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FRUIT FLY TRAP THAT WORKS

The other day I was slicing a lot of tomatoes.  They were very juicy so I had the cutting board in a cookie sheet, and poured the water and juice off into a jar and forgot about it. When I remembered it, the jar was covered in fruit flies, which gave me an idea.  I got some scrap paper from the recycling and rolled and taped it into a cone. (I just made the edges meet, or the cone would have been too steep.)  I taped it so there was a tiny hole left at the end that a fruit fly could crawl through. (Or you can make it tight, then cut the hole.) I then put  it on the mouth of the jar and taped completely along the edge where it met the jar, so flies couldn't escape that way.  I trimmed the cone close to the jar to get the flies to land closer, and then put the jar where the flies had been congregating by some trimmings. 

 

I also made another with some cider vinegar and water, just to compare the results.

You can probably see in that picture (especially if you click to enlarge it) that the 2 day old tomato water had by far the best results, though the vinegar water did work when it was put on its own in another location.

Here's a look at the little hole.  It could be a little bigger too, it went a little flat and might be easier for them to get through if a teeny bit bigger.

An advantage with the cone and tape is that you can't smell the fermenting juice/trimmings in the room.  The hole is so tiny and there's only one of it.  I've now had this there for a week and it's quite hideous, and I still can't smell it.  I'm sure all of you would be far more conscientious and change the contents, but then again this is what the flies prefer.

I found this worked better than the type with cling film with holes in it.  I made one of those last year and it seems the flies were able to get out of it better than this one, which makes sense as the cling film surface is basically flat both ways.

Would love to hear if this works for you!

Now for today's free self sufficiency and survival books.
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NONFICTION

General self-sufficiency and survival

Weekend Homesteader: June
” Do you dream of homesteading but only have a bit of time each weekend to putter in the garden? This ebook series introduces a simple but powerful project for each weekend of the year to start you off on the path to self-sufficiency. June projects include: Making a small worm bin (and how to use worm castings and tea in the garden)…Surveying your site (to discover natural paths and your yard's potential)…Learning about nutrition (and unlearning everything you thought you knew)…Calculating your real hourly wage (to find out if your job's driving you into debt). This ebook is also appropriate for December in the southern hemisphere.”

Security on a Shoestring
“His military training provides him an extensive mechanical background which also gave him the skills necessary to be creative and adventurous in building or designing new products…after an early retirement, he opened his own business as a Locksmith and never looked back. In this book, Lance presents numerous ideas that he hopes will inspire new ways of thinking about your personal safety and security. He suggests that after reading “Security on a Shoestring” you stand back and take a look at your surroundings through educated eyes. Use both creative and critical thinking about your security, see if you are as safe as you were five years ago.”

Food and Farming/Gardening, Home

Milking Your Goats: What You Need To Know Guide (Goat Knowledge)

Raised Bed Gardening - Growing The Easy Way (How to build a raised bed and grow vegetables with minimum fuss)
Author grew up in a large family on a small farm.

Coconut Oil Cures (Miracle Healers From The Kitchen)

Fault Finding Boilers Made Simple
“mainly for home-owners who would like to gain a solid understanding of how their boilers operate. “

Make Money: 23 Ways To Make Money With Food!

Car Buying Secrets: What Salesmen Don't Want You To Know in Just Under 50 Pages
“If you're a woman or a young buyer, chances are you will encounter discrimination on the car lot and they will try to take advantage of you. Working your deal out before they see you is a huge plus…I'll tell you how to do quick and easy online research and how to get the deal you want from the dealership, not the deal they want you to take.”

Health

Essential Bodyweight Exercises and Nutrition
Exercises using your own bodyweight to strengthen, instead of equipment.

How to Build Muscle in Your Advanced Years

Effective Martial Arts Training with No Equipment or Partner vol 3: Meaningful Combat Psychology, Motivation for training and Breathing Techniques

Ideas/Theory
Looks like all US politics today…
The Last American Dragon
Illustrated allegory. “… will draw you in and carry you to another time, where you will learn about the three dragons (Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness) Brothers from another land, they made the treacherous Atlantic passage to America, carrying the same hopes and dreams as the early settlers. Today, the single remaining dragon struggles for survival. A modern tale, written in the classic short story style, is both entertaining and thought-provoking. Subtle references are made regarding The Great Society, Roe vs. Wade, Environmentalism, and even a negligent Press.

The Lanterns: Liberty's Beacons on Freedom's Path
“Drawn from the likes of intellectual giants such as Bastiat, Gassett, Hayek, and Tocqueville, the Lanterns is a point-by-point introduction to the five key pillars of Western civilization”

The Bookworm Turns: A Secret Conservative in Liberal Land
Blogger Bookworm “writes from a conservative perspective about anything that catches her fancy. Her topics include politics, education, parenting, pop culture, the military, national security, elections, the Middle East, and much more. Her writing as an elegant amalgam of Jane Austen and Mark Steyn. Readers describe it as ‘intellectual chocolate -- highly addicting, except it expands your mind instead of your waistline’ and say that she is ‘thoughtful, smart, and always entertaining.’"

