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…
Category: What I Did to Prep This Week
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.
What I Did To Prep This Week – Week 67: October 19th 2019 – October 26th 2019
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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…
What I Did To Prep This Week – Week 66: October 13th 2019 – October 18th 2019
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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…
What I Did To Prep This Week – Week 65: October 6th 2019 – October 12th 2019
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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…
What I Did To Prep This Week – Week 64: September 27th – October 5th 2019
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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.…
What I Did To Prep This Week – Week 63: September 22nd – September 28th 2019
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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…
What I Did To Prep This Week – Week 62: September 15th – September 21st 2019
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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…
What I Did To Prep This Week – Week 61: September 8th – September 14th 2019
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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…
What I Did To Prep This Week – Week 60: September 1st – September 7th 2019
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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…
What I Did To Prep This Week – Week 59: August 25th – August 31th 2019
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Hello Pack. We have had a busy week on the survival homestead again this week. Even though it has been 95 degrees in the shade most days, our projects were nearly all cold weather focused. We have worked on getting out half mile farm road in shape for winter, a constant project, especially with all of the flooding we had…