50 Match grade .22LR
50 flat nosed .40SW (for practice)
1 can Campbells soup
Little by little by a prepper on a budget!
Chest freezer,
Handgun practice ammo,
Built and started a potato tower
A few more pounds of blueberries in the freezer.mthey are plentiful here right now, cheap and tasty. Will be good to have in the winter... When they are scarce, expensive and tasteless!
Another Costco run so the shelves have been restocked with some extra added.
A small portable 3x AA lantern.
Another battery charger.
Printed a few good pdf books so I can have them as reference if things ever turned sour.
One on survival medicine, another one on hand-to-hand combat (US Army) as well as several articles from Backwood Homes.
Also canned a few pints of tomatoes that were ready but couldn't all be eaten right now.
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Very impressive peppercorn, that you have your wood right up into 2020
This week is dehydrating raspberries from my own garden for my pantry .
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added another aisle in the pantry
50 meat birds- ready in 4 weeks
3 pigs-- ready for their end in late october
12 new ready to lay and looking to expand to 6 more
1 new freezer
1 new garden with raised beds.
One day, the lowly farmer will be King
another 2 cord this week, usually cutting not buying but the price is ok,so...
speaking of price, birch firewood is just nutty nowdays.....I have seen prices of 500, one place even 550 per cord and then plus delivery if you don't pick it up...just 2 years ago I could get it delivered for 300 a chord (and they would stack it for me), tamrack 250, always nice to have a chord of good hardwood on hand for a long stretch of -30, -40.
Goldie...I seen the pic of your dehydrater.... I want one
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What's with the perfect square log firewood? Do they burn better or dry faster?
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A good time to invest in spf3000 if you live on the NK penninsula.
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There is a technical reason why I am getting these...they are cheaper!...but yes debarked like that they do dry faster, and dry wood does burn better, also you can fill the stove box with more wood.
these are the waste lumber from a manufacturer....10 years ago I got these for free, they were just burning them in the yard...they were happy to find someone to haul them away for them...then they got the bright idea they could sell them 😯 Now I have to pay...but still cheaper than buying firewood.
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I get 3 cords, delivered, split, ready to stack larch and fir for $700.00. A couple of years ago I got 3 cord loads of birch , delivered and spit for $750. No one is cutting birch any more, as it is almost all standing dead, rotten, from the birch worm. The fallers are just leaving it to drop in the forest now. Other than larch, there is no really good wood growing here. Usually we can only get pine, fir, and spruce mix, for $700. For kindling, we can get all the cedar slab we want for $20. a bundle, delivered, or free if you pick it up. We ordered 3 truck loads, or 9 cords, this year, but so far have only received 6.......the guy we get it from ran out of wood, so he is waiting for more logs to cut. The last load will be unseasoned wood, which is fine as it will be next years wood. There is plenty for this coming winter.
Other than wood, I put 3 dozen assorted canned vegetables into the pantry.
Goldie...I seen the pic of your dehydrater.... I want one
Thanks, I really like it , I like the 5 tray , can do up small loads as stuff ripens,
and not have to draw 600watts for the 9 tray.
what the hell, its not like it goes bad so another 2 cord.
every home around me and for quite a ways away has wood stoves and can heat their homes if they have to, some like me do all the time, but knowone stores as much as I do..just one other niebour is ahead in wood like I am, but he is only ever 1 to 2 years ahead. Still that's better than nothing, most just cut or buy for the winter that's coming...... I just remembered I put some coal away in barrels back in the late 90's 3 ton or so, I completely forgot, so that would push me into the winter of 2023/24
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No one is cutting birch any more, as it is almost all standing dead, rotten, from the birch worm. The fallers are just leaving it to drop in the forest now.
That's interesting to know I hadn't heard of the birch worm. I know some of this wood I am getting is from bettle kill as the wood looks to be stained a bluish greenish colour
one other benefit from stacking my wood in tall stacks like these is bats like to crawl into the spaces between the logs, it makes a great place for them to sleep and I like having them around, in fact at dusk I can sit out in the yard and if the light is right I can watch them darting about, eating insects
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You can tell if a birch has the disease caused by the worm: The top of the tree is dead, and will fall on you. In the spring there will be fine silk like strings hanging from the birch trees. On the end of the string there will be a little (1/2 inch) worm.
We get the rest of our wood tomorrow, am. Will be organizing a stacking get together. Tomorrow afternoon, we go shopping for a new wheelbarrow. My 40 year old one crapped out last week. Argh!!
KK