I'm past the talking part.
Yeah, me too. I've been planting fruit and nut trees, berry bushes, and grape vines, a little more every year for the past several years, adding to what was already here when I bought my farm. I've been growing and preserving most of our food for at least seven or eight years now. My ponds are stocked. My "girls" give us more eggs than we can eat. Most of the rest I buy from local farmers. I've gotten everything I own paid for. Along the way I've developed several streams of income with farming being the primary source now. I'm also banking with the "Bank of Mason" more with each passing day. Still need to work on a bit more on my lead investments, but otherwise we are about as prepared as we can be.