{"id":2914,"date":"2016-07-23T09:13:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T13:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2914"},"modified":"2016-07-23T09:25:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T13:25:03","slug":"saturday-23-july-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/07\/23\/saturday-23-july-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, 23 July 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">09:13 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> We closed on the house in Winston yesterday, so we&#8217;re back to owning only one home. The next major project is to get our gravel driveway paved. I&#8217;ll call to get quotes Monday.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Email from Brittany, whose prepping is proceeding apace. Her foil-Mylar bags and oxygen absorbers have arrived, and they have a repackaging party scheduled for this weekend. They also picked up another two 50-pound bags of sugar, four 50-pound bags of flour, four 25-pound bags of beans, four 25-pound bags of white rice, about 50 pounds of pasta, 50 pounds of oatmeal, and 25 pounds of cornmeal, so with what they already had there&#8217;s a lot of repackaging to be done. Brittany happily notes that they now have enough to feed the four of them for six months, mostly in bulk staples, but with a reasonable amount of canned meats, sauces, and other foods as well. They also have a large order of Augason Farms stuff in #10 cans on the way from Walmart. And her husband is busy building shelves in the basement to store all this stuff once it&#8217;s repackaged. Brittany says that just looking at the piles of stuff is enough to make her feel much more secure, which is a common reaction of new preppers who&#8217;ve started to accumulate reasonable amounts of supplies.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">We built another 28 chemistry kits yesterday, which takes our finished goods inventory on those to about four dozen. We&#8217;ll get started today on another batch of biology kits. Once we get those complete, it&#8217;ll be lather, rinse, and repeat though August and into September. In prior years, there&#8217;ve been weeks when I was so busy shipping kits that I didn&#8217;t have time to build more. I think our all-time record was 34 kits in one day. With Barbara available full-time this year, keeping up shouldn&#8217;t be a problem.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">09:25 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> Science is never &#8220;settled&#8221;, as any real scientist understands. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2016\/07\/how-a-guy-from-a-montana-trailer-park-upturned-150-years-of-biology\/491702\/\">How a Guy From a Montana Trailer Park Overturned 150 Years of Biology<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09:13 &#8211; We closed on the house in Winston yesterday, so we&#8217;re back to owning only one home. The next major project is to get our gravel driveway paved. I&#8217;ll call to get quotes Monday.\n<\/p>\n<p>Email from Brittany, whose prepping is proceeding apace. Her foil-Mylar bags and oxygen absorbers have arrived, and they have a repackaging party scheduled for this weekend. They also picked up another two 50-pound bags of sugar, four 50-pound bags of flour,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/07\/23\/saturday-23-july-2016\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Saturday, 23 July 2016 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,39,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brittany","category-personal","category-science","category-science-kits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914","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=2914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}