What did you do today to prep?

[Sgt Nambu]

Sgt. Nambu: Have you ever had Mama ramen ? Its from Thailand and in particular Mama Duck flavor ramen is amazing. Nong Shim is good stuff too though.

As for my prep type stuff today
Ordered 3 of the Foxfire books, I figure if I order a few every month I should have the full set soon. Also picked up 10 30 cal ammo cans for storing ammo and making into lil faraday cage emp resistant storage boxes with my father in law.

I have not! I'll keep an eye out at the Asian markets!

 

[uscsoldier]

Has any here had a chance to check out Iron Edison Nickel Iron (Ni-Fe) batteries?

Nickel Iron Battery

 

[mjbskwim]

Finally loaded up some ammo to test.

 

[Camelfilter]

Sgt. Nambu: Have you ever had Mama ramen ? Its from Thailand and in particular Mama Duck flavor ramen is amazing. Nong Shim is good stuff too though.

As for my prep type stuff today
Ordered 3 of the Foxfire books, I figure if I order a few every month I should have the full set soon. Also picked up 10 30 cal ammo cans for storing ammo and making into lil faraday cage emp resistant storage boxes with my father in law.

Nice in the books, haven't started on them, but seem to get decent reviews.

On the ammo can -> faraday cage, post up what you come up with. Might be worth a go if isn't too complicated.

 

[notazombie]

View attachment 348236 Picked up bugout bike last night. Okay, maybe it's just for fun. If life goes sideways I plan on staying home.

 

[mjbskwim]

View attachment 348236 Picked up bugout bike last night. Okay, maybe it's just for fun. If life goes sideways I plan on staying home.

It can still be a recon bike

 

[notazombie]

Good enough justification for me.

 

[erwin643]

View attachment 348236 Picked up bugout bike last night. Okay, maybe it's just for fun. If life goes sideways I plan on staying home.

TW200? Awesome. I have one mothballed in my End-of-the-World stash. My regular bike is a KLR650, modified, and basically converted back into a military motorcycle, with some stealth added (micro turn signals, for starters).
However, the TW200 can do things the larger motorcycle can't. Two people can pick it up and throw it in the back of a truck. I customized mine with a smaller, lightweight rear sprocket. It can top-out at 85 mph, now, and gets better mileage.

 

[notazombie]

Yeah, I found out on my way to work this morning that mine's been geared the other direction. It'll climb a tree but I'd be surprised if I could hit 55. I plan for it to be 95% trail use anyway.

 

[P7M13]

Twenty eight years ago when I moved out to Oregon, I gave away my Anvil. In the past year, I have had perhaps a dozen occasions where I needed one. Saw one at Harbor Freight yesterday, 40% off. Picked it up for $41:

Went to Uwajimya, the large Asian grocery store, in Beaverton OR today.
Stocked up on gals of Kikoman lo sodium Soya Sauce, rice wine vinegar, garlic chili paste, sweet chili sauce and other condiments.
Also, Korean mfg Ramen, (the best! ). I know! Lots of sodium and palm oil!
All this stuff, excepting the Ramen, stores really well in my experience. The Ramen's good for about a year, tops, IMHO.
All this stuff will really make the neighbors poodle taste great! Best thing is we cook Asian a lot so all this stuff will get used in the normal course of events.

My kids' favorite store, bar none. My son and daughter have taught themselves to read kanjii and kata kana from the books at the book store there. Whenever we go to Seattle, I am obliged to take them to the Uwajimaya there. It's also the best source of coconut milk (more like a paste), choices in rice, and the best value in bottled green teas.

 

[HuckleberryFun]

Got an improved sewing/repair kit for my ruck.
If something breaks,rips,tears, I better be able to mend it.

 

[HuckleberryFun]

Today, I've been prepping my brain. I started reading "The Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes. If I'm prepping for societal collapse, I should have an idea of how people will react and why. Probably the most interesting concept I've read so far, is that the earth, and everything in it belongs to me. It also all belongs to you...at least as much of it as you can defend from me and vice versa. In order to keep as much as I can gather, I have to agree to let you keep as much as you can gather. This is called a social contract, where we give up some of our liberty to live together peacefully, leaving me at liberty to do anything except that expressly forbidden by law. Anyway, it's an interesting book for something written 500 years ago.

Memories of Philosophy 1A. Are we going to be tested on this?

 

[notazombie]

Sorry about your old anvil. The old stuff gets crazy money now. Typically around $3/lb. I have an old one that has been kicking around my house for a long as I can remember. A couple years ago I cleaned it up and ran the numbers. Found out it's at least a hundred years older than me.

 

[Timbertodd]

Brought in a yard and a half of composted garden soil and expanded the garden by a few more raised beds.

 

[Srbasbol2]

Picked up a few chickens. Prepped the chicken coop previous owner left behind. Ripped out the old chicken run, tripled its footprint and cleared 2 feet of snow out of it. Found some grass down there. Almost forgot what that stuff looked like. Gonna start rebuilding tomorrow.

 

[Oathkeeper1775]

Field tested a new Rip Cord arrow rest and re-zeroed the bow out to 50 yards. Arrow rest wasn't cheap but well worth it.

 

[Timbertodd]

Yesterday I planted 3 types of greens, radishes, beets, and carrots. That sun sure had me yearning for the drier weather.

 

[Oathkeeper1775]

"Paperwork" at the range; micro-dial in a new Timney Trigger and fine-tune the (rat) zero on a 17HMR.

Yesterday being sunny and warm, I figured people would have been conducting audio-visual exercises (you know, rapid fire-target rich-zombie scenarios...) at the range, so I went early to hound brass today... Only a few handfulls of what I need; lots of 9mm (a sea of brass) but who needs that ?

A great day none the less.

 

[Trapdoor45-70]

Completed a two bucket water filter system similar to this one.

This gives me three separate filtration systems using three different methods for filtering at least 5 gallons each. Also have 8 individual filtration systems [LifeStraw, Saywer, etc.].

Next phase is getting some 55 gal barrels to add to existing storage capacity.

 

[Oathkeeper1775]

Purchased a Spring Turkey Tag; opening day is April 15th....

How appropriate..