WEEKLY PREP THREAD, July 15-21

Now hopefully Freeholder and Kilgal have made up The threads were started weekly when I was on vacation and then last week I was sick and didn't get to it. Appreciate those that pick up the slack.

Posts to the thread have been down a lot and I think that has something to do with the fact that is it so %#()& HOT! I don't want to do anything but sit inside with the a/c and my iced tea.

Didn't get much accomplished last week as I was feeling under the weather. This week I can't find much to excite me. I even bypassed the 20% off sale at Big Lots today because there really wasn't anything that we needed. No other stores are having any good sales either. So, I've caught up on my laundry, topped off the car, and started to reorganize my library since we've had new bookcases delivered and can now start bringing the books in from boxes off the patio and start putting them away. Good time to weed through and donate ones I don't want anymore and to group together other books to make things easier to find. The bookcases look nice in the newly painted den as well.

Have two clients to work on this week and a bunch of little things to take care of, but nothing prep worthy. I always keep my eye out though.

What's everyone else up to?

There is a little greenhouse a few miles down the road from us. And they close every year around this time. And when they do they have sales.
Well this was the week for them to close up. I went down on Thursday and got tomato plants for $l each and they had tomatoes on them. I had planted peanuts earlier in my hoophouse. That didn't come up. So dh had tilled it up for me again. And I now have ll more tomato plants which we got on Thursday planted in there. I also spent yesterday transplanting corn from the raised beds to the big garden. Then I got the brussel sprout plants put in the raised beds where that corn had been. I also got another 14 pepper plants in this last week that I got a good deal on.
Dh will work tomarrow morning. Then come home and load his fishing stuff up. I will already have his food and other stuff loaded in the truck for him. Then he is going up to spend a couple of days with his best friend that had a shunt put in his heart on July 3. I will be staying home and watering the garden. AFter all when it is 90* it needs water. Plus taking care of the turkeys, ducks, chickens and rabbits and of course his old hound dog.
and once again Freeholder thank you for the apology.

I haven't added much to the preps lately, been to broke. We did rebuild the rear end and replace the u joints on hubbys truck. I guess that is a prep. Keeping the 93 ford running as long as we can.
I did go to the winery and got 45# of grapes for .50 a pound. I canned 7 qts of juice so far. The rest are in the spare frig till tomorrow. These grapes were wrinkled some from the sun, therefore the cheap price. But they were fine. I sampled plenty to make sure. LOL We picked up two bottles of wine while we were there also.

Purchased a solar oven and started figuring out how to use it. So far I've baked bread and made a chicken and rice dinner. Working on the nuances of how it cooks and times needed.

Will be ordering plenty of corn and wheat from Honeyville sale. Later this week hope to rearrange the garage for the last time; badly needed to fit all the preps in there. Mostly it feels like I am dealing with the types that will be the "golden horde" come SHTF. We have five more evictions to start this coming week. We have never had to do this many as we have done so far this summer. I swear people would rather buy beer and cigs than pay their bills.

Kathy, you nailed it with that last line. We only have one rental house, but hubby's family own a lot. It has been our collective experience that beer and cigarettes come before and instead of anything else. Pathetic thinking!

As far as preps, my money, prepping and thinking have mostly been going into trying to get hubby's health back. Sigh... We are so thankful now that hubby spent so much time and energy into getting ahead on the wood cutting, splitting and stacking. We have a few years worth to give us some breathing room.

I have been canning stuff from the garden though. Tomatoes are coming in heavy right now. Ended up with 92 quarts of squash, so didn't quite hit the 100 quart goal, but that's all right.

I spent yesterday helping my sister move. She finially admitted she is a hoarder. Her spare bedroom was floor to almost ceiling almost the whole room. No way could she have gotten to anything. She has bought 10 cases of canning jars in the last couple years. The last time she canned a jar was with Mom, 35 years ago! I dreamed about packing yarn. She kept a lot to go through yet, but she donated 3 pickup load to charity, she still has enough for a lifetime.

Her new apt. is bigger, but too full. She rented 2 storage bays. The 10x20 is stacked head high almost to the door, no walkways. The smaller one is only about waist high.

No it was not neat, no it was not clean. I really appreciated my shower last night. : ) Hopefully she will get things under control since she admitts she has a problem. It was like the tv show hoarders.

I pray to God I never get that obssessed and controlled by stuff.

Digger - one of my goals for this winter is to get more organized. It doesn't help to have preps if you don't know where they are or can't access them. I've been spending a lot at the vet/ranch supply. We have one of our younger cows that got into something. If you don't mind praying for cows, I would appreciate it. It's a big investment for us, but I also don't want her to suffer.

I don't mind praying for cows or any animal. Our pastor even prays for animals. God created them, we feel compassion for them, so I am sure the Lord does too. I pray your cow gets better, I really miss having them myself.

I am getting rid of some of the things around here that I haven't used in a long time. If I haven't used it in a couple years, I won't miss it.

I am not getting rid of the prep stuff. Just the extra day to day clutter. My sister is not a prepper, just a hoarder. She always said she had hobbies, scrapbooking, needlecraft, etc, but she rarely did any of it. In reality shopping has become her hobby.

The prep stuff here stays, we know where it is and can get to it.

You DID offer to "store" her eleventy-seven cases of canning jars, didn't ya?

Didn't think of that RememberGoliad! I am such a bad sister!LOL I think she is making a turn around. She said the other day she could not enjoy her things because she could not find stuff, and someone else could use them instead of them just being piled up. I told her to keep what she could enjoy and get rid of the rest. She has more yarn than hobby lobby.

My dream situation is to find a hoarder who's a wannabee prepper, and compulsively buys LTS food and things that go bang, and has several dozen Perkins crate diesels stacked in the garage.... And then have sheeple grandkids hold a garage sale and I get there first, with a pocket full of money

"Yeah, I don't know what's in these pieces of six inch PVC with caps glued on both ends, some are heavy, some rattle when shaked, and some are just...well, strange feeling. Tell you what, make all 100 of them go away, give me a quarter each. Oh, all you have is a $100 bill? I've got seven coffee cans with '$10.00 face' written on 'em, will you take them as change?"

Hmm, I might have to incorporate that into one of my stories....