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, the fall chill has arrived here in my neck of the woods. I am not one to like it when the temperature gets below 80, but I loathe fall far less since moving onto your dream land. On the up side, our creek actually looks like a creek again and not dry – nor have we had any…
Hello, Pack. I hope you all have had a great week and accomplished a plethora of vital prepping. We have been getting a lot of rain lately – it’s what we call the “fall rainy season” here in our part of Appalachia. We went from being in a drought to expecting to be flooded in. The rain this past weekend…
Hello Pack. I hope you all have had a productive week of prepping. We have spent most of our time doing some fall planting, tractor repairs, welcoming Pearl’s kids into the world, and Christmas present crafting. Ok, I was doing Christmas present crafting, but Bobby did make the templates I needed to create larger folding fabric dollhouses than I did…
Hello, Pack. I did not get much active prepping done this week. Two of our grandchildren have birthdays in the same week, so celebrating and finishing up homemade gifts took up a lot of my time. I spent a lot of time at the barn on kidding watch, but Pearl still has not given birth yet. I swear, these kids…
It rained, fellow preppers – it rained! Our creek is still not running, but it has a few inches of water as far as the eye can see through both sides of our property. I am not sure if the rain we got was enough to prevent the grass from dying out, but I am keeping my fingers crossed. The…
Hello Pack. We just finished yet another week without rain. The forecast keeps teasing us with some rain, but it never materializes. The chances of losing our upper pasture to this mini drought are getting greater and greater. I am going to buy more hay, and just figure the pasture is lost. Worst case scenario I have too much hay.…
Hello Pack. It’s been another busy week here on our survival homestead. We have had typical crazy Ohio weather – 80 to 85 degree days and 46 degree mornings. I sure wish we could get some rain. Our creek is bone dry. A few weeks from now when the fall rainy season hits we will surely be flooded in a…
Hello Pack. This has probably been the busiest and most tiring week of prepping in months. Finally, and for real this time, all the hay on our survival homestead has been baled. We put up 225 bales of hay with the help of our tribe members. My former Marine nephew, Conner, who insisted on carrying two 50-pound square bales at…
Hey Pack. We are finally nearing the end of our hay baling for the year. I am still somewhat hopeful that maybe we could get another cut in one field by the end of October … maybe. Our tribe has been over most of the week working on hat cutting, raking, baling, and storing as well as putting up more…
Hello Pack. I would like to say I had a productive week of prepping, but I so have not. The rest of my tribe did, but a cold that a granddaughter shared with me and a horse stomped foot another one prompted, have had me nearly sidelined all week. We are on kidding watch with Pearl right now. As you…