Picked up a couple of last years Aussie Ration Packs (MRE's)
Today my Sister helped me sort through about half my cupboards, tossed a lot of the crap, donated a bunch of extraneous things and gave a few family members some other stuff.
Found a bunch of items I'd been missing including a cookset, a sheath and a bayonet. Got First aid tub stocked up properly and most things Stored together eg lights, electronics.
All in all a very productive day.
Also have finally got my Photo I.D. sorted and application in for my Disabled Parking Permit.

Picked up some rice that was being discontinued at the local suppermarket...some for long term storage, some for now.
Setting up an exercise room with some basic stuff...stationary bike, weights, etc.

Packing up to move back to Canada! I don't want to get political, but I'm happy leaving the USA ahead of the 2016 Presidential elections and the current racial uneasiness.

Moving to an acreage in AB, already set up with large gardens, orchard, chicken coop, (current owners are permaculturists) etc.

I very much dislike moving, but I'm thinking this is my contribution toward self-sufficiency and preparedness. Pains me to have to discard some of my preps for the move though, all liquids can't be moved, gas storage depleted, water storage poured to water the plants... We'll start up again on the flip side!

Welcome back! Good luck with the move 🙂

Safe journey back (home).!!!!!

Good luck with your move.

Thank you all for the good wishes!!!!! Will keep you updated once all settled (or throughout, time permitting)!

Happy travels.

On the preps note. I have to say my DH is Amazing ( capital A). Just got back from the Range after practicing with my new 9mm Smith and Wesson. It has quite a kick but hot damn .... It's lovely.
Happy birthday to me.
On another plus side... My kids can shoot the poop out of anything. I'm really quite impressed ( and a little relieved that they have reached a self sufficient age).

I just put back two 1 pound packages of 65% calcium hypochlorite (Home Hardware @$5.69 per pound) for water treatment. 1 lb will treat up to 10,000 gallons of water. Heck yeah. Going tomorrow to get another 4 pounds.

Pure calcium hypochlorite, no algae killer or any other products. Comes in a tube/bag, dry powder or crystals, NOT liquid. Check out some articles. Amazing and small, easily prepped and stored.

Finished picking up any berries on the property (raspberries and red currants) and made syrup out of them. Also picked up all the apples that were ready (about 1/2) and processed a bunch; stored the remainder wrapped in paper in the cold room.

Arranged the cold room with shelving, moved our stash of dry food in and made a list of items needed. Purchased a bunch of canned soup as they were on sale, also visited our friendly Costco store for some shelf stocking. We are happy to have this cold room storage and find that we have ample space for expansion.

Purchased a "heavy duty" rototiller.

Filled up all my gas canned with fresh gas and Stab-il. Purchased more Stab-il.

Installed a dark, opaque rain barrel in the green house with a spot from the eavestrough. The intent is to collect rain water and also to use as thermal mass during the shoulder seasons.

Getting ready to pick up the grapes on the property (Valiant grapes) to make some grape jelly. Justified a trip to the store to purchase small jars, lids and rings for all our jars. We also scored new to us jars when the last owners left a bunch in storage for us on account of running out of space in their boxes.

Met with the neighbours who all seem very nice and a few are avid gardeners, so I'm sure I can learn a few tricks from them. We'll try the C5's suggested "dinner party" to see if they could become complements to our preps (or how we can make them...)

Busy times, but it's all starting to feel like home!

Plums, grapes and ammo.
Free plums from my buddys gf house. She moved and let us pick until we were done. Picked 20 gallons of plums from 2 trees. Reddish yellow plums for canning and freezing for later.
Grapes from the same property. 15 gallons, in bunches.
Ammo was on sale, well, at a yard sale. Old guy had passed and we noticed camping and survival gear in the garage, and a few bits of reloading tools. So I asked his grandson if Granda had any interest in firearms. Well holy hell. Scored 2 12 gauge shotguns and a pre-64 Winchester model 70 in .30-06!! I've already named the '06 Carlos in honor of Carlos Hathcock. Paid $100 for each shotgun (both Remington 870's) and a weaselly $50 for the Winchester rifle. I know! I gave him what he asked for. I don't feel bad at all. Oh, and about 6000 rounds of assorted 12 gauge shells, another 15,000-20,000 rounds of assorted rifle and handgun cartridges in various calibers, all stored in wooden crates and old old ammo cans. Nothing major. I shit you not. Paid $500 for the ammo. My wife almost crapped her drawers. She thought I was joking until we did a rough count and separated them all by caliber.
Man, that is the largest and best score of my entire life. I will NEVER come across that much gear again. So I won't be buying ammo for a long long time. The worst part was hauling it all out of the old fellas basement, just me and my bad knee hahahaha.

What is the emoticon for "envy" again??? Great score! I see a lot of trap skeet shooting in your future with that much shells!!

Thanks. I'm not much of a skeet shooter, but I always hit the birds when in season. I may use some 9f the shells for barter and trade with a buddy. A lot of them are old purple high brass shells. Haven't looked em up yet. Went through some of the boxes and found a lot of 9mm, .357, .38 Special, .44 Mag, .45 ACP and 7.62x25 for old Soviet pistols. Nice find. Has to be 2,000 rounds of .45 ACP alone here.and me without a .45 hahaha. I need a drink. This is ridiculous.

Given the calibers of ammo you scored, I suspect there are a few more firearms than maybe they know about.
You might want to go leave them your number in case they come across anything!
As for me, canning season has just started...got 2 batches of strawberry jam done.
I have on hand to do:
20lbs yellow beans
20lbs green beans
25lbs hungarian peppers

Picking up this week:
100lbs tomatoes
15lbs cucumbers for pickles
40lbs carrots

I did leave my info lol. Ive actually been looking at non-restricted carbines and lever action rifles in pistol calibers. Get some supples for reloading pistol rounds and voila! Bought some other gear as well, tertiary backups for our existing hardware. We're lucky enough to have farmers (cattle and grain) in the family, and right close. Our BOL has provisions for livestock already. We are, however, sadly lacking medical prefessionals as part of our community. All in good time I suppose.
We've also harvested a bunch of our baby potatoes and canned them, looking at canning a load of what we have in the freezer to avoid spoilage when we get our autumn storms here. Awful nice to not have to worry about losing food stuffs.