Cold and damp. It was 44F when I woke up yesterday, didn’t get much above the mid 50s in the shade all day, and was 38F when I went to bed. I expect that to continue today. At least it is supposed to be clear for a couple more days.
Did my pickups. The damage to the scratch and dent freezers is less than I thought, so hooray. One is perfect, one has the dent mostly confined to the access panel over the mechanicals (easy to straighten), and the last one has about 6 vertical inches of the back corner edge pushed in a little bit. They should all work fine, with only one even having noticeable damage.
I’ve been chatting with various of my sellers and I think I can say that this economy is wearing on them. They look tired and beat up. I’m pretty sure that isn’t a good thing.
Today I’ve got my non-prepping hobby meeting in the morning. Then I’ll come home and take down the Christmas stuff that’s outside. I don’t have to be at the BOL at any particular time, and the decorations need to come down. I haven’t managed my time well enough to do it before now, but time is up. Then I’m headed out. I will probably stay until late Monday. The kids have Monday off, but my wife doesn’t, so they will not be joining me. It does make certain tasks easier if I can cut off power or water for an extended time. And if the weather gets any colder I’ll feel better about being up there and having an eye on the situation. It’s almost always colder there than here.
I’m moving some more food up there too, frozen and canned, and some bulk buckets. It occurs to me that salted pork would need a whole bunch of salt. And some buckets. Hmm. More for the list. If every bucket you have is in use, how do you replace one that you dropped and broke? Or what can you brine that ham in? Or put up some windfall food? The bucket is the unsung hero of prepping, but how many do you have that aren’t in use? What if you couldn’t just run to Lowe’s for another few? EMPTY buckets are important preps too.
So stack up a few!
nick