Yesterday I bought four blueberry bushes and spent most of the day with the two teenage children still left in the house as it is their Spring Break.

Today I get 40,000lbs of stone for the drive at the farm

Test fired some new magazines for the 10/22's, checked the zero on the scopes too.

Packed 100# of rice in 3 buckets with co2 , somthing new I'm trying. I buy co2 by the 75# cylinder and refill paintball tanks so I used a low pressure regulator to put co2 gas in the buckets before and during the filling process, marked with the date of course. I'm hoping this will put the bite on the critters that might like my rice ; )

I never did any long term rice storage because of reading it doesn't store well, anyone out there have experiance with storing rice for two or more years?  (hows that for optimism? TWO YEARS HAHAHAHA!)

Nice Floridian; people here are getting more agreeable to such chat as well.

We hosted a Square Dance in our home lastnight and also got to talking about backup electricity, food storage, and the way the economy is runnin on debt and runnin out of new "cards" to apply for.

All in all a good time and good networking too.

As an aside, does anyone else have trouble keeping track of all your gear and goods? It seems like I just get everything squared away and then a trip to the range and my gun bags, safe, and ammo bin are a total mess. This happens with my BOB all the time. I take it with me on a road trip and it seems like I begin using stuff inside and before long it's also a mess. Maintaining all this stuff is a real bitch.

EN said: As an aside, does anyone else have trouble keeping track of all your gear and goods? It seems like I just get everything squared away and then a trip to the range and my gun bags, safe, and ammo bin are a total mess. This happens with my BOB all the time. I take it with me on a road trip and it seems like I begin using stuff inside and before long it's also a mess. Maintaining all this stuff is a real bitch.

I don't have a BOB yet (it's on my list of things to do), but I pre-schedule regular checks of things with my Weekly Planner.

I update my grocery shopping list weekly.  To make sure I don't run out of toothpaste, for example, I keep the tube I'm using in the medicine cabinet over the sink and a reserve tube in a closet.  When the tube in use runs out, I replace it with the tube from the closet and also add the item to my grocery list.  (I may start keeping more than one tube in my closet as a hedge against SHTF, but that change in procedure is also on my list of things to do because I will extend it to food and a variety of other items.)

I change my critical passwords regularly (e.g., email accounts, bank accounts) because the damage from being hacked is much more serious with these accounts.  I make a note in my Weekly Planner of when I'm going to do these updates and then check off the item as I do them on the dates I originally gave myself at the beginning of the year.

When I travelled for business, I checked the items in my suitcase before I left.  With a BOB, I would check the items as soon as I get home (since unlike business travel, which is scheduled in advance, a BOB is needed at a moment's notice).  I would also remember whether I had used any of the BOB items while away, so it's not that hard to remember to do it.  One might also check a BOB at least monthly if not weekly just to be sure (it shouldn't take more than a few minutes to make sure everything is in order, especially if the check is scheduled ahead of time in the Weekly Planner).

I'm old fashioned and use the Weekly Planner paper-based system, but there are newfangled online scheduling systems I haven't explored yet.  Perhaps they might be a better way to go for some people.