What did you do Today to Prepare?

[Dave L.]

What did you do today to prepare yourself and/or your family?

Can be anything.

Show pics if necessary.

Be as detailed as possible.

[Just a Jarhead]

Went to BJ's this morning bought some more canned meats, tuna etc you see on top of the pile to add to supplies. Needs to be organzied I know , just threw it in there for now.

I have a mixture of almost everything i.e. dehydrated, MRE's, canned goods. Enough to last almost a year at this point for me & the Mrs and a few others if need be. This is one closet. There are 2 closets like this. And theres a storage area in the garage for the Big Berkey's, large water storage containers, coleman stoves, camping gear, aladdin oil lamps and all kinds of other goodies. It's insurance, if I never need it I'll be all the happier. Allows me to reach deep REM sleep every night!!

On my way out the door now to pick up anther propane tank. Every month I spend $200+ on something survival minded whether ammo, food, communications etc. Having spent many years in the USMC my family always understood my mentality (prior proper planning.."he's brainwashed") but they knew I was a fairly intelligent, level headed guy and not an off the cuff wing-nut. They understood, it just wasn't for them. 15 years ago friends thought it was a little loco, 10 years ago after 9/11 they started asking questions and in the last year they're asking for advice.

[Dave L.]

Allows me to reach deep REM sleep every night!!

Very cool man. What's in those big white containers?

[Just a Jarhead]

The round (8) 6 gallon white containers are hard red winter wheat. The other white containers have a variety of items from rolled oats to barley, beans, pasta etc. The boxes on the bottom contain all sorts of dehydrated vegetables, TVP, fruit etc.

[6933]

Exercised my ass off in high humidity and mid-80's.

[usmcvet]

Exercise. Need lots more!

[SteveOak]

I placed an order for (another) 2,500 fully prepped LC 5.56 cases.

[Country DeVil]

Ordered 250 rounds of 223 and 40. Starting the search for the best books. Thanks for the suggestions

[Just a Jarhead]

Starting the search for the best books.

Here's the book reference list over at survivalblog.com There is a lot of great reference material over there.
http://www.survivalblog.com/bookshelf.html

There are many great reference books, but "The Encyclopedia of Country Living" & " "Making the Best of Basics" should be at the top of everyone's list IMHO.

Both "where there is no Doctor" & "Where there is no Dentist" are online for free either as downloading as a .pdf to save to a file or for browsing online but unless you're actually gong to print it out, having the book is probably a good idea.
http://www.hesperian.org/publication...ad.php#english

[zekus480]

I recently read an article on Aquaponics on another internet blog, Aquaponic is a technique of raising produce and fish together in a closed system. Essentially the fish produce waste needed by the vegetation, the water the fish live is is pumped into the planting beds and the plants purify the water for the fish. There are a few youtube videos on this subject but this is my favorite because it has james brown as background music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGbnG0nH3n4 and i will be purchasing this book when it is released http://www.amazon.com/Aquaponic-Gard...d=P3OMAKL5UZTD. i'll start small when i get CONUS, i'll let you guys know how it goes.