What did you do to prep today?

[packyderms_wife]

Everyone needs a Dremel tool. You'll be surprised at what it can cut through.

I was going to hit the Thanksgiving sale at Microcenter and build another desktop. But looking forward in time, decided to keep everything small and lightweight. Went down for the mail the other night, around 1:00AM. A young couple came down with all their posessions loaded in that elevator. Bailing out in the middle of the night. His 99 weeks prolly ran out. It's going to become very common place.

I'll still be going to the sale but will be looking at laptop coolers and maybe mobile battery backup. Another idea is to buy a parabolic antenna and grab the free signal coming out of McD's or Starbucks.

the univ had dell laptop coolers for sale last week for a whopping $5.00

Just saying.

K-

[ChristieAcres]

Spent the whole day with my daughter, enjoying a trip to Port Townsend, and also took care of all the critter needs. Discovered a leak in our roof not long ago... Put a bowl under it and wrote my DH a note, set that by the coffee maker. I'll be adding another task to prepping to the Winter now- inspecting everything around here! If DH misses it, I better catch it before the weather gets bad.

[Doc1]

Our wood stove has been sitting under its chimney, unconnected, in the Bug Out Location for a few months now. As it's finally getting cool (yesterday morning was at 34 degrees), Cathy and I bought the stove pipe yesterday and spent today hooking everything up. Tonight it will get its inaugural burn

Fortunately, the previous owner had a wood stove and the double-insulated chimney was still in place AND in good condition. Installing out stove was fairly easy.

Best regards
Doc

[Hermantribe]

I made 8 lbs of hamburger into rocks (all I afford). The store advertised 85/15 ground beef at $1.79/lb., but I couldn't find it. The guy in the meat dept. had to get it out of the back for me. Maybe they were running low, or didn't get much stock. I wanted the 85/15 hoping to end up with more meat per lb. Glad I learned how to do this

[John8:32]

Bought 100 lbs of Jasmine Rice and a case of Rice Noodles.

[Falls_Tech]

Last night I was thinking, if there was a large terrorist attack in my area, all ambulances would be diverted to the disaster area. If I'm injured I could be on my own, so I started carrying an Israeli Bandage in a small pouch on my belt.

[IDK]

Bought 100 lbs of Jasmine Rice and a case of Rice Noodles.

Dont forget the wasabi powder and soy sauce

[IDK]

o btw...

I praticed setting up a tarp shelter and cooked breakfest and lunch over and open fire and I gathered the firewood from my forest ie dead hanging branches.

[Lurker]

I made 8 lbs of hamburger into rocks (all I afford).

Quite alright!! That's 8lbs that you didn't have before and 8lbs more than the average Joe has sitting in on their shelve and certainly not preserved like you have it. A little bit here and a little bit there - it all adds up!