December 8
(1) Got new book – The Winter Harvest Handbook by Eliot Coleman. I love what this guy does – no heated greenhouses, just unheated ones, and he harvests all this produce in the winter in Maine!
(2) Made elderberry syrup.
(3) Reviewed sinus tapping and did it. Already feeling the improvement.
(4) Learned about nasal oiling and did it – even more improvement.
(5) Dug out old “kits” list in prepping notebook. Have been so tied up with work and family illnesses in the last year, that I had abandoned my de-junking / organizing plans. The hope is to minimize down to essential kits (each one packed in an appropriate container and stowed on a shelf (for example, lighting kit, emergency cooking kit, sewing kit….) so that they can be easily accessed, but also so that moving, if we have to, would be super easy (just pack the kits). I don’t have this all worked out in my head yet, but I finally feel I can start working on it again.
(6) Working on ideas to keep our emotions stable, with all that’s going on. Doing a lot better today. Daughter (sick one) told me today that St. John Chrysostom (priest who died in 407 A.D.) once said that if God loves you, he gives you suffering to strengthen you and make you holy. Laughing over that one – it’s both scary and beautiful.
@corsaire – that’s happened to us, too – several times. I think we’re on our 3rd or 4th iteration of the PayPal debit card. Once, someone stole the number and booked a flight to Turkey and a hotel in Ankara. The last time it happened, someone started buying stuff at Kentucky Fried Chicken and an ethnic grocery store in Chicago (we are not in Chicago!). We always got our money back, but it’s a pain. Thinking about implementing Daisy’s prepaid credit card idea – they can only get what you didn’t spend, especially if you spend it fast.
@OldMansd – what a gorgeous rocket stove!
@grannyj Smith – congrats on the new grandbaby. I had no idea how exciting it is until I had one myself 🙂