Posted on 06/24/2016 5:02:51 PM PDT by TMSuchman
Greetings Everyone. Time for us once again to gather around the computers & speak of what we need to do & are going to do if & when our civilization falls down flat upon it's face.
And before we begin, I know that I am kind of lax about putting this thread out. I/we have our priorities in place. and for me I have a wife & son both with special needs that come first & foremost in my life. Then comes our homestead, and stuff down the line from there.
My garden is doin ok, since we are having the triple H's[hazy,hot & humid] here in Mo. And I'm fightin the garden raiders. I'm about to break out the air rifles [named "Rodent Remover',"Splat Stick","Bunny Blaster",Squirrel Smacker"] for their finial judgement. I also over the Father's Day weekend got to go learn a new skill, It is bow fishing. I seem to be half way decent too. I just need to get a lot more practice before I can chalk it up to being able to put food on the table. My state's dept. of conservation put the class on for free. This is one resource that we need to be using for our continual training & education. I seem to get new ideas from them all the time.
Also a lot of you out there would like to see articles on different subjects, like when & where is the best areas to "bug out" to, or how to build the perfect fortress for you & your family. I have NO problem with someone else jumping in here and writing an article from time to time. I for one do not have all the answers [and a lot of the time am "winging" it]. So if you feel like you have an issue that is burning you up on the inside, please feel free & jump in & put it out for all of us to read & discuss. [Just my $.02 worth btw] I am also gettin my windmill system just about ready to test deploy, [just to see if there are any "bugs" in it] And putting my "junkyard" ideas to work. If the wind systems work, then I'll tackle a solar system, backups.
Also has anyone else [besides me] been watchin the price of gold & silver today? Gold is $1318.20 and went up $50.00 to day, silver is $17.79 up $.38 today all based upon the events in England & Europe. Unrest makes the price of gold & silver go up. So keep a close eye out on the world events.
Please keep us updated on the windmill project.
I have Tobacco too.. but the cigarette thing was more of a warning than a scenario.
People have addictions. And addictions make the mind do strange gymnastics. Maybe it’s cigs, maybe it’s booze, maybe it’s pain pills.
The problem with radios is the same as the one with the Internet. You never know who you are talking to——A bad guy or a good guy. It is very easy to deceive someone over the radio. BE CAREFUL!
A little behind on the preps since we moved here, no garden any more. The head on crash last Jan didn’t help either.
Watch yer knot
Sounds like you two enjoy a continuing competition!
No winner, no loser!
I will take it under advisement.
I am the Mother-IN-Law, so it is not easy! I am also a YANKEE to this AK, AL, Son of the South! LOL
Thinking...No, it would be taken as interference or criticism. We are so very different.
“There is actually a prepper [CB?] channel. It is channel # 3, for now. But there is no real network yet. I can cover radio freq.’s for preppers if you want to.”
That would be outstanding!
I had no idea there was a prepper channel, as I got my CB only recently, and don’t use it at all in town. On the highway, I’ve set it on scan, and just listened to “whatever.”
FWIW, I heard stories about at least one truck full of emergency supplies getting hijacked during the Hurricane Rita response. Have no idea if true, but certainly food for thought.
My plan was to start with CB, and graduate to ham.
I think we’ve had general threads about SHTF comms—focusing on equipment— in the past.
But heck yeah! A thread about **prepper channels** would be fantastic!!!
After 51 years of marriage, it’s more like acceptance of who we are as individuals and laughing about the silly differences.
I give him advice, and know that he’ll ignore it. He ignores it, and knows that I’ll say “told ya so”. LOL
“The problem with radios is the same as with the internet. You never know who you are talking to... BE CAREFUL!”
Wise words indeed. I might add, you never know who’s lurking and eavesdropping—people who have never even made their presence known.
So far I’m just listening, not talking.
TMSuchman says there is actually a prepper channel.
See posts # 77 and 87.
Always interested in the lifestyle of being prepared. Grew up in tornado alley where we have frequent electrical outages, sometimes for days.
Had one storm go through in August, during the hottest part of the summer. Dad was living with us and was on oxygen 24 hrs. per day. We were with out power for several days.
Hooked up the generators, and kept the refrigerator, freezer, oxygen compressor, tv and 2 window air conditioners going. Had plenty of water stored, so it didn’t matter about the well pump for that short period.
Would have been a medical problem for my Dad though. The way it was, he was just able to go on as usual.
(Moment of silence for our dear /Johnny.)
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If you’re growing tobacco, also look for instructions on how to cure it. When not cured properly, it tastes awful! (According to smokers I know.)
A little practice carving pipes wouldn’t hurt. It’ll help expand your market in a post-SHTF environment.
Tobacco can also be used as an insecticide. Just be careful around nightshades, as they can share diseases.
“A little practice carving pipes wouldn’t hurt.”
LOL. True. Pipes can also be quickly made from aluminum foil . I learned this by observing crackheads when I still lived in the inner city,
They’d just drag a chair out on the sidewalk, pull out a piece of “tin ferl” and get busy.
Roll the tinfoil around a stick or pencil to make the stem, bend one end upward. Make a rounded bowl with your index finger, mash it onto the turned-up end of the stem. Poke a tiny hole in the bowl with a pin.
I figured, huh, wonder if that skill might come in handy one day?
Note to preppers: lay in a supply of “tin ferl.”
“Neighbors who pose a threat are a serious issue.”
Very wise observation. But what about neighbors you trust?
Signing up with a good online background-check service, is well worth a few dollars. You’re not invading anyone’s privacy, as these services only scan public records.
Also, do go to your state’s sex offender registry—which is free— where you can enter your own address, to find out how many, the addresses, and identities of sex offenders who are living within a radius of your home.
I discovered that a seemingly nice neighbor had served over a decade in prison for child rape, and is on parole. Also, I had hired another neighbor once as a yard man, a very funny, personable guy. Turns out he’s been incarcerated multiple times, from the 80s to 2008, for forgery, burglary, theft of credit cards.
Both of these individuals have told me they are hunters and possess weapons and ammo. Both claim to be born again Christians, and seem to act that way. For now.
But a more rounded-out picture of what these individuals have been capable of in the past, is very useful information to know and use wisely should a SHTF scenario arise. Either or both could turn out to valuable allies, or attackers. Neither knows that I am aware that they are felons.
For now, I’ll keep it under my hat, while making a point to NOT invite either of these individuals into my house, nor divulge my own status as a prepper.
Thanks for the ping, TIK!
LOL!
Well done, greeneyes. I can’t recall if you can some of your vegetables.
I’d love to have a greenhouse.
Agreed!
Wood sorrel, dandelions, fiddlehead ferns, swamp cabbage, stinging nettle, japanese knotweed...we have all of these in abundance here in new england.
Excellent post, mumblypeg.
Yes, I do can the veggies. Lots of Green Beans and lots of pickles. Pickled Zuke spears, dill pickles, pickled beets and pickled green beans. Have done tomatoes, and made salsa.
Tomato harvest rarely gives me enough to do much with those. What we can’t eat, I stick in the freezer. Then use it to make soup or whatever in the winter.
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