I bought a couple more packs of eneloop AA's.
We have a camping trip scheduled for Memorial Day, thats when i test out some of our preps.
Listed our house for sale so I won't be adding to our stock/gear at all, mostly sorting and organizing getting ready to move.

Jack Daniels and variations on that theme have merit for larger E-kits...if for no other reason than barter. Consider those little bottles you used to get on airplanes...you can get quite a variety ...they aren't expensive...pack small and are pretty cheap if you don't raid them from the hotel mini-bar. I've got maybe 10 or 12 of various kinds...mostly to try a new type without buying the bigger more expnsive bottles.
But then I don't drink much booze...so a small inventory could be a nice treat a week into a disaster scenario.
And by the time the news comes around to interview the survivors I think it would be cool to show someone that survived with the luxuries intact rather than just those that nearly died from living without electricity for 3 days.

But then your interview won't be shown because it doesn't have sufficient entertainment value.

I have a couple of small bottles (O' likka) in my BOB (the small airplaine size ones) - I do figure it would be not unwelcome at the end of a stressful day.

I hope to increase my Dogfood stock to 60lbs stored and add another couple days worth of food to the prep pantry.

I recently took a financial hit (thank you city/ county tax increases) that will slow up my preperations.

Hurricane prep season is in full swing for me. My living sitch just drasticly changed with a divorce and a new home, so getting my new girlfriend and house up to speed will take some doing. She is adjusting nicely to my preparedness ways and fortunately is in a finacial position to help out a great deal. Our new home has a 10,000 watt genny with a transfer switch plus my 5,000 watt. This month it is more gas(figures, I buy at peak price), more batteries, canned food, paper products and as always more water. Spare parts for the chainsaws and gennies.
Scott
"Try'in to reason with hurricane season"

I think y'all are going to have a verry interesting Hurricane Season, probably more so than us and I think it will be interesting here as well!!!

We sure could use another quiet season like last year. 4 storms in 2005 was enough for awhile not to mention the flooding from Wilma in '04.
Got 2-36 piece packs of AA last night. I was inspecting my girl friends flashlights and all of them are oldschool D cell junk, so I guess a few D cell packs are in order. Fortunately I still have my Rock River LED lanterns and a couple Fenix AA. I may have to give my daughter one of the Fenix L2T and pick up the new Fenix L2D CE with the Cree LED.

I would like to accomplish the following:

-Purchase a 3500-4400 watt generator
-Store 75-100 gallons of gasoline
-double my current food supply (dedicated supply is up to about 10 days for 6 people)
-Put away another 200 rounds of .40 S&W
-Purchase a Ruger 10/22 and about 500 22LR
-Get at least one 55 gallon water drum (on a wheeled dolly).

Big Dreams I know, but I am working on it.

So, just out of curiousity, why stockpile so much .40? I understand the 500 rounds of .22LR (since the box is that many), but for a pistol? I've got enough to reload all my mags one time. I guess I just figure that it'll be pretty tough to shoot and reload 200 times.....

As for the 10/22, be careful if you buy after-market magazines. Some don't feed very reliably.

Considering that ammo has a very long shelf life, stocking more than you need is prudent if you can afford it. That said, 200 rounds really isn't that much, just enough for a couple range sessions.