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:
I cut and split another cord of wood. With the help of our youngest daughter, it is now all stacked. I also did some trench-digging, to get ready to lay black PVC pipe for an extension line to our main orchard.
On Thursday, I had another on-site consulting day, with one of my semi-local clients. They’ve had the ranch for just two years. It is gratifying to see such rapid progress on a ranch retreat. That family is getting everything “dialed in”, nicely! They have one of the most capable and redundant off-grid power systems that I’ve ever seen. And it is good knowing that there is now a family that is providing all of their own needs, but that will also be in a position to help many others, charitably.
Now, Lily’s report…Continue reading“Editors’ Prepping Progress”