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We are working on improving the home here mostly. Making it more enjoyable and finishing projects. Just added a pool and am going to repaint the house soon. Adding a porch on the east side too. It gets so hot now mid day that I break during the worst of it now. Allready looking forward to fall.
 
We already upgraded propane tank capacity. I plan to upgrade and expand our solar energy system. Expand the chicken coop. More ammo. Add another one or two people to our group. An upgrade on our reloader and more reload supplies. Plan on getting a milking cow and her calf. And getting more ammo.
 
As of right now, we are expanding my goat barn another 16ft x 20ft and I want to redo my goat milking area and staunch along with making repairs to my hay manger. I would love to get a new milk cow @Rellgar. When we found Betsey she was listed on the online local classifieds as a nurse cow. Just so happened that the guy bought her from a dairy to feed some calves that lost their momma. She was already trained for milking. . . She just had to get used to being milked by hand verses by a machine.
 
My 2020 is going to involve in investing every spare penny I have on prep gear, tools, fuel, food and supplies because I think everything is going udders up.

And my dear wife and all of her associates some 200 of them have decided that their trips to the US of A on organised tours is not going to happen for at least 5 years as they now consider the places they like to be simply to dangerous, IE Florida, California, San Francisco, New Orleans, Georgia, Alabama, New York, Denver etc. However they feel the same about London, Rome, Paris and Berlin.
 
  • With four kids we'll be bugging-in in most scenarios. But I'm currently updating the bug out bags.
  • We're slowly increasing our supplies every time we go to the store. Currently have 3 months worth.
  • During lockdown we found we needed more activities to occupy the kids so we've stocked up on board games, card games, activity books, art and craft supplies, reading books, and toys like lego.
  • We've manage to build a financial safety net. We have enough to cover two years of expenses.
  • We're aiming to both get our firearms licence this year.
  • I want to get a container garden started but it's winter here.
  • We're currently renting but are aiming to buy a piece of land near the end of 2020 and build a house on it. We both have experience with animal husbandry as well as killing and processing our own meat. I have a green thumb. So we'll be aiming to be self-sufficient-ish.
  • My partner wants to get a bug out boat. He's been working on his fishing skills
 
continue the way i'm going, i'm so far out in the English countryside bugging out isn't required.
keep topping up my food stores and may get some more crossbow bolts, looking at expanding the garden and growing more, grow some now but a lot of food is so cheap at the moment, our weekly market reopened after the lockdown was lifted 2 weeks ago, I thought we'd lost that for good so very glad its back, we've had a market here since the 12th century so losing it would have been a disaster.
 
bigpaul said:
continue the way i'm going, i'm so far out in the English countryside bugging out isn't required.
keep topping up my food stores and may get some more crossbow bolts, looking at expanding the garden and growing more, grow some now but a lot of food is so cheap at the moment, our weekly market reopened after the lockdown was lifted 2 weeks ago, I thought we'd lost that for good so very glad its back, we've had a market here since the 12th century so losing it would have been a disaster.
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I’m sure that over all that time that market has survived other pandemics and turmoil many times. Glad it’s a good resource again for you.
 
Brent S said:
I’m sure that over all that time that market has survived other pandemics and turmoil many times. Glad it’s a good resource again for you.
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yes it survived the Foot and Mouth outbreak before we moved here.
driving through and seeing empty fields and smelling the stench of the fires was something else.
 
Garden and outbuildings
  • Clear more space for soft fruit bushes and top fruit, and build decent raised beds in the meadow
  • Extend the wood store, fit more water butts and run a water pipe down to the greenhouse
  • Fix a permanent site for the plastic-cover greenhouses
  • Get a fresh coat of wood preservative on the sheds and re-felt the roofs
  • Start work on converting the far shed into half woodstore and half henhouse
  • Start planning my perennial veg, fruit and herbs, depending on what does well in the area
House and money
  • Waterbath and pressure can more more veg and fruit
  • Make loads of chutneys, pickles, sauerkraut, cassis, apple cider vinegar, mead, etc.
  • Get decent thermal black-out curtains fitted in the bedrooms - I grew up farther north than this but didn't think about how light it would be here around the summer solstice!
  • Look for more gardening and handywork in the village and the immediate area - driving 9 miles to work isn't so bad, but it would be good to be able to walk
  • Practise, practise, practise with my solar cookers as soon as the sun feels like reappearing
Community
  • Keep supporting my elder neighbours
  • Maintain the relationships formed with people I've met during the lockdown
  • Join my local Community Council and push for more local food-growing, a repair cafe, etc.
  • Finally, when safe and sensible, invite my neighbours round for a house-warming shindig :)
 
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Rellgar said:
I plan to expand my reloading abilities. Aquire a drone to test for usefulness after SHTF! Expand my gardening for more variety. Add more fruit trees and berry bushes on my property.

