What Preps are you doing this week

[pietka]

Ive just doubled my battery capacity on my off grid shed from 1 to 2 batteries beceause the 2 60w maplin panels are charging my crappy merc battery in 2 days! =) £62 for a 75AH leisure battery from camping international! any other shops whigh do good deals on these batteries? would be great for future additions!

[itsybitsy]

Trying to think of a way to fix my hen run roof so it doesn't collapse under the weight of snow.

How about putting a slope on it and then covering with one of those slippery tarp things. Then you could sweep off the snow.(assuming the run isn't half an acre! )

I thought about that too, but then I wondered if a big mound of snow might slip off and flatten one of the hens if they were standing in the wrong place at the wrong time!

[diamond lil]

Well, we've found that any solid substance will either take off straight up into subspace or else head east to Denmark, so we built the hen-pen of only mesh. No shelter apart from the coop, which is biggish and cosy. But the snow might settle on the top. Thinking of buying a couple of extendable metal supports and then fixing on a piece of wood between them to go along the top - sort of like a ridge tent, only made of mesh. Then hopefully gravity will pull some of the snow off..

[pseudonym]

My Bush Key arrived today ( mine is in orange kydex),



Just in time for me to have a play with it this weekend in the woods.


Here's a mark 1 version in action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XWaocpI ... r_embedded

[preppingsu]

Just purchased 4 bags of layer pellets on offer at Countrywide (smallholders event this weekend). Should last into the new year for our 6 chooks.

Also got some green manure seeds for our beds that have finished producing this year. Gotta start preparing the ground ready for next years crops!
http://www.suttons.co.uk/Gardening/Vege ... fAodMGOSwQ

[diamond lil]

Got a big order coming from Sainsbugs on Tues, stuff to fall back on when the snow comes.

[Carrot Cruncher]

Just winterised the BOV (BOV sounds much sexier than Campervan/motorhome ). Removed all the furnishings, drained the fresh and grey water tanks. It will take a bit longer if we need it in an emergency but rather that than have frozen and burst pipes, damp beds etc. Also just found an online owners club for the Talbot Express (the van that the camper is based on), and it's already saved me a couple of hundred quid by showing me how to do a particular mechanical job that needed doing rather than paying obcene labour charges to a garage.

Tomatos are finally starting to ripen so picked a few today....better late than never

[bloke]

Stocked up on loads of tinned soup to use both as sauce bases and uhm....soup

Also ordered a new bowie knife and bought some spare pairs of work gloves.

[TimeisRunningOut]

Stocked up on loads of tinned soup to use both as sauce bases and uhm....soup

Also ordered a new bowie knife and bought some spare pairs of work gloves.

Bought a few tins of organic beans......... bag of organic oats, few loaves of organic bread, organic honey... organic orange juice.. enough to last for.........1 week! LOL
Damn its so hard trying to PREP AND avoid GMO frankenstien foods
Dont shortchange your health fellow preppers
Oh yeah avoid MSG/Aspartame (artifical sweetner in almost EVERYTHING)
Avoid Sodium Flouride (tap water)
Avoid Mercury (flu vaccines)

[dizzydays]

I'd rather take my chances than miss the flu vaccine. I had flu once - real flu, not the 'oh i've got flu cos I feel ill ' variety. I've never forgotten it and would risk anything rather than go through that again!