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The APN has gone down hill. Not many of the old APN members even post here anymore because of the SPAM.

Well, you’re right and no wonder, just look at the SPAM that is brought to this forum and how hard it is to navigate on it.

Spam Spam Spam and more Spam

APN is going down hill even faster than I thought it would.

It’s pretty bad when you talk about relationships under the topic of toilet paper.

Or maybe I’m just getting old.

Ordered and received 12 cans of vegetable stew mix (Augason Farms brand) from walmart, saved $8.17 per can compared to ordering from Augason Farms.

Ordered and received two more rain barrels from walmart also, alot cheaper then ordering them from emergency essentials plus the savings on shipping. All together I save around $200.00 by ordering…[Read more]

Finished up another rain catchment system on my shed. Already have one on the garage and the house.

Ordered 2 rain barrels from walmart for $55.00 each, free shipping. Walmart gets their rain barrels from Emergency Essentials. I checked EE and their price is $99.00 for one, I used to deal with them, then I saw how much more expensive they are,…[Read more]

Picked up my order from walmart, a case of augason farms vegetable stew mix.

Walmart price for 6 cans – 76.99 and free shipping. Augason farms wanted 124.99. Saved 48.00. I order many augason farms products from walmart, alot cheaper.

Also received my silver order on Tuesday from ampex.

I store most, but not all, of my preps in the garage. I well insulated the garage when I built it and the sun only hits the south side of the garage from about 11:00 a.m. to about 4:00 p.m.. It has big oak trees blocking the sun from the east and big pine trees on the west side.

I have a dehumidifier and a window air conditioner in it, the…[Read more]

I’m here too, the far northwestern part of Cambria County (PA). Normal daily stuff, feed the live stock, cut grass, cut/haul firewood, built a paralle kit for two of my small generators, etc..

Setting up a party for this Saturday for our anniversy, been married 45 years on the 4th, lucky woman.

Nice day today so I mowed the grass, started the generators and left them run for about 20 minutes each, rotated 15 gallons of gas, burnt the garbage (paper and cardboard), recharged the solar lanterns, recharged AAA, AA, and 9 volt batteries in the solar chargers. Heading to the outdoor flea market in the city tomorrow since it’s on my way to camp.

While ReadyMom, I read your post and made a bee line to my crawl space in the garage all my toilet paper, paper towels, kleenx, napkins, etc. are OK. I checked the plastic kitchen wear, plastic cups, sterifoam coffee cups, plastic wrap, plastic qt and gallon bags are OK too. But my plastic soda bottles, gallon water jugs and water bottles are…[Read more]

When I posted about calcium hypochlorite, I said a 1 pound package will purify 100,000 gallons of water, I was wrong, it’s 10,000 gallons of water. Here’s some more about calcium hypochlorite:

Better than Bleach: Use Calcium Hypochlorite to Disinfect Water

ReadyMom, thankx for reposting some of the old stuff, keep it up.

HEY, how did you weather the floods down your way? Was at my wife’s faminly reunion down in Adams county (Fairfield) and it rain to beat all heck and it rained for the next 3 or 4 days.

I forgot to add that bleach only lasts about 6 months and calcium hypochlorite has a shelf life of up to 5 years if stored properly:

Chlorine Shelf Life: How Long Can I Store Pool Chemicals?

OK TRex2, since we’re on bleach, here is how you make your own from pool shock, 1 pound of pool shock will purify 100,000 gallons of water:

Calcium Hypochlorite Mixing Instructions To Make Bleach Ca(CIO)2:

1/4 tea spoon makes 2L of bleach. Use high test (HTH), Calcium Hypochlorite of at least 68% or higher. DO NOT DRINK THE PURE BLEACH

1/2 tea…[Read more]

Here’s another article about Russia hacking our electrical grid from the Department of Homeland Security:

https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA18-074A

Wall Street Journal and Fox news reporting that Russia has hacked into our electrial grid by obtaining employee records and continue to hack into our utility systems:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-hackers-reach-u-s-utility-control-rooms-homeland-security-officials-say-1532388110

Went to the wife’s family reunion outside of Gettysburg. Went down a couple of days early so she could spend time with her sister that lives in Fairfield, so I went to some yard sales and flea markets.

Picked up 2 cast iron frying pans, 1-12 inch and 1-14 inch, a pair of snow shoes, 2 round mouth shovels and 1 post hole digger. Also brought back…[Read more]