I have about 2 dozen seed potatoes in the ground and I’m cleaning up my beds ready for planting next weekend (still see zeroes in the forecast for the next couple of nights).
90 seed potatoes in the ground for me, as of mid April (insulated raised beds actually). I expect to be eating potatoes from the beds by the end of the month. I will get another 50 or so potatoes going by the end of this week. I just cover the raised beds at night, and that has been protecting them from frost.
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20 kg flour
10 liters dishsoap
Had Lysol wipes and rice on the list, but Costco was out.
In case folks had not stocked up lol
Bug spray.. get extra bug spray..
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I’ve picked up a few mosquito coils. The skitters are bad already!
One extra 20lbs propane tank.
The majority of the garden is in...finally.
We still have some marginal seedlings in the house, and I will try to find homes for them once the heat passes.
There were a few things that were hard to find...potatoes and strawberries.
Luckily, a fellow prepper helped out with that BIG TIME...thanks to them (you know who you are).
We have now stocked up on a one year supply of meat (beef, pork, poultry & fish) and can bump that with beans and legumes.
We also stocked up on some flour & rice. I believe with a good potato crop we will have starches at the one year supply this fall, but we will top off the pasta a bit anyways.
We also got 2 more pounds of yeast.
As a note about yeast, we have an opened pound in a plastic container in the fridge that has been there for well over a year and it's going strong.
We found some cheap chinese masks for $1.49 so we picked up a half dozen. They are not medical grade, N95 or anything like that, just plain reusable face masks.
We also made a few ourselves.
I continue to pick up canning lids whenever I can find them for $2.doz.
Next on the list is a 3rd deep freezer and a boost to the gas supply to keep it going.
Bug spray for three seasons from now 😀
More food to top up our already strong backup, topped up automotive engine supp,it’s, more motor oil, one new freezer just arrived and another on its way.
Hoses and various washers and adapters,batteries, another pair of work shoes /merrell ankle height boots. Gallon of 2 cycle oil mix, more seeds for next year, various charging cables. Massage oils for tired muscles 😳
about three gallons of split peas. chick peas, more veggie seeds all mylared with oxygen absorbers,
AA batteries, salt, cornbread,another green laser flashlight ( i succumbed Peppercorn), Snugpac poncho, 15 large bags of water softner salt ( was hard to get for a few weeks, so now we are good for well over a year with what we already had. !)
Added diesel and gas stabilizer to fuel supply.
ordered in more weeping hoses, some connectors for snap on hose ends, finally changed the winter tires on the truck
80 lbs of rice, 100 pounds of flour, ten pounds of sugar, more motor oil and engine parts and treatments, 24 cans of tomato sauce and paste. Couple of hundred freezer bags, heavy duty aluminum foil, strawberries for freezing, my wild garlic or leaks I picked are preserved, three new batteries for equipment ( acid not put in yet as I do not need them now)
Here’s an interesting scenario and one for a good number of reasons I tend to lean towards as being very likely.
Added a second fridge (needed more space for storing and cooling larger amounts of meat for butchering, otherwise this week is all about wood, metal T bars, metal fence posts and screws/nails and so forth.
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Give a man a gun, and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank, and he can rob the world.
Yeah, not loving the 7 dollar premium. You doing better then that?
Yeah, not loving the 7 dollar premium. You doing better then that?
Yes I did better. I wasn't really looking to buy any at this time but a guy was looking to sell some for 29 a ounce, a little less than could be bought elsewhere, he would have got his price if he could have waited a bit but he was called up for surgery ( next Monday) and needed some fast cash, and dropped his price to 28.00 a ounce yesterday, so I thought what the hell, 28 a ounce with no GST means the real price I paid is 26.60 a ounce (5% less, the savings by not paying gst) ) so I bought some. Didn't really need any but oh well. I like private sales when possible, no tracking, and no gst.
EDIT: I actually am having buyers remorse (not really but). I think of the other metal I want more of...Lithium in form of LiFeP04
Edit again: If anyone has personal experience in a method of keeping silver from oxidizing I would like to hear about it. I have maples from back in the 1980s and while they still hold there value I hate the look of them. I am thinking of storing these new ones in acetone to stop oxidization.
Edit 3, Here is one I have owned from 87-88, so 33 years old, no special case for it, just set out on the book shelf where it some times gets handled by visitors (oils from fingers) and exposed to house humidity, cooking fumes and such. Looks ugly...
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No tax here on bullion. Junk silver is taxed if purchased at retail tho.
5 8kg bags, 88 pounds of rice. 135 000 calories of the stuff.
Give a man a gun, and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank, and he can rob the world.
5 8kg bags, 88 pounds of rice. 135 000 calories of the stuff.
I hope you also have some seasoning or fixing of sort, because that seems like food boredom about to happen!
Was there a good deal somewhere?