The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

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It's snowing up here.

Cappella

It's snowing here too Bob I used to love the snow, nowadays I just shiver a lot and hope for an early spring.

wondercollie

Well it's -18C and snowing here.

Drug shortages are happening all over the world. I can think of several over the last few years here in Canada. We had a morphine and anti-emetic shortage. Turns out the factory was retooling the equipment and they shut down.

Then their was an IV fluids shortage because of the storm that took out Puerto Rico. Who'd have thought that a small island would supply most of North America with IV fluid bags?

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A shortage of anti-emetics. :think:
That makes me

Karmacat

wondercollie (love the name!) how deep does the snow get round you? I had a look on house prices in Canada once upon a time, and there were a lot of listings giving snow depth during winter, and it was ... quite deep, lets say! We're just not set up for it here, because it happens on so few days per year.

DigForVictory

Capella, make the most of all introductory offers but I hope your coop stays helpful & welcome back to health.
Thriftwizard - I know one woman has pictures of things on the freezer door & crosses off used things - this works for her but my lads eat first & remember to leave a note months later. Indeed, I tend to use the recycling & rubbish bins as a clue.
jk0 - I plain do not trust voice activation. I cannot see where the off switch is. In a few decades, I may be quite happy to receive voice controlled elderly care but it will need to be programmed to cope with a range of personal quirks. If it's set up as Microsoft clippy - "you appear to be" I will be looking to unplug it with any tools I am still permitted.
MadamMim - I'm fine with some medications phasing in & out of easy availability - as is mum who takes two of the three in the headlines. She's a medic (& dreadful patient) but she knows that if X is too expensive she takes Y instead & its more or less OK. Experience helps, but its worrying the first few times.

Had a good day with parents, discussing a range of subjects and reintroducing them to Lidl lumpfish roe (which looks & tastes convincingly like caviar to such as haven't partaken in the last decade) I stashed a few jars to amuse her, & it worked. She, Dad & I plotted whom to serve the other to for maximum "Wow!".

I 'aided their prepping' with a box of bars of assorted dark chocolate - should see them through a couple of months but they're absurdly generous so maybe a fortnight. If I can add a bar of chocolate to nearly every shop I can probably add paracetamol. A smaller but *almost* as well received box...

For some reason I just did not assist my mother to get onto Twitter. Such an oversight, but us daughters routinely curate Facebook for her & I sincerely hesitate to encourage her to dip as much as a toenail into the shark infested waters of a social platform that is global & hath such things as Trump in it. I do not know where its privacy settings are (if any) so I managed to run out of time. Advice please on the correct privacy settings (& where you find them) for a strong minded 80-something?!

I observed her taking a lively interest in the Duke of Edinburgh's car accident. She's been on the sharp end of some subtle & unsubtle suggestions she lay down her car keys but the independence argument is a strong one. Since none of us girls are prepared to say we'll be your cab firm, we're on thin moral ice but while they are willing to cooperate with the assessment & the outcome, we've agreed to focus on daylight driving and experimenting with taxis where needed.

Got back through the first snow I've driven in this year. Went too fast one one stretch & relearned some risks are survivable but unrewarding. Reinstalled my sensible snow driving head!

So, suet, paracetamol & the usual feed-the-ravening-teenagers stuff... Onwards!

wondercollie

Karmacat wrote: »

wondercollie (love the name!) how deep does the snow get round you? I had a look on house prices in Canada once upon a time, and there were a lot of listings giving snow depth during winter, and it was ... quite deep, lets say! We're just not set up for it here, because it happens on so few days per year.

Our dog is known as WonderCollie for his lovely nature. He makes Lassie look like a bully. Has the mailmen and assorted meter readers as his best pals. Knows all the school kids in the area.

Snow really depends on the winter and type of snow. this winter hasn't been to bad. We only have about 18 inches on the lawn. Some years it's been a couple of feet. Mostly this winter it's been the fine, powdery stuff that is easy to remove. The wet, heavy stuff is horrible. Right now the streets in my subdivision are about 8 inches of packed ice. Residential streets don't get the snow removed only the main roads. People shovel out their driveways onto the roads and then it gets driven over and packed. Then it frees and thaws, repeat several times.

I'm hoping the snow will have melted by April but I'm not holding my breath. It can snow here until late May and I remember the year the snow fell on August 30th. That was an early start to winter.

Cappella

WondercollieI will stop moaning about our slightly icy pavements and -1 degree temperature immediately! Half an inch of snow here and everything grinds to a halt. This always baffles me, as it usually snows for at least a few days most years here, and you'd really think we'd be better prepared for it.

Karmacat and Livingproof I am certainly not expecting these offers to continue indefinitely, but I'm going to take full advantage of them while thestore is still working out it's demographic 50p a tin for peaches in juice yesterday.

I'm making a lot of different soup today, celery, cauliflour and blue cheese, carrot and coriander all from reduced veg in Morrisons bought over the past two weeks. When did tinned soup prices rise so steeply? I usually don't buy it so wasn't aware that it was so dear. I think home made is nicer, but it's a while since I made a lot to freeze. I'm wary of power cuts after March, and of losing the lot, but equally it makes no sense to run an empty freezer.
Decisions . . . Decisions . . . At least it's never boring trying to be a prepper though!

jk0

DigForVictory wrote: »

jk0 - I plain do not trust voice activation. I cannot see where the off switch is. In a few decades, I may be quite happy to receive voice controlled elderly care but it will need to be programmed to cope with a range of personal quirks. If it's set up as Microsoft clippy - "you appear to be" I will be looking to unplug it with any tools I am still permitted.

I was just thinking...


Suppose you sleep talk, you might find all sorts of junk from your nightmares show up on your doorstep, if Alexa hears you.

DigForVictory

I'd love to presume that everyone's seen this, but just in case

Look, No.10 get their doughnuts delivered under armed guard.

So, no need to worry about the future, unless you happen to be short of lawful weaponry.
How's that shoulder healing GQ?