what did you do for preparedness/survival this week?

[rockriver]

just,
placing caches is a great idea. i haven't done that..

we've been out of town.. came back and found english peas ready to pick.
shelled about 2 quarts.. are first of the year.
also ... green beans. a peck
yahoo.

[justanothergunnut]

just,
placing caches is a great idea. i haven't done that..

we've been out of town.. came back and found english peas ready to pick.
shelled about 2 quarts.. are first of the year.
also ... green beans. a peck
yahoo.

The only bad thing is its one of those things that takes some faith. Some of the cached items can have some decent monetary value and I haven't placed one with say a rifle in it and left it for 3+ years that is where the faith part comes in. Places like this help though. I know of at least one person here who has retrieved fairly long term caches. So that experience helps. Btw its always nice to come home to a bunch of bush beans..

[seraphima]

Cultivated numerous beds of veggies. Starting to eat a bit out of the garden- chives, lettuce, rhubarb. Raining , -did a lot of inside cleaning and preparing for family visits so that I won't have to do them when the weather gets nicer and I can garden. Still have a lot of garden 'to-do's. Also catching up on dentist, doctor, and routine tests while this year's insurance covers most or all of it. Need to get the wood stacked, but it's too wet out.

[rockriver]

bought a ecw sleeping bag system from jrh...
was happy to get it, open it and spread 3 big "bags" around the den.

i thought it added character and charm to the room.
the bride thought i should clean up my mess.
after some discussion, i won.
i won when i finally decided to read the instructions on how to put it all back together and into the stuff bag, and stored it in the appropriate place !

[rockriver]

good news. found a small plastic jig that the bream and the bass loved..
just a little over an inch... protein... yahoo.

bad news... 3 # bass went nuts in shallow water. took the lure with him.
got it out for some quality time with associate whose been away from home for a while....

now i can't find lure at stores.

[WiseOwl]

Starting to get the yard going at the new place.

Pulled some non needed flowers, planted some needed ones. (per the wife)


Started clearing some of the swamp grass/ snake hider, still got another half an acre of crap that is waist high to go.


Bought 2 5lb bags of potato "seeds" gonna get them in the ground in the next day or two. One two POTATO!!!!!

[Rmplstlskn]

Cleaned up my "survival" ebooks and made sure they were on all my various ereaders...

Dusted off my data encryption and email encryption software and made sure all my mobile devices could send and receive PGP-encoded messages using the proper keys...

Made sure all my personal files (family pics) and scans of important documents were sorted, distributed, and backed up on a remote server...

I am on a backup and security tangent with all the NSA spying news...

[tech]

Getting the tower and associated wiring ready for a couple wind turbines. If all goes well, they'll be producing by this weekend. :)

[kappydell]

I too am working on fishing skills, as well as practicing preparing & eating the pan and rough fish from the local river (2 blocks away). Yes, the pan fish are small, but they are also caught in larger numbers. Carp, drum, & catfish are thrown away or released by those who do not know how to fix them, and they grow very large. Tonight I ate carp, a fish I was taught from childhood was no good to eat. It was good; I used a recipe and cleaning directions from my state's Dept of Natural Resources specifically for carp. (They put an excellent rough fish cookbook several years ago, free for the asking.) The refuse from cleaning them goes into the garden, to be buried under the walking paths that will become next years planting rows. Talk about fertilizer! PLUS I get the fun of the catching. This is prepping I truly enjoy 'practicing'. In the last month (since I started) I have caught crappies, sun fish, freshwater drum, bullheads galore, flat-head catfish (nice sized...5 lb and up) and even a Northern Pike (a favored game fish in these parts). I have only one caveat...bait must be free. I use nightcrawlers caught in my yard - they work well.

[rockriver]

obtained some diesel and "no ethanol" fuel...
added some jrh pri-g and pri-d
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went to sgammo. they have a good price on the big bb's i would like to get...
ahhhh... closed for a holiday.
i finally decide to get a real bb gun and ammo... and the best store/price i can find is closed..

[Grand58742]

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went to sgammo. they have a good price on the big bb's i would like to get...
ahhhh... closed for a holiday.
i finally decide to get a real bb gun and ammo... and the best store/price i can find is closed..

Yeah, they do that once a year. Tends to be infuriating, but also means they get deliveries and stock up even more.

[motesjm]

Getting the tower and associated wiring ready for a couple wind turbines. If all goes well, they'll be producing by this weekend. :)

I'd love to see a thread about this installation if you have time.

[kappydell]

Still perfecting my fishing skills - tonight we fish a new spot on the river, instead of the lagoon (where we are generally pretty successful). Also finishing putting up some pickled carp.

[kappydell]

Still perfecting my fishing skills - tonight we fish a new spot on the river, instead of the lagoon (where we are generally pretty successful). Looking to catch some big catfish. Also finishing putting up some pickled carp.

[DIM TIM]

Went to the local gun show yesterday and bought an extra .50 cal. ammo can. Got a few useful items this past week while scrapping metals for recycling for FRN's. The most useful was a cast iron cooking pot with a lid (not a dutch oven). Needs cleaning and re-seasoning, but is in pretty good shape.
Last year I found a family size (8x10') cabin tent that was being pitched to the trash because one of the support poles was missing. Decided that it was time to get it out of mothballs and see if I could fix it. By using a piece of metal, electrical conduit, and a couple of connectors, I was able to replace the lost piece, and gained a good piece of camping gear in doing so.