Doomsday Preppers Part Deux

[protus]

and the blessings just continue, dont wanna see that PAW video with you and "P" in your southern idaho attire

i bet we could get 100k hits in 2 hours with that one :P

[Matt In Oklahoma]

we don't have a "dancing" haha pole in any room in our house.

and the blessings just continue, dont wanna see that PAW video with you and "P" in your southern idaho attire

[protus]

My answer would be

LIFE

but..but..life isnt 1000d with multi or has a reflex sight and magpul stock....



good post!!! and spot on for what we all should prepare for....

[WiseOwl]

Right on LD3, right on!

[1Admin]

You know, this is going to come off really crappy...... but I think the thing I like most about watching this show on the net with the family was being able to counteract a lot of the BS flak we have gotten from honestly both sides of our families (mine and in laws) regarding how we live.

We live a pretty damn NORMAL life comparatively. I realize this is half the "lure" of reality TV shows, which makes me feel really crappy even posting this.

We live "differently" no doubt there, but we don't eat weeds regularly, I'm "familiar" with containers but we don't live in them, and while we exercise 3X a week as a family (workout with kettlebells and run), we don't have a "dancing" haha pole in any room in our house.

It's like that old Jeff Foxworthy joke "we are damn near royalty!" that he said when comparing his family to some in laws that were always in jail, etc.

We have all the conveniences of a modern suburban house- yet we produce our own power from real solar panels that have proven the test of time. We raise most all of our own veggies, fruits and meat but we don't spend "7 hours a day putting up food" (I call BS on that anyways). Our house looks like any normal house- the only difference is the walls are poured solid, there is no carpet in it and their are more south facing windows. The only thing that at first glance makes our place look different looks a lot like a type of older structure that's very common in our area. If you were from a different place you might not recognize what it looks like, but locals are often fooled by it. Besides, someone has to be coming specifically to our place to get near it enough to view any of these things. In 13 years we have only had one "turnaround" with a wrong address.

We don't drive buses, nor big trucks with huge "Molon Labe" or "Don't tread on me" stickers on them. We drive common vehicles that blend in and are also great on gas.

We live for today as well as the future. Our preps serve us NOW as well as they will serve us in the future.

When times are hard, and we have had our share, we have lived completely off our food storage for upwards of a year at a go. When we were struggling to get out of debt, we learned basic blacksmithing so we could repair garden tools instead of buying new ones- and to have something "here" to do.

In the summer, about the time school is done for the summer, we start putting up food. Usually plums are first around mid to late May. 100-200 quarts of beans normally come next and all have to be done within about a week or so. Succession planting? Sometimes planting half around the 1st of April and half the 10th works, often times the heat is killing the 2nd planting. Apples start coming in in earnest and that's the bulk of the fruit canning and drying. Potatoes are normally ready to be dug around this time but they at least have a little leeway in when, which is nice. Sweet corn comes next.

We eat a lot of the same things. We eat a lot of stuff that begins and ends it's life here on the homestead.

All of our heat comes from the woodlot here as well as close by friends that are always looking to cut some trees together and split up the wood. We keep at least 3 cords always on hand. For us, that's upwards of 3 winters. We purchased a hydraulic splitter a couple years ago as a time saver.

I work one business that is more or less a "normal" business and then I have another business that isn't what most would call normal LOL. So when we are talking with regular folks, we just mention the "normal" business and leave out mentioning the prep business. A couple of businesses gives us flexibility and multiple streams of income. Being debt free now for 3 years has helped like mad. Praise the Lord we were able to do that.

We have plenty of things we don't talk about on the net for several reasons, OPSEC obviously being the biggest one but also it's easy for someone to not understand that you've been at it for 2 1/2 decades and think your filfthy rich because of what you've done in the prep realm. Not rich, just CONSISTENT with what I've been doing since literally a teenager. Built a plan in my mind and over 26 years I worked the plan, brick by brick, bucket by bucket.

That being said, most everything I've done has dual uses. The fallback use is of course if something major actually does happen, the main use however is for LIFE.

I've turned them down a couple times, but if I was on this show and was asked "what are you preparing for?" My answer would be

LIFE

[protus]

just saw part 2 ..,,,lot better than 1..until i saw the liberals.....and the fatty clan.

[Matt In Oklahoma]

might have found a link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&src_vid=6AmxjMjpS90&annotation_id=annotation_306396&v=S3mEcOlScHk

[610Alpha]

Is NatGeo going to show this episode again? Anyone know the day and time?

Doomsday Preppers: Bullets, Lots of Bullets
Airs February 12th 1A et/pt

Doomsday Preppers: I Hope I Am Crazy
Airs February 14th 6P et/pt

[protus]

"... crackhead strippers...."
Somebody's been reading fiction on a zombie board!

no,, just used to what i see each day in my AO LOL

[qrprat77]

"... crackhead strippers...."
Somebody's been reading fiction on a zombie board!

[protus]

since the other thread is the shows break down..i didnt wanna hijack it,,so for your vieiwng pleasure....

also tried something different. recorded directly to the CPU vs through my digital recorder.

[protus]

prolly air it on tuesday. Or have it on demand . They did this last time. I missed it and had to watch it via their web site. I onlygottoview the 1st hour and now i cant get it at all ( though i can get last seasons and 3 other shows on their on demand channel)

[1Admin]

Is NatGeo going to show this episode again? Anyone know the day and time?

[tarheelsman71]

Didnt you see the hippie in LA with his sling? :) Who needs a gun when you have a sling? Worked for David.

[protus]

Bad entertainment, that was about it.

its the film version of some of the smaller post election/katrina forums.....
lotta newbs talking big with one or two btdt types to keep it real.....