Alright, I’ve been sitting on the sidelines long enough. This probably won’t do much good but I’m telling you anyhow. Go buy some extra food, preferably some canned goods like tuna, beans and other things you like to eat. Look for the low sodium versions as canned goods are notoriously high in salt. Most have expiration dates that are at least 2 years out but just so you know, there’s been study after study where canned food has been ok up to 30 years after they were supposed to expire.
You probably haven’t noticed but your food, on average, has gone up over 11% in cost in the past year alone. Now you need to ask yourself, did your income go up 11%? If not, you should get my point. On top of this we are beginning to see shortages of certain foods in the grocery stores. Over the weekend our local Whole Foods was out of lettuce. You might not think this is a big deal but it should be a sign, even though it’s small.
I could go on and on as to what else you should do now to make sure you’ll be ok this year but I’ll let it go. As they say, you can bring a horse to water but you can’t make him drink!
Yesterday I felt like crap. I think I ate some bad food (sausages) in the morning and had a touch of food poisoning. Mom and Ty headed for D.I. and Jag and I ran out to Bass Pro Shop as I had a $25 gift certificate from Uncle T and Aunt B from Christmas. We cruised the isles (yes the ammo isle was flat out empty and crowded with people looking for certain calibers) and dropped a couple of bucks worth of quarters in the machine at the shooting gallery which Jag enjoys. One dad in the ammo isle looked at me with his kids in tow and said “this is crazy”. He wasn’t talking about just how the shelves were bare but also how prices had doubled even on the so called “non military” calibers such as 270 Winchester and other hunting calibers. You had to own a pretty obscure rifle for there to be any ammo you would want. Thankfully they did have some 45.70 ( a huge caliber for my Browning 1886 lever action rifle) so we grabbed a couple of boxes. Now we’re not buying tons of ammo but we are trying to get a few boxes for each gun we own. The main reason here is because prices keep going up and up and supply keeps getting lower and lower.
We also picked up a few cleaning supplies and an extra case for the oldest guys 22 rifle and after letting him play on the boats for 20 minutes or so, off we went for home.
We arrived home a few minutes before Mom and the youngest. Soon both boys were  playing outside. The oldest guy had arranged to play with a friend so Mom agreed to let them start swimming next week. All the boys played hard until 6 or 6:30.
Today Mom has a doctor appointment at 10am and then is working on one of her projects. I have lots to do as well starting with my Monday morning conference call at 9. Mojo who looks like a grey wolf these days with his dirty fur, goes in for a bath at 4pm. Throw in basketball for the youngest and baseball practice for the oldest and here we go again.
Oh, the oldest lost another tooth last night, he has a big gap on the lower left side where a couple of teeth are missing. Hope the tooth fairy came!
Time to run, that’s it for the day. Do yourself a favor and please heed my advice and buy just a few extra cans of food if nothing else. It’s not like they’re going to go to waste!
God Bless.