Grammy that is a great idea on the lemons. Will be trying that out next time I see them on sale. I love putting lemon in my water to drink. So now I will know what to do with the peels.
Hieronyma Textor. I to have decided to cut down on the amount of things we have. Right now I have well over a years worth of food. I have been storing for my daughter and her family as well. But she is doing nothing to get prepared and I have decided after talking with her that she will need to because we can no longer maintain the amount of food we have. So I am starting to use it up and not replace it. We will have food stored but not like we do now. As it is hubby bought a great deal of the long term food from a place that was going out of business. I must say he get some great deals on it. We have tried some of the foods and they are good. So that will be our back up plan. As it is, as much canning I do, we can live on that and have plenty without having all this can food from the grocery stores. I have been making my own soups and stews and canning them but have a lot of store bought soups that we are trying to use up. Also going through and using up what is in the freezers. I do have some veggies that I am going to dehydrate in there. I am also going to start back making our bread instead of buying a loaf here and there as I have loads of flour stored that I want to use up. Not to mention all the paper products stored in the attic. Going to start using up a lot of that instead of just buying it as we need it. We haven’t touched what is in the attic in over two years. So now is the time to get it used up.
I know something is getting ready to happen as from Alerts USA is monitoring events in S. Asia. Seems the Indian Air Force had carried out strikes in Pakistan territory. These are both nuclear powers and tensions are high. Also Pakistan Foreign Minister Qureshi warns that India has committed aggression by violating the LoC & country is prepared and might respond with an attack. Then there is Russa showing it’s ugly head. So things could be heating up soon.
But even though things are heating up, I do want to down size what I have because where we live is military bases all around as well as being about 4 or 5 hours away from Washington DC. So we are more than likely going to one day have to evacuate. I figure if we can’t take it with us we don’t need to stock as much. Just keeping enough to keep us going and have grab and go on the ready.
Air Conditioner going in tomorrow. So glad that will be over with. Then I can get back to the decluttering and getting things back in order again. Also got to take car in for oil change and recall. So will be making appt. to have that done soon.
OldmtWoman you and your husband be careful in that snow. And that goes for anyone else having to deal with it. We may be getting our first snow this weekend but still not sure of the amount. Don’t think it will be more than an inch or two. But around here it will close schools and slow traffic.
Checking out the seed catalogs as we will be getting garden ready as soon as weather permits. Checked rain gage today and ended up with 4 inches of rain in a week. That is a lot.