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Thanking God for my little flock of laying hens. My family uses a lot of eggs every week, and thanks to the chickens we’ve been eating normally even through the shortages.

I’ve started taking seed catalogs apart and using them to make origami seed-starting pots. I save a copy of each of the best catalogs, but since they all sent me 3-4 copies each this year, I’m going to run out of greenhouse space before I run out of pages.

I’m planning on starting some extra plants and selling them. Reports are coming back about seeds and starter plants being sold out at the stores. I’ve put together some care packages with vegetable seeds in case my neighbors need them. Just about every neighbor is talking about gardening this year. For some of them it’s their first. I’m curious to see how many keep it up.

I’m planting with the assumption that there will be several waves of shutdowns like this one. If I’m wrong, I’ll have tons of home-grown food to eat. If I’m right, I’ll have tons of home-grown food to eat. I tend to grow things that keep or preserve well, so not a problem if there’s more than I can use right away.

One of my hens went broody yesterday. I’m not quite to the point yet where I can let her hatch out a dozen chicks, but I’m working on that. We’re still eating some of the meat from last year’s excess chickens. I have no problem with the idea of raising more, but that’s something that needs family consensus.

It’s kind of amazing to see the mental reset going on in people’s heads. People who had no interest in cooking are learning to cook. People who mocked preppers or gardeners are coming to them for advice. That eccentric relative who butchers their own meat? That’s your new grocery store.

It’ll be interesting to see the long-term changes that result from this.