DAC - Butcher Day

[00:00:12] A person who advocates and practices preparedness. One ready for any event that will disrupt their daily routine. That is a Prepper. Hello everyone out there in Internet Radio Land. Are you prepared for any event?

[00:00:34] How's all my Preppers out there? I'm a Prepper, he's a Prepper, you're a Prepper. Wouldn't you like to be a Prepper too? Oh, I digress. I am downstairs here sharpening our butcher knives. We have a specific set of knives that we use for butchering. Three of them are cold steel, made by cold steel.

[00:01:04] And they're really high quality stainless steel. And then three of them are like high carbon steel. I actually got them from Ukraine years ago. And they're just like back in the old days in the butcher shop. But they're small. They're maybe four inches. But they hold an edge. And the reason I have six of these knives is you sharpen them up.

[00:01:34] It gets dull. You don't wait. You just go on to another knife. So tomorrow's Butchering Day here at the Jones Homestead. We...I don't know. There was...there's too many rules with Christian Orthodox. I can't keep track. But Maria said, we can't butcher! We were...we were gonna butcher on Monday. The same day the guys came by. We can't do it. It's the second day of Easter. You shouldn't be killing.

[00:02:03] And I'm like, okay. Okay. So we pushed it off to Wednesday. I'm out there changing fences around. The guys got to see... And James helped me cut down a tree. So I appreciate that. Maria didn't want me doing it by myself. But it was a small tree, you know. Maybe four inches. Maybe in diameter. Yeah, it's like a twig.

[00:02:33] But she didn't want it falling on the greenhouse. It was...it was blocking the sun from the greenhouse. I had gotten up in there last year and cut a whole bunch of stuff down. She stopped me right when I got to this tree. So...but it's down now. I'm probably gonna have to cut it up. Because it's kind of laying crooked and in the way. So...I'm...this is spring break for me.

[00:03:01] So I'm gonna go back to school on crutches. They'll say, what happened to Mr. Jones? He's...he's a casualty. Yeah, so tomorrow we're gonna butcher like eight rabbits. And probably...12...14 chickens. Chickens. It's gonna fill up one of our freezers. And we have room.

[00:03:31] So...it's all good. It's all good. And...did you hear the ration and ruin? Come on, PBN family. Listen to that. And...and participate. Gosh, you will learn so much about... Your system. Speaking of system... The warden does not want me to participate. Not because I couldn't do it. But she don't want me to eat... The crap food.

[00:04:01] That's her words, not mine. And I said, well, we'd eat it... If the...you know, if the grid went down, we'd be eating that. She said, wait until the grid goes down. And I'm like, that's the whole point of this exercise. You don't wait. You see how it goes. But...I think I'm outvoted. We'll see. There's still time. But there's a lot of other stuff going on with ration and ruin too.

[00:04:31] Besides the weekly updates... That you will get from all the participants. You know, how they feel. What they ate. How it tasted. It's going to be great. It's going to be the best exercise yet. Each one gets better and better and better. So... That's about it, PBN family. I hope you're prepping on. You know, things...

[00:05:01] May, in May, is when the election that was supposed to happen in Romania months and months ago. And the stand-in prime minister has already said that if the right guy don't get elected, he's not stepping down. So we'll see how this goes. We will see how this goes.

[00:05:30] And of course, the war in Ukraine continues. Putin put a ceasefire on for Easter. And... They're still fighting. So... Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. Any... Any moment could touch off on escalating events. And... Not to mention the wild card out there, China.

[00:06:01] So... We're putting up food. We're freeze drying. And... You know... Nothing else. When we're old and decrepit and can't get around, we'll have a lot of freeze dried food that we can eat. Ha ha ha. Okay, PBN family. You take care. And prep on. On the other hand, you can look at the camera and see the keyboard, What happened?