What did you do today to prepare?

Breast milk is best, light years ahead of formula. The first part is filled with momma's immune system ingredients. No shit, you want a healthy kids, breast milk.
Formula is ok, but 90% should be straight from momma.

Formula in the can should last years.

Nameless is one of the best!

Also put together 20 pre-made crockpot meals to keep in the freezer. Figure when the baby arrives it will be nice to have a few weeks worth of dinners ready to go, life will be busy enough!

Iris. Sold by Lowe's.

Drained, cleaned, then refilled my two blue 55 gal plastic food barrels I use for water storage.

I store both in my temperature controlled basement, and it had been about 2 years since I did this. The water tasted fine (a little stale) but was clear and clean. There was a very thin layer of reddish/brown muck on the bottom of each, it easily wiped away with a finger swipe. Not sure what it was. Anyhoo, drained all the water, squirted in a little dish soap, scrubbed everything with a scotch pad, hosed it all out with a lot of hot water, then refilled and resealed. I stuck a piece of tape on each barrel with the last clean/refill date. I really need to do this every 6 months or so, and that is the plan from now on.

Today the wife and I sewed 2 top quilts, one under quilt, one no-see-um mesh tube (for the hammock), and a set of snake skins. We made the hammock a few weeks back.  Field testing of the new gear will be next week in AK.

Cross posted, because y'all are smart and stuff

Ok, is there a PPE suit inbetween "HEY, HERE THE FUCK I AM!" white or yellow and the "HOLY CRAP, IT'S ALL GOING TO FUCKING END" NBC suits? I'd very much like to find the middle ground here. Maybe tan, maybe green, something that isn't full on NBC suit and tyvex. I'm not opposed to the tyvex but the color is just a bit much. If I had to operate* in some contaiminated area I'd like to be a little, well, subdued not like a large "HEY OVER HERE!" suit.


*Not a phone operator. Just a dood doin' his thang.

I found this review while looking around at protective suits:

The end is near. Those with Hazmat suits will thrive. We and the cockroaches will inherit the earth. We will rule the infected.

The selection process to pick just the right suit will not be an easy task. It must protect me from numerous contaminants, be durable, and look stylish and classy. The selection of hot chicks could be greatly diminished after Armageddon... being stylish and classy will set me apart from the other losers. As the last woman I hit on so eloquently put it "Not even if you were the last man on earth and my very survival depended on it". OH HO!! We will see if her meth polluted, whisky influenced mind feels the same way after nuclear war.

I must put the Tychem Hazmat Suit through some tests before declaring it the royal outfit of the new king of a devastated world.
Test 1 - Nuclear exposure. Naturally I have no nuclear waste, so off to the Yucca Mountain Nuclear waste facility we go. After being denied access and laughed at extensively at the gate (very unprofessional), I decided to sneak in. I parked 200 yards down the road and in full Tychem Hazmat Suit I hopped the fence. Negative number one, in a full on sprint the suit's hood helmet fogs up quickly. It will cloud your vision so much that you don't even see a small platoon of security as they descend on you like killer bees. Footnote: this suit does not stop taser projectiles. Just so you are aware of that little tidbit. I woke up in jail. Tychem Hazmat Suit missing.

Test 2 - Four days and two hefty fines later - Picking up chicks.
I chose a local bar and a grocery store to give this test a wide range. Full yellow Tychem Hazmat Suit. Test was an ultimate failure. This will hurt the suit's overall rating. I was kicked in the nads, laughed at once again, refused service, and hit with a shopping cart. On the plus side, the girl who used pepper spray failed too, I didn't feel a thing.

Test 3 - Situations that I may find myself in.
Swimming - Not good. Suit began to fill with water 40 yards out. Started sinking. Thank goodness a couple park rangers came to check out why the big yellow buoy was moving and yelling curse words. Rangers used the words "first time ever" a lot and took multiple pictures with their cell phones to document our adventure together.
Sky diving - This one went bad quickly. The hood came off in two seconds... it smacked me in the face is now lost forever. One sleeve ripped up to the shoulder. The loose fabric flapped in the wind and beat me in the face for a full minute before I pulled the cord. It was like a soccer game and my head was the ball. That beating was worse than my Yucca Mountain beat down in test 1.

Final warning. Don't pass gas in this suit. It lingers forever and will make you ill. Think of it like sticking your head down the hole of an outhouse. Your eyes will water also... makes people think you are crying.
This suit did not do as well as I had hoped but is still winning so far. I will need to test other suits soon and design tests that are much less painful. Maybe a wind test in Kansas during tornado season. Maybe bear wrestling, or shark swimming. I will come up with something.