8-19-09 The BOL Begins

The land in its most unimproved state.

   Since I’m the new kid on the block… or should I say Blog? I know, PUNS are never really that big a hit but hey what can I say! Anyway, I will be doing alot of my future video projects from my “BOL” or bug out location and so I thought I would post one of my earliest photos of it. This is when I first purchased it a number of years ago, beginning this leg of my prepperedness journey.

   Each day I’ll try to add an additional photo(s) and slowly bring everyone up to speed on exactly where I am now in the project. This is the property in the beginning and thus far largely unimproved. There was an old fire trail/dirt road that was mostly grown over and had several large fallen trees down at more than one section as it wound through my land. We have spent quite a bit of time opening the area up as you will see in some of my next posts. Basically its a 10 Acre tract somewhere East of my primary location in the greater Seattle, WA. area.

   For the obvious OPSEC, operational security, reasons we are all mostly in agreement with, I won’t be saying exactly where it is. However, I do plan to maintain as open a discussion on all of the projects I’m working on as possible. I will try to make myself an open book and we might just be able to help each other. If we can learn from each other we should all make better and more informed decisions.

   So with that said, I would like to introduce my largest project. This is the one that has taken alot of my time over the last few years and I don’t ever hope to actually complete  it. Meaning that it will always be a work in progress. It is, I’m quite sure, VERY humble compared to alot of my brethren preppers BOL’S but this is mine and I am blessed to have even this.

   I’m looking forward to everyone’s comments and will take any critisms with the grain of salt that they deserve, coming from the unwashed heathens among us! Seriously though, critisisms will help me improve on what I’m doing and maybe save me from the dreaded mistakes that can, and have, eaten more than their share of my hard earned money. I hope that what I’m doing might inspire more of us to push forward and  tackle these projects. You’ll see that they are doable, even by someone that has no more than an average skill set with tools. Back tomorrow with more on this project…

 

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