Trying to catch up on reading all the post. Seems everyone has been busy. My grandson has moved in with us for a few months. He will be a great help once he is over that cold of his. I hate summer colds. He is starting to feel a bit better though, so I think he is starting to get rid of it. That airborne really does the trick.
DH has fallen twice now. So really having to keep a closer eye on him. I am looking at doing raised beds for next year as I think it would be easier on both of us. I can get my grandson to help with getting it set up. Our garden is a flop this year. We are getting cucumbers, but lost most of our tomatoes. Though the roma tomatoes are doing great. We replanted the green beans so now we will have plenty of them in a few weeks. As for the butter beans, seems something ate a lot of those seeds. But we will have enough to freeze. We have had more rain over the past 3 days and more to come. Bad storm today and lost current for a few hours. We have a whole house generator so we were good to go. But it has been so hot here as well. Will have some weeding to do as soon as it dries out enough to get in garden without sinking. Never had this problem before, but past 2 years it has been really bad for rain. So next year we might wait till near end of June to plant. Going to head to the farms very shortly to buy some veggies to can. Still working on decluttering. Just having a hard time deciding what we should keep and what to let go. And yes, where does all the paperwork come from. I am still going through that as I can get the chance to do so.
I really wish my kids would get involved with prepping. They seem to think nothing will ever happen. Just in their own little world trying to keep up with the jones. They are again working on house to get it sold so they can move for the 5th or 6th time. I really think they will be making house payments in their retirement. I have seen to many people here doing that and it has been really hard on them to make house payments on a fixed income. They won’t lesson when I say they need to get all their bills paid off. I really don’t know how I will be able to help them if things go south. So can only do so much. Not going to worry about it and not talking to them about it any longer. I feel at this point in time, I need to take care of mine and DH’s needs first. I really feel I am on my own with prepping for hard times and now with hurricane season here as well. I really hope and pray that no state gets hit by a hurricane this year.
With my grandson here, I may have to move all my preps into my office and I don’t yet know how I am going to get that done. No room for anything and he needs a bedroom. I do have a bed in the small room but closet is full of food and 2 bookcases that I use for my canning. I really have my work cut out for me and no energy to get it all done. Not as fast as I used to be.
Hope everyone’s 4th of July was a great one. We had a cookout with family. It was really nice. We all had a great time.