Weekly Prep Thread 20 Apr - 26 Apr
 

Whatta week for the weather here! Was mid-seventies until Thursday, then had frost Thursday and Friday night, then back into the seventies and eighties! Weird.

Anyway, mizNCO took kidNCO to TX for a visit with her parents and it was up to me to cover the tomatoes, cukes, squash, peppers and other vegetables for those frost nights.

I don't think I lost any, all look good.

This week's prep activities included:

Got a shipment in from Long Life Foods
Purchased a few ounces of silver
Inventoried ammo

Anybody doing anything interesting out there?

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 20 Apr - 26 Apr
 

Defense : Picked up 500 rounds of 5.56 and 1000 rounds 7.62x39

PMs: One GAE and four SAE

Preps: Added 100lbs of rice, 50lbs split peas and a few flats of veggies and a six pack of SPAM.

HUB

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 20 Apr - 26 Apr
 

Defense: Bought multiple knifes and axes. Decided on the handgun and rifle I am purchasing with my gubberment tax rebate check + a little from PM sales.

PMs: 12 SAEs and 24 Silver Maples and $20 face in Dimes

Preps: Started on this with a few hundred in Mountain House products, some emergency ration bars, 6 5 Gallon Collapsible Water carriers and 12 cases of bottled water (short term on the bottled water)

Trying to play catch-up. I hope I have enough time.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 20 Apr - 26 Apr
 

Purchases this week:

Hand vacuum pump for sealing jars.
2 bags of oxy absorbers
Several 5lb bags of jasmine rice
Another 14 cans of spam
Grabbed case of hand soap on sale 10 for $10 at the local Krogers
A few more quarts of vegatable oil


Trying to find 1/2 gallon mason jars locally

Transformed office into food storage area. Moving food storage from small closet to pantry sure makes it look like you have ALOT less.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 20 Apr - 26 Apr
 

Found one box of 1/2 gallon jars at a local grocery store today....8.53/bx of 6.

Picked up my beef from the local processor today....about 400lbs of REALLY nice beef.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 20 Apr - 26 Apr
 

Took delivery of a grain mill, 6 6gal buckets, multiple and varied size plastic water bags. On order are O2 absorbers, mylar bags, and spare parts for my M70ab2. 100oz Ag coming.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 20 Apr - 26 Apr
 

I'm building a pole barn for all the crap I've accumulated.



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Re: Weekly Prep Thread 20 Apr - 26 Apr
 

Just one ? Hope it's a big one.


Mumwaldee: Yeah, it takes same lid as a wide mouth quart or pint.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 20 Apr - 26 Apr
 

Bought:

50 lbs of rice
6 lbs of pasta
50 lbs of sugar
12boxes if cornbread mix
24 pk of toilet paper

...oh but next week will be glorious!!! Cashed in my IRA, got the check yesterday. Glorious i tell you!

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 20 Apr - 26 Apr
 

Bought 24 #10 cans of rice, beans and wheat.
Went shooting this weekend, good times, good times.
Bought 300 rounds 9mm to replace ammo from shooting and add to stock.
Worked on the garden, built compost container from scrap wood.
Built nest boxes for chicken coop.
Reinforced the bottom of fence with chickenwire to keep those suckers from sneaking underneath.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 20 Apr - 26 Apr
 

I went to my local grocery store today and the biggest bags of white rice they had were 25 pounds. Anyway at the checkout I was buying a couple of these and I managed to rip the hell out of one of them dumping 25 lbs of rice all over the cash register and the area around it.

Whoops. They gave me another bag and I didn't have to pay for that one even though I felt pretty damn bad.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 20 Apr - 26 Apr
 

Took a vacation this week. Visit to the state of Florida, great weather, but I somehow feel guilty that I'm not home working around the 'stead. There is so much work I need to be doing. Well the rest is well earned and it will hopefully give me new energy to attack the work when I return to Ohio the end of the week.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 20 Apr - 26 Apr
 

LT.....time away to recharge personal battery is also a good thing.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 20 Apr - 26 Apr
 

Thanks Andy, I even did some walking on the beach and fishing..., no luck yet on the fishing, but I won't be eating them if I do catch them as we're living in a motel.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 20 Apr - 26 Apr
 

Went to Sams,
50# Bag of Popcorn!!
Lot's of cleaning supplies.
Vitamins and Glucosamine for my screwed up joints.
Giant roll of heavy tin foil.
132 zip lock freezer bags.
5 tubes toothpaste.
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Local Rite Aid going out of buisiness 30-50% off
little shampoos
disinfectant
Garden seeds
food containers
Mouthwash... etc.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 20 Apr - 26 Apr
 

Well actually, I was thinking of building just one pole barn because I only have one Zeppelin.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 20 Apr - 26 Apr
 

Bought 25 pounds of rice, gallon olive oil.
Put up some tall poles at top of driveway, looking all over for a couple bleached skulls to post on top.
Any body have any extra skulls for trade or sale?

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 20 Apr - 26 Apr
 

Thinking about buying a few more #10 cans of MH freeze dried food stuffs (whatever may be available at the moment). I recently purchased 1,000 rds of 5.56 and 4 30rd mags. I still need more mags. Also looking into portable water filtration. Picked up a case of those chafing fuel cans. I'm holding out on more silver for now. Need more SHTF preps. The recent earthquake sort of greased my wheels.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 20 Apr - 26 Apr
 

ahahahaaa....no backup Zeppelin ?

I built a guy down the road a 50x200 pole building a few years back.....nice building !