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A person who advocates and practices preparedness.
One ready for any event that would disrupt their daily routine.
That is a prepper.
Hello, all you preppers out there on Internet Radio Land.
This is Dave Jones, the NBC guy, coming to you on a Sunday, Sunday, Sunday.
Man, it's been chilly.
I guess if you listen to the Intrepid Commander's Mother's Day special.
You know it was pretty chilly here.
And we're at 1,900 feet
above what the Intrepid Commander is,
so we're a little more chilly.
But that's the way it goes, you know.
Don't plant your stuff too soon.
I mean, it's supposed to get down to 46 tonight.
And it is clear, so I'm hoping we can see the northern lights.
Yeah.
Now, I have seen them many times.
Living in Alaska for eight years.
I actually saw them in Pennsylvania once too.
And it was kind of baffling.
It was probably the last time they had the big solar storm.
20 some years ago, 25 years ago.
Because that works out pretty close to being right.
And it was winter-ish. It was cold out. I remember
that. And I got out of the car and I looked up and I'm like, what
the heck is that? And then
I realized, wow, that's the Northern Lights. What's
going on here?
Yeah, it's beautiful
and it's ominous
all at the same time.
Because that means our
magnetic shield is
weakening.
But that's a story for another day.
Listen,
Mother's Day
we didn't do anything here
for Maria because
well her mom is
in bad shape
and
the kids were particularly nice
today and accommodating
and not a lot of fighting
so and someone suggested that I cook for her and I said I could do that any day of
the week and I did.
So that's what's going on Mother's Day here.
We're planning a trip to Prepper Camp.
Now there, there, there.
Man.
It says something about your life
when you're looking forward to going and sleeping overnight
in a trailer, a cargo trailer,
with your wife. Oh, that's funny. That's funny right there.
So we talked about Prepper Camp and what we're going to do and all this kind of stuff. And she
said the kids never like it. It's boring to them and they just sit there and complain. How about if we leave the kids at home?
Deanna is 17 now. So
yeah, yeah, I think we can leave the kids at home.
Marie and I go to prepper camp and
dude, dude,
it's going to be great.
So that's our vacation.
So I recently posted pictures in the back channel of my latest project.
I bought a very small dog kennel, But it is absolutely raccoon proof.
So, and then what I did was I put
two by sixes up in between the
where the rafters are and then put two by fours
across them and drilled in some
metal roofing.
So that is where the turkeys are.
And this is going to be our meat bird facility from now on.
So this is prepper infrastructure.
Okay.
So if you don't have a lot of time, you can spend a little more money
and get you a dog kennel and attach the thinnest sheets of plywood. I did do that.
I put some one by ones on the inside and attached, what is it? One one quarter inch it's very thin plywood but it's painted on both sides with
deck paint so it's super super waterproof and that's their protection i only did It's 5 by 10 by 6.
But it has a door.
And then around the outside of the dog kennel,
we put up our temporary electric mesh fence.
And I have a battery-operated, solar-powered fence charger that I put on there.
And so far, so good good so we'll see but we have 10
turkeys up there we're going to move the geese up there uh we may even move the duck box up for the
geese I don't know I I don't know but uh we're trying to uh escalate our infrastructure
so that we can incubate
and produce our own food
and we never have to worry about
where are we going to put them.
We're back in the rabbits.
We have some rabbits.
One, the female is not old enough to breed yet,
so we're waiting a little bit on that.
Quail, I'm going to add a shelf, a shelf to this shelter. And we have a plastic quail pen
where the quail just pop out the eggs and they roll down to a tray and you can feed them. It's getting more and more automated here at the Jones
Homestead, which is good. Which is good. And we only have
two more weeks of actual school.
So that's good. And then we go into testing
and then final cleaning and preparation of the
classroom.
I don't know how much of that I'm going to do
because you know what?
It is what it is.
But I'm going back to teaching next year.
I signed my contract.
So I'll be a history teacher another year.
They must have liked what I said.
I'm chuckling because one guy couldn't stand Trump.
And he did not last very long at this school.
Just saying.
Just saying.
Anyway, I'm going to miss the seniors.
They were all really, really great kids.
And they're all going on to other stuff.
So, and the 11th graders are going to become seniors next year.
Which is exciting for them and me.
I told them the other day that
I feel like you guys are all my kids.
And they looked at me like, what? I said, yeah, I
think this is a family here.
You all know everybody in every grade. And it just is more
like a family than anything. So when they screw up, I get hurt. It's disappointment rather than
frustration. Just the way it is.
I think I am in the right place at the right time
and man, God's plan is amazing.
At 67 years old,
God said, you know what?
You need to teach some history.
I need these kids to know some history.
And you're just the guy to do it.
Dang.
Look, if you live long enough, this road called life has so many twists and turns in it
that you can't even imagine where you're going to end up.
And that's just my viewpoint
looking back.
The funny thing was
they said, wow, you have a story for everything.
And I said, well, if you live long enough, yeah, you have a story for everything.
The kids did a, when I say kids, the elementary school did a patriotic summer concert.
And they sang Lee Greenwood's
I'm Proud to be an American.
And I told the one class
about how I heard that song for the first time.
I was selected to march
in President Reagan's second inaugural parade.
And we practiced for a week.
I was one of 77 or 76, I don't know.
It was a specific number of Army Reserve people.
And we practiced and practiced.
And the day before the parade,
it was supposed to be like six below,
and they canceled the parade.
They thought we were all going to get frostbite,
which we probably would have.
They put us in a big stadium.
They said, get on this bus, go to the stadium.
So we go to the stadium,, get on this bus, go to this stadium.
So we go to the stadium, we get in the stands and everybody is there in the seats
that was supposed to march in the parade. 82nd Airborne
was there. There were high school bands that were there.
It was really, really nice. And then
these people come out on the floor and they're dancing
and waving flags. And Lee Greenwood's I'm Proud to Be an American comes on. And it was fantastic.
These people who were supposed to perform for the president, was now performing for us.
And then we see on the big jumbo screen
Marine One taking off from the White House lawn.
We didn't see anything else.
We just saw the helicopter taking off
and landing in the parking lot of this stadium.
And Ronald Reagan and George Bush came in and spoke to all of us in that arena.
And it was amazing.
It was amazing.
First of all, you hardly see the president and vice president together.
And the 82nd Airborne was over there and they were hoo-ah, hoo-ah, hoo-ah.
It was, man, it was fantastic.
And all our group was together, everybody that worked for a whole week marching.
It was great.
marching. It was great. So PBN family, take care and prep on.