January 4: Feel like I <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>finally</span> did something preppy again today. Husband and I pulled the daybed that we use as a sofa out away from the living room window and built narrow shelves out of bricks and raw lumber that come up to the bottom of the window sills. At one end, where the shelves would be visible to people coming into the house, we left the boards sticking out past the brick supports and put shoes there. In the rest of the shelves, but not on the top, we put #10 cans of dehydrated food. On the top shelf, right in front of the window, I put my aloe plants. Then we backed the daybed up against the shelves so that the food is completely hidden. It just looks like we have plants sticking up behind a couch, and people coming in the front door on one end only see a small bit of shelving with shoes. Tomorrow, underneath the daybed, we will slide shallow plastic under-th-bed boxes filled with canned food. Then a bed skirt will go around the daybed. And I will have much more space in my kitchen cupboards to put more innocuous looking food and supplies. It all looks neat and tidy and nobody will know the difference. 🙂
@Molly Malone: Love your description of your closet. That’s under the bed for me…..
@corsaire: So sorry for the fibro – it’s a bummer. We just keep on pushing through – it’s the only choice.
@Muffy1938: Congrats on the spinach! Mine would have died by now, I’m afraid
@Loving Life: So glad you’re getting some replacements. Like Corsaire, I think we need to make our houses “gray”.
@oldmtwoman: Thank you – I’m also praying that that computer lasts a bit longer.
@Red Carnation: Hope I can learn to use a thermal cooker soon. That’s really cool. I once saw a short video where a woman in Africa used a solar cooker to bring the food to a boil for a certain amount of time, and then she put it in a homemade thermal cooker to finish it. I’ve always wanted to try that.
@Amy Dixon: The Big Buddy propane heater is what we have, too. They’re wonderful.