My goal is to be 100% food self sufficient this year, I'm already 100% self sufficient with water, even without any power source.
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Do you have a well? We don’t, but a private large pond with it’s own year round springs.
 
Now that my medical bills have started coming in (what a shock) we're probably going to put off most of our major building projects until next year. That's fine. We're getting by ok. We did manage to plant a few more fruit trees and blackberry plants.
I noticed that several of our black raspberry plants have died. The red raspberrys are doing great.
 
GeorgiaPeachie said:
Do you have a well? We don’t, but a private large pond with it’s own year round springs.
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Having a really good water filter so you can safely drink from the pond is a great idea. I don’t drink anything that dosent go through filtration. the well here would be safe to drink but my coffee just tastes better without minerals. There is county water On the property here but it’s just gross smelling. My son still has his house on the back of the property hooked to it but I disconnected a while back. The line is still there just in case but I would prefer to just leave it Unused.
 
Urbanprep said:
We all know when anything black dies, there must be a cop near by. Look for a cop with Black Raspberry stains on his knees. Sarcasm, in case nobody noticed.
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Being able to laugh and make light of hard things in life is a good survival mechanism. Right now though with all the push for the over the top PC stuff your likely to get lynched for a sense of humor.....
 
Maverick said:
I have a house in Blackwell Oklahoma already, my nephew stays their when he’s not on the road but we are also looking at Kansas.
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Blackwell is only 200 miles from my old US prepper haunt in Liberal KS, its a good area and great people.
 
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Maverick said:
Me and Lisa are prepping to leave Washington state, we already made some changes, Lisa extended her employment by one year so we should be totally out of here some time in 2022... should be.
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Just curious - why leave Washington? Whereabouts are you in WA? I only ask because I'm in WA - Eastern Cascades.
 
boozaro said:
I feel like I have pretty solid plans and supplies. I really need to work on a better way to manage/track our supplies. It's easy to buy and forget or let stuff sit and go bad. There's so much to keep track of.

I'd also like to work more on my garden. I still rely too heavily on markets for a lot of produce.
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A good way for me was to start an excel spreadsheet. I keep it on my pc, but also have it backed up 2 places. Make sure you have lines on it for updating product amounts. Print it out and keep with your stored preps. Works really well for me. Give it a try. The hardest part is creating it with everything on it. Leave a bunch of extra spaces so you can add items not on it. i usually update and reprint it a couple of times a year.
 
We are still new to prepping with just one kid we will be bugging- in in most scenarios. We are still currently updating our bug out bags.

We're slowly increasing our supplies every chance we get.

During lockdown we found we needed more activities to occupy our son so we've stocked up on board games, card games, video games, reading books, and toys.

Buy more guns and ammo- On my street we have a lot of crackheads trying to break into people's houses and cars.

Build up more money to buy more prepping gear and supplies.

And maybe find like minded people to start up some kind of network or Community with.

Would like to add bars to lower house windows and front and back door.
 
would definately fortyfie those doors,somehow they seem to be the first entry point for crack heads,then they try the windows.
glad that you think about the your future too ( kid ) a boored kid can be a lot work ( own experience ), the way things go right now,it's better to be preped.

how's your first aid skills?
 
Fortifying the door is a great idea. There are lots of lock reinforcement plates on the market, longer screws, etc. Bars for windows are expensive and a possible fire escape hazard. I put some inexpensive loud contact sensors on all the windows and doors. They are extremely loud and would even wake up a deaf person. Peel and stick installation and cheap from amazon. No one will be sneaking in your house with them on.
welcome.
 
robprc said:
We are still new to prepping with just one kid we will be bugging- in in most scenarios. We are still currently updating our bug out bags.

We're slowly increasing our supplies every chance we get.

During lockdown we found we needed more activities to occupy our son so we've stocked up on board games, card games, video games, reading books, and toys.

Buy more guns and ammo- On my street we have a lot of crackheads trying to break into people's houses and cars.

Build up more money to buy more prepping gear and supplies.

And maybe find like minded people to start up some kind of network or Community with.

Would like to add bars to lower house windows and front and back door.
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prepping starts with the everyday type SHTF preventions >>> 10,000X more likely to have a regular crooked crook trouble than a riot or SHTF time looter situation ...

before you get all BS wrapped up with some specialty bug out BOV or concerned with the wild possibility of needing an EMP proof BOV >>> make sure you can change a tire when necessary - the windshield washer bottle is filled - change your oil on schedule - have wipers that work - tires with tread - ect ect
 
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