THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

DigForVictory

Yes indeed "kicked by the chicken" & also not-at-all-by-chance the same marking that used to be on convicts uniforms.

Says she who has been trained to look for it same as my lads know to look for base stamps, but we have an useful tool collection in consequence. Do not be unduly alarmed by mere filth - much will wash off & the fastidious won't even pick it up, which reduced the competition. Also rust need not be fatal if the underlying metal is thick enough & you have citric acid solution or oxcyalic acid solution. Souse, scrub, souse some more, then wash, dry & oil & enjoy...
Himself does!

GreyQueen

I just love the opportunity to ferret around among old junk at bootsales to find those good quality but unloved tools.



Spent 1.25 hrs on the lottie after work. Glorious day here, most of it sadly spent indoors earning my crust. Have finished preparing the potato patch which will become the broad bean patch, starting tomorrow. Beans are soaking already.


I'm running around like a mad thing (OK, hobbling around like a mad thing with an arthritic hip) to get as much done as possible before the clocks go back and I won't be able to get up there after w*rk.


Gardeners! Your 2019 growing season starts NOW, prep prep prep.


I have also fed another seven cutworms and two wireworms to the birdies via the altar of doom (have a birdtable up there). They'll not be chomping on my veggie.:rotfl:

fuddle

GreyQueen wrote: »

Gardeners! Your 2019 growing season starts NOW, prep prep prep.


I have also fed another seven cutworms and two wireworms to the birdies via the altar of doom (have a birdtable up there). They'll not be chomping on my veggie.:rotfl:

Oh yes. I'm willing the rabbit to poop more so I can get it on my beds! I've asked for rotted manure for Christmas :rotfl:

DawnW

fuddle wrote: »

Oh yes. I'm willing the rabbit to poop more so I can get it on my beds! I've asked for rotted manure for Christmas :rotfl:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


Love the fellow mad gardeners on this thread

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Himself is on his way back home in a couple of days. He's decided that it's a good time to let his parents experience the consequences of their individual idiotic suggestions.

So his mother will come back from her hugely expensive holiday with her boyfriend to find her cottage cold, damp, possibly flooded, mouldy and infested with squatters/burglars because she didn't want to pay about thirty quid in electricity and gas for Himself to stay there. And his father will have Reality comin' a knockin' when he's back in his midden, Himself is sleeping on a blow up mattress in the hallway and he's got to do the cooking by himself - the OH has heard every excuse under the sun as why he can't prepare food or make a cuppa right now, but everything will be fine when he's back in his flat. As it is, Himself did apparently suggest that he comes back permanently, due to the vast sums of money these last couple of months have cost me (and I think my friend has been telling tales about how much weight I've lost) and we'll see FIL in a fortnight back at the hospital, before it was mooted that he go and stay once the lift works again. :cool:


It's really not like the OH to be quite so assertive. I think I might rather like it.

DigForVictory

fuddle wrote: »

I've asked for rotted manure for Christmas

You did specify how it was to be packed? As a Christmas stocking of that might be memorable, but not in the best way.

That said, a clearly labelled sack of the stuff ("Not Fermented til 2027") could also contain a small [tough] box of handy articles like cash, spare ID, and other little prepping handy to haves that you really do not want someone wandering in & helping themselves to.

And o you gardeners, check your anti-tetanus status? While you are booking your flu jab? Seems the offspring are covered almost unto death thanks to all the shots they had before they left school but us parents may have let it lapse & benefit from a top-up. Not least as better to have the answer dd/mm/yyyy when the nurses ask, than face being repaired whist a bit of you is warmly commenting that someone's just stuck a needle in...

After all, when else do you ever get asked 'when did you last have an anti-tetanus shot?' As my experience suggests exclusively when I am sat awaiting running repairs to injuries sustained gardening. It is nice to see the nurses' surprise when you can smile back & recite the date. Grab such small victories as you can, by preparing for the not necessarily inevitable!

fuddle

Lol the garden centre sells it in bags just like compost. I would hope it would have a ribbon of some sort though,you know, given it's Christmas.

thriftwizard

Gardeners! Your 2019 growing season starts NOW, prep prep prep.

Nooo, nooo, nooo! I know that, and am raring to go, especially as it's a lovely day down here, but am almost literally hamstrung by having scalded my wrist quite badly last week, straining cooked vegetables in an unfamiliar sink! There's so much needs doing down there!

But at least I'm managing to move on more surplus stuff, whilst essentially confined to barracks...

Nargleblast

Jojo - rock on, you! Your idiotic in laws can pull their Big Knickers on and get on with it, you look after yourself and your OH - if you don't look after yourself first then you're neither use nor ornament to anyone else.

fuddle

The cardiogist gave me a 6 week prescription last week to see me over problems getting my medications switched. As a keen eyed pepper I have set the ball rolling getting my repeat prescription set up, knowing I was probably pushing it, but having checked my online prescription Info, new meds have been released for collection. I will have a 5 week stock of meds and that makes me happier having that cushion.