[Ellendra]

Is it prepping? Or is it just living a conservative and prudent life?

Sounds like the good life to me.

Every time I say something like that, somebody snarls at me about how it wasn't a good life, it was miserable and full of hard work. As if the amount of work involved dictates whether it was good or bad, HA!

I'm just not built for the urban lifestyle. I've scratched a shelter out of the dirt before, and lived just fine. I know more now. This summer I'll be proving it.

[JRandomFreeper]

somebody snarls at me about how it wasn't a good life,

It is, however, my life. And I like it well enough. I've lived in 4000 sq ft houses that I later gave away in a divorce, and I've lived in an 8ft by 12ft shack I built mostly out of found material and trees that I cut down myself.

I'll take the 8x12 shack with no TV over the 4 bedroom plush hell-hole any day of the week.

I did the mountain man thing through all 4 seasons. Winter and summer. I can do it. I'm in a more moderate environment now, but most of America would call it rough living.

Don't care. It works for me. And as long as I don't get stupid and get married yet again, I can survive most anything.

/johnny