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http://prepared-housewives.com/preserve-eggs-with-mineral-oil/

So I did that. Coated eggs with mineral oil and stuck those bastards in my fridge for two years. The eggs are good and safe and I'm eating them now.

Ladies, don't do this, have a guy do it for you. Mineral oil will fuck with your estrogen. Or at least wear rubber gloves.

I know a couple of you here and there know about my truck while most of you couldn't care less. I figure I'd give a quick update all the same.

I got tired of the original windshields (there's one for each side) what with the glass ever so slowly cracking and fogging and some previous owner idiot getting dirt, etc. on it and just using the wipers to clear it off (which scratched it so bad that driving into the sun was nothing but glare) and replaced them. It was a pretty easy job, all things considered and was only the third easy repair/upgrade I've made to the truck.

I replaced the rear gladhands for the air hose attachments and straightened the attachment "covers" (no idea what the proper name is). These are on the rear of the truck and are used for air hose attachments as well as any air brake systems trailers might have. It came with one of the two back there all fucked up and it had been annoying me. A few minutes with a mallet and a vice straightened up the thick-gauge metal easily.

Flasher/blinker relay blew. The hardest parts of that was diagnosis and reaching my arm inside the engine compartment while also reaching under the fender.

I also added a quick charge USB port and 12 volt "cigarette" plug port with a switch. Electrical shit makes my eyes glaze over like a bimbo so I'm actually pretty satisfied with that. The truck is a 24 volt system but wired to the first batter so it only draws 12 volts with the engine off. It has a voltage readout which I though would be handy but also allowed me some actual numbers so I could tell that the generator ("alternator") is indeed working and it's just the dash gauge that isn't working. So that's a win. About the hardest part of this was drilling the holes in the steel dash panel. One was a hole that was already there so instead of buying a tool I'd use only once, I just drilled a fuckton of smaller holes in the right circumference, pulled off the bits with pliers, and just ground it smooth with a drill and grindstone. So now I have power to the cab with a split to the bed for electrical (I have plans for that later).

I mounted a cell phone mount to the windshield frame. Had to fabricate a metal mount piece that the cell phone mount itself is attached to but I didn't have to drill holes in the truck. Ran a high capacity USB C cable down through the dash to pop out for the plug further down. Have to secure it in a couple of places but that's a nothing in my book.

Replaced an air line under the dash. No more leaks. That's a good thing since that actuates the brake master cylinder (which is hydraulic) - no air means no breaks. Instead of the air pressure staying at around 90-100 now, it holds steady at 120 PSI. Pulling the old air line out, it's a wonder it hadn't completely blown so now I need to check all of the rest of the air lines to make sure they have aged better or just replace them as a matter of maintenance.

The reflectors (all 8 of them) had no more life and didn't reflect shit so I started replacing those. Some of the bolts holding those on were rusted, ALL were covered by that old school CARC paint which needed to be ground off first. That paint is hella fucking hard. I have two left that I will probably have to grind the bolts off for since they're on the bed and exposed to the elements and they didn't respond to any solvents or even a socket wrench on one side with a mallet and impact screwdriver on the other.

I replaced and doubled down on the foam liner for the glovebox. That old shit was a stiff, cracked mess.

I mounted a truck toolbox to the bed in the back. Replaced the weather seal on that, caulked up the holes, seams, etc. The bed is far too wide for a proper fit so it's bolted directly to the bed floor with some stout rubber lining that you use on the bottom of your garage door to protect both the bed and the toolbox.

That's about it so far. All that's left, repairwise, is to fix the generator meter. I should probably replace the mirrors because those are fogged as shit. Other than that, I think it's time for me to move on to building my camper shell on the bed. I have plans for that including a large fuel transfer tank, water tank, water collection, and solar. I have the previous solar array that was attached to it and here in a week or two, I'm going to give the components a once over and start studying and learning the electrical needed to make that work. I might have to buy a marine battery charger because I have the three deep cycle batteries and you have to charge those in a specific way from what I see or you can damage them. I'm probably wrong because it's electricity so whatever.

I just ordered some beans, three types, black, pinto and kidney, dried of course. They are coming in bulk and I will vacuum seal 2lb bags with desiccant packets and seal them in buckets. Should hold for years.

For the short term, I have begun to can. I’ve started with beef pot roast, and will soon do some carnitas, (pork roast, or, “little meats”)

Just for the protein factor, I only care to do meat stuffs for now. I’m not so sure about the effort/reward factor on veggies yet. Grains I figure I have a hold on.

The main idea for the pot roast stuff is the ability to have a quick meal after a long day. Also, some for reserve.
Any thoughts?

Canned the butter myself in 2020. Basically, you heat it up a bit, pour it into jars, shake regularly as it cools down. Tastes great, normal texture, spreads easily, does not need to be refrigerated. To be honest, the photo of the butter does not do it justice. That shit was practically a golden glowing yellow and looked amazing. Though, as to be expected from butter you've heated, when it melts it wants to separate into solids and oil especially if put in farina, oatmeal, and the like.

Onions. Freeze dried and sealed in a jar. They're onions. Nothing special. I used them in a stir fry. Tasted just fine. Could have made onion powder or minced onions from that if I wanted.

Green onions. Freeze dried. Interestingly, they turned a little brown even though they were still as crispy "fresh" as the day I canned them. I ate a couple and waited for a few hours. No stomach upset, sniffles, irritation, or explosive diarrhea so they went into the stir fry as well. These tasted just fine as well.

The tomatoes have been freeze dried and on the shelf for... I wanna say around 4 years. I honestly didn't expect them to stay on the shelf this long so I never put a date on them. I also put some in bags around the same time. The bags did NOT keep them safe and they turned into mush within months. The jars, however, were perfect for long term shelf storage. Pulling them out, they were still as "fresh" as the day they were canned. Still snapped, ground to powder, etc. They tasted fine and did not exit my ass at light speed so those went into a rice dish just fine.



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Buying different nuts, peanuts, mixed, whatever. Plan is to dump them in to food saver bags with desiccant and stuff them into buckets. You can damn near live off of nuts. I see it as a good reserve.

Someone referenced large black garbage bags recently. I was thinking also, all of those plastic grocery bags, the good ones that you can reuse. Fold them up neatly and stuff them in a box. Also, zip lock bags and aluminum foil. Things you wouldn’t be able to step out to get if shit gets weird.
What other household things do we take for granted?

Assuming all modern technology were unavailable, what would you do or start doing to survive an extended heatwave? I havent given this one much thought as I had always prepared for Blizzards.