Well it looks like my wine is stuck in Munich Germany and is now scheduled to arrive on July 3rd! I hope it gets out earlier because I need it now, not a week from now. With the holiday coming up, I probably won’t see it until the 5th. Both boys have swimming lessons today and Grandma graciously offered to pay for them, hooray! It’s supposed to be in the mid 90’s today and 100 tomorrow. Looks like we’ll have a high power bill this month with the air conditioner going a lot.
The boys and I went to the dermatologist yesterday where I had a little pre cancer spot frozen off on my leg and the youngest had a wart on his big toe shaved off and frozen again. He sure was brave. We also got to see our doctor friends 5 week old little girl, the misses sure was jealous when she heard. Our dermatologist is actually a close friend and luckily we never get charged a dime. They’re (she, her husband and her daughter are all dermatologists) really good to us. We were stuck in the exam room for a good 20 minutes where I had to sit through both boys hysterical laughter as they were making fart sounds with their arm pits. Once they started there was no stopping them. It was really kind of funny, not the fart sounds but their non stop laughter.
We made it home and Mom showed up about 15 minutes later. The rest of the day was spent with playing outside and then dinner. This morning I have a meeting at 10am across town and then another at 1. Since it’s going to be so hot, I’m going to bring in a bunch of water I have stored in the garage, because it’s not good to have water in plastic bottles get too hot. We’re saving up for a Country Living Grain Mill which is about $400. We need this to grind our own wheat (we have a few hundred pounds stored) to make our own bread. We figured it out and we can make bread for about .83 a loaf instead of the $5 to $6 a loaf it now costs in the store plus it’s a lot better for you. We’ve put this ahead of a microwave although cold leftovers sure aren’t as good as warmed up ones. We have also stored some beans in bulk and have some quinoa (a grain which we love that’s high in protein) on the way. It’s nice to have this food stored but the main reason for buying in bulk is that’s we save about 60 to 70 % when we buy this way. The problem right now is finding these grains and foods available in bulk. It seems there’s a lot of people buying this way and most places have a 3 month or more wait. We watched a National Geographic show last night on what they called “Preppers”. This is a term used to describe people that are preparing for some kind of hardship in the future. Sure you have some wackos that think the world is coming to an end but most of them (us included) are just looking out for interruptions in supply or huge price increases which we see almost daily. You don’t know it but from what they say, a lot of your neighbors are actually preparing in some fashion like this, it’s just nobody talks about it for fear of being labeled as crazy or wacko. Like I said before, you really can’t get hurt buying extra food as you’ll eventually use it. Anyhow we prefer to think of ourselves like a farm or ranch family from years ago that keeps a healthy reserve of life’s necessities on hand. I remember as a kid my grandparents had lots of canned food stored in their basement, a full garden always growing and could probably have gotten by for a while with little help. I’ll have to ask my Mom more about this. Anyhow like I said yesterday, if you don’t think this way now, you probably never will. Just hope that nothing happens that’ll shut the system down. It will only take 3 days of trucks not delivering food for all grocery stores to be totally empty, think about it, just 3 days! Could be a truckers strike, another terrorist act, a natural disaster or some political event. I don’t know how anyone can really think the government will be there for them. Just look at their response to Katrina or any of the recent tornados or floods, they were not prepared to help and people had to rely on themselves. Oh well, sorry for the sermon but we just think a lot of people are living in denial. Hope we’re wrong, it’s just we personally aren’t going to chance it. Even our mainstream church has taken up the cause telling everyone in the congregation to go out and get a minimum of 3 months worth of food and water for everyone in the family. Don’t know if you know but the Church of Later Day Saints (the mormons) require that every member keep a years worth of food on hand! In fact, the LDS centers (that are all over the country including here in Denver) are great places to get food in bulk. Ok ok I’ll stop now but please don’t think I have enough for you too although I wouldn’t let anyone in my family starve, wouldn’t be the good christian thing to do now would it. You’ll just have to sit through a lot of “I told you so’s” if I’m sharing with you. That alone should make you want to go out and get some supplies for yourself.
Time to go, it’s almost 7am. I didn’t intend to go off on a tangent and frankly we never share our views with friends but you all which are family, at least need to know what we think you should all be doing. This will be it as far as trying to tell you what to do, no more, zip, nada, that’s all folks, so at least think about it before you just dismiss the whole thing, better safe than sorry, right?
Take care and God Bless,
Wait, the wife says you all think I’m wacko anyhow, ok no food for you! and Grandma Dixie I’m told thinks I’m a survivalist, what, where do you all get this! How can this be? So I like guns and a simpler way of life although Grandma Dixie says we have no idea as it was not a simpler way at all! I’m sure she’s right and hope we never have to find out but if we do, at least we’ll be eating well!