To be prepared for a crisis, every Prepper must establish goals and make long-term and short-term plans. In this column, the SurvivalBlog editors review their week’s prep activities and planned prep activities for the coming week. These range from healthcare and gear purchases to gardening, ranch improvements, bug out bag fine-tuning, and food storage. This is something akin to our Retreat Owner Profiles, but written incrementally and in detail, throughout the year. We always welcome you to share your own successes and wisdom in your e-mailed letters. We post many of those –or excerpts thereof — in this column, in the Odds ‘n Sods Column, and in the Snippets column. Let’s keep busy and be ready!
Jim Reports:
After fighting off a recurring head cold, I’m back up to full speed and plunging into projects around the Rawles Ranch.
On Thursday and Friday, I took a trip to a gun show, seeking inventory for Elk Creek Company. I’m finding it increasingly difficult to find affordably-priced pre-1899 antiques. Bidenflation is with us, in earnest. It is driving up prices across the board. My advice: Get your wealth out of paper and into tangibles. Those will be our only safe refuge, as inflation rages. Yes, I do expect inflation to worsen!
It looks like I’ll soon be able to put our snowplow in storage. But I’ll watch the long-range weather forecast before I decide when to switch back to summer tires for our SUV and our pickup.
And now that the snow is coming off, I need to move a large winter accumulation of manure from our corrals. Fun, fun!
Avalanche Lily Reports:
Dear Readers,
Sorry folks, I have not done much of anything prepping-wise.
I spent time prepping a bathroom, our laundry room, and our Great room for painting. I did put one coat of paint on a bedroom wall and painted our hallway. It is already brightening up our home. Jim and I removed some heirloom items from our home as part of our basic remodel. These were items that our sons wanted, that we delivered to them this week.
One morning Miss Violet and I visited with daughter-in-law and the grandsons. At that time our son was at work. It was great fun playing board games with them, making paper mache airplanes for them, holding the newest baby, reading Calvin and Hobbes to them, and having great conversations with their mom. We love them very much.
I spent some time scraping up composted hay in the loafing area in between ice chunks. When the rest of the ice melts, I will complete the job. Of course we still have stalls and the corrals to clean up, later.
We ran out of fir cones that we use as kindling this past week. Since an area under some pine trees had melted all of it’s snow underneath them, I collected several totes of wet fir cones and brought them into our woodshed to slowly dry out. In a week or so I will be able to use them for kindling.
Miss Eloise caught another cold this week. I brought her a care package of her favorite juices, garlic and Lugol’s iodine for steaming, and Vicks Vaporub. I also brought her some salmon and home-grown potatoes — some of her favorite foods. She is getting a big dose of adult living lately, since she moved out. I miss having our regular conversations. I don’t understand how some parents are glad when their kids move out…
I read this writing from Ann Barnhardt of the medical aspects of the Crucifixion of Jesus.
You all ought to look at Ann’s articles on Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum (WEF) that were published on Friday, March 11th. I don’t share Ann’s Catholic beliefs of doctrine and practice, but she has a lot of very interesting information concerning folks in current leadership roles.
I am going through Exodus 7, for my Hebrew translation study.
I took some short walks this week and rode my bike in the parking lot for the first time this year.
May you all have a very blessed and safe week.
– Avalanche Lily, Rawles
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