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Wishing you all a peaceful holiday season filled with good food, rest, and time with the people who matter most. Thank you for the great conversations, shared knowledge, and support throughout the year. Take care of yourselves and enjoy the holidays:) 

Yesterday’s currency metals rates per ounce – Gold up 101, Silver up 1.5, platinum up 97, palladium up 20,  rhodium and copper holding steady.   Today’s currency metal rates per ounce (6 hrs left today) – Gold up 45, Silver up 2.35, Platinum up 150, Palladium up 83, Rhodium and copper holding steady.   Gold has broken the $4500 per ounce mark and silver has surpassed the $70 per ounce mark. 

  Get it while you can, just be careful how you invest it. Nothing over $10k in a purchase, and no denominations over 5 oz pieces.  Silver has been added to the National Strategic Metals listing… this means it can be confiscated. However current mandatory tracking only tracks units of 10oz bars or larger, and $10k or higher purchases.

  Keep in mind, increases on precious metals do NOT denote price increases, but rather inflation and devaluing of the dollar.  1 oz of silver or gold today hold roughly the same purchase power it has held for the past 3k years. Silver has lagged behind and is now catching up, but it is also needed for war, so it will surpass it’s innate value soon.

We’ve moved away from the city and started buying our meat directly from a local farm, and honestly… the quality doesn’t even compare to the garbage you get at Costco or other big box stores. Not even close. And Canadian farmers are getting squeezed too — not just by the market, but by government policy on top of it.

I watched this video and it explains a lot about why ranchers keep getting squeezed while prices at the store never seem to come down. Tyson shut down one of their biggest beef plants in Nebraska.

When a company that big pulls processing capacity, it doesn’t just disappear into thin air. Ranchers suddenly have fewer places to sell cattle. Families don’t see prices come down at the store. And somehow the company in the middle still does just fine.

Less competition means less resilience. And when things tighten up, it’s always the producers and regular people who feel it first.

Curious what everyone else thinks. If this keeps going, what’s the smart move — buying local beef, stocking freezers, building relationships with ranchers, or something else?

Would love to hear how others are thinking about it. 

I tried Dutch crunch bread at a friend’s place and I’m still thinking about it.
Yes, it was homemade… and holy crap, it was so freaking good.

Soft and fluffy inside, that crunchy crackly top on the outside, perfect for sandwiches. One of those things where you take a bite and immediately go, “yeah… I need this recipe.”

She sent me the recipe she used, so I’m sharing it here because everyone deserves this bread in their life lol

If you’ve never had Dutch crunch before, trust me, make it!