What I did to prep today - add to this list

[bhowle]

OK, y'all, I'll start!

My baby chicks graduated to the big, fenced, chicken yard today and I bought 200 pounds of chicken feed and scratch mix.

Moved some bulk ammo from under the work bench to basement storage.

Tomorrow I need to find some dry ice to pack up 50 pounds of white rice in 5 gallon buckets with gamma seal lids.

What have you done today or this week?

-bob

[lynnie]

Well you picked a  bad week to ask me about preps. It's been 100 for three days and I won't even go outside if I can help it. But I did make a note to call my firewood guy and get more wood. You can tell a person reads at LATOC when it is 100 degrees out and they think about the woodstove 

[cygnus]

This week I:

* ordered another couple of ceramic filters for our doomer water purification setup.
* ordered another five gallon bucket of activated carbon
* pulled weeds in the garden
* cursed the cold weather - at least we don't have to use the heating or A/C - but I've about given up on tomatoes by the end of the month.   
* waxed a 2 lb cheddar wheel I made a few days ago and set it in the store room to age for 6 months or a year.   
* washed and dried some new raw wool I'm hoping to card later this week

[Ravenhawk]

Socked away 100 pounds of beans, 100 pounds of rice and 10,000 rounds ammo, more or less.

[Michelle in Ga]

Took a walk.

[Arabi]

This week:

Tilled the gardens and pulled weeds.

Planted some okra, purple hull peas, more nasturtiums, calendulas, kohlarbi, basil and fennel.

Harvested and dried some rue, chocolate mint, thyme & yarrow.

Cleared an area for the new chicken coop.

Made strawberry jam and froze sliced strawberries.

Fixed the pasture fence....again.


Tomorrow I will hopefully be picking yellow squash!

[ewemama]

So far:

Stocked up on oatmeal, mayo, tuna, kool-aid (All on sale for a buck)
Cursing rainy days cause I can't get in the garden
Bought more seed
Printed off recipes for canning butter and hamburger rocks
Reading books on self sufficient living.
Read a LOT on these forums

[Cornelian]

Not so much. I bought in about 4 kilo (I am too tired to convert this) of split green peas today, and some extra cans of cat food - the rest of the day, since 4 am, I have been on the phone doing frightful media interview after frightful media interview. (I'm sorry, I never mentioned PO, perhaps I should have done LOL).

[lady-t]

put 150.00 in diesel in the new motor home and started stocking the pantry in it.  figuring out how to add more propane later when the tanks run out.  going to buy an adapter hose for my large tank in the yard. 

[jtollison78]

Bought several person-months of food. I'll have about a years worth when the backordered cans of beef come in.

Put in an order for 4 rain barrels and 3 solar ovens (1 good one, and 2 cheap ones to evaluate)

[WhiteWolf]

Ordered 75 pounds of Soy Wax for making candles.

Making tressels for my newly planted cucumbers.

[yellowrocker]

Bought a bicycle last week for me and my wife.  Today I will buy lights for the bikes because I may be riding it to work in the early predawn darkness.

[lady-t]

i forgot,  i bought four cases of emergency candles.  72 candles per case, 4 hours per candle. total 288 candles, all for 15.00 for two cases,30.00 total,  about 11 cents each

score!!

edited for math error

[Cassandra]

Yesterday I received the 5 new chicks that I ordered last month, finally.  Today I'll be pulling some weeds from one of my garden beds.

[Pariah]

i forgot,  i bought four cases of emergency candles.  72 candles per case, 4 hours per candle. total 288 candles, all for 15.00 for two cases,30.00 total,  about 11 cents each

score!!

edited for math error

Did you order them online?  I'd like a taste of that deal...

Thanks,