The “almost famous” weekly preps series, where Tara Dodrill shares her latest prepping and homesteading progress with the Pack, and with anyone else who wants to be inspired on his or her homesteading journey.
Hello Pack. We have had quite a productive week here on our survival homestead. The only downsides to this week have been the chilly weather, unwanted precipitation, and a predator looming about. I lost one of my beloved Pekin ducks and a guinea to a fox. In the photo above (that I included simply because it was an awesome shot)…
Hello Pack. I hope you all have had a productive week of prepping. We hit a really cold patch this week, and had a lot of work and some doctor appointments, so not a whole lot of active prepping went on here. This weekend, Bobby is taking a training at a local gun range that I may join in on…
Hello Pack. It has been an exciting week of prepping purchases here on our survival homestead. Our 4-wheeler bit the dust a year ago and our Polaris Ranger isn’t ready to become a parts donor yet, but sure does not run like it used to. I knew Bobby was going to get a new or newish side-by-side and put a…
Hello Pack. Damned if winter did not rear its cold, miserable, and ugly head one more time. The three inches of snow that fell totally messed up some exciting prepping plans I had this week. Several of my tribe members worked to create a gun safety and .22 rifle shooting class and archery class for 59 area self-reliant homeschooled children.…
Hello Pack. It has been a weird week here on our survival homesteading retreat. I think we have had three seasons of weather in just one week – fall, winter, and spring. Which is kinda commonplace for Ohio, but still weird. The day we went from rain to freezing rain, and back again twice was probably the least productive day…
Hello Pack, I hope you are not dealing with the same amount of rain and mud that we still are around here. The constant rain and mud have truly curtailed some of our outdoors prepping plans. So it goes in Ohio in January. Although it is a little earlier than normal, this crazy weather we are getting has started the…
Hello Pack, I hope you all have had a productive week of prepping. It has been bitterly cold here in my part of Appalachia – the payback for unseasonably warm temperatures has begun. Every time I head down to my barn I am either sliding on ice or getting stuck in the mud as the temperature hovers just below and…
Hello Pack. I hope you all have been enjoying the same unseasonably warm weather as we have here on our survival homestead. But alas, more rain is in the forecast. I am sure we will be flooded in for the first time this year soon. I will definitely miss lamenting about Ohio’s crazy weather with TOP. It sure is still…
Hello Pack. I hope you all are enjoying this new year and new decade so far. Preps have been a bit slow this week, at least outdoors, due to weather. But, that has given us more time to get some inventory lists finished up, to do some canning, and to continue working on our annual Preps To Do Chapter Book…
Hello Pack! Happy New Year and new decade! I hope you are all keeping warm and spending plenty of time working on perfecting your survival plan and preps. Because winter is such a long semi-down time on the survival homestead, we call this our “planning season” and have so much fun planning for the spring and summer … before all…