To be prepared for a crisis, every Prepper must establish goals and make both 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 the Odds ‘n Sods Column or in the Snippets column. Let’s keep busy and be ready!
Jim Reports:
We had more than two inches of rain this week, here on the valley floor. Meanwhile, up on the peaks, I suspect that at least two feet of fresh snow fell.
Once the weather improves, I’ll be doing my springtime fence repairs and I’ll start in on firewood cutting.
I’ve been helping Lily tend to the latest batch of baby chicks.
We defrosted one of our two propane chest freezers.
We also did manure hauling from the barn threshold and in the milking parlor. Next week, we’ll move on the Dairy sheep pens.
With our big sale running, I shipped several more Elk Creek Company orders this week. Since spot silver hit $34.44 on Thursday morning, I raised our silver barter divisor to 25.1 times face value. That is the most that we’ve ever offered for silver in trade on our guns, bayonets, and knives.
Now, Lily’s part of the report…
Avalanche Lily Reports:
Dear Readers,
We had some rain and sun this week with a few days highs up in the low sixties Fahrenheit. It was great spring weather that lent itself to a lot of garden plowing and prep. This is the earliest, I have ever worked in the garden. Our first electric storm was seen by Jim at 2:00 AM one night when he arose to care for the wood stove. He saw lightning to our south but didn’t hear thunder. We have eleven Canadian Geese hanging around our meadow.
Wildlife Story Time
One warm evening about 7:30 PM, I was out working the soil in the Main gardens. It was after sunset and moving on towards dusk. The sky had a slight pink/orange glow. The temperatures were a humid 57 degrees, thereabout. The frogs were croaking up a storm, the robins were singing their hearts out. It was a glorious spring evening to be outside. Our garden is surrounded on three sides by huge pine, spruce, fir, and tamarack trees and the fourth side is our house. Suddenly, two large birds flew from over the trees and passed over me just above the garden. One squawked as soon as it cleared the trees and saw me, so loudly, that I jumped, startled, and looked up to see what they were. Two huge Great Blue Herons flew just over the house and landed in the trees adjoining our meadow, near our north fence. But I didn’t see that one had landed until later…I thought it was the same one that turned out to be a third that flew nearby, also.
I realized that they must be the “two” Herons that have been hanging around here during the past few summers in our meadow. They must’ve just arrived in our region from their winter quarters, and they called our ranch home and squawked their greeting as soon as they saw me. They landed so close to the house and faced back toward me in the garden that I knew that they recognized me and were greeting me. Telling me that they were back. How special is that? To think that these birds chose our home and squawked the moment they saw me…They know me! So I shouted to them. “Hello, Great Blues! Hi! Hi! Welcome back, Its so good to see you, back here again. Welcome welcome. Hello, hello! I then ran into the house to get my binoculars so I could see them better and went back out to the garden and backed up to where I could see over the house to where they were sitting at the top of the trees.
As I scanned the trees, I saw all three of them. So I assume it was the original two and one of their offspring with them. I watched them sit in the trees for about a half hour and just as it was almost dark they flew away. I’m sure they’re nearby, but since they returned, our meadows have flooded. So I think they are nearby, but we won’t see them for a time.
Jim thinks that the herons call our ranch their spring/summer home because our meadow grasses are shorn by our grazing beasties which of course makes it easier for them to hunt for mice and frogs. (Most of the rest of our valley’s bottomland is much more “wild” with very tall grasses.)
Also, I have been waiting and listening for the Great Horned Owls and I have not heard them yet this year until that very same night after dark. Only one window of the house was open and all of a sudden I heard the hooting through the window. It was loud and super close to the house. Closer than I have ever heard it before. It was as if the owl came directly to our home to say, “Hi!, I’m back too. So I went out on the porch and called out my welcome to it. It hooted a few more times and then went silent. So the Great Blues are back and our owls are back, too. So special!
I cleaned the Hen house at the beginning of the week. All of our chicks hatched by Monday. I washed and sanitized their incubator and got it ready for another batch of chicks a bit later this spring.
Jim and I together cleaned out the two cow stalls. Afterward, we closed them up for a time to keep the animals out. We will let them back in when it dries out and the cow is about due to calve.
