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As long as my health held out, had no dental issues, I think I’d be ok. I’m a bit plump now, so I’d have at least a year’s worth of fat on me to tide me over. ;)

On a more serious note, my MIL owns some land out in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the country. It has a well, a wood burning stove, and stocked pond, and plenty of wildlife roams on it. The problem would be getting there from the east coast without getting killed or raided on the way, and dealing with my impossible MIL if we were to happen to have to make it our temporary home.

Not sure if I want to “survive” only to have to deal with HER on a daily basis.

Have recently purchased a Big Berkey water filter system ..so I feel a bit better about that. Have been stocking food, but dont’ have near enough to survive behyond a few weeks.

Tried some gardening this year ..and have found that the varmits are a HUGE problem. ..had some awesome zuchinnis that were just munched to pieces just last night. ;(

Gardening for survival is TOUGH. I have learned this over this summer. I have a long way to go to learn real survival skills.

But if it were to happen ...I’m not sure I’d be all that sad saying goodbye to our current lifestyle. All we do is work, work, work for “stuff” we don’t need. We aren’t socially connected, because, well, you don’t have to be nowadays ...neighbors are distant to one another. No one really “needs” each other anymore.

I’d be ok to get back to a different way of life ... although I may be romanticizing it a bit.