October prepping

Yep, I am finished and using my preps now. I am so glad I got all that gatorade and coke. As soon as my teen gets tired of the gatorade he will start on the coke. He is not drinking any milk due to the fact it produces more mucus that is a no no right now.

LOL, I even have homemade chicken soup frozen and he ate a big bowl last night because it made him feel better. I feel so good that I did all this and have everything right at my finger tips that he needs to feel better.

I sleep well at night!!

I read that many U .S. hospitals are opening drive-thrus and drive-up tent clinics to screen and treat swine flu patients in an effort to keep coughing, feverish people out of regular emergency rooms.  Hospitals across the country have seen several hundred patients, and have been able to have them in and out less than 15 minutes.

Paranoidmom, i understan you being nervous. We have 2 horses. We have decided to let them go to a new home. The new owners was suppose to pick them up today. We haven't heard from them. We told the guy that supplies our hay not to save any for us because we would't have the horses. Now am real nervous. I will make a decision this weekend as to wether we need to plan for them this winter. I don't want to wait until the last minute. Well, this is the last minute for me. I usually have all of their winter hay stocked by the end of August.

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speaking of prepping, we had a nurse visiting today as my husband had just returned home following his bipass surgery. she took one look at our bottled water and said she had never seen so much in one place (we had to bring it up from the basement prior to surgery). I was at a loss as to what to say.

Sounds strange to do, but when the news hit about Mexico in the beginning my family and I watched the local obits and it was scary as most of them read..."so and so died unexpected in thier sleep after a brief illness." Thought that to be coincidental, then the next week one read " so and so died unexpected in their sleep following a brief illness, followed by his wife two weeks prior, but not before finally getting their dream vacation in Mexico." Yup! That did it for me... I knew then that the numbers wouldn't ever be correct. Continued to read the obits for awhile, but the children that were dieing in their sleep unexpectedly following a breif illness was making my heart weep.. There is no way to ever know the real toll that this has taken on so many families. I personally have lost 4 people within our family in the last two years. All unexpectedly, some with secondary infections after being cleared and said to be doing fine, upon being admitted. My heart and prayers go out to the entire world. -HE ALWAYS HAS A PLAN!

My problem is that I'm completely prepped. Maybe over prepped if that can even be done. I actually started prepping over 20 years ago so the swine flu is not really the reason for my prepping.

Lot's of mistakes are made when you first start prepping. Like buying food that you never eat or food that spoils because you bought 1000 pounds of beans and rice. Long term peppers need to buy 30 year shelf life food. Short term peppers can get away with buying what they normally eat in larger quantities as long as they are diligent about rotating their food.

I hardly throw any food away anymore as I've learned the art. Twenty years ago I tossed out 2/3rd's of it when it spoiled.

Technologist wrote: [QUOTE=Mary008] I know I'm going to step on toes but does anyone really believe that homeopathy works? The mind is powerful at healing when you think or know you're getting better. I get that part but to take a product. Then delete it a billion or trillion or more times. So essentially you have no pharmacologically active molecules left. Then claim that potion that is void of anything is going to cure you? People are gullible.

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my question is... my Lawn guy... who used to be in lumber, wants to take off all the lower branches on my 3 trees in the front yard.  I think they are out of control :)  and I am wondering if it is ok to do that this time of year? does it matter?  Has anyone had this done and did your trees do ok after?  My dau is so fond of them... she said, "What are they going to do to my trees?"

Has everyone finished their last minute preps? Next week I will be buying extra gasoline, we will treat it with the proper solution and store if safely away from the house. We will buy white potatoes, sweet potatoes extra garlic, onions and turnip bottoms store them away. I need to take the 2 dogs to the vet next week, buy a few more bottles of bleach. I think I will buy my turkey and lots of cranberry sauce.

Penham good to hear from you. Well you know they say great minds think alike. Penham I must admit, sometime I still wonder if I'm doing the right thing with all this prepping. I don't see or hear of anyone else doing anything but hoping things don't get to bad. I asked my husband did he think I was wack3d for doing all of this. He said no but he did think I was crazy for prepping for Y2K. Preparing for Y2K gave us a good base to start prepping for other diasters.

Thank you inthesticks. Does anyone know the best way to store sweet potatoes long term if you don't have a root cellar/

Hey Mary,I have that same book!