Posted: 12/10/2011 2:51:27 PM EDT
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Whats in the cards?
Me: Build a coop for and raise 30 or so meat chickens. Grape vines for wine. Fence the garden. Rainwater barrels set up. Run the Tough Mudder event. More savings. |
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replace certain bunch grapes with muscadines (shipment arrived from Isons yesterday) Help my 10 turkey hens all raise clutches of birds we will use for meat use electrified poultry netting to keep critters out of the garden dig the root cellar Hey FG, You guys high enough for a root cellar? bare dirt or someother construction? Wish I could do that... |
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15 minutes with a 55 lb kettle bell doing Jeff Martone's program without feeling like I ran a marathon.
We're also planning on adding a coop, but for eggs. Considering adding a few cattle as well. At least 2 DARC classes, 3 more tax stamps (wife's sbr, 2 Armtac cans.) 3 DARC classes for her. Double all med and food supplies. |
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This is a good thread to make me think.
-I want to replace the small chicken coop with one much larger for more layers, and use the smaller one for hens when we want to let run with a rooster and then birth chicks. -We are always working on debt reduction, I plan to work harder on that and sell a couple of cars to help out, and sell two Angus Steers for cash as well. -Improve our liquid fuels storage. -Increase our food stores by 50%. -Spend as much time as possible with my wife, my adult sons and my granddaughter. If we have a major SHTF I know I will be much busier, and the simple joy of time with my family, even if it is just sitting on the deck and watching the sun go down....those hours will be ones I miss terribly. |
| I would like to get a shotgun.... My wife is getting her 1st pistol.... I'm getting a spare Glock 19 for the house... Pay off more debt.... Pay off even more debt... Keep adding to the food supplies without over spending.... Start putting some precious metals away.... Make our savings grow. |
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Stock more grendel ammo (steel-case baby, yeah!!!)
Stock 9mm Take at least one firearms training class each (wife and I) Get my wife a carbine, preferably an sbr AR Pay off a large chunk of student loan debt and put money in savings Stock up on food, water, and toiletries (super-couponing wife ftw) Get in better physical shape. Pay off motorcycle. Get CCW both wife and I. Stock more magazines. |
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Stock more grendel ammo (steel-case baby, yeah!!!) Stock 9mm Take at least one firearms training class each (wife and I) Get my wife a carbine, preferably an sbr AR Pay off a large chunk of student loan debt and put money in savings Stock up on food, water, and toiletries (super-couponing wife ftw) Get in better physical shape. Pay off motorcycle. Get CCW both wife and I. Stock more magazines. Luckily, your wife will have plenty of chances to do some free classes this year. That'll help if y'all can take advantage of em. |
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Gonna buy me a new flyrod.
Gonna lose me some weight... the waders are getting a little snug 
Bought me a new F150 this year, so wife gets to trade her Yaris in on a Forester this coming Spring. Son is due to get married in June - gonna see that through. It will be glorious. I got two guns on the bench in various state of rebuild. One is a Marlin 336 in .35 Remmy, and the other is a Stevens side by side 12 ga. The Marlin is nearing completion and I cant wait to dig into the Stevens, which will become a coach gun. I'll probably tote that around in my truck for a while. I'm goning to be more thoughtful and empathic with people this year. You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar, 
Great OP, Barb! |
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Shoot more
Build some more guns Train gf and roomate a little better. more long term foods get in shape work out with the ladies of the house (one wants to pursue a law enforcement career next year) Tax stamps.... another couple. 22 cans More ammo cans maybe attempt a small garden but space is limited in an apartment pay off cc and vehicles fix up vehicles some tactical shooting classes for myself and the ladies of the house more ammo More gear Take a dang vacation for once. |
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Stock more grendel ammo (steel-case baby, yeah!!!) Stock 9mm Take at least one firearms training class each (wife and I) Get my wife a carbine, preferably an sbr AR Pay off a large chunk of student loan debt and put money in savings Stock up on food, water, and toiletries (super-couponing wife ftw) Get in better physical shape. Pay off motorcycle. Get CCW both wife and I. Stock more magazines. Luckily, your wife will have plenty of chances to do some free classes this year. That'll help if y'all can take advantage of em. Once we get some vacation days from work, we will definitely be taking advantage of them. I am picking up her new M&P on Monday or Tuesday and with the price of 9mm, and the relatively short distance to where the classes are conducted, it is definitely happening. Ever since Randi and the others took that DARC class, Anna has been talking about wanting to do a class which incorporates direct feedback (do something wrong and get hit with a sim round). Me personally, I am looking through Grey Group Trainings website and seeing more close-in classes (I think those would be the situations I would most likely need to defend myself). In particular some of the close-quarters Southnarc classes which mix guns as well as unarmed. I will probably shoot for one next fall. |
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Once we get some vacation days from work, we will definitely be taking advantage of them. I am picking up her new M&P on Monday or Tuesday and with the price of 9mm, and the relatively short distance to where the classes are conducted, it is definitely happening. Ever since Randi and the others took that DARC class, Anna has been talking about wanting to do a class which incorporates direct feedback (do something wrong and get hit with a sim round). Me personally, I am looking through Grey Group Trainings website and seeing more close-in classes (I think those would be the situations I would most likely need to defend myself). In particular some of the close-quarters Southnarc classes which mix guns as well as unarmed. I will probably shoot for one next fall. DARC has a class called the "TUSC" or Tactical Urban Sustainment Course.  " target="_blank">Review here They don't really get into combatives, because they take so long to get good at. He teaches how to break contact and fight through some CCW situations though.
I'm looking at some of grey groups stuff as well, the problem for me is that I have a great facility 20 minutes up the road, and their is only so much one can learn at flat ranges like GG so often has to use. Rich at DARC is the first person to say to never limit yourself to one source of info, but I have a hard time convincing myself to spend a grand or more to stand there and shoot paper and learn new ways to reload. 
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Once we get some vacation days from work, we will definitely be taking advantage of them. I am picking up her new M&P on Monday or Tuesday and with the price of 9mm, and the relatively short distance to where the classes are conducted, it is definitely happening. Ever since Randi and the others took that DARC class, Anna has been talking about wanting to do a class which incorporates direct feedback (do something wrong and get hit with a sim round). Me personally, I am looking through Grey Group Trainings website and seeing more close-in classes (I think those would be the situations I would most likely need to defend myself). In particular some of the close-quarters Southnarc classes which mix guns as well as unarmed. I will probably shoot for one next fall. DARC has a class called the "TUSC" or Tactical Urban Sustainment Course. http://i542.photobucket.com/albums/gg420/danwest/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG00132-20101119-0154.jpg" target="_blank">Review here</a> They don't really get into combatives, because they take so long to get good at. He teaches how to break contact and fight through some CCW situations though. I'm looking at some of grey groups stuff as well, the problem for me is that I have a great facility 20 minutes up the road, and their is only so much one can learn at flat ranges like GG so often has to use. Rich at DARC is the first person to say to never limit yourself to one source of info, but I have a hard time convincing myself to spend a grand or more to stand there and shoot paper and learn new ways to reload. I hear you. I wish we had someone closer (within 2 hours, not 5-10). I also wish the standard self-defense classes that nearly every city has (we have Han Moo Do) would work with weapons that people may carry during their day to day lives (be it folding knives or CCW handguns). Too often the two are separated and you go to a square indoor range to practice shooting (slow fire, no drawing from a holster or moving from any position other than standing) and you go to a martial arts class to practice combatives (unarmed or doing a showy form exercise) but noone really combines the two into a class that could be done in a repetitive manner multiple times a week. |