{"id":2546,"date":"2015-10-09T08:12:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T12:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2546"},"modified":"2015-10-09T08:12:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T12:12:03","slug":"friday-9-october-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/10\/09\/friday-9-october-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 9 October 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">08:12 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> Barbara is off to the gym this morning. She&#8217;s finished yard work until more of the leaves come down, so she&#8217;ll run some errands that she was putting off during our recent heavy rains. Then we&#8217;ll work on science kit stuff.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">We started watching Little House on the Prairie yesterday. I&#8217;d never seen it, since I was in college and grad school when it started its run. Barbara saw the first season or two before college, and liked it then. It&#8217;s set on a farm in rural Minnesota in the 1870&#8217;s, and seems to be a good family-oriented introduction to the prepper way of thinking: self-reliance, overcoming challenges, working if you expect to eat, and so on.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Here&#8217;s what I did to prep this week:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">We made a trip up to Sparta, NC to look at houses, and ended up putting in an offer on one of them. If the owners accept our offer, we&#8217;re scheduled to close on the house early next month. In that case, we should actually be moved up there by the end of the year, although we&#8217;d still be down here in Winston a lot to get the present house ready to go on the market.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I ordered more open-pollinated seeds for the heirloom seed kits and started a culture of mixed species of <em>Rhizobia<\/em> spp., a nitrogen-fixing bacteria that can increase legume yields by an order of magnitude. I&#8217;ll use that culture to produce a shelf-stable suspension in phosphate-buffered saline, which can then be reactivated simply by reculturing it in a dilute mixture of table sugar and beef or chicken broth.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">So, what precisely did you do to prepare this week? Tell me about it in the comments.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08:12 &#8211; Barbara is off to the gym this morning. She&#8217;s finished yard work until more of the leaves come down, so she&#8217;ll run some errands that she was putting off during our recent heavy rains. Then we&#8217;ll work on science kit stuff.\n<\/p>\n<p>We started watching Little House on the Prairie yesterday. I&#8217;d never seen it, since I was in college and grad school when it started its run. Barbara saw the first season or two before college,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/10\/09\/friday-9-october-2015\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Friday, 9 October 2015 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relocation","category-weekly-prepping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}