LilSister….oye! Rotten doc and yard man. Yeah, fire his rear outta there! Round-up? Ack. Hope you can ward off the cold quickly …Vit C and any immune booster you may have…before it fully gets you. But glad you have a good deal on new A/C. And your dh is experienced. The things we need to know these days…to keep from getting ripped off! Hmph!
Muffy…did the recipe account for the liquid you don’t have when using powdered eggs? If it’s a recipe for dry ingredients, I guess it should have. I hate when I spend time, resources and energy and it doesn’t turn out. Oh well, nothing is a waste if we learn something! 🙂
Muffy and Columbia River….good thots on the bigger picture of prepping. I agree.
Today I felt better but DH has a spastic muscle in back. So I went down for chores with him AM and PM. I walked dog. I try to do that anyway, for light exercise. I barely made it far this morning but by PM, I did fine. I just never know.
Reading a lot today again. I read Selco’s latest article about movies and that they might be just fun but not at all educational for dire situations. But some can, as well. But he made a statement that caught my attention: Quote:
[Now, survival movies may give us those stupid ideas about being faster than a bullet, or mess up our opinion about what cover is good enough for coming bullets, but they can mess up at a higher level, too.
<b>They can give us an opinion that everything has to make sense.</b>
<b>When SHTF you may easily end up dead looking for that “sense” in everything.</b>
No, there does not have to be any sense in events happening around you when SHTF, and be careful in categorizing people and events in good or bad and similar because you might be surprised many times.] End of Quote <Bold is mine>
Well since I’ve always been one to cherish logic/sensible/productive/genuine….. Hmmm, yeah well, this is something that WILL be a problem for me. Not that I haven’t worked in social service type jobs where I met so many NOT genuine folks with hidden motives. Great percentage of any folks are not actually striving for logic/sensible approaches to their lives — they’re based in the emotions of the moment. But this IS how my brain automatically works. As if: one would not do that if it’s that illogical and unreasonable.
Hmph…I’m also aware that no one, including my leaning-toward-logic-perspective, can always stay logical/reasonable. MUCH LESS in a huge stress situation. Logically I can see that, of course. But I can easily get confused on motives of others if I can see NO SENSE…NO ADVANTAGE from their side. I cannot ‘read’ that sort of situation correctly. A weak spot I’m mostly aware of …but the article rang that bell again…loudly.
Ahem….I’m also one who does love to ponder on such things….in preparation for when such awareness must already be firmly in place. Anyone else here a ‘ponder-er’?
Thanks, Selco!
OldMtWoman G’nite all