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:
This past week I was fairly busy writing and helping care for our four visiting grandsons. The youngest is just two years old and still in diapers, so he needs a lot more attention than his brothers. I did find the time to replace a corral gate post. The old one was just 8 inches in diameter. Its demise had been hurried along by our troublesome old bull, who is now residing in two of our freezers. The newly installed post was cut from a section of a former power pole. It is heavily creosoted and is 15 inches at the butt end. So I expect it to last at least 20 years.
I did some rototilling in the main garden. I also found the time to catalog some antique guns and to ship out some orders, for my Elk Creek Company mailorder biz. I repaired a leaking pipe in our irrigation system. Luckily it was just a union that had just popped apart — presumably from “water hammer” effect — so it was a quick fix.
On Independence Day, we joined some friends from our Bible study group, to enjoy a fireworks show.
Now, Lily’s report…