen. They will eat in one corner, poop in another and keep things separated if enabled and then sleep in the rest of the pen left. If you clean the pen every day,, morning or evening (your choice) give them fresh straw to wallow in they are going to be happy campers. The other thing to remember ids, if you are raising them for meat, or sale then crossbreeds are better. They give better meat. And, and that is very important, the pig need to go out and get fresh air and sunlight! If you follow that you will be known in your neighbourhood for quality pigs!
Hope this helps Eric! Boy do I wish I could at least visit some day!

Well hell Mike you can visit anytime you choose. I am well versed in the Canadian eh, I live right near Niagara Falls in NY. We just took a trip to Toronto a few month ago.

Grocery store stuff (especially veggies) are horrible and full of who knows what. Not cheap either.

It may be the end for this Dodge (and it's not one of the real good ones, it's a 97) as the tranny is shot and the engine blew a plug out of the case. It'll be fun to mess with though.

It sounds like I have a perfect place for a couple of pigs then. I love pork, especially double smoked speck.

My pops got a buck yesterday in our woods and I'm currently typing this response to you and have my loaded 12 gauge ready for the next one to wander by. I bet they didn't think of blogging and hunting when they thought up multitasking. :-)

I'm thinking of doing a homesteading niche site just for fun and for more of a diary than anything else.

Well, I should get back to work on my site, it's been fun Mike we should chat again soon. I'll have to send you some photos of my place. ... and I'm serious about you stopping in anytime.

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Thanks for the invite Eric, it's a little too far for me from here in Calgary, Alberta to Niagara Falls in NY. I am not sure if they let me across the boarder either. I had a spat with the boarder control years back at Sault Ste. Marie, going forth and back between Michigan and Ontario. They didn't like me very much because I fooled them several times and laughed about it. The guards have no humor! And there are a few other things that might impede me from going into the States, like the politics down there and I commented on plenty on the internet!
No matter, thus far I wouldn't have the time nor money to do that, even though I would love to. My wife is from around that area and keeps telling me how beautiful it is and beautiful I could use. The prairies are getting to me with the drab landscape and limited use. I come from the Lake Constance area in Germany and that is more like where you are.
On the hunting bit I must disappoint you. I was never much of a hunter and have a hard time killing a chicken. I used to leave that up to my former father in law. He was an Irish/Cree/Indian, raised by the Blackfoot and an avid hunter. I just kept watching him (the natives have special hunting rights here in Canada). The meat was usually delicious but I had to teach my mother in law how to prepare venison and make it taste exceptional. Indians just boiled the crap out of it and then ate it that way. it wasn't very tasty at all. My Blackfoot wife died of breast cancer in 1996 and now I am married to a white woman from Ontario for the last 25 years. She is absolutely a "city girl" and I hate it here. Cities are cesspools and nothing better!
I sure hope that WA will eventually give me the means to live out my life somewhere in the "boondocks".
Oh yah! Your name must be German if you know about Speck, isn't it? Good stuff!
Mike

You got me Mike, German I am (well and a little mix). My Great Grandparents came over the States on a boat in the 20's to escape Nazi Germany. They worked hard as hell and bought a sawmill and cider-mill turning it into a family owned business. We just closed that cider mill about 15 years ago after being in the family for decades. We sold the equipment to the family that sponsored my ancestors to come to the States. My dad currently resides on the property.

You got yourself a city girl ... nothing wrong with that, she'll teach you how to live high on the hog and enjoy life in a different way.

Awe hell when we get our businesses up and running we'll find a way for you and the misses to come visit a spell. We got some city here for her too and when the girls go play we can hang out in the woods.

I had no interest in hunting until last year. Funny because my family brought me up to hunt. I haven't shot anything but pictures yet ... though I have, in the past few years, harvested (great PC word for killed to eat) a few chickens. Now I just enjoy their company and eggs.

Later on Mike.

