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.
Whenever we worked on preps outside this week, we did so quickly in an effort to stay warm. Winter has already arrived in Appalachia. We had no spring because of the last winter that would never end. Going straight into summer thrilled me, I like it 95 degrees in the shade even when going chores. But, this only a few…
Oh pack members, it sure has been a tough week. I really pondered becoming a day drinker, but I am sure my mother would frown upon hearing I was sipping Jack and Coke before noon. There has been a flurry of activity going on here on our survival homesteading retreat. If I do not keep a keen eye on the…
This has been an exciting week here on the homestead. Bobby sent me a text message saying that he bought two tractors. I thought he was joking and messing with because there was such a delay in my response to his question about whether or not I needed anything from Tractor Supply because he was going by there. Well, about…
This has been a long, long, week in a series of long weeks, fellow preppers. We have had tribe members and workers in the house all week as part of our “make the austere lodge look like a home” project. I am counting this as a prep because even though they are cosmetic projects, we save a ton of money…
Hello, Pack. I hope everyone has had a productive and safe week of prepping. We have had a rare week around our survival homesteading retreat – nothing broke! The amphibious vehicle engine rebuild is still a work in progress, but all of the SUVs, trucks, ATVs, tractors, and machinery are all in full working order. Yes, I did just knock…
Hello fellow preppers. I has been a busy and surprisingly productive week here on our survival homesteading retreat. The surprise along the productivity front stems from tasks accomplished even though we got some rain – that of course generated even more mud, and had trouble with the tractor battery….again. Our wood shed is now not only completely full, we have…
It has been a week of rinse and repeat here on our survival homesteading retreat. I didn’t really focus on how long it takes to get the hay and firewood in each year until I started writing about it to share here with the pack. Weather and equipment issues (rinse and repeat…again) plagued some of our efforts, but 90 percent…
It has been an incredibly busy time here on our survival retreat. We got more done over the weekend than we normally do in an entire week. Our tribe rocks! Ok, well, rocked before getting a brand new excavator (that only had 17 hours on it) stuck in the mud. In addition to building new roads into the woods to…
Well Pack, it was a week of frugality, functionality, and flooding here on our survival homesteading retreat. I could call it a three Fs kind of week, but thanks to the flooding and some barbed wire entangling, there was another F tossed about by a few of our tribe members during work details…but I won’t chat about those outbursts here.…
This has been a productive week of prepping here on our survival homesteading retreat. My Bobby and I took Monday off work for the Labor Day holiday, and used the time to get another pasture cut down and ready to go back into the rotation for fall and autumn medicinal herbs planted. We are blessed to have enough land to…