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:
We still have patchy snow on the ground and we found that we were running low on stored hay. So I made a trip to a nearby town — just over an hour away — and bought four tons of Timothy/Grass hay. I was shocked to see it priced at $220 per ton. Oh well, at least those four tons should hold us over, until the grass comes up in our pastures. I should also mention that stacking all that hay by myself wiped out my back for a couple of days. Four tons didn’t seem like a lot for me to move in one day, back when I was in my 30s. But now, I think that I’m starting to feel my age.
Now, over to Lily:
Avalanche Lily Reports:
Dear Readers,
We had some rain this week and two sunny spring-like days in the high forties and low fifties. This past week the migratory birds have returned!!!!! It came upon me fast. It is SPRING!!! I am now hearing and seeing robins, Varied Thrushes, Pileated Woodpeckers, Winter Wrens, a Great Horned Owl, and others! I heard the frogs for the first time on Wednesday night. Spring! Spring! Spring! Spring has Sprung! 🙂
This week I have spent time laying down some Azomite in the north section of the near meadow and grass seed where the snow has melted to build up our pastures. I have to wait for more snow to melt before I can seed the rest of the near meadow.
We just had a bathroom, a bedroom, hallway, and the great room painted by some painters. I also added my help to the endeavor. We, especially needed their help in the prep, detailing, moving furniture and bookcases around, drop cloths to protect surfaces, and professional cleanup abilities. They will probably be helping with some other aspects of the kitchen remodel, in the coming weeks.
May you all have a very blessed and safe week.
– Avalanche Lily, Rawles
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As always, please share and send e-mails of your own successes and hard-earned wisdom and we will post them in the “Snippets” column this coming week. We want to hear from you.