Good one Eric! I like your sprit about the whole thing in the "woods" and would love to join you. Yeah, city girl alright! We had a compromise and moved to a, at the time, littler town but then, after two trailers, one house back to the city and ended up in a trailer again. Luckily it is on its own property and so we at least own something. In the meantime I converted it slowly into a sort of condo style place. We are having hardwood flooring with marble tiles in the laundry/half bath and kitchen (still working on) and the outside looks more like a house but you never can hide that trailer look. The place has all energy efficient windows and four outside doors, just like a real house. Unfortunately my wife never sees the HOUSE in it but the trailer. And the city pulled a fast one on us and zoned the area all of a sudden as "Mobile Homes" only, without asking us or our input! These bas....
want our properties eventually to sell it to "developers" and put Condos on it. Well, they will have one big surprise|: I won't budge and over my dead body! I guess they can arrange that too, the way I know them. We have a Muslim as a mayor. Not that I have anything against Muslims in their own country but they are getting too big here and are making too many unreasonable demands. If we go to their country and ask for the same rights we give them here, we wouldn't survive the first three days. So what gives them the right to come here and "demand"? Sorry, I had to put that in here because I am severely peeved! This mayor of ours always talks about "equal rights" and means his/their rights and not too much ours. He would love us to visit the Mosks in this country instead of the churches. I don't do either of them and think that religion is one of our biggest problems in this world. I put a blog on Google about that not too long ago. So far no takers yet. It's all about our "brainwash" for millennia!
I am not sure what your feeling on that subject are but here it is anyway. I also think that we should take our conversations onto the PRIVATE Messages, it's really not what our members are interested in, except for maybe a very few! What do you think? Mike

What's wrong with trailers ... I like them, reminds me of camping. I've owned a couple of houses and now own a 'glorified' trailer - a.k.a. double wide, no wheels though, what a bummer ... I'd really like to move it just a tad to the left. My other half only sees the trailer too though, gotta be something they learn in school cause I didn't take that class.

I learned long ago that putting too much on what others are doing gets me nowhere so I don't bother anymore. I focus on mine and my little slice o' heaven. lol don't touch my slice and I won't touch theirs.

You can give me a shout in PM and we can keep chatting while we build our empires. :)

I am sure you have gone to bed by now and I am just having supper. There is nothing wrong with "trailers" in my mind, especially when they are renovated and really cozy. I had a fight with the insurance company calling my place a trailer just so they could charge me double. My "trailer is mostly dry-walled, has hardwood flooring and marble tiles. Most of the outside wall have 2" of styrene added under the vinyl siding and the roof is brand new wit R50 insulation. When I get a chance I can send you some pictures. It's still 12 years in the making. What bugs me is the zoning the city imposed on us and makes us feel like second class citizens! They are up to no good and I am determined to find out. I got the neighbours set on them too because they didn't have a clue! We will have to keep communicating like this because I only have a landline and long distance costs a fortune. So there is no "chatting" other then this. I never had anyone to talk to outside my area.
You are right! I have given up on the "Joneses" a long time ago and do what I like and not what the so called "peers" like. They can like what they want and like what I want and that is that! I drive an old 2003 GMC Savana Van and my wife has a 2006 VW Golf Diesel. I am going to sell my Van when I am done with the Renovations, sometime next year. That thing has got a six liter engine, I am not sure what that is in cuin. but it sure eats the gas like there is no tomorrow. When I was contracting that could be written off but now I am retired and there are no write offs.
Well, got to go and get some sleep. Talk to you tomorrow Eric and have a good night! Mike

Take care Mike, talk later. :-)

You too Eric, I fell asleep on the couch watching TV.

Nothing wrong with that. :-)

He, he!

:-)

Thank you T.

I play many different styles and genres.

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To you have any favorite or preferred genres?( I personally love lots of types of music) ~ t

Not really, If you seen my music collection it is quite diverse. I go through phases though and right now I'm into Perl Jam, Pink Floyd and older Bowie.

