What Did You Prep This Week

Getting maple syrup stuff and bush ready! Have lots left over from even two years ago but what the heck, adding a few more gallons won’t hurt. Use it a lot for bbq chicken, pork and ribs. Mmm mmm good

For those who are not setup or wish to boil it down, consider just saving the sap in jars to drink!

I also boil some of it down, but leave as a very light liquid to add to a sauce and give a very light flavor.

Pretty well stocked up on stuff and focusing on seedlings and taking advice on this forum to test older seeds and make sure they are still good !

I know this is going to seem a bit odd but let me throw it out there just in case.. if you have lots put up yet for the maple syrup, take a look at your wood pile.. don't laugh at me to much but if you had a bad health spring/summer would you want to be burning thought that wood for maple syrup boiling.. if you have 3 to 5 years and you have everything to take your own.. your golden.. go for it..

But if you need to get out and replace all that will be used.. maybe drink lots, bring a little down for canning up for drinks and cooking (I agree by the way, I love beans cooked in maple water.. perfect way to do it and then canning them up.. just yum)

If you were low on the maple syrup, I would be like totally go for it.. just looking at it from a different view point..

Ps.. enjoy the seed germination tests.. hope you will share some of your results and I will do the same.. heck I might even do some of my longer stored seeds just to share results 🙂

When we make broth/stock all the scraps/trimmings, carcass etc go in. When you are done, strain and put into mason jars. After a night in the fridge the fat will rise to the top. Great for frying with. You can do just straight skin/fat as well to make it. Look up recipes for schmaltz. Farmgals idea sounds good too. Full disclosure here, I don't get to use this tasty goodness as often as I would like. Something about heart attacks yada yada yada lol.

Wife’s meds/ needed vitamins all came in, more canned soup, tuna.
Guess what, visa bill also came in ANHHHHHHHHH. All good and paid in full but mother of pearl it adds up fast. Won’t mention the dollar amount but I think that will be just about it for us!

Tapped maple. trees, at least they are free!

I did a few things this week, which included making some phone calls locally and going.. (I would like X, do you still have it? Can I have that put to the side for me? Thank you!) There are a lot of things selling fast and for good prices and I do NOT want to have to go to the stores, I spent a day doing the "rural chat" and got a few extras put up for me in the next while but also started booking in things for the spring/next harvest/fall.. when you do this, can you do extra this and I will take it right away.. just drop y off on your way by on first take etc.. we will sort our end..

Got extra's of this.. Can you store it in the big and not sell it out, in case we do not have it this year.. I will take it as the second year at full price (and I will even if I need to use it in other ways, bedding/garden and so forth) but more important if this years crop fails for any reason I have this coming WINTER of 2020 covered now.

I did get to the stores for a few things, I am not buying this for now.. I am buying things this week for spring/summer/fall needs for different things.. horse dewormer for the next two years.. two years worth of organic sprays for the fruit tree's, and so on..

I like Clarence do not want to talk about how much went out this week.. brutal.. but its done and paid now..

Added 30 days of staples. Found a seller with a decent price on 4.3 mil 1 gallon Mylar bags and O2 absorbers, so picked up a bunch. Next weekend will be a lot of packing and vacuum sealing. Building a stock rotator for the cans because I'm sick of reaching to the back all the time.

Finishing up the plumbing for the manual bypass pump. No power? No problem, house water system stays pressurized.

Nicely done. That's just dry fitted in the picture isn't it?

No, that’s finished. it’s called propress.
Hydraulic clamp at 10 000psi seals the internal gasket Of the fitting to the line. I can do 1/2” up to 2 1/2”
Plumber- specialty refrigeration
Pipe fitter natural gas/propane
Hydronics(hot water heating)
HVAC tech for 21 years
Controls: design, back-net, prolon
I have all the fun toys for a few trades related to buildings.

No, that’s finished. it’s called propress.
Hydraulic clamp at 10 000psi seals the internal gasket Of the fitting to the line. I can do 1/2” up to 2 1/2”
Plumber- specialty refrigeration
Pipe fitter natural gas/propane
Hydronics(hot water heating)
HVAC tech for 21 years
Controls: design, back-net, prolon
I have all the fun toys for a few trades related to buildings.

Propress, never heard of it, but if that's the finished look, I would run all my pipes on the finished wall where they could be seen! I love the look of copper. So give me your opinion..I did my house in copper pipe (30 years back), wouldn't use that plastic stuff, still don't like it, was I wise, stupid or a little of both? Is it good, or good enough now days? (the plastic stuff).
Also I know I was supposed to use silver solder, but I used the old lead tin solder, code be damned... and have never had a leak! I don't drink the water from the tap so lead is not a worry.

I hate the plastic stuff. But I’m 3rd generation in the trade... we have standards. Lol

What do you hate about it?

More bolts for crossbow and arrows for compound with tips of course.
Trying hard to not shop but addictions can be hard to break 😳

More bolts for crossbow and arrows for compound with tips of course.
Trying hard to not shop but addictions can be hard to break 😳

Now that you mention it, I need more carbon arrows for my Excalibur. The one thing I cant roll my own of. In fact when I hit the city next month I think I will pick up a MK 150 as well. Lost my last one in a fire in 2015. People laugh at the MK series but once you give them a trigger and safety lever job they are great little crossbows, and at a price of just over 100 bucks they cant be beat. I actually lost 3 crossbows in that fire, a 120,150, and 180, all MK models, my Excalibur swere not lost in that fire thankfully.

I bought 300 cartons of Toilet Paper. 🙄

A wireless camera for my bike.