What Are Your Weekend Plans?

Convert waste vegatable oil into fuel for my trucks.

Continue to plant the garden now that the 2 feet of rain and tornadoes have passed by.

train my rottie puppy and full grown german shepard

Putting an add on craigslist for a free hot tub - you come get it

cook some steaks on the grill

watch gold break 1570

head to the range if there is time

Thats about it. You?

Saturday
Weeding in our little garden. We have a small community garden plot - maybe 20 feet by 20 feet - with a couple of tomatoes, eggplants, some lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, sweet peas. It's $50 for the year (we were on the waiting list for 4 years before we got the plot last month), and we've spent as much on tools, garden hose, seeds and seedlings. We're doing it mainly for the joy and the experience.

We also have two upside-down tomatoes and a few upside-down strawberries hanging from a beam on our patio. They're growing reasonably well and happy to be well-drained and weed free.

Sunday
Plans are to visit the local San Diego Wild Animal Park with wife and babies.

Poet

Long term store some food we just picked up.

Reload 100 .338 Lapua  bullets I just finished a powder ladder for.

Two hours of Kajukenbo training on Sat. and Sun.

Half a day at the range with my eight year old daughter. The other half packing for my wilderness EMT class in Moab next week.

Watch the movie Rio with the family.

Finish planting our corn. We already have everything else in the ground or started.

I think you will find that the prepper weekend is not anywhere near the same as the average american  or mabye I should use.

Rich

P.S. Hope that the price of silver will drop like a rock on Monday morning so I can load up some more!

We are:

1. Making our order list for the Mornon cannery (May 26, need a trailer hitch for the newish Subaru Forester which will be installed next Friday).

2. More work on a chainlink fence. We will connect the sides in the back and roll it toward the street. We need the trailer hitch to pull and tighten the fence. 

3. Weed and water the garden. Plant another few boxes (peanuts, sunflowers, more hot peppers, and more beets). Harvest some lettuce and peas.

4. Order the propane generator we picked out tonight.

5. Take another bid on the pump house for the well.

6. Mow the lawn after potting some naturalized flowers, whcih we will use for community building.

7. Play "Angry Birds" - a lot!

Being thankful that I got turned onto CM.com, ZeroHedge.com and GeraldCelente.com

Being thankful that my son and daughter both dig the idea of prepping.

Being thankful that my wife is slowly starting to understand the concept of prepping, even though she is 

super-distrustful of any advice on the Internet. :o)   

Being thankful that I read the following WSJ article about PSVL and sold my position for a lovely profit.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704889404576277294113826806.html

Being thankful that I finally understanding that storing PMs in a tube in ground is better than storing PMs in a safe deposit box. 

Spending some time reviewing CM Forums and being thankful for the CM community.

Having gratitude for the amazing-ness of Springtime.

Today we just finished hosting a meeting of the local Alternative Energy Association.

Twenty five people turned up and I introduced CM and the crash course followed by a discussion our new solar photovoltaic system, solar hot water system and my electric car conversion (in process).  Another EV car conversion showed up- a Toyota Celica with an AC drive and lithium phosphate batteries.... he had driven 70 miles to the meeting and didn't bother plugging in as he had enough power left to get back home.  Wow!

This is the first of a rotating series of meetings at people's homes to build community and see what others are doing.  Thank you Sager for the "building community forum" to remind me to get this aspect of prepping under way.  It was an interesting group with a lot of skillsets so good to make some connections.

Back to work tommorrow... Monday New Zealand time.

Chip

I wouldn't call myself a 'doom-and-gloomer'. Was there such a widespread colloquial word 200 years ago, or even 100 years ago. No, I would much prefer being called a realist. But I can suspend my realistic view on the world when I'm with loved ones. We plan on visiting Lego Land next month in California and catching a few rads.

Fri -  Baseball game (are boys won against perennial arch rival, yay), prepper group mtg including visit by coin collector/dealer, two members bought their first silver, submitted cannery orders, figured out how to work jar vacuum sealer, picked up 25# honey.

Sat - Fine tuned portable chicken coop (more work needed), continued cleaning up gardens, yard, got compost bin cooking.

Sun - Little more yard work, cut some wood for 2012-13 winter, roll yard (really needs it), take snowblower off and put mower deck on tractor.

Doug

Went to a gunshow in Tusa, OK.

Bought a .22 LR revolver and Taurus PT92 9mm pistol.

Continue to watch silver price, wonder when/if to buy/sell.

Getting ready to work a cattle farm over the summer, and take some summer college courses to get 'em outta the way.

Take care.

Poet, great topic.  It's inspiring to read what others have written.

As for me, we finally got a real nice spring weekend in the NE, so:

- Cleaned out garden in preparation for tilling and planting (Safewrite, your longer growing season really strikes a contrast to where we are at here!  It makes me question, once again, the wisdom of living where the winters are so long, even if it is "home");

- Played "catch" with my son (we're trying to get him over his fear of catching pop-flies);

- Sent our son off turkey hunting (1st time ever) with a close friend of my husband's at way-too-early-in-the-morning-on-a-weekend this AM.  Our friend taught him how to make turkey calls on a slate turkey-caller (amazing how well they work!), and taught him 1st lessons on the art of hunting turkeys ("turkeys have great eye-sight, so you have to move veeeery slowly", etc.)  This is one area where I see welcomed evidence that my husband may -deep down- be hearing and coming around to what I've been talking about for the last 3 years, as it concerns the future well-being of our son.

- Contemplated the unexpected death of one of our neighbors this last week.  Once again we re-lived the lesson: you never know when your time is going to be up; cherish life now;

- Trying to wrap up decision on whether to get a new/used car that gets high mpg or not.  Need to clear that off my mental plate (no, not metal plate), as well as do it while it can be done (low rates, availability, etc.), so I can focus on other, higher priority preps.  -The hybrid car  thread was perfectly timed for me!  And VF's comment on another thread re "an electic car being the least of his worries vs being warm and fed in the future" (paraphrased!!) reflects some of my own uncertainty of the wisdom to even go down that path given higher priorities;

- Catch up on CM.com and some others so I don't feel so damned isolated in my beliefs! 

PS I harvested my first batch of spring asparagus ever from my garden...you have to wait 3 years until it is ready to start harvesting annually.  What a great feeling!!