How do you see your life after the SHTF? Pick any day out of 100 days. It can be a good day or it can be a bad day. Tell us how you think that day is going to go.
2 weeks after the SHTF:
I wake up and listen to the quiet. There is nothing different about this morning. I live in the boonies, it's always quiet in the morning.
But this is a special morning. I am going to a friends house and bring home some of their mini goats. They'll go in my small pasture. My friend has to decrease her heard.
No one is really sure how this economic collapse is going to work out. But we're still alive, have food and electricity for now.
I've talked with several of my neighbors. They all seem to be pretty well stocked up.
I do worry about the older couple up the road from me. They are going to need some help around their place. I told them I would talk with the Father and see if there was anyone that could help them out.
The banks have closed down all over the country. Thank God I have been taking my money out and converting most of it to silver over the past couple of years. I'll be able to barter with it in a year or 2. Right now people are not interested in sliver/gold. They are more worried about food, water and keeping warm.
For breakfast I will have a slice of bread and hummus made with pureed pinto beans, yogurt and herbs.
It's September and I feel a chill in the air. Better get going and pick up those goats after I feed the dogs, cats and chickens.
I don't have much gas stored up. Never had $ to go into that kind of storage. I'll have to ask the station owner if his gas supply is still coming in steadly.
So, I'm back with the goats. They are running around the pasture. They look a little lost, I know how they feel. I'm a little lost too.
Watered the garden. Hope the electricity stays on for the next month so I can get the garden produce canned up. Sure would help this winter.
Lunch is a salad made from fresh produce. That reminds me I have to rinse the sprouts again. They sure to add flavor to my sandwiches a couple days a week.
Took a couple of 5-gallon buckets up the mountain and filled it with elder berries. Used the pruning sheers to cut the bunches down from the trees. Plan on making elder berry wine out of it. That will be good to sip on this winter and to use for bartering. But I know a lot of people are going to do the same thing. We'll see how it goes. Boy this trip took almost 3 hours. I'm getting old.
Put the berries in the kitchen. I'll take care of them tomorrow.
Well gotta get out and check the goats and see if they have settled down. Yep, they're doing well. Good to see they are still here and didn't find a hole in the fence to escape through. Next February the 2 does I got will drop thier kids and I'll have a little milk and cheese. Hope I'm here when it happens.
My friend told me that a couple down her road killed themselves. Sure was depressing news to hear. I remember back in 2008/09 when there was a lot of that going around after the stock market/housing bubble blew. Hope we don't get too much of that around here. It's going to be hard enough getting this valley through the winter as it is.
I've been alone since my husband died last spring. My daughter and her family are heading this way at the end of the month. They have nothing keeping them in the city. Not after they lost their home and jobs and were sitting on unemployment. Now with the government broke, no telling how long unemployment is going to last or social security checks. Life is sure going to go to pot.
Well, I'm gona wash this sink of dishes, see whats on the news and head off to bed. Morning comes yearly around here.
A friend is going to drop of some wood rounds tomorrow. I'll start splitting them. Gotta split oak while it's wet.
2 weeks after the SHTF:
I wake up and listen to the quiet. There is nothing different about this morning. I live in the boonies, it's always quiet in the morning.
But this is a special morning. I am going to a friends house and bring home some of their mini goats. They'll go in my small pasture. My friend has to decrease her heard.
No one is really sure how this economic collapse is going to work out. But we're still alive, have food and electricity for now.
I've talked with several of my neighbors. They all seem to be pretty well stocked up.
I do worry about the older couple up the road from me. They are going to need some help around their place. I told them I would talk with the Father and see if there was anyone that could help them out.
The banks have closed down all over the country. Thank God I have been taking my money out and converting most of it to silver over the past couple of years. I'll be able to barter with it in a year or 2. Right now people are not interested in sliver/gold. They are more worried about food, water and keeping warm.
For breakfast I will have a slice of bread and hummus made with pureed pinto beans, yogurt and herbs.
It's September and I feel a chill in the air. Better get going and pick up those goats after I feed the dogs, cats and chickens.
I don't have much gas stored up. Never had $ to go into that kind of storage. I'll have to ask the station owner if his gas supply is still coming in steadly.
So, I'm back with the goats. They are running around the pasture. They look a little lost, I know how they feel. I'm a little lost too.
Watered the garden. Hope the electricity stays on for the next month so I can get the garden produce canned up. Sure would help this winter.
Lunch is a salad made from fresh produce. That reminds me I have to rinse the sprouts again. They sure to add flavor to my sandwiches a couple days a week.
Took a couple of 5-gallon buckets up the mountain and filled it with elder berries. Used the pruning sheers to cut the bunches down from the trees. Plan on making elder berry wine out of it. That will be good to sip on this winter and to use for bartering. But I know a lot of people are going to do the same thing. We'll see how it goes. Boy this trip took almost 3 hours. I'm getting old.
Put the berries in the kitchen. I'll take care of them tomorrow.
Well gotta get out and check the goats and see if they have settled down. Yep, they're doing well. Good to see they are still here and didn't find a hole in the fence to escape through. Next February the 2 does I got will drop thier kids and I'll have a little milk and cheese. Hope I'm here when it happens.
My friend told me that a couple down her road killed themselves. Sure was depressing news to hear. I remember back in 2008/09 when there was a lot of that going around after the stock market/housing bubble blew. Hope we don't get too much of that around here. It's going to be hard enough getting this valley through the winter as it is.
I've been alone since my husband died last spring. My daughter and her family are heading this way at the end of the month. They have nothing keeping them in the city. Not after they lost their home and jobs and were sitting on unemployment. Now with the government broke, no telling how long unemployment is going to last or social security checks. Life is sure going to go to pot.
Well, I'm gona wash this sink of dishes, see whats on the news and head off to bed. Morning comes yearly around here.
A friend is going to drop of some wood rounds tomorrow. I'll start splitting them. Gotta split oak while it's wet.