PREP What did you do today to prepare for...?
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Meemur
Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
*Something* is always better than nothing!
Do what you can with what you have, where you are.
beDplorable
Senior Member
Canned a small batch (8 pints) of ground beef. Fist time we have canned meat so this is an experiment so to speak. Will try some on homemade pizza this weekend.
Also received a folding portable solar panel kit to charge the portable power station.
Also received a folding portable solar panel kit to charge the portable power station.
BeeMan
Just buzzin along
Used an antique corn sheller to de-cob (is that a valid word) my field corn.
Some was packaged for grinding into cornmeal, some reserved for chicken feed.
I find it amazing how little (volume wise) what I thought was a “decent sized” corn patch produces.
Maybe a bigger corn patch next year. Only saving seed corn from the “best” ears of corn.
Some was packaged for grinding into cornmeal, some reserved for chicken feed.
I find it amazing how little (volume wise) what I thought was a “decent sized” corn patch produces.
Maybe a bigger corn patch next year. Only saving seed corn from the “best” ears of corn.
bw
Fringe Ranger
Check with one of our canning experts, but I suspect you could melt it and put it in glass quarts.
I think this is referred to as shelling the corn.Are you saving the cobs,might come in handy if T P gets short again.
nomifyle
TB Fanatic
I just picked up 12 each cucumber and yellow squash plants to plant for the fall, I'm in zone 8B
I had also ordered a couple of portable battery chargers for my phone, and a pair of 6" hiking boots, and two kinds of tea (for Dh in case we can't get the crap he likes), Dh got two new tires and I ordered some more buckets. The were out of the 3 1/2 gallon size, so I ordered 2 gallon size, they will be better than nothing.
God is good, all the time.
Judy
I had also ordered a couple of portable battery chargers for my phone, and a pair of 6" hiking boots, and two kinds of tea (for Dh in case we can't get the crap he likes), Dh got two new tires and I ordered some more buckets. The were out of the 3 1/2 gallon size, so I ordered 2 gallon size, they will be better than nothing.
God is good, all the time.
Judy
BeeMan
Just buzzin along
Not that hard up yet, we‘ve got a bidet seat on the toilet. Bidet cuts down TP usage significantly, as long as power and water still work.
Holding the corn cobs to use in the wood stove.
Waste not, want not.
Mary Contrary
Inactive
I'm too poor right now to even think about prepping. I do have lots of dry goods like rice beans lentils barley and oatmeal. Got a fair amount of canned goods. Mostly dry goods tho. I can't buy ANYthing right now, but i got pasta too and should be ok. Got pet food too.
Mary Contrary
Inactive
Organic soup isn't even worth it if it is loaded with sodium. Just paying for the salt. Any sodium over 150 is a lot and most soups have 400 or more per HALF cup! I wouldn't waste my money on organic if it's loaded with salt.
Mary Contrary
Inactive
Yep. I went to Walmart today in NY to self check out and 5 of the machines had a sign that said, "Cards only - No Cash". I had to walk around to another area and found some cash ones.
ShadowMan
Designated Grumpy Old Fart
Bought 75 pounds of rice today. Fifty of Jasmine and twenty-five of Basmati. Waiting for the arrival of my mail order of ten 2 1/2 gallon buckets and lids to arrive. We're switching from the larger 5-7 gallon buckets over to smaller 2 1/2 - 3 1/2 gallon buckets because they are easier for us to move around now that we're getting older. The larger buckets are just too much for my small wife to lug around now and I'm sure for me as I get older. The other reason is that now that the kids are all up and out it takes us forever to go through the larger buckets. The small buckets are perfect for us and don't go bad as quickly.
Trying to kick our Preps up to the next level over the next couple of months. Since we're not going anywhere due to WuFlu, no traveling, camping, RV'ing or anything so.....we've got an extra bit of income set aside for that use to use else where and with everything going on....PREPS get the nod.
Have the freezer full of 1/2 a beef right now and 1/2 a hog due very soon. Also just bought into half an Angus for harvesting in the fall. There's also the possibility of pick up some Chevron (goat) in a month or two. Picked up a bunch of window frames from a house being remodeled. Almost have enough to build a good sized greenhouse. About to build a 3ft x 8ft or perhaps two 3ft x 4ft rolling raised garden bed(s) for our main deck and prepping an area across the seasonal creek in the back for the greenhouse and a fenced in raised bed gardens for next spring. About to order fruit trees for fall planting for our orchard.
