Posted on 08/31/2012 8:35:42 PM PDT by Kartographer
OLdie, but a GOODIE!
Hank Williams Jr. - Country Boy Can Survive
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Weekly preparedness thread. Post your tips, good buys, goals reached and questions here!
My buy this week was Nesquick powder 14 oz can $1.99 at a local Mexican Good chain.This will make powdered milk much more palatable. A plus it’s in metal cans! Yes not the cardboard cans that it comes in in the American version. The cans should keep this fine to use for good long time!
This coming week, I can concentrate on goodies. One of these is a deep-freeze. Another is a power supply for the well pump.
Since I just came back into flush times, today I purchased 2 boxes of the Idahoan dehydrated hash browns from Sams Club(tm). The packaging isn't as robust as the Rainy Day Foods(tm) taters, but if I'm going to keep nipping into them every morning, a couple of boxes seems like a good investment.
/johnny
Local place has this stuff called Criders Chicken and Dumplings for $1.99
A while back, I bought a couple cans and tried it, it was excellent! Very versatile also, you can add veggies or whatever to your hearts content.
Went back a day later and bought a case.
Was in the place yesterday and they still had it, so I bought another 4 cans, tomorrow I will probably finish off what it takes to make another case.
They also had these 10 packs of cheapo lighters for $1.99, so I bought two, and will probably buy more.
Selco points out over and over how important lighters were, so important that he rigged something up so he could refill them.
If my daughter had driven us to Sams Club in her pickup truck... I would have had a small one to find space for tonight. Small, but cheap, and they had the electrical specs for it. Once it was at temp (full of stuff) I could run it off the solar panels I have extant. With enough power to keep the radios and e-book happy.
/johnny
I tried to pick blackberries the other day on my way home from Seattle but couldn't find a good area without a major road but I got a few...will try again in a week or two...many were still red...
and two boxes of peaches to take care of as well....
All of my kids could make fire by the time they were 7. Batteries and steel wool, flint and steel, magnifying glass, bow method, road flares on gas-soaked wood, whatever.
Fire defines human. Lighters are nice. Alternative skill sets are required, here at chez briarhaven, anyway.
/johnny
We have requisites for the deep-freeze. The Bride is a disabled vet, with back issues; this means very specific height and depth needs, or she can't get to the contents.
Currently, we're vulnerable to a grid-down situation because we'd lose power for the well pump. Hence the need for the solar backup...
“I purchased 2 boxes of the Idahoan dehydrated hash browns”
Interesting - I have been buying the smaller boxes of those hash browns at the grocery.
My portable oven came this week.
Through no fault of my own, I have ended up with absoutely no fishing gear. Now, guys, don’t laugh - I bought a LADIES Shakespeare rod and cast reel and it came with a small tackle box full of enough stuff to catch fish. I’ll get some more lures. YES, IT HAS SOME PINK ON IT!
Neighbor froze some home-grown leeks without doing that. Like eating nylon infused cardboard.
"Stocking Up" by Rodale Press 1977 (Ed, Carol Huppington Stoner, ISBN# 0-87857-167) is really good info on stocking up (go figure). It's a dead tree book, but I keep it around.
/johnny
I got packs and packs of the quad zero steel wool around, use it sometimes for gun touchups, sometimes woodworking, whatever..
The nice thing about a superfine steel wool is even a 1.5 V battery is enough to get it going.
Yard sales are good for used fishing stuff.
I have two - bar fire starters and a big bag of laundry lint for starting the fire.
I bought strike anywhere matches years ago, a big batch of them, and they are sealed in large cans to keep dampness away.
Also have boxes of Coglins (think that’s the name) sure start matches that strike even when wet.
Also have a block of Bic lighters (think it was 25 in that block) from Sams.
I definitely will have fire.
I tend toward field expedient because I always seem to be stuck at the ass end of nowhere when gear gets passed out.
/johnny
Our heat index today was 105. Not going to garage sales - can barely make myself go to grocery when milk runs out.
We have been shopping at Lehman’s Hardware in Kidron, Ohio for such things as gas freezers etc. We are about to order a Blizzard Upright Freezer, 18 cu ft...
An upright freezer lets you enjoy the full value of bulk purchasing or freezing your produce, meat and wild game, while taking up much less floor space than a chest freezer. Blizzard freezers give you the most space for your money.
18 cu ft Upright:
4 quick freeze interior shelves, 5 deep pocket door shelves, 1 deep slide out basket
Built-in digital wireless thermometer.
CSA approval pending.
62”H × 31”W × 36”D, 340 lb.
Price is $2595, and they will change the orifice for natural gas use (we have free gas, and when push comes to shove we will run a line directly from the well.
Just sayin... you can get tons of survival-useful stuff at yard sales.
Me, I’m set on the fishing end, living in the northwest and been fishing for salmon and steelhead for the last 20 years. Also have two or three of the collapsible poles with spinning reels loaded w/ about 10 pound test.
Hint for fishing type people: it may or may not be legal in your local jurisdiction, but stream trout LOVE white corn!
Yeppers. One trick in a big bag of tricks.
I got to spend a quality day with my daughter and some of the grandkids. Turns out that:
a) I'm more mellow and laid back than when I was raising her... and
b) I'm a harsh SOB for requiring certain skill sets and behavior.... and
c) Grandpa John teaches cool stuff you don't learn in school... He rocks.
I had a great day. ;)
/johnny
“I always seem to be stuck at the ass end of nowhere when gear gets passed out.”
You could make silk out of a sow’s ear. It was about a week ago I realized for the first time in my long life, I had NO fishing anything. Everyone should have line and hooks.
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