What a busy week! This week seemed to fly by.
Here are a few things I have been doing:
- Bought a couple cases of canned corn – .27 cents/can
- Bought some gamma lids – using for food storage as well as making 5 gallon bucket kits
- Picked up a Center Point mini red dot sight. Basically a budget Bushnell TRS-25. Bought on sale for $24.95.
- Bought a Tru-Glo Micro Laser. Again – bought on sale. Not sure what I will put it on yet.
- Bought a 2 TB external hard drive for backing up and organizing – well – pretty much everything. Using it currently to store downloaded preparedness-related video’s and scanned magazines.
- Finished the book Ashes of the Unspeakable: Book 2. Excellent!!! Started A Haunt for the Jackals by Mark Goodwin – book 3 of the series.
OK – how about you?
What prepping have you done over the last week?
Rourke
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Wife and I felt stale in the gym, so we.hired a trainer for new ideas. US$20 well-spent!
Actually did little really, helped my sons prep by selecting them each a 10/22 on sale to give them for Christmas. Also chose each of them a shotgun from my collection, a 12 gauge pump. Will provide 2 of them 9mm pistols and 200 rounds of ammo for each weapon. The son with a 9mm and 45 cal gets a 30-06. I’ve been buying extras along since 1999 in case it hit the fan and my family needed to be ready. Now they will all be practiced up and ready to go. The best part is I have room in the safe to add some more now.
– Keep Looking UP
Oh yes, also Finished the book Ashes of the Unspeakable: Book 2. Very good. And finished the Haunt for the Jackals by Mark Goodwin – book 3 of the series.
– Keep Looking UP
I’ve had a 2 TB external hard drive for about 2 years and have my wife’s photos stored on it (saves space on my pc), our important documents, and all my prepping info. BTW: Just found a website that had over 30 survival manuals (mostly military) free for downloading. I put all of those on my external also.
If anyone interested the in them go to
http://rationalsurvivor.com/
Resources: Prepper Library and download any manuals that you might want. There are other resources on the sight that you might be interested in. Enjoy! vandal67
mainly just got things ready for this weekend storm rolling through our area, first real snow of the season for our area and arctic cold next week. Kind of disappointed so far but majority of it isn’t suppose to hit until Sun into Monday (6-7 inches total). The bulk of it is just across the state line in Michigan. Worked on getting two snow blowers at work running with fresh fuel, new paddles, spark plugs and adjusted carbs. Bought 10gal of premium fuel to run in them. Test ran emergency generator and smaller of two kerosene heaters, picked up 5gal of k1 kerosene and a string of white LED Christmas lights to run off a 75w inverter for emergency lighting – they are BRIGHT!
Here’s a site I’ve been going through of old time things in pdf files, hundreds of skills that were modern 50 plus years ago http://www.survivorlibrary.com/?page_id=1014
I am looking forward to your thoughts on that new red dot, Rourke.
We got in assorted food items, all bought on-sale over the black Friday weekend. There were some really good deals to be had.
Please, note…also, contrary to what “tech articles” say. Hard drives still fail. So it’s best to keep duplicates. Also, even though the tech industry is using newer materials for hard drives. They will still lose their magnetic resonance, ability to work, due to known use. I’ve seen a lot go bad in all conditions. Just keep a dup. There cheap enough now a days to keep more on hand.
ditto on what Capt.Michael said .. two is one and one is none.. update one and then drag to the other .. I travel with one copy and keep the other protected with a laptop.
Same thing with flash drives .. Costco had 256GB flash for $40.00 recently.
and If I ever quit washing them it’ll help.
Done some bartering with honey and other goodies ..
Harvested a bunch of this years chickens and ducks and incubating some more..
Have to to the quail now .. they are eating me out of house and home in cold weather .. Need to get a vacuum packer ..
Will be spreading all the accumulated manure to the garden area and tilling it in as soon as I can get that cold natured beast of a tractor cranked.. AND the ground thaws some… drained my Totes they were freezing ..
New car a repairs will slow me down a bit so I’m working on learning about my HAM equipment more and doing some organizing of food and shelf items.