What have you done this week to prep? PART II

[2in1evtime]

Wife has been going thru our medical supplies, checking dates on antibiotics and pain meds, we keep a assortment of this stuff with intended uses included in the storage area.

 

[Ingomike]

Wife has been going thru our medical supplies, checking dates on antibiotics and pain meds, we keep a assortment of this stuff with intended uses included in the storage area.

Many antibiotics are good way beyond the date, some are downright dangerous beyond the date. You should research to see what to dispose of and what to keep.

 

[2in1evtime]

Many antibiotics are good way beyond the date, some are downright dangerous beyond the date. You should research to see what to dispose of and what to keep.

That is the one main reason she is going thru everything!

 

[jbombelli]

I picked up some stuff I hope I never have to use, but with the way things are going - better to have and not need, than need and not have.

 

[dudley0]

Co-worker of my daughter had a house fire. Lost everything. Made me rethink my off site storage. Took a spare AR, mags, ammo, and some MRE's to an additional location.

I already had off site storage, preparing more for tornadoes or break ins. Always considered house fires but this was an eye opener for sure.

 

[teddy12b]

Since my last post:

*I've hit some new personal records in the gym for lifting weights. I've also been more diligent about getting in there. Unfortunately that's not always reflected on the scale and I have some better choices to make about what I feed my body.

*Chicken coop is put together, garden is prepped, a small garden pond is in place, and just big enough to be an attractive drink to wildlife and happens to be just shy of 100 yards from the back patio. Additional trees are coming in this week to supplement and support the food forest that I've planted.

*Looking more and more at the upcoming US dollar collapse and seriously concerned about that more than anything else. I've been adding to the precious metal inventory lately in anticipation of all the problems that are going to show up over night when the balloon pops and we all have a new currency.

*I'd competed in another PRS match, and didn't do very well at all. I needed to get my butt handed to me and I learned a lot from it. I didn't shoot bad, but I spend 2 days being consistently just high or just low when I am normally right on it. It bugs me enough to make me double down on working at it so that's a good thing.

*I'm taking a ham radio license test this weekend so hopefully that ends well. I haven't started to study yet, so I should probably get on that.

*Preparing to hike the Knobstone Trail with a buddy in a month. That'll be a multiday 40+ mile hike that has very challenging terrain. It's going to kick my butt, and my loadout for this hike will be as light as I've ever gone and I can't wait.

 

[100Xkid]

started to remodel the travel trailer and cycled the generators.

 

[Magyars]

Sunk some post for new gates over by the hay field.
Dropped a dead ash today and started cutting it up...it has been dead about three years ( wood on the hoof so to speak ) but there was a potential widow maker and it was time to drop the beast.

 

[wcd]

Broke the final 3 acres, now ready to plant the warm weather plants, we will be upping our game to small scale food production over 300 tomato plants, sweet potatoes are in, beans are in, cabbage, peas are in, 100 water Mellon plants, 100 cantaloupe plants all waiting for May 15 th.

 

[Magyars]

Doing my part to stop global cooling....
Cleaned out the area around the manger and it's been slowing smouldering all day.

 

[dudley0]

I thought I smelled something

 

[jerrob]

Does this count?
Purchased a proper container for my "barter booze" and some of my favorites for harder times.

 

[Ballstater98]

The cost of food is not going to drop anytime a soon. Canned is my horizon for now.

 

[turnerdye1]

Just planted a whole 4 tomato plants lol

 

[jsharmon7]

Does this count?
Purchased a proper container for my "barter booze" and some of my favorites for harder times. View attachment 137480

I think alcohol is a wise investment. A good number of people can’t live without booze and cigarettes. There will be a demand in an emergency.

 

[churchmouse]

We will be in the garden next week. Much to do.

 

[NKBJ]

Last year did proof of concept testing on excluding deer and bunnies from a veggie garden. Last week / this week continuing construction on the expanded house garden. Also, got some zuc, yellow squash, tomatoes, broc, bok choy seedlings transplanted (trying for a head start). Got yard long beans coming up in raised beds with an arbor between them.

High winds the last couple of days beat some of the tomato seedlings to death, ripped some of their little helicopter heads off. Replanted some more seedlings yesterday evening. Oh well, two forward, one back.

Also working on the better 2/3's flower enclosure with the same exclusion concepts built in. Planted cat mint, scarlet runners, azalea, clematis, gold ingot ivy and a butterfly bush.

 

[NKBJ]

Seeds from last year's crops...
Zuc's look to be about 50% viable. The yard long beans are coming on like gang busters.

 

[NKBJ]

Planted scarlet runners in the top tier of the triangular boxes with the trellises.

They're coming up already. Gonna have some happy hummers.
The rain broke off for a while some I'm gonna go move those temporary bambi barriers, knock the braces off of yesterday's posts and put up some more fence wire and boards.

 

[teddy12b]

It's been a long time coming, but I'm going to experiment with a small solar battery backup system. Solar panel to controller, controller to deep cycle, deep cycle to inverter, inverter to timer for a small pond fountain. It'll be tucked in with landscape, but setup in a way that's easy to pull and take with us on short notice.