What did you do in the garden today?

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Our snow storm is pretty much over. . I hd forgotten how easy it is to snow blow the driveway with a foot of light fluffy snow. Plain old ordinary snow. No sleet or messy mix. Did the driveway, the street and drain in front of the driveway, then hand shoveled the front walk in less than 30 minutes. Wow. Time to relax.

 

[Acre4Me]

Here ICE!! School cancelled, kid did chickens this morning, so I hadn’t been out.

But, I went to leave by the side door to get the mail (across the street)… my side door was covered on the bottom half by a thick layer of ice, and the entire ground, and step were thick ice. We have a gravel driveway Along the side of the house - but no traction at all, very thick ice. Cold again tonight and tomorrow, then It warms up a bit.

 

[igorsMistress]

Well, I've been gone for a business trip the past few days when an ice storm came through. Caused every one of the poles holding my nets up to snap. DH made some temporary T-posts from 2x4s but the nets are so heavy from the ice that they just tear.
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I was already budgeting to replace the nets with new 10 ft 4x4 posts and welded wire. Looks like my plans are about to be accelerated by a month or two. Just hoping the goats and chickens don't get tangled up in the nets before I can fix it.

Oh my, I hope your animals stay safe until you can fix it. Good thing you had a plan

 

[igorsMistress]

Cold again this morning but the chicken water pipes and waterers get sun as soon as it rises so most of them were thawed by the time I got out there. It's supposed to warm up a bit and start raining Saturday night. Hope so, I want to get the snap peas going and not have to water.

I want to be prepared, but I don't think of myself as a real prepper. That said, I have a pretty well stocked supply of dry, canned, and frozen supplies. But I really wish we could have a rooster or two. The security of having a rooster to insure continuation of meat and eggs is really attractive. The large property I walk Penny past each morning has beautiful huge barred rock rooster that hardly ever crows, I've love to get a couple of his sons. Failing that, I'd be tempted to ask to borrow him for a month or so to get some fertile eggs. I'd build a second run to just use as the breeding run. We're also starting to talk about having a well (after @WthrLady mentioned a hand pump, we'll go with that) put in. In the winter the water level is just a couple feet down and I'm told that wells here are generally not made brackish from the ocean being so close. Like I say, we are just starting the well discussion so we've a lot to learn.

If you’re not a prepper, what do think you are? I used the term loosely but the conversation is interesting. We’re certainly more prepared than many, but we don’t have a bug out bunker stocked with ammo and MRE’s lol.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I had a gut intuition about 5 years ago that things were going to go off the rails. I don't think of myself as a prepper in the Discovery Channel sense of the word but I did start preparing for just about anything over the past 5 years. We have a good amount of ammo but I also recognize that unless you own a sporting goods distribution or something similar, any amount of ammo probably isn't enough. Better to have a plan for how you can make your own ammo instead. Same goes for food and water supply. This is actually what made me jump in and learn how to garden. Before 5 years ago, I never grew a thing in my life. But most importantly, I did a lot of advance research to figure out where my family would go if the SHTF, how we would get there WITHOUT GPS or cell phones, and how we could support ourselves in that environment for at least 6-8 months.

But we do not have a bunker or any of the other elaborate equipment like you see from preppers on TV.

 

[Sally PB]

If it's TEOTWAWKI (the R.E.M. song), we'll be staying put. Water source, other than well? Check. Gardens? Check. Chickens? Check. Guns and (some) ammo? Check. Wildlife? Plenty.

If we had solar power, we'd be in better shape, though. We're talking about getting a standby generator that runs on propane, and that would be a good thing too.

We don't have much of a "hardened perimeter," as they call it on Doomsday Preppers. If it really comes to that point, well....

 

[igorsMistress]

If it's TEOTWAWKI (the R.E.M. song), we'll be staying put. Water source, other than well? Check. Gardens? Check. Chickens? Check. Guns and (some) ammo? Check. Wildlife? Plenty.

If we had solar power, we'd be in better shape, though. We're talking about getting a standby generator that runs on propane, and that would be a good thing too.

We don't have much of a "hardened perimeter," as they call it on Doomsday Preppers. If it really comes to that point, well....

That song always makes me think of the movie Independence Day!

 

[igorsMistress]

I had a gut intuition about 5 years ago that things were going to go off the rails. I don't think of myself as a prepper in the Discovery Channel sense of the word but I did start preparing for just about anything over the past 5 years. We have a good amount of ammo but I also recognize that unless you own a sporting goods distribution or something similar, any amount of ammo probably isn't enough. Better to have a plan for how you can make your own ammo instead. Same goes for food and water supply. This is actually what made me jump in and learn how to garden. Before 5 years ago, I never grew a thing in my life. But most importantly, I did a lot of advance research to figure out where my family would go if the SHTF, how we would get there WITHOUT GPS or cell phones, and how we could support ourselves in that environment for at least 6-8 months.

But we do not have a bunker or any of the other elaborate equipment like you see from preppers on TV.

Sounds like you have a great plan! We wouldn’t be able to go anywhere, hubs is handicapped enough he can’t walk far especially over uneven ground. We know how to navigate without GPS and the like, but those skills could be worthless depending on the event. Our plan based on our current situation is to hunker down and ride whatever out. We are friendly with the neighbors and our skills compliment each other but we all have some type of health concern. I’m fairly certain we could depend on them for assistance if necessary based on our conversations though.

 

[igorsMistress]

On a happier note, I got a few snaps of the chicks today. They kept running from one side of the heat plate to the other, little stinkers. I have two Turkens and 3 that are supposed to be Speckled Sussex. I’ll get better pics Sunday when I move them outside. The Turkens both have a black line on top of their heads. I wonder if that’s from a marker or if Hoover has sex-linked Turkens now.

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Enbrel. Here's hoping it helps! I gave myself my 3rd shot today & I can't say I'm feeling any better, but I have good days & bad days so it's hard to tell. I'm also on Methotrexate, which is a chemo, it's certainly helped but I'm still not good & am hoping to wean off of that. My hair is falling out, lol.

Same story here! They are so worth the money & we will use them again (this is their 2nd time here).

I feel yall...I never had any relief from enbrel but my mom does.
I've tried iv therapy as well as numerous other weekly injections and no relief. Finally took me off methotrexate since it wasn't working.
I'm on olumiant now and it has done the best over the last 12 years! Just a pill a day.