*Have a small head cold. Constantly clearing out gunk in my throat.
*Jared has been in a bad mood and won't let me know why. Something happened at work.
*Celeste was home sick and seems to be holding up at school today.
*Savannah is complaining about stomach problems that only appear at bedtime.
*Sierra is doing okay so far.
*I have a fire burning in the fireplace.
*That makes for a comfy house especially when the outside is cold and gray.
*Wanting a snow storm to happen soon. If it's going to be cold, it should be white outside.
*Doing some more Christmas shopping, some toys are harder to find.
*Escaping on Thursday and Friday with Mom to Amylia's house to go SHOPPING!
*Although, I have a limit especially since we are planning a trip to Disneyland in March.
*So expensive.
*I think I found a present for Jared's birthday, Hopefully he will like it.
*And I really need to clean my bathroom.
*Oh, I finished two encaustic paintings. One representing melacholy and the other restlessness. Abstract of course. Now I need more wood panels to keep this streak going.
*I finished another horse painting but I keep staring at it wondering if it needs something else. I have another horse painting with a brown background and not sure if it works. I'll make up my mind eventually.
*My mood has been pretty even although the akatasia has finally kicked in. I have shakes and twitching in my knees. The Inderal seems to help the fidgety knees. But the blood pressure shift has become very annoying. You rise up and suddenly the speckles come to your eye sight and you feel off balanced. It only last for a few seconds but still, so annoying. Something to learn to work with because I'm not going back into the hole.
*Okay, I need to go clean now.
*Oh! And I made bread for the first time and it actually seems normal. A bit dry so I need to tweak the recipe a little to get it fluffier and less dry. But after much hesitating.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Prepping...
Watching Doomsday Preppers. Some of these people are interesting to watch because they are so extreme in what is going to cause doomsday. It's kinda of funny. Although some of their ideas of prepping are useful. Such as a symbiotic relationship with fish and gardens. You take fish tanks filled with fish, the eating kind, and grow agricultural plants on top. The plants renew the oxygen in the water and the fish poo fertilizes the plants. Jared has considered setting up a system like that. It sounds like alot of work to me. However, I would like a greenhouse to grow gardens through the seasons. I could start early in the Spring and continue late into Autumn. Plus maybe the dirt would not dry up so quickly in the hot Summer sun if the garden is covered.
I have become more in the prepping mood lately. It happens every now and then. I like to stock pile in food such as canned corn and dried chicken. Jared likes to stock pile in survival gear such as hunting knives and solar batteries. We make a perfect match. My Dad was a stock piler. Most likely where I get it from. I just feel the need to be prepared for anything like some disaster that keeps the food trucks from stocking up the grocery store. I live in a small rural town with one main highway. If that highway is ever cut off, goods would not make it here. We would be on our own.
Right now we have enough food to last us for a month. Well, at least me, Jared, and Celeste. Savannah and Sierra would starve instead of eat reconstituted dried chicken. They are such finicky eaters. If I can learn to make bread then at least that would feed them. When it comes to baking, I'm a bit hesitant to learn because I'm afraid of messing up. Can't afford for me to go through a bunch of flour and ingredients learning to make bread and having it turn out to be rock hard. But I need to learn someday and sooner the better. Then I can stock pile on bags of wheat flour - stock piling being so much easier.
Learning to bake and cook without an oven would be useful too. We have a fire stove that I could easily cook dinner on, but baking, how did the pioneers bake their bread using a fire? I know bread can be made in a dutch oven, at least I think I have heard it can be done. So maybe a pot with a lid could act like an oven. Then figuring out the baking time would be an issue. Okay, I'm starting to feel stressed.
I have become more in the prepping mood lately. It happens every now and then. I like to stock pile in food such as canned corn and dried chicken. Jared likes to stock pile in survival gear such as hunting knives and solar batteries. We make a perfect match. My Dad was a stock piler. Most likely where I get it from. I just feel the need to be prepared for anything like some disaster that keeps the food trucks from stocking up the grocery store. I live in a small rural town with one main highway. If that highway is ever cut off, goods would not make it here. We would be on our own.
Right now we have enough food to last us for a month. Well, at least me, Jared, and Celeste. Savannah and Sierra would starve instead of eat reconstituted dried chicken. They are such finicky eaters. If I can learn to make bread then at least that would feed them. When it comes to baking, I'm a bit hesitant to learn because I'm afraid of messing up. Can't afford for me to go through a bunch of flour and ingredients learning to make bread and having it turn out to be rock hard. But I need to learn someday and sooner the better. Then I can stock pile on bags of wheat flour - stock piling being so much easier.
Learning to bake and cook without an oven would be useful too. We have a fire stove that I could easily cook dinner on, but baking, how did the pioneers bake their bread using a fire? I know bread can be made in a dutch oven, at least I think I have heard it can be done. So maybe a pot with a lid could act like an oven. Then figuring out the baking time would be an issue. Okay, I'm starting to feel stressed.
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