Who thought retirement would be so busy!?! Just trying to speed things up as much as possible due to pending B.S. come this fall. Just not enough time.....need more time.
Trying to kick our Preps up to the next level over the next couple of months. Since we're not going anywhere due to WuFlu, no traveling, camping, RV'ing or anything so.....we've got an extra bit of income set aside for that use to use else where and with everything going on....PREPS get the nod.
Have the freezer full of 1/2 a beef right now and 1/2 a hog due very soon. Also just bought into half an Angus for harvesting in the fall. There's also the possibility of pick up some Chevron (goat) in a month or two. Picked up a bunch of window frames from a house being remodeled. Almost have enough to build a good sized greenhouse. About to build a 3ft x 8ft or perhaps two 3ft x 4ft rolling raised garden bed(s) for our main deck and prepping an area across the seasonal creek in the back for the greenhouse and a fenced in raised bed gardens for next spring. About to order fruit trees for fall planting for our orchard.
Who thought retirement would be so busy!?! Just trying to speed things up as much as possible due to pending B.S. come this fall. Just not enough time.....need more time.
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Mary Contrary
Inactive
You can get a medium jar of coconut oil at Dollar Tree for a dollar.
Profit of Doom
Dismember
So, she’s shiftless?
Picked 10.5 pounds of Blackberries at a local farm (Thornless Blackberries) Canned blackberry pie filling. Off to Yakima in the next few days for cases and cases of Tomatoes for canning as well as other produce. August is my canning month. Peaches in the next couple of weeks. Pickles daily as the cukes in our garden come in. We planted a small home garden back in March and it has been producing like mad, the best little garden we have had in years. Handfuls of fresh green beans daily, zucchini, and my acorn squash plants are going to town.
If you have any empty containers can you store water?
Michiana MaJo
Deceased
I use mostly coconut oil for all my cooking purposes....but, I always buy the refined or expellor pressed kind, instead of the virgin coconut oil, which has the coconutty taste. I don't want my fried things to taste like coconut, tho I will say the virgin coconut oil did make some good chocolate brownies, when I used it for them.
My next readiness project is to start hiding some food items. I listen to a certain readiness expert who recommends hiding some things, if possible, because Obama had signed an order saying that FEMA can walk in and help themselves to ANYTHING they want....food or other wise.....and there is nothing we could do about it.
Unless you have alternate places other than your home, it's kind of hard to hide much, but there are way to at least hide some things, hopefully. The source even suggested burying some items...he said even if you just have three days of food buried and wind up with only that, after the muggers steal the rest, that is 3 days of food to go on!
I listened and watched an excellent webinar a couple of mos. ago, put on by Daniel Estulin, and he warned that (that was around the end of May or first of June) that we had 3 MONTHS to get ready....that September is what we need to try to be ready for....things would really start to crash in September...even the banks (smaller ones, first, then the big ones, including bail-ins) would take place, and things would just keep going down hill. He advised taking your money out of the bank before they start doing bail-ins, which the Dodd Frank Act allows (for those of you who didn't know that.)
I also am getting my furnace checked for the winter, and getting my car checked for its 55,000 mile tune-up.
Being an old lady, all alone, it's kind of scary....ready to die, but hopefully, just in my sleep, not at the hand of marauders!
My next readiness project is to start hiding some food items. I listen to a certain readiness expert who recommends hiding some things, if possible, because Obama had signed an order saying that FEMA can walk in and help themselves to ANYTHING they want....food or other wise.....and there is nothing we could do about it.
Unless you have alternate places other than your home, it's kind of hard to hide much, but there are way to at least hide some things, hopefully. The source even suggested burying some items...he said even if you just have three days of food buried and wind up with only that, after the muggers steal the rest, that is 3 days of food to go on!
I listened and watched an excellent webinar a couple of mos. ago, put on by Daniel Estulin, and he warned that (that was around the end of May or first of June) that we had 3 MONTHS to get ready....that September is what we need to try to be ready for....things would really start to crash in September...even the banks (smaller ones, first, then the big ones, including bail-ins) would take place, and things would just keep going down hill. He advised taking your money out of the bank before they start doing bail-ins, which the Dodd Frank Act allows (for those of you who didn't know that.)
