LovingLife…glad your adventure went well. \0/ So many things we can learn with “dress rehearsals“…the ones we do on purpose AND the ones thrust upon us! LOL Thanks for the detailed report. I have compasses but wouldn’t have thought of bringing one. The usual roads here are very clear as to where you are. Hmm….if I had to resort to the Forest Service roads…they scatter all over the place.
As for the gas tank situation, your post made me get up and go write “gas” on our “communications board”. Told DH my truck needs gas when it was just less than half. Then we both forgot and I looked tonite….quite near E. Ooops, don’t usually do that. Esp. in winter when that OLD truck needs it’s long warm-up time. We do have gas cans but…I’d feel pretty stupid if it ran dry at the barnyard and had to walk UP that steep hill.
Dang it’s been COLD. We’ve gone subzero the past 2 nites and going down again. I try to do PM chores before dark cuz temperatures sink quickly after that. Stupid fridge in basement froze half of my carrot crop — inside the refrigerator section! I avoided putting them on bottom shelf….it always freezes. Got fridge temp turned way up and still does it. This time it froze the ones on the top shelf. Augh! Only middle shelf survived so I brought them upstairs to save them. Will have to make room up here somehow. But back of this fridge freezes stuff too. 🙁
Muffy, glad to hear you making plans for further modified gardening efforts. We tried vertical gardening – during the worst drought summer we had. 🙁 EVERYthing was a failure that year. Even pea vines…usually 6 feet tall, were literally 6 INCHES tall that year. It was so dry that the air sucked the moisture out of the plants….even with multiple watering. Tried hay/straw bales that year too. My Midwest friend has had good luck with them. Arid West….the bales take 3-4 yrs to decompose. I do think I’d try the vertical again on a more normal-arid year. Sure beats getting down on hands/knees. And it might keep the plants from marauding voles! If shallow animal watering tanks are available anywhere near you, my friend also uses those – propped up to waist high. Drainage in bottom. They’re only a couple feet deep…would need soil.
Woodsrunner…cutting out what you want from magazine/newspaper and dumping the rest. I need to do that too. But no more recipes. I have way too many already. I’d like to sort those by which ones would still apply in a post-Stuff Hits Fan situation. I rarely cook meals by recipe but like to save those that tell me how to make things like mayo, yogurt, sausage etc from scratch.
Continued sorting today….attacked the ‘containers’ shelves. Pulled out most of the gazillion lids I have. Still need to match and toss.
I’ve been thinking of a Lights Out situation as in: sudden loss of power and a need to quickly find my way in the dark. No street lights out here in the woods. Cloudy or no moon means it’s pitch dark. I have small flashlights stashed everywhere – yet in full dark and some emergency. [OK…like the AK earthquake. Lucky that was not in the dark hours.] So what about glow-in-the-dark stickers or tape. I have a star in one corner of bedroom which helps me orient up from down. Something like that in other key places…near front/back doors. Bathroom. A strip of it on several of the flashlights. Or on the BOBs? Thinking on it.
OldMtWoman ….wanting some warming in our neck of the woods!!