What is your prepping focus and/or goals in 2014?
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Back to where I fail over and over again on... GETTING IN GOOD SHAPE! For one who is so strong on convictions and seeking YHWH, I sure am WEAK at will power and "beating my flesh into submission..."
After that, now that my daughter is old enough and big enough, work with her on marksmanship and firearm skills.
Increase FAMILY survival TEAM skills and practice them more. No suitable communities for us have been found, so it is just US, my family, as we watch the inevitable come down around us... May take a decade, but we are passed the U-turn point, what is in motion will continue in motion.
Continue on being as prepared as possible.
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Getting the fudge out of Jax...Three days and 900 miles later the search continues...Salutations,
Templar
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Continuing into year 2 at my property.
More clearing, chopping, cutting and removing a chunk of the 100's of football sized rocks on my land. We have 1 the size of a dishwasher that I really want.
Try and find someone with a tractor with a bushhog and a tiller so I wont have to till up the gardens with a small front tine tiller. A tractor could do this in a day, the small tiller about 4 weekends.
Plant fruit trees and berry bushes. Already clearing the spots for everything.
Plant and clear the area for my food plot. Gotta feed the deer and get the bucks big and strong.
Contribute more to LTS food.
Going to dibble into the solar. Going to start with a small set up to run just the pool pump and maybe the well.
Build a pole barn to cover my wood and my mower.
Get a cheap $300 or less metal shed from Home Depot to store outdoor tools and lawn equipment in.
Add some more ammo the collection.
Take some sort of shooting and self defense courses.
Take a first aid course (company is going to pay for this and other medical classes since I volunteered to be that guy at the facility)You know what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like this?
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Enlarging the garden plots and putting up the greenhouse are top of the list, followed by increasing firewood storage and increasing attic insulation.
Repairing a broken post on one of the grape arbors fits in there somewhere as well.
Increasing medical stores and re-tasking a metal shed strictly for fuel storage.This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. ~Elmer Davis
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Automating the homestead. I took a new job that is taking up much more of my time than the last. I'm trying to identify time consuming repetitive tasks that can be automated - everything from irrigating fruit trees to feeding the livestock. And of course I'm trying to do most of this low tech.
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For me it's finish construction of the lean-to's for my shed, finding a suitable trailer for my planned needs, an emergency station next to the back door, and extras of the 3 B's.
If I can do these four things this year, that will be SOMETHING GREAT.
I still have a couple more months of payments on my primary B.O.V., but as soon as they are done the money that would have gone there is going towards a trailer for work and such.
The lean-to's (two to be exact) are my major concern for homestead construction projects this year. The first is about 80% complete (cold weathr came on me too quick to finish), and will be a storage area. The second is as yet unstarted, but will be easily assembled, and once completed will serve two functions.
1. A cool, shady spot to sit, and a dry place when it rains.
2. An extra storage spot during the winter months.
The emergency station by the back door will be a set of wire shelving to provide extra storage space for kitchen and household items, as well as a spot for our B.o.B.'s and cases of bottled water. I got the idea from a linked site elsewhere, and it made a lot of good sense to me for our preparedness needs, so with the holidays over and done with I can start to work more on getting this simple project done.
The additional B.B.& B.'s is something that everyone tries to concentrate on for their preps, but I'm placing a munch more concerted effort on these three items this year.
If all works out quickly and smoothly enough, I may even get some extra time to spend looking for a new homestead location nearer to a good friend's place for mutual support."It has been said that preparedness and being prepared promotes fear. This isn't true.......being UNPREPARED is what promotes fear"
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thanks guys.
looking at the above posts..
I wish you guys all lived closer...
I'd like to swap out some work..
examples:
help tim do some lean to's so he'd come help me with mine.
plow/till up wise's garden, and help him plant trees in exchange for some shovel work.
help mote automate, then use his ideas to automate some of my projects.
help tech take down his greenhouse so I'd learn how to put one up.
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high priority for us.
prepare for the rising cost of necessities
increasing food production.
getting more involved in our community.
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Rock,
Sir, I have 3 shovels and 2 good pair of boots. My standard options are sweet tea, good hospitality and good conversation.
I think we are about 120 miles and some small towns away from each other.
Lets make it happen Cap'n!
:)You know what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like this?
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Get a small battery bank setup. I got a Charger...next to purchase is a Deep Cycle battery. The purpose is NOT to supply power to my whole house and to run everything, the purpose is to be able to charge cell phones and run some low wattage lights via inverters.
Convert my raised bed into a wood core bed aka Hugulkultur. Basically I will remove most of the soil and then put wood in the center of the bed and cover the wood with the soil. In about 3 years I am supposed to not have to irrigate this bed.
Learn more about Food Forests and urban permaculture.
Have my wife teach me more about first aid, beyond what I got in the Army.
Pay extra on student loans."It's a trap!!!!" -- Admiral Ackbar
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#10 can storage rather than just 5 gal pails for long term and mason jars for short term. Have an LDS contact which should make this happen better and cheaper.
PVS 14 to take better control of the night rather than just current ruskie stuff.
Hoop house to add an extra month on each end of the growing cycle.
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