{"id":2930,"date":"2016-08-03T10:20:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T14:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2930"},"modified":"2016-08-03T10:20:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T14:20:51","slug":"wednesday-3-august-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/08\/03\/wednesday-3-august-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 3 August 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

10:20 –<\/span> Barbara is recovering nicely. She didn’t even bother to fill the hydrocodone prescription her doctor gave her. She’s making do with high-dose ibuprofen combined with mid-dose acetaminophen.
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More kit stuff today and every day for the next couple of months at least. This is still early August, and the craziness doesn’t usually start until mid-August, as people get ready for the new school year. I’ve never figured out why homeschoolers, who can set their own schedules, almost all follow the public school year.
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We’ll make time sometime in the next two or three weeks to do a Costco run down to Winston. We’ve started going on weekdays because it’s so much less crowded than it is on weekends. We’ll pick up a lot of meat, as usual, and stock up on other stuff we’re running short on. I also want to pick up several 50-pound bags of flour, sugar, rice, etc. and 30 or 40 pounds of oats. This time, we’ll repackage in the LDS one-gallon foil-laminate Mylar bags, which will be a lot easier, faster, and less messy than using empty 2-liter bottles.
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Brittany has read the comments here about securing their LTS food against rodents. Her husband picked up some scrap sheet metal from his brother, and plans to use it to enclose their storage shelves, including building covered doors for the shelving. He’s working on that this weekend. Also, Brittany and Jen are now in contact with each other and exchanging emails and phone calls. Brittany and her husband decided to run a readiness exercise over the Labor Day holiday, so Britanny has been getting tips from Jen. Each of them is formidable. The two in combination are a force to be reckoned with.
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One interesting thing I’ve noticed in these email exchanges I have with preppers is that, while they are evenly divided between men and women, the women tend to be a lot less public about what they’re doing. Also, although there are exceptions, the women tend to focus on food and the men tend to focus more on guns and other tools. I suppose that makes sense biologically. A couple million years of evolution has equipped women to think about feeding their families and men to think about protecting them.
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10:20 – Barbara is recovering nicely. She didn’t even bother to fill the hydrocodone prescription her doctor gave her. She’s making do with high-dose ibuprofen combined with mid-dose acetaminophen.\n<\/p>\n

More kit stuff today and every day for the next couple of months at least. This is still early August, and the craziness doesn’t usually start until mid-August, as people get ready for the new school year. I’ve never figured out why homeschoolers,<\/p>\n

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