This weeks preps check-in

[GeorgiaPeachie]

I have a back up plan for this place. 1K propane tank.. Heat, hot water, and furnace gen, run off propane. off a small gen with 6 circuits in the house. Enough to be livable. Fire place delivers zero heat As far as i am concerned.
New place wood stove should do 75% of it. Heat pump the same. Don’t think it will reach across the 1500 sq ft house too the bedroom though Bought a back up for both here and there For the bedroom, heat or AC.
Gonna miss that 1K tank,that was a year of fuel.
Do i buy a 500 or 250 tank, just to have the backup? Or go Greyman with a bunch of smaller tanks?

Get another big tank. Anything too small and people might decide they can try and steal them.

 

[Amish Heart]

I don't have a dryer. Hang on racks, but hang in the basement if it's wet out.

 

[Mountain trapper]

We use a gas dryer, too dusty during summer and in spring everything is coated in a yellow pollen dust.
We have a 500 gallon propane tank for the house. We could get two years out of it, but we keep it topped off every fall.

 

[Psalm7]

Watching the Grandson today . So didn't get a lot done . Little Daniel likes cutting wood .

 

[Survivor_316]

Watching the Grandson today . So didn't get a lot done . Little Daniel likes cutting wood .View attachment 20854View attachment 20855

What a cutie!

 

[Amish Heart]

Sooooo many tomatoes! Made two gallons of pasta sauce today. Roasted Big Jim green chili on the porch today. Peeled and steamed them, put 3 qts in the freezer.

 

[Survivor_316]

Sooooo many tomatoes! Made two gallons of pasta sauce today. Roasted Big Jim green chili on the porch today. Peeled and steamed them, put 3 qts in the freezer.

I need your system! Ha. It took me all day just make a few and I'm still not through them all. We have probably half a bushel more we gathered today.
And I am now VERY ready for winter.

 

[Cindyd]

Only thing we had a lot of this year was tomatoes, multiple varieties! Was a good year for tomatoes (for us)...

 

[Amish Heart]

I get buckets and buckets of heirloom cherry tomatoes. I put them on a baking sheet with some olive oil and roast them till they split. Then, cook up some onion and italian spices and garlic in olive oil, throw it all in a huge pot, and let it cook all day. Cool it down, blend it up. Not too hard. We'll keep getting tomatoes for another month. Some in the freezer, some in the freeze dryer. The squash just finished. I got a good number of small sweet pumpkins, and already baked and processed those for pies this winter.

 

[EastenerWesterner]

More and more my wife is buying into the lifestyle. She had herbs drying all over the house. I suggested getting a dehydrator. She researched and we got a freeze dryer delivered yesterday.
Today she she made picked peppers out of the garden peppers today. She is buying in.

 

[Dani]

More and more my wife is buying into the lifestyle. She had herbs drying all over the house. I suggested getting a dehydrator. She researched and we got a freeze dryer delivered yesterday.
Today she she made picked peppers out of the garden peppers today. She is buying in.

That is so wonderful! Hey, it took my Hunny awhile too, but he has been on board for a few years now.

 

[Proud Prepper]

I just received my order of Health Ranger's Hawaiian Astaxanthin 12mg 50 gelcaps.

Everyone should stock up on all there supplements and medicine.

 

[Proud Prepper]

I bought another container of peanut butter powder. It works well and has several years of shelf life.

 

[Proud Prepper]

I put another house on my property. That's 3 houses, 2 campers and 6 other buildings (garage, storage, tool shed, garden shed, fuel shed, barn) on the main property. Also a green house, 3 chicken coops only 1 in use. 2 rabbit hatches none in use.

 

[Oddcaliber]

Nice. Is that house for me? LOL

 

[Dani]

I bought another container of peanut butter powder. It works well and has several years of shelf life.

I never thought about freeze drying Peanut Butter to make into a powder but that is a great idea for long term storage.

 

[Proud Prepper]

Nice. Is that house for me? LOL

That one is for my parents and has an Xtra bedroom. I have lots of room for a camper or tent.

 

[EastenerWesterner]

Last weekend we had to pickup my wife’s outfitting her new workshop, 2-2x4 Stainless tables,2x2 table, 8ft commercial sink, and 36in commercial stove. She didn’t do bad, 10 cents on the dollar, example-commercial stove for $43.
Of course I am bearing the brunt getting it all cleaned up. At least the stove was already converted to propane. She is going to have a top of the line Canning/Cast Iron restoration room

 

[Mountain trapper]

I spent most of the day working on putting up the fencing for the new chicken run. Only got 100 feet done today, 200 feet more to go. Had to make a tool for stretching this wire.

 

[EastenerWesterner]

I spent most of the day working on putting up the fencing for the new chicken run. Only got 100 feet done today, 200 feet more to go. Had to make a tool for stretching this wire.
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2-2x4s, 3 long bolts with wing nuts, a tug em strap and winch. That’s how I made mine.

 

[GaRp58]

Well, I got 2 more propane tanks for cooking/heating, the 11 chicks should be hatching today or tomorrow, the tandoori grill and pizza oven are almost finished and we are about to see the dent corn get harvested here so we can go and pick up that which the combines did not get so we can use it for chicken feed. Made 10 lbs of concord grapes into jelly, but something went wrong. It never hardened into jelly and is only a thicker juice. I will just mix it with seltzer water and drink it instead...put up 3 solar charged, infrared motion sensored LED lights on the terrasse, in front of the house and along the sidewalk for better illumination nights.

 

[Mountain trapper]

2-2x4s, 3 long bolts with wing nuts, a tug em strap and winch. That’s how I made mine.

Yep. That's exactly what I did.

 

[GaRp58]

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[SHTFPREPPER]

Still dealing with a living room and kitchen full of 5 gal buckets of garden produce. Got down to 25F the last 3 nights so we picked all we could earlier in the week and covered and turned sprinklers on the rest. Dehydrated 38 dehydrator trays of eggplant alone yesterday, plus another 14 trays of zuchinni and yellow squash. I’ve been cooking up the very ripe tomatoes overnight in a big crock pot and then putting them in big Tupperware canisters when they’ve cooled then into the deep freeze. Will can them up later in the month when I get the rest of the current produce dehydrated and canned. Have quail eggs in the incubator and will start milking my dairy cow next weekend if I can get the head gate to stay fixed.

 

[Proud Prepper]

I just got a new book.
Recommended by GeorgiaPeachie

 

[Cindyd]

Ordered same...I got my copy in this past Tuesday!

 

[Cindyd]

Sorry! Ordered same! Lol

 

[EastenerWesterner]

Going to try the freeze dryer this week.
Thinking something simple and cheap like sweet potato’s to start out with. If I ruin a 10lb bag of sweet potato’s I am only out $10
Wife is starting on her canning journey. Working on Salsa right now.

 

[GeorgiaPeachie]

I just got a new book.
Recommended by GeorgiaPeachie

Let me know what you think of it PP and Cindy!

Every time I type your name Cindy, I get the urge to type Cindy Lou Who. LOL

 

[Cindyd]

Haa...that's what most pple call me anyway..i'll answer to it.