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Penham
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Posted: May 01 2016 at 8:12pm |
So what's everyone going to work in this month? I have decided to work on soap products, mainly because I found a good sale/clearance today. I got generic bars of soap on clearance for $1.15 for 6 bars (equivalent to Dove & Safeguard) I bought 7 packs, so that should last awhile and I saved a lot of money. I also got 5 very large bottles of dish detergent for .75 each.
I got my raised bed garden ready (since everything was given to me free), but haven't planted anything in it yet. Hopefully get something in it this week. My plum trees have a few plums on this year, the first time. My 3 new apple trees I just planted are all blossoming. My peach tree is loaded with peaches. |
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Well I have to wait unti it stops snowing to even think I may plant a garden! So just looking at what I want to plant.
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KiwiMum
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It's late Autumn here, the equivalent of November in the Northern hemisphere, and we've had an extended summer. I was picking ripe strawberries yesterday for lunch, which makes me wonder if we'll pay for it with a really cold winter.
We've topped up our diesel tank, and I'm going to load up on matches as our supply seemed to have almost vanished. I guess you don't take any notice as you take one from here, and another from there, and before you know it, they've all gone. I've also found a good cheap outlet for batteries. I bought a whole heap last week and will get some more this week. I'm sure I read that they keep for ages.
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arirish
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I normally cut wood this time of year but there's 190 acres across the road from me that's being logged and the guy logging it is selling fire wood for $120 a cord, delivered and stacked! I'm going to buy a cord every month until he's done! I'm also going to buy up fat wood while it's on sale!
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Buy more ammo!
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KiwiMum
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Airish, ask the guy if you can pick over the areas that have already been logged. My friends live next to a plantation that was logged last year and they picked over just a tiny bit of it and got more kindling than they could use. And pine cones. I'm sure they won't mind. You could pick a basket full every evening and then sit back for 5 years doing nothing.
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hachiban08
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If hiking counts as prepping, I've been doing a lot of that. Also, need to get some otc preps and more pet preps.
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Be prepared! It may be time....^_^v
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jacksdad
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Hiking definitely counts - and in more ways than one. I hike with my son, whether it's with his Scout troop or just the two of us, and it definitely prepares you for situations that most people would have a hard time with. Much of the population would be hopelessly out of their depth if a few miles were placed between them and food/water/shelter with nothing but their feet to get them there.
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"Buy it cheap. Stack it deep"
"Any community that fails to prepare, with the expectation that the federal government will come to the rescue, will be tragically wrong." Michael Leavitt, HHS Secretary. |
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arirish
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KiwiMum- There aren't many pines in my part of the Ozark mountains (You would laugh at what we call a mountain here! Ours are 6-9 hundred meters not 3-4 thousand). Most of the trees are Oaks, Hickory's, Walnuts, Gums and wild Cherry. When we bought the place we planted some Loblolly Pines on the north side of the house for a future wind break but their not very big yet! We do get a few pine cones and as they grow we'll get more! The loggers here bulldoze the tops into huge piles and when it's wet they burn them. It's an awful waste!
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Buy more ammo!
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