Weekly Prep Thread 1 June - 7 June
 

Busy day here. Canned many pints of cucumbers and peppers. Eating the zucchini as fast as it matures, tomatoes starting to ripen. I suspect we'll be canning those by the middle of next week. Ate our first cabbage of the season.

Other than that, pretty boring around here. Y'all?

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 1 June - 7 June
 

Where do you live that you have ripening tomatoes? My peas are just beginning to bloom here in NW Indiana.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 1 June - 7 June
 

Central SC. I planted them from starts around mid March. Most are still green, but so many are starting to ripen that we can't eat enough to keep up.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 1 June - 7 June
 

And I've been eating a lot of fried green tomatoes, too. :banana:

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 1 June - 7 June
 

Good for you, infantryman! Our tomatoes went into the groud last weekend, we had temps in the 30' before them. We are definitely at peak salad though: spinach, mizuna, mustard mix and mesclun mix like I can't eat enough. Lots of kale and asparagus too. Spent hours watering- we need rain!

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 1 June - 7 June
 

Got a 1/4 ounce Gold AE for a good deal off of FeeBay. Also got 4 more ounces of silver. Ordered some of the Mountain House ground beef #10 cans off Amazon which shipped out within 48 hours of ordering them. Got me some heavy duty Steel Toe boots and a couple more nice knives. Oh and some WallyWorld Federal 22 LR ammo, 5 boxes worth and some of the 9mm HP ammo that WallyWorld sells.

Also found a really nice local outdoor range that only charges $5 a day or $75 a year to shoot at. They pretty much allow anything from what my friends told me to be shot there.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 1 June - 7 June
 

4 cases of food from the LDS
Im headed to Wally World to pick up a few boxes of dry milk to store, some ammo too.

Everyone wen to the Dentist yesterday. Can you imagine how horrible it would be to be in TSHT situation with a painful dental problems.. My Daughter had a small cavity filled. I had some work done on a small area. Best of all I had the Dentist write me prescription for a big bottle of antibiotics.. I can add those to my med stash..

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 1 June - 7 June
 

You can download Where There is No Dentist. It is chapter by chapter, so it's kind of a pain. I actually picked up an old copy at the local library sale. That sight has other similar books, as well. Basically it comes down to proper care of your teeth. The old adage rings true: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 1 June - 7 June
 

Off topic, just watched a young man in his early 20s die in a car crash. Looked like the small car was trying to cut across traffic and got hit by a huge dump/trash truck. Passenger was killed instantly. I was heading the opposite way down the road when it happen and was actually stopped next to the demolished car for around 10 minutes. If I stretched out of my car window I was almost close enough to touch the car. I just sat there stairing at the passenger who looked like he was killed on impact. I still can't get that image out of my head. My local news has a picture of the cleanup on their website at wdtn.com under 1 Killed in Crash in Miamisburg. I was stuck next to the car right where the firefighters are with the stretcher in the picture.

I am very thankful for everyday God gives me and my family on this planet.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 1 June - 7 June
 

So I hafta ask...

Why not get out and help?

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 1 June - 7 June
 

Infantry I should explain more now that my mind is clear after a night of rest. Two police crusiers were right there near the intersection when it happen and the first police officer was out of his car within seconds of this happening. I was about 50 feet west of the accident turning onto this major street when it happen. I was out of my car for maybe 10 seconds before I was told to "get the hell back in your car" by the police officer. The car got cut off and went over the median into oncoming traffic which happen to be this Dump Truck. It tried to spin out of the way but was hit in the passenger side and the passenger and his seat were pushed up and out killing the passenger instantly.

This was during heavy traffic in this intersection and it was a few minutes after the accident happen that I was to move my car to try and clear the area. I was able to move the car about 50 feet which put me within touching distance next to the small median where the car was. Since the passenger died instantly and the driver was able to walk out of the car before collapsing the car wasn't quite a priority until the fire truck got there to make sure a fire wasn't a possibility. So the cops didn't even consider covering the body at this time and this is when the part I wrote before happen.

The wreck was so bad that it took over 2 hours to get the car unwrapped from the truck and to be able to finally remove the passenger's body.