I'm guilty of not blogging, I admit it. I started this to keep myself motivated and 5 blogs in I drop it. To be honest it was mostly just settling into our new life. We have a house sitting on a couple of acres, plenty of room for chickens and my garden.
What kicked me in gear was watching the new show in The National Geographic Channel, Doomsday Preppers. I really don't like the spin they put on the people that do this, almost dumming them down. As to the particular reasons given at the beginning of each segmant, they varied from the volcano at Yellowstone, econimic meltdown, solar flares disrupting electronics and on and on. Should we really be worried about any one thing? What if you prepare for a short term flu epidemic when the poles shift and your inland home becomes beachfront property?
Really too many things to factor in. After going through the tornado on April 27th what I want to focus on is just being self sufficiant. Can food, stock up on food and supplies to last for awhile, raise chickens, store water and have an alternate source available. The house we've moved into is pretty large, has plenty of room for storage, two fire places-one gas, one wood. I like that we have so much space for gardening but there are drainage issues. We are near the bottom of a hill and the ground doesn't drain easily, it stays squishy. This has prompted me to look into container gardening, quite a bit of food can be produced in very little space, so problem solved!
What harm can there be to rely more on yourself then whether something can be delivered to the local Piggly Wiggly. We've grown so spoiled! Fat. Lazy. All of the above.
