Thanks for the ping.
Yes, this isn’t what she expected, but isn’t that what prepping is all about? Being ready for WHATEVER happens?
This whole situation is wearing thin, but prepping for the long haul does mean things will be unsettled for a long time.
It sounds like she was more prepared physically than mentally.
You need to prep for both.
“Maybe you’re perfectly fine and you live on your back 40 and have been completely untouched by any of the above-mentioned crises.”
Other than having to wear a mask when I’m ‘Out Among The English’ and learning to order more foodstuffs on line, my life hasn’t changed much. BUT - that’s been by DESIGN for the past DECADE or so, anyway.
“Maybe your finances are just fine, you never go out much anyway, and you’ve still got 8 years’ worth of food socked away to supplement the things you grow.”
No debt, farm is paid off, crop land is rented, which pays for the taxes on the house and forested land is in a DNR program to grow Big Bucks and pasture land also rented out. Large garden and greenhouse...making the most of that for as long as I can in Zone 4 this year and beyond. Beau planted 30# of potatoes this season. We should have 30,000 pounds when we dig in a few weeks. ;) If we don’t lose electricity between land-lines and the generator, the freezer and canned goods could keep us going for a year or more, easily. If the power goes out, we’ll be grillin’ and chillin’!
“Maybe you’re reading this as you spin goat hair into yarn from which you’ll make this year’s mittens.”
I hate goats, having raised them as a, ‘kid.’ Beau detests sheep, having raised them as a kid. I DO crochet and Beau knits, and can tie any knot you’d ask him to, but I’m pretty sure we’re NOT going down that road, LOL! We’re pretty well stocked on warm socks. We always ask for them at Christmas-time, LOL!
Great article. Thanks for the PING!
Exactly true - prepare yourself and your family both physically and mentally.
Prepping is a life-style ; It is nothing that you can turn on, and then turn off.
It is more than a learned habit, and it relies on history, and is, in fact, a process of "risk assessment".
My Irish ancestors suffered through " An Gorta More" