Mid Week Goal Updates..

... not so good... Yesterday PrepDad and I tooled around a small town about an hour away looking for some winter clothes for PrepDad.  We did score 3 brand new flannel shirts with tags and a book he had been looking for. I picked up a nice shirt and some jammies myself. We nibbled a bit of lunch and took the scenic ride home... ALSo crossing the border into the next state we were able to get gas 20 cents cheaper....

  Today it became apparent we needed to do our monthly grocery shopping so with list in hand I let Prepdad stay home and work on the business stuff while I tackled that myself.... never a pretty job... I really need to go into menu planning mode to keep our stock rotated and also we need to prepare meals at the shoppe .  We are in " feast" days for retail... followed by IRS refunds.... but May through Aug are famine so we need to pre plan those things.

 So, going into Wednesday.... where are we:
1. Finish up Christmas gifts 5 more small gifts...
2. Finish reading and review book
3. Make Car Bobs
4. repackage sugar
5. repackage oats
6. Draft dodgers for front room
7. scrub tub in spare bath
8. order pictures
9. decorate front room for Christmas
10. Eye appt.( made! next Tuesday)
11.CVS  ( I was very pleased after ECB's and coupons we payed 2.00 op and got 3 ECB's back. 1 contact solution. 3 big bags of doritos, great for the holidays, 2 bottles of Dawn dish shop)
12. Christmas cards ( bought)
13.Make Buddy Burners
14. call Nannie
15. research sewing machines ( bought!  I ended up scoring one of the top three I had my eye on at a Cyber Monday sale through Amazon.  This embroideries and sews... I am looking forward to it and am signing up for a sewing class at the community college)
16. research herbal classes
17. List stereo on ebay
18. Chicken waterer  I hope I fixed this situation... some animal is sneaking in and drinking the water from the waterer...
19. Kale
20. garlic

Hopefully tomorrow will be a strong work day with no distractions.....

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Prep MOM

Old Goals... New Goals

OK, the Holidays have seriously thrown me off game...\
Old goals
1. Finish up our daughters Christmas afghan. ( not going to happen...I should make this a longer term goal)
2. Make a batch of homemade laundry detergent  ( not happening either as the containers I was to store the detergent in will now go to a bulk lot of oats and turbindo we ordered)
3.Read and review a book sent to me for a bloggy review
4. Restock the Car B.O.B
5. Make Elderberry syrup and cough syrup DONE!!!!
6. Plant fruit trees... these are scheduled to arrive tomorrow ( Friday).. 3 apple  and a fig

I seriously lagged with tons of things coming up to make us stumble... so ... here is the new listI am going to try and break them down by days so I can make SURE I get somethings done..

1. Finish up Christmas gifts
2. Finish reading and review book
3. Make Car Bobs
4. repackage sugar
5. repackage oats
6. Draft dodgers for front room
7. scrub tub in spare bath
8. order pictures
9. decorate front room for Christmas
10. Eye appt.
11.CVS
12. Christmas cards 
13.Make Buddy Burners
14. call Nannie
15. research sewing machines
16. research herbal classes
17. List stereo on ebay
18. Chicken waterer
19. Kale
20. garlic

Homemade Bread and Goals update

I tried a new bread recipe today.  Prep Dad's heart health is important to me... so more oatmeal it is!  We do not own a new fangled bread kneading machine so I did everything by hand.  This bread is so good and hearty..
Thanks to Little Bean Food Storage for the recipe


Alrighty... how are we doing with this weeks goals

1. Finish up our daughters Christmas afghan. ( not going to happen...I should make this a longer term goal)
2. Make a batch of homemade laundry detergent  ( not happening either as the containers I was to store the detergent in will now go to a bulk lot of oats and turbindo we ordered)
3.Read and review a book sent to me for a bloggy review
4. Restock the Car B.O.B
5. Make Elderberry syrup and cough syrup DONE!!!!
6. Plant fruit trees... these are scheduled to arrive tomorrow ( Friday).. 3 apple  and a fig

My mother is coming to spend a week starting on Sunday so I am not sure what will get done between now and then.... might have to put her to work!

Press in and Press on,
PrepMOM

Elderberry Syrup

With cold and flu season approaching  making elderberry syrup was on the list of to-do's this week.  I must say the house smelled HEAVENLY while the syrup was reducing. 
We bought our elderberries at Mountain Rose Herbs We have bought several things from them and the service is great!
   After reading several books and articles on the anti viral properties of elderberry syrup we decided to follow this video step by step.  We strained ours through a jelly bag and have been on a tablespoon a day as a preventative.

HOW TO MAKE ELDERBERRY SYRUP

Info on Elderberries

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PrepeMOM

Quarterly Goals

Well, We finally had our monthly meeting tonight to address our quarterly homestead goals.  Here is where we stand.

Quarterly Goals

October, November, December 2011

1. Complete redo of Christopher's bath
2. Christopher's walls.
3. Vacation
4. Replace E.F. ( 400.00 more dollars to reach our Emergency fund goal)
5. Pay off Lea's credit card
6. Pay off Chris's credit card
7. Build to 3000.00 ( including silver) for baby Step 3
8. 200.00 for Christmas
9. front raised bed garden
10. plant spinach and kale
11. Lea's glasses
12. procure gun
13. plant 4 fruit trees( ordered)
14. Build 3 month food supply ( including pets)
15. winterize house including curtains for front window.
    
    
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    Prep MOM

Upcoming to-do list Nov 14-20

Supposedly we have a week at home. Chris has a couple things to do ( an AR15 workshop for one) but my calender is clear... Here is what I am hoping to get done this week.

1. Finish up our daughters Christmas afghan.
2. Make a batch of homemade laundry detergent
3.Read and review a book sent to me for a bloggy review
4. Restock the Car B.O.B
5. Make Elderberry syrup and cough syrup
6. Plant 4 fruit trees
 THAT should keep me busy!

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PrepMOm

B.O.B. Meet up

Our local group of preppers decided to do a meet up to swap/trade/ show off our bug out bags. It gave everyone a great opportunity to see new products out there and discover holes in the preps. I know Prep Dad and I regrouped our whole idea of bug out to bug in.  Our car BOB is much more important since our goal is to hunker where we are currently.  I hope to finalize all that this month.
Here was a great article I found on car BOBs
http://foodstorageandsurvival.com/vehicle-emergency-kit/

Most of the stuff we have here already, it just needs to be organized for the car.

For the meet up I made my famous ( per pioneer woman) chili  a big hit..thought you might like a few pictures

Tell me what's in your BOB?

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PrepMOM