Hi Eric,

Oh, I love Pink Floyd kind of music and some from David Bowie. Seems like nobody writes and can plays like Pink Floyd anymore. I also dig music from Bad Company, Roger Daltery and Peter Frampton.

Sounds like the diverse and eclectic music I enjoy, too!

Yea Floyd is great Liat!

I've written a few songs that are very much like Floyd but they are not finished yet. Maybe on the next album if I ever get the album I'm working on now done. :-)

I listen to all those others too, great stuff!

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Cool T!

Thank you Tom.

I am working on knowing the piano ... and many other instruments, damn violin is a tough one.

I wish you the best also my friend. And, it is never too late to start anything. I'm in the market for a banjo and a mandolin - I need to hone my skills on those.

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Thank you Kyle, I appreciate your support!

I promise you that I will contact you if the need should arise.

Thanks for checking in, and I will talk to you soon ... maybe even in person.

Sounds good Eric, chat soon! Would be awesome to have you in Vegas next year and I know that you are more than capable!

I'd love to make it to Vegas Kyle. I figure I can make the referrals but I'm not sure I'll be physically able to attend, I'll have to see how physical therapy goes.

Yeah, cross that bridge when you get there. At the very least if you make Vegas you are going to have a full time business on your hands. Here to help you every step of the way bro!

Thanks Kyle.

Thank you Jeff, I appreciate your feedback and kind comments.

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Thank you Rosa. :)

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That sounds great Devon, I look forward to the same.

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Thank you Pj.

I think I'm still amateur too. :) Singing along always fun ... especially when someone else is off key too. :)

Oh, if you can teach me to grow something more than a stub in the nice fertile western NY land I live on I commend you .... my thumb is so darn green ..

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LoL! Here let me google that for ya! ☺pJ

Yep, I guess green thumbs can Google :)

Joking.. Just water, soil and sunshine! And love . Lots of that...

lol, I figured you were. Maybe I need to go hug them or something then. :)

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I don't understand Pam?

;) you're welcome.

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Right on, thanks! :)

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I ma where I wish to be, I wish you the same.

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Thank you for the kind words Michael. I appreciate your follow.

You may notice I am a helpful soul so if you need anything let me know.

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You're welcome Mariya, I wish you the best success too!

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Thanks Mike!

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Yep. :)

Thank you much.

Best success to you also Debra!

Hi James, great to meet you and welcome to WA!

I'd love to check out your site on country living. We've been building up our own little homestead and farm. It is super fun and I'm always looking for new info and stuff to read about.

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You're welcome Maureen.

Thanks Rushton. Currently I am not working for the man because I was hit by a semi and had cervical spine replacement. :)

Yow, are you making good progress healing Eric?

I'm doing ok, the healing is a slow process and it seems I have a ways to go.

Thank you for asking.

If all works well when I'm better enough to go back to work for the man I can tell him .... well, take this job and shove it! :)

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Thank you Bert.

Thanks Jewel.

Thank you Lori.

Neat. Thanks Michelle!

Thank you Anthony.

Hey there's my favorite kat! Thank you!

You're welcome Barbara, my pleasure.

Thank you for enjoying my site.

You're welcome. Where are you in SoCal, what's the biz?

I spent some time in San Diego and have a couple of relatives that lived in up state some.

I wish you the best success as well ... and I always ROCK ON but I do take things in stride like the Big L.

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Our business is in National City which is a few miles south of downtown San Diego along the bay.It's a tailoring shop and Dry Cleaners and our main customer base is the U.S.Navy.We sew on all of the patches,make name tapes,hem pants/sleeves,mount medals and more :)

Much success to you too !

I attended bootcamp and A school at San Diego NTC. I loved the Broadway mall and Balboa park. Mission beach was a riot too. Boy your taking me back decades. I love it.

You're welcome

Thanks Kirk

Thanks man - it is a Les Paul :)

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