THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

maryb

Calendula cream works for me, Kittie

GreyQueen

Was on my allotment this afternoon. Was intending a 5 minute visit, dumping rotables into the compost Dalek and cutting a courgette. Which I did, but I also spotted a lottie pal and, long version short, we were lounging around on her plot drinking rose wine spritzers and eating crisps.......... :rotfl:


Far too hot for gardening today but lovely for sitting around catching up with the news. Home, resting, bath and hairwash, all read for the workweek.


Tomorrow, I'm heading plotwards in the evening and am planning a major watering sesh for the runners. They are starting to set beans and won't do well if they don't get some drinkies. I must take care of them for the next few weeks.

ziggy2004

went and bought some herbs and a window planter today as having the inside ones in an icecream tub was annoying me.

Also popped into Aldi and picked up some more things for the pantry which is now very full and in need of a sort out and removal of all non pantry items!

mardatha

I think life down south must be quite hard sometimes, you have such different problems to me. I've very very rarely had drought and extreme heat to deal with. The hottest day I've ever experienced was 30c and that was only one day.. I don't have water bills. I don't have neighbours pinching veg from my garden.
My probs and challenges are all about keeping warm in severe cold, and being cut off in bad weather. I suppose it's 6 of one and half a doz of the other really..

jk0

Frankly, I've got used to the heat, as we've had it for weeks now. I believe I read that your blood gets thinner after three weeks.

Karmacat

mardatha wrote: »

I think life down south must be quite hard sometimes, you have such different problems to me. I've very very rarely had drought and extreme heat to deal with. The hottest day I've ever experienced was 30c and that was only one day.. I don't have water bills. I don't have neighbours pinching veg from my garden.
My probs and challenges are all about keeping warm in severe cold, and being cut off in bad weather. I suppose it's 6 of one and half a doz of the other really..

It is, Mar, it really is (six of one, I mean). I realise I've adopted an almost Mediterranean day: getting up at 6 or so, lunch at midday and then just hiding from the heat till 4 or 5. In normal times, I'd regard my evening relaxation as starting from 6pm or so (I'm retired, after all ) but tonight I was out at 8.30 watering a few plants. I only water new ones - established plants are coping with deep cracks in the ground, that are now 4" wide in some places. No idea how deep they go ...

mardatha

:eek::eek::eek: BE CAREFUL!! Have you ever watched "Tremors" ??? :eek:

DigForVictory

I'm enjoying the dream prep homes. C'mon, dreaming is planning with no budget - and a blinking good start.


My concern is that by the time I can sort this ideal Res, there may not be fossil fuel for the excavators & I'll be modding a judiciously chosen cave.


Still, if you don't dream, or plan, you end up with whatever's left, and I am pickier than that.
Oh aye, my des Res has both a copse, an orchard and a few dozen trees planted for the grandchildren, oak elm walnut & the like. Plus space for a couple of ponies, goats, sheep & pigs. With a few geese as Intruder detection and disheartening...

moneyistooshorttomention

:rotfl: at the thought that "if you don't dream or plan you end up with whatever is left":rotfl: - and rather agreeing with that thought.

Sorta chimes with my thoughts of "Why the heck should I be 'competitive'? - don't want to be/shouldn't have to be".

A cynic is a tired idealist :cool:. Someone who realises they obviously had a set of assumptions about "how Life is" and thought that was how it would be for them - until you realised there's other people "competing" with you for what you assumed was "yours" and you have to try to be "competitive" yourself to make sure as much as possible of "what is 'yours' " does become yours iyswim.

Be it jobs, housing, health care, relationships - someone else is always after it too....:cool:

I still don't like the feeling of having to "put my hand out and grab hold of something I need/want - in case it gets snatched out of my grasp". I'd much rather go "Oh there's Mine (whatever it is)" and just pick it up from the table and think "Right, that's done/sorted", rather than the feeling of having to have a "tug of war" about it and losing some of those "tugs of war" at that.

Karmacat

mardatha wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek: BE CAREFUL!! Have you ever watched "Tremors" ??? :eek:

:rotfl: I love that film :rotfl:

DigForVictory wrote: »

I'm enjoying the dream prep homes. C'mon, dreaming is planning with no budget - and a blinking good start.

My concern is that by the time I can sort this ideal Res, there may not be fossil fuel for the excavators & I'll be modding a judiciously chosen cave.

Still, if you don't dream, or plan, you end up with whatever's left, and I am pickier than that.
Oh aye, my des Res has both a copse, an orchard and a few dozen trees planted for the grandchildren, oak elm walnut & the like. Plus space for a couple of ponies, goats, sheep & pigs. With a few geese as Intruder detection and disheartening...

Loving this too :j


Okay, a detached house, flattish stairs, banisters both sides, bathroom upstairs with a separate shower, shower room downstairs, nice big windows with transparent security film on, shutters if they don't look too obvious, good security lights front and back, brick walls not fences. Hedge of hazel and hawthorn, with rowan and climbing rose, plus the odd quince. Blackberries beyond the far wall. A little orchard at the bottom of the garden. Specimen trees like chestnut and walnut, already mature thank you very much a greenhouse, a potting shed, a secret water pump and several water butts. A border, inside the hedge, of fruit bushes. Perennials such as rhubarb and kale as well. A herb garden. Bee friendly plants. A shallow little pond to "grow" duckweed to feed the garden.



:jI'd better stop, I have to catch a train :rotfl: