FL Survival / A Survival Community

1)My American flag was getting old,time to replace..dang..decent USA made ones have gone up..35$-45$..couple times a year as the weather is rough on them.Did learn in Fl.,American flags are tax exempt,had no clue.
2)Stopped at the gas station on the way home from getting the flag for a few things.Guess the tax thing was on my mind,noticed they were still charging 7% instead of 6%.Told the girl,she got the Mngr....he checked it..shrugged his shoulders,said"thats whats in the computer system"
3)Been trying to keep my truck up,clicking sound,took it to "my" shop.Small oil leak from valve cover gasket,onto serpentine belt and tensioner..700$ parts and labor,I gulped!!He showed me..saw the hundred of bolts,wires,hoses,and 1 inch clearance between everything ,couldn't grab my wallet quick enough..no way,Jose,would I try it.Ended up taking them 2 days even with all their equipment and experience.

Kinda ties in with the post about jury rigging vs. buying.
4) along that theme,I reconnected my solar system on it yesterday.Pannels on the roof rack.This time I loosened the headliner,then drilled a hole thru the roof for the wires vs. thru the window.Used a 90 degree PVC elbow and siliconed it to waterproof,mounted the controller and invertor to the plastic trim with self drill screws.2 old L/A batteries in a plastic storage bin.(Have my eye on a 110 a.h. LiPe battery,just can't justify 300$ now)
In this case,keeping all those bits and pieces paid off,didn't need to buy one thing.

5)food preps..after all that,was hungry,decided to try a bacon flavored spam sandwich.Tasted it out of the can,bland..also a piece after fried,same..made the sandwich..really nothing.Did burp a few times that night and next morning,got the smell and taste.
Overall,neutral rating,wasn't bad,but no bacon flavor,not even the traditional spam flavor.

The only seeds Ive frozen have been beans and that was to kill any possible creepy crawlers.
They sat in the freezer for about 6 months . I would like to say that doing so was a part of the plan but I simply forgot about them.
When I took them out I put them in one gallon plastic containers and they sat in the closet for about 8 years. Yes, I forget a lot of things.
When we moved back to Florida they were just in the way and figuring they werent any good anyways I tossed them into the then unoccupied chicken pen. That was in December. I now have to mow a roughly 600 sq ft patch of beans so the chickens wont get lost.

When it comes to building versus buying, I get more satisfaction from a creation of my own, but find that most often I can buy something for less money and a lot less time and frustration than recreating the wheel on my own.

I cheated,used Google,no surprise they are a lot of options out there..was just trying to ghetto rig something with what I had on hand..ya know..that whole satisfaction feeling!

I've slacked off posting.
Always been a "prepper",just didn't call it that.Moved back to Fl.7-8 years ago..always moved around..so weather events were my main focus.
Never done prepping,but got the gear and gadgets phase behind me,so after a while its just keep building up what you have..been trying hard to save my ducets,and just maintaining the house/vehicles and my "stuff".
That's kinda boring,not post worthy..don't even have many good stories to tell.
(I lied,I have a few saved up,some are even true)