The Prepper Broadcasting Network - DAC Jonestead Update #1

Episode Date: January 25, 2026

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a person who advocates and practices for preparedness, one ready for any event that would disrupt their daily routine. Everyone out there on the internet, radio land, this is Dave Jonesy, NBC guy. How are you doing on this snowy, snowy Sunday? Well, I am

going to put you in my pocket here because, um, oops, let me see if I messed up. Nope, still seems to be. recording, okay? So I'm going to continue on, put you in my pocket,

and try and talk to you while I'm out here, give you an update on what's going on to Jones Stead. So, um, we lost power yesterday. 6 a.m. power went out. And I thought to myself,

you know, we always like to be first in things. So we're first in this too. Yeah, before the storm even started, we lost power at 6 a.m. And I don't know what was wrong with their callback system, but they called me back twice to tell me the power was back on, and they lied to me both times. And then when the power finally did come back on, and I knew because my neighbor's generator turned off, He has one of those automatic highfalutin ones. I don't know if you can hear the sleet.

Sleet and freezing rain is what we're getting right now. We got about, I'd say probably good eight inches. Good eight inches. It's heavy. I'm just shoveling the deck here to be able to walk in and out without carrying a bunch of snow in. anyway when the power came back on

about four hours later they called me and told me the power is back on and I'm like wow their automatic callback system is messed up and I thought to myself this is before the storm hits and they're doing this poorly man

but so far so good let's see it's almost 2 o'clock oh my gosh no 20 after 2 yeah time flies when you don't have school and we don't have school thank the Lord they

they called it no school tomorrow we probably won't have school on Wednesday or Tuesday because gosh for all the preparers for all the time they had for everything.

It's not going well. The road hasn't been plowed. They did pre-treat it, but you know that only goes so far and eight inches of snow and sleet and freezing rain on top of that. That pretreating is long gone, long gone. So I'm going to make my way down to the to the dogs and the chickens.

And I'm going to take you guys with me. Maybe we'll even have like a little show here, huh? Little show. Mini show. You get to hear what's going on at the Jones Stead. That's the dog bowls. Taking them in the house so Marie can clean them out a little

and you know the water's froze up outside so we'll be filling it up inside the house gosh I hope this is coming through good because it's kind of wearing me out talking to you guys while I'm doing all this stuff but I'll do it

I will do it for PBN yes for the radio listening audience There's the other. I only got one jug. That's Bucky. You know, for being 10 degrees out, it feels pretty warm.

We got everything ready. We had plenty of time. This storm, you know, they made it out to be the storm to end all storm, so people went nuts. There was fist fighting at the grocery store. I don't know. This is what I heard. I did not actually see it.

I would not be at a grocery store. That's just too much right there. Maria baked up like 12 loaves of bread, and we passed them out to the neighbors and people at school and I got some pictures today of grilled cheese sandwiches and

tomato soup. What a nice thing to have on a snowy winter day, huh? Okay, I'll get it. Yeah. I often wonder would I like it in Alaska now that I'm

older? Because when I was up there, when I was 18 years old, it was an adventure. It was, everything was new and interesting, and I loved every minute of it. I often wonder if I went back now and I hated it. I mean, I don't mind this. What do you do about the weather? Nothing, nothing you can do. The weather's the weather.

you don't like the weather move gosh with abigail scamberger i think we're going to move she's she's been terrible talking about putting taxes on top of taxes Alex's going to be upset she wants to tax uber eats that's all he does is uber eats and uh What was the tax on gas-powered leaf blowers and restrictions? You can't have a wood stove unless your property is five acres or bigger. Okay, that's just plain crazy. Just plain crazy. You're going to have to be certified to have a wood stove.

What are you going to do? Take your deed into the Home Depot or tractor supplies so they, can verify that your house is on a property bigger than five acres. For those of you who don't know, I live on two acres. Yeah, you might sound like I have this huge homestead, but it's not that way. We do everything we do here on two acres. And actually, it's less because up behind my house, I don't have much up there. and that's where half my property is.

The house actually sits on right in between. I'm taking you out to get wood now if you're wondering what you're hearing. Where the rabbits were, we don't have rabbits. So we stacked all our wood in here because it's nice to dry and has a roof on it. And the pens, we opened up the front of the pens. She wanted me to tear the pens out. PBN family, don't. Don't destroy your infrastructure.

I built these pens. In a matter of fact, we even reinforced them this past year. Put new, you know, because rabbit pee is very corrosive. Put new fencing material up. and she wants me to tear the pens down. I'm like, no freaking

way. These pens will be torn down by whoever moves into our house next. Not by me. Because they're so useful if you have a even if you have an injured animal,

you can put them in one of these pens. Take care of them. They're good for Quail, rabbit, any small animal. You know, chickens. You can put chickens in here until they get too big. Never tear a pen down, I'm telling you. Okay.

We've got a really, really good wood stove now. Super efficient. It burns everything just to fine ash. Our last one, not so much. Now the last one did put out more heat because it had, you know, more surface area. But boy, did we go through the wood because it didn't burn it up all the way. This one right here, man, does it burn the wood? I think this cord that we got is going to be more than enough.

Well, I'm confident. I am confident. We ain't even halfway through it. I gotta split some. Yeah, I got to split some. I like to have a little split. There we go. I'm tracking in some snow.

I have made the decision not to plow because I have a tractor with a blade on it. until tomorrow. Tomorrow, no participation. Participation. Precipitation. And I think I can push it with the, you know, it's pretty heavy. For those of you who are shoveling, I would have been shoveling before it got this heavy. Gosh, but you see a different situation calls for different strategy. So I'm going to wait and then I'm going to plow tomorrow because if I plowed now, there most likely would be a nice sheet of ice on the driveway. And we're not going anywhere.

We are not going anywhere. So that's my decision-making process right there. when to plow, when to get the snow off the driveway. Anyway, I'm going to pause this for now. And maybe I'll do a part two with you down at the animals because I want to hear if it's even coming through. So take care and prep on.