I also am getting my furnace checked for the winter, and getting my car checked for its 55,000 mile tune-up.
Being an old lady, all alone, it's kind of scary....ready to die, but hopefully, just in my sleep, not at the hand of marauders!
Yea. So, I was talking about my plan with her yesterday and she got a little indignant and declared "I can most certainly drive a manual! But you won't let me drive it." To which I said . . .
And then I got a text message from the guy that bought the Maxima thanking me for selling him the car AND that he fixed the pulling of the right front by replacing the tires (which were actually about 10 years old).
My main complaint with the Altima is the right front AND those tires are about 8 years old.
So, I am going to put new tires on the front and then we are going to have some driving lessons and see if it cures my right eyebrow.
Ever since hurricane Rita I vowed that I would stock up only in Sept. or Oct. with enough to last until July 1st so that I would never lose everything in another hurricane. World events over the past few months have made me rethink this. I spent weeks replenishing all personal and household stores.
Michiana MaJo
Deceased
Smart move, ejagno.
Still, I wonder how many of us will ever feel we are really ready.....I've been adding a little here and there for quite some time, just with the feeling there could be bad times, but now, since learning that September is a crucial month to really start things (both according to the webinar I attended and that pastor who had the prophetic dream with the calendar being pointed out to him, I don't think I will really ever be totally ready....especially trying to stay on my limited income.
Still, I wonder how many of us will ever feel we are really ready.....I've been adding a little here and there for quite some time, just with the feeling there could be bad times, but now, since learning that September is a crucial month to really start things (both according to the webinar I attended and that pastor who had the prophetic dream with the calendar being pointed out to him, I don't think I will really ever be totally ready....especially trying to stay on my limited income.
bought 2 new shelves for garage. 3 ft wide X 2 ft deep. perfect for those sterilite plastic tubs - two to a shelf
shelved 20 plastic bins and some odds and ends.
rearranged some things to clear space for the treadmill and weight bench
walked treadmill for 15 mins and lifted some light weight in order to get my workout program started again after a 18 month break
shelved 20 plastic bins and some odds and ends.
rearranged some things to clear space for the treadmill and weight bench
walked treadmill for 15 mins and lifted some light weight in order to get my workout program started again after a 18 month break
Quiet Man
Nothing unreal exists
Congratulations! I need to be doing that, too.
Jmurman
Veteran Member
I did something today that I have neglected over the past couple of years, I went to the shooting range.
my BIL and I decided to take pistols only. I onlytook one, a 1911 ProCarry. I don’t know why I neglected the shooting portion of my preps but I did. Well, that’s over now.
had a blast and within a couple of magazines I was dancing in the 8 ring. Looking forward to more of the same.
the interesting thing was, the range attendant said they have been blitzed lately from out of state people wanting To come down and shoot. He seemed a bit anxious about it too.
my BIL and I decided to take pistols only. I onlytook one, a 1911 ProCarry. I don’t know why I neglected the shooting portion of my preps but I did. Well, that’s over now.
had a blast and within a couple of magazines I was dancing in the 8 ring. Looking forward to more of the same.
the interesting thing was, the range attendant said they have been blitzed lately from out of state people wanting To come down and shoot. He seemed a bit anxious about it too.
Loretta Van Riet
Trying to hang out with the cool kids.
Paying ahead on my water and utilities. Got my teeth cleaned.
Milkweed Host
Veteran Member
This is the smallest 12 volt deep cycle battery that i have. It's a gel cell, 6 amp hour.
Gel cells require a slow charge rate, I use the 2 amp option.
The fan is a 12 volt, 8 watts. 8/12 = .66 amps, two speed switch.
I also have 12 volt led light bulbs, 5 watts, warm light, which is around the 3000 K area. They have the E26,E27
base, so they will fit into any regular lamp. to make this work, unplug the lamp from the wall (very important)
remove the AC bulb and replace with the 12 volt led bulb. Attach alligator clips between the battery and the
lamp. Negative battery terminal is connected to the larger lamp plug lead and the positive of the battery is connected to
the smaller lamp plug lead. (hope this makes sense?) These 5 watt 12 volt led is bright enough for reading or whatever.