I thawed and washed out one of our propane freezers. I still need to refill it and hopefully will be able to thaw and clean our big electric chest freezer soon. (That is our only electric freezer. The other three are propane.)
I spent most of a day pruning the red and golden raspberry beds. They are looking much better. I need to manure them next.
I cleaned a combination mint/pineapple strawberry bed.
I used our hand-push non-electric plow and hand-pull duck plow to turn the soil in the Main garden beds. I pulled “weeds”: Sheep sorrel, Dandelions, Daisies, Chickweed, Dock and Canary grass roots and other plants. I harvested Dandelion roots and leaves. I actually, this time, cleaned all of the roots, peeled them, roasted them and ground them for dandelion root tea. I have yet to try it. I have been drinking store-bought dandelion tea on a fairly regular basis this winter. So I was pleased to actually get some of my own. In the past when I harvested them, I ended up not getting to clean them because I was so busy with other projects that I ended up just giving them to the cows.
I collected the Dandelion leaves and Sheep Sorrel leaves and picked some Miner’s lettuce that was growing in the greenhouse. I was going to eat it as a salad, but at the last minute, I threw it into a pot of chicken soup I was making. It was very yummy to eat in the soup.
We have a large water container that we drained, rinsed out, bleach-treated, and refilled with water to keep on hand for emergencies.
I wrote out the rest of Chapter 33 and all of Chapter 34 of Deuteronomy, thus I finished copying the book of Deuteronomy. Yesterday, I started to write out Matthew.
I heard that the World Economic Forum (WEF) is or has practiced a scenario of a Virus Cyber attack that brings down the Internet and the whole grid. I heard that when that happens they will be “sanitizing” the Internet before putting it back up. When it goes back up only those who have a digital/biometric ID will be able to get back on it. That ID system could be the Mark of the Beast. Since the last time the WEF held a practice session for an event, Covid epidemic, they caused the Covid Plandemic to occur less than six months later. So if they are running simulations now for a Cyber pandemic, I would say that we need to plan for a grid-down situation anytime between now and September… Therefore, I would step up any preps that you need to do now. And I would lessen my Internet use and presence, as much as possible so that when it happens (and you cannot get back on) you will not have the withdrawal anxiety attacks of being left out of the system. So I would stop any online banking, online paying of bills, online shopping, etc. very soon… Make sure food is put away for three years. Have a big vegetable garden, starting this year. Get your seeds, now!
Additionally, we are hearing word that Europe will be going to a cashless digital currency by September 30th of this year, If they can get the laws passed to do so. It is just the laws that are now standing in their way for a cashless society. That also could be another part of the Mark of the Beast system which says one cannot buy or sell without the Mark.
Trump, too, is working on taking us to a cashless system. He will follow right after Europe. He already has signed some Executive Orders to do away with the checking system that is the precursor to doing away with cash..
Trump signed another Executive Order for Voter ID/Real ID (Biometric).
So I would step up your preps now to be able to live outside the system. You will not have access to money, health care, grocery stores, travel, paying your taxes, etc. What are you going to do about it? (barter) Along with refusing this Mark and joining this system you will be persecuted and hunted down and possibly put to death for not joining. Is your heart ready for this?
Once this is in play, though, we know there could be less than 3.5 years before the Lord Jesus returns. Can we endure to the end? Time is running out. Look for the major war between now and next spring. Look for the Temple to be re-established before next year’s Passover. I saw lots of talk about the Ark of the Covenant being real and located show up in my feed this week.The second link is from two years ago. So, I am looking for the establishment of the Temple to be during this next year and I would say that the Abomination of Desolation most likely will be next year during Passover 2026. The Catching Away/Rapture looks as though it will be in 2028 and the Wrath of God the Seventh Seal will be in late 2028-2029.
David Dubuyne (of Adapt 2030) said this week that if your preps are not in place by this coming October you are too late. He said it’s too late for fruit trees and that you already need your meat animals in place right now. If these are not in place then you need to buy lots of canned meat and fruit.
This week Ben Davidson of SpaceWeatherNews (formerly Suspicious Observers) stated that he now believes that the magnetic pole shift could occur anytime in the next three years…
The Time of Grace is running out! Get right with the Lord Jesus now. You don’t know how much longer we have.
May You All Remain Safe, Blessed, and Hidden in Christ Jesus,
– Avalanche Lily, Rawles
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