Preparedness for when

Frugalsod

Doveling wrote: »

Sorry for your loss Thriftwizard, even when elderly and expected it is still painful. How wonderful that you've had all your bases covered so that your household wasn't impacted on too much.

I often wonder what people are like in RL. Maybe that's why I use a lot of smilies because you can't see me laughing and waving my arms about as I do when speaking .

Just over six months since we lost our dog and after the "Never again" I'm starting to get the "Well, possibly" twitches. I have been looking at banned websites. (Labrador rescue :rotfl:)
I am now walking reasonably well with just one stick so could perhaps manage an older dog that just wants a fireside.
I think , for me, a dog is part of prepping. A security thing obviously

Hope you're doing ok Kittie.

A dog has many uses. A friend who never judges you harshly; loves you regardless; a great guard of the home, barking if there are intruders. If it helps keep you company and sane that is also a help.

kezlou

Lynn its not a real crossbow it's a child's one wooden and very safe to use. The amount of safety catches on it is unreal. He's 14 and the one is using is actually with his trainer as we speak. It is not in our home and would only be using it with a trained professional I am not completely irresponsible I can't be with my children.

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You'll pardon me if I read it as criticism then! It's very easy to post without thinking of the consequences from the anonymity of the computer terminal in the haven of your own home.

In a nuclear attack NO ONE would stand a snowballs chance in hell unless they had a properly built and equipped bunker and to what end? Nuclear winter and no population? I would rather go stand in the street and watch, the result would be exactly the same.

If you aren't carrying enough stores to see you through even a snow event then it's unlikely you'll survive the sort of event that prepping is done for. I carry enough food, hardware,medications,water,wood,to see us easily through a 6 month period of disruption, the food will be monotonous but we'll survive if it's possible.

moneyistooshorttomention

We all come at prepping/have a definition of what constitutes prepping and what we personally think we are at risk of because of a variety of experiences we have had personally in OUR own life by and large I would say.

So add together different backgrounds/different experiences of life/etc/etc and its no wonder that this thread feels imo like two threads running at the same time on the same thread heading and occasionally coinciding. Other people may read it as being 3 or 4 or more different threads at the same time under the same heading and occasionally doing a crossover/meet in the middle.

We all do what we can personally for what we personally perceive we might be at risk of and based on our own background/life experiences.

kezlou

Luckily we had enough food, apart from sugar lol , to cope with the low stocks. We were taking my father to buy dog food, the biscuits he had were destroyed luckily his supply of grain for pigeons and human food were safe.

His have a mixture of dog meat and complete dog biscuits and the first signs of what we now know as dementia were setting in. So we applied the whole method of take him shopping to calm him and relieve anxiety. A little thing goes a long way.

Does anyone elses parents do that? Say they going for one thing and go round the whole shop. Two hours later your still there lol

mardatha

I'm one of the few on here who does live in the wild, and have done for most of my life. I wouldn't give anybody even a 25% chance of making it through Spring or Autumn. It's an American prepper dream thing but in our weather you'd have no chance, the cold and wet would finish you off within a few months.

peony40

Oh my goodness, so much going on, my brain cannot cope.

Firstly, and most important, Kittie, I am very sorry for your loss. Thinking of you and your family.

On to prepping matters, I have to rely on being positive as my health does not make it easy for me to be a prepper. My fibromyalgia is such that my memory is atrocious, my body does not allow me to walk far, even sleeping in a bed is painful so I cannot anticipate me sleeping in a tent these days. So, if I were not positive, I would feel even more that illness has robbed me of a normal lifestyle.

So, compared to most of you, my prepping is appalling, a few extra tins of food stuff where I can manage to fit it in. Plus, trying to keep utility usage down, so very basic stuff really.

Thanks to all of you who write, it gives me things to ponder about and try and incorporate some in my small way.

kezlou

Peony that's what I'm being assessed for fibromyglimia, it's awful. Blooming painkillers and the medicines affect everything. You have my sympathies and love your positive attitude.:beer:


Swear two full kitchen cupboards are dedicated to medicine's alone. My hubby on the other hand has no illnesses so the poor thing is always looking after me. Oh as we joke the gardener, cook, den builder I just supervise, read and get confused lol


Just been put on pregabalin as a mood stabiliser and to numb the activity in the brain. Feeling sickly with it at the moment

Mojisola

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I carry enough food, hardware, medications, water, wood, to see us easily through a 6 month period of disruption, the food will be monotonous but we'll survive if it's possible.

Prescription medicines are a problem - our surgery monitor very carefully when you renew prescriptions and often only allow one month's worth of tablets at a time.

GreyQueen

Not your Gran, Frugalsod, whomever my Mad Sugar Lady was, she was buying sugar in bags not in lumps. Two tonnes, my mind is quietly boggling; must have been a major business asset for the hotel, though!

kezlou, the legume family (peas and beans and, surprisingly, peanuts) fix nitrogen in the soil. They do this by a symbiotic relationship between the plants roots and another organism, and the roots then grow nodules which fix nitrogen. This is why it's a great idea to grow this family of plants and, when they've gone over, cutting them off at ground level to let the roots decay in place, rather than hoicking them out immediately.

I've never bothered pH testing soil but, in the first few years of bringing my derelict allotment back into use, I did see the following phenomenon; when runner beans were transplanted out, having been grown in potting compost, they hestitated a bit before growing on and often developed yellow areas alongside the veins of the already-established leaves. This would reverse itself in a few weeks but seems to be a symptom of nitrogen deficiency, and the slow-to-get-away growth likewise; the plant needed to gets its nodules going before taking off.

Now my soil has had a lot of organic material dug into it, this doesn't happen. At my Nan's, runner beans have been grown in exactly the same spot, on a fixed frame, for about 40 years. They actually give back more to the soil than the extract; all the legumes are amazing like this.

The majority of nitrogen in the natural world is said to be from mammal pee, and male human mammals have more nitrogen in theirs than we females, so fellers and lads should always be encouraged to p on the compost heap. :rotfl: