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:
This past week, we were very busy with slash burning and manure hauling. We also did some furniture moving, to get Miss Violet (our younger daughter) set up in her new room.
Our kitchen remodeling project also necessitated some extra trips to town, for painting supplies, new light fixtures, outlet plates, light switch plates, et cetera. Now that the roads have cleared, this is a very scenic time of year to travel. We saw snowy peaks, the first greening of the meadows, and rushing snowmelt rivulets. We were also blessed with mostly clear skies. Gorgeous! But all those hours of driving — and the fuel expenses, these days — do add up.
Lily will now fill you in with more details…