The warm light is easier on the eyes than the daylight which is
around the 6000 K area. 5/12 = .42 amps.
I also have a 12 volt tv set and 12 volt DVD players.
This battery, 12 volt bulbs, and 12 volt TV set came from ebay. The DVD players were on sale at a Menards closeout.
Gel cells require a slow charge rate, I use the 2 amp option.
The fan is a 12 volt, 8 watts. 8/12 = .66 amps, two speed switch.
I also have 12 volt led light bulbs, 5 watts, warm light, which is around the 3000 K area. They have the E26,E27
base, so they will fit into any regular lamp. to make this work, unplug the lamp from the wall (very important)
remove the AC bulb and replace with the 12 volt led bulb. Attach alligator clips between the battery and the
lamp. Negative battery terminal is connected to the larger lamp plug lead and the positive of the battery is connected to
the smaller lamp plug lead. (hope this makes sense?) These 5 watt 12 volt led is bright enough for reading or whatever.
The warm light is easier on the eyes than the daylight which is
around the 6000 K area. 5/12 = .42 amps.
I also have a 12 volt tv set and 12 volt DVD players.
This battery, 12 volt bulbs, and 12 volt TV set came from ebay. The DVD players were on sale at a Menards closeout.
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Old Gray Mare
TB Fanatic
Today I did magic. I made a extra large grocery run (by our standards) disappear. We didn't have space for it but somehow it got tucked away out of sight. It was shelf safe foods, not long term storage.
It's weird. A few years ago we were sitting on a prepper's dream. A homestead with: a garden, fruit trees, livestock, multiple artesian springs, wells, game, wild forage and stored preps to see us through the Fimbulvetr. Now? Not even close but feeling so much more at peace with myself and the Lord.
It's weird. A few years ago we were sitting on a prepper's dream. A homestead with: a garden, fruit trees, livestock, multiple artesian springs, wells, game, wild forage and stored preps to see us through the Fimbulvetr. Now? Not even close but feeling so much more at peace with myself and the Lord.
Ran across closeout new old stock 20 round AR magazines pretty cheap at Numrich - Thermolds. Ordered five to inspect, if they are Wilsons and still in stock when the order gets here, I will get a few more. I'd rather have 20 round mags for the AR pistols in .300 to help avoid oopses.
China Connection
TB Fanatic
I bought some mice and rat traps today to be ready to catch food when I get hungry....
Spent the last two days canning 3-9lb porkloins, they were a bargain at 20.00 ea. Then canned bacon, were a steal for 3lb pkgs at 5.00...have to finish the rest today. Yesterday it rained, wind blowing...canning on my covered, but not enclosed back deck...yeah, that was fun.
Still have chokeberries to put up, peppers, and whatever else is left from the garden. Bugs were bad this year, did not get to spray the nematodes this year, made a huge difference last year.
Still have chokeberries to put up, peppers, and whatever else is left from the garden. Bugs were bad this year, did not get to spray the nematodes this year, made a huge difference last year.
jed turtle
a brother in the Lord
To feed to the chickens? Absolutely.
Martinhouse
Deceased
Have spent most of the last week either canning, or cooking and dehydrating, the meats in my freezers.
Next will be canning up pureed fruits (I can't wear dentures!) and last will be lots of tomato juice, since it would be the easiest to do with stored water and the camp stoves if my power was no longer working.
When the canning is finished, I will be doing a mountain of laundry. I'm leaving it for last, since it can be done by hand. Even though I'd hate it, I could do it.....especially if there were a nice rain to hang everything up for a final rinse! My nephew is already scheduled to reinforce some posts and then install hooks on them so I can put up more outdoor clothesline just for this purpose.
Next will be canning up pureed fruits (I can't wear dentures!) and last will be lots of tomato juice, since it would be the easiest to do with stored water and the camp stoves if my power was no longer working.
When the canning is finished, I will be doing a mountain of laundry. I'm leaving it for last, since it can be done by hand. Even though I'd hate it, I could do it.....especially if there were a nice rain to hang everything up for a final rinse! My nephew is already scheduled to reinforce some posts and then install hooks on them so I can put up more outdoor clothesline just for this purpose.