Recommendations For Waking Up From The American Nightmare (Business Voyages)
“an idealistic fantasy showing how to attack the root causes of current economic troubles in the US using a dialectical democratic case method discussion process used by the author 35 years as a business professor.”

True Accounts


Being a mortician in an isolated town without running water, little technology--may have some interesting insights for this sort of challenge.

The Red River Pioneers
Short. A true story about a family of sharecroppers in the 1930s who build a covered wagon to travel to Oklahoma.

What I Don't Hate About Living Here: Life in NW Montana
Author lives “in a log cabin on 20 acres way out on a mountain in NW Montana.”

I use my thumbs as a yardstick!
“Follow the life of a man who pioneered farming techniques all his life. Now 86 years old, he is still a worldwide authority on sheep, or at least, that is what he will tell you.”

WAR

Send in the Marines! Combat Histories Of US Marine Ground Units 1775-1991

The Texiad: An Epic of the Texas Revolution
“The Battle of Concepcion, the Fall of Bexar, the Siege and Fall of the Alamo, the Goliad Massacre, the Victory at San Jacinto—The Texiad presents the great events of the Texas Revolution and the lives it consumed.” In epic verse form like the Iliad.

BANZAI AMERICA: THE JAPANESE INVASION OF THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR II
“American people bombed, shelled and invaded by a foreign power. Towns overrun. Americans fleeing for their lives. Americans thrown out of their homes and their businesses, enslaved, deprived of essentials, beaten, tortured, and in some cases publicly executed. Their churches closed. Their children taught to despise everything the United States stands for. Is this fantasy? …No, it is history. It really happened in World War II. “

A Boy, A Ship and A War
“Learn about WWII from one who lived it. Claud Aldrich was a tin-can sailor, serving on the USS VanValkenburg …Claud was a poor boy, one of nine children, … drafted in to the United States Navy, an entirely new world, which he knew nothing about. There was a rude awakening for him, to shape up to the facts of life on a warship in a time of war. Learning to be in harm's way and survive.”

A Mile in Their Shoes: Conversations With Veterans of World War II
“include a conversation with five 101st Airborne Division veterans of the siege of Bastogne, a 90th Infantry Division Medal of Honor recipient, two 82nd Airborne veterans of D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge, a survivor of the pre-D-Day disaster at Slapton Sands, and a father who was in World War II and his son who served in Vietnam.”

Military Engineering Vehicles E-Book | Military-Today.com

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FICTION

Politics, Terrorism, and Intrigue/Conspiracy

Code Word: Paternity, A Presidential Thriller
“The Armageddon genie—nuclear terrorism—is out of the bottle, freed by bin-Laden’s heedless avengers and “a…dictator with Ray-Bans and a fondness for movies,” as America’s president puts it privately a few hours before announcing a decision that will mark him forever as either a hero or a mass murderer. In a twenty-first century Pearl Harbor, nuclear terrorism takes its first city—Las Vegas—and stalks Baltimore… A scientific trail scented by an ultra-secret U.S. program hidden for years behind the code word “Paternity” points toward the nation that made the bomb. …Struggling to lead a divided, panicked America…the president …politicians… and generals maneuver with the lives of millions at stake…” “…forthcoming in trade paperback in November 2012.”

Italy Dies
“From Milan alleys to Monaco secret banks, from the cliffs of the Amalfi coast to a mysterious island on Lake Maggiore, chased by the Italian police forces and by two lethal assassins who hate each other, Jen and Ryan uncover an intricate web of deceptions and manipulations that is inexorably plunging Europe into irreversible chaos.”

Die By Wire
“When…sniper Mira Longbow arrives in Amsterdam to take out the head of a global child-smuggling ring, she quickly stumbles across a diabolically creative, high-tech jihad that will bring the West to its knees.”

Collapse, Post-Apocalypse, Speculative Futures

The Telluric Adventures: The Allegiance of Justice
Every great civilization falls at some point, it is simply the way of things. Whether the cause is war, famine, disease, or even the economy, human nature always seems to triumph over our best efforts to maintain society. Not even the civilizations of the twenty-first century could withstand these forces, and eventually all fell into chaos and destruction. But that was centuries ago, and luckily the one thing mankind is better at than destroying itself is building itself up again. A new civilization has emerged from the ashes of the old one. In what was once Michigan, two new kingdoms have arisen. Where once there were skyscrapers, now castles dominate the skyline. Sprawling cities are now small villages. Armies once armed with machine guns, tanks, and airplanes are now lucky to have single shot muskets. …A mysterious stranger appears and brings word of impending doom to the world, and asks the King for help in stopping this doom he speaks of. But who is this man? Where is he from, and how does he know so much about the world that existed centuries ago?

More Sci-Fi-or-Fantasy-ish

PERCEPTION (Perception Series)
“a ( SF/mystery/romance) Young Adult novel that takes place in the not too distant future in a world changed by climate extremes, natural disasters and impending wars, and where scientific breakthroughs cause class divisions--both financially and philosophically. It explores the clash between faith and science and how differences can separate us as enemies or ally us together.”

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