Posted on 10/20/2021 7:25:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It looks like our yard on occasion
We counted 20 deer one day and have a few flocks of turkeys that average 18-20.
I read the book.
It was awful.
Not just the story line, but it was very repetitive, not much plot, and just plain tedious to get through.
I thought One Second after was much better. Alas Babylon was good too, but rather dated.
Old testament God himself doesn’t agree. I’ll stick with him over some Medieval theological theorist hundreds of years later.
Yup, lessons learned living in the snowbelt, but by surprisingly few people based on the panic shopping and stripped bare shelves every time a storm rolls in.
You’d think they’d never seen snow before.
And of course, I carried the prepping mentality to NH where we get socked with nor’easters, which are lake effect on steroids just not as often.
But people here are far more prepared. Power goes out and all you here is generators running everywhere.
And in house hunting, we saw some impressive emergency electrical panels set up. Power goes out and you just flip a switch to run off the generator. People are proud of them here and often you’ll see them in the reality pictures of the house.
As I was folding the laundry this evening and musing on the worn out condition of some of mr. mm’s undershirts, it hit me that one thing that has not been mentioned for long term prepping is clothing.
We have socks, jammies, underwear, shirts, that are not new and could use replacing in the next year or so.
But can we do it?
What about shoes and boots? Winter coats and gloves? Bedding? Towels?
Survival is more than food, water, heat, and ammo. You need to keep warm on top of it.
I figure the time to buy is now while the goods are still available, we have the money, and it’s still worth something.
Most, or many undergarments are made of cotton, or of a cotton blend.
The price of cotton is at a 10 year high ,
so I would advise you to buy now to escape the price increase.
I think it was the winter B4 last.
Well, the Summit of Mt. Washington & the Presidentials, had a nice snow cover....they must have have had some inches. Looked pretty.
After the rut, the snow will fly and the doe will yard up.
A few of the doe are so funny....*bossy*. They all have personalities.
Turkey are plentiful too, as well as the bayah. I think b/c the weather has been so mild, they haven’t gone in to hibernation yet.
started to build up my supplies on hand because I knew 20 months ago that the supply chain was in danger because of governments reaction around the world to covid. I actually thought problems would hit at Christmas time last year. I did not realize how robust and extensive the supplies on hand were. at this point the problems are critical because of incompetence with in the Brandon administration and incompetency in California state government .
The deer will provide you with the most interesting pruned looking arborvitae you have ever seen, as high as they can reach.
It must be like candy to them.
Canning jars are in short supply again.
The lady at Runnings said they had a lot but people have been buying them out recently.
WM was out, too.
“as the population increases by millions of illegals”.
Who use water, transpotation, food, energy, and add to pollution.
When my neighbor’s generator flips on, every room in our house lights up!
LOL. For me, I hate making pie crust. What I do is take the leftover chicken, open a can of mixed veggies, add a can of cream of chicken soup-mix it all up and put some biscuits on top. Ain’t quite as good as the pie crust though.
Sometimes, I think ahead enough to buy a couple of rolls of pastry dough - and that works great.
My son in law bought a generator last year. Here in my Town, they open up the rec center, have cots and anyone can go there. Most of us try to tough it out.
*SLOW CLAP*
Well said, Mom! :)
Aw, shucks….
Good point on clothing. Both of us own too much as it is, and we’re more than equipped for life in Wisconsin in the winter months.
BUT - still a good reminder.
There are so many good apocalyptic movies. Dr. Strangelove was at the top of the heap if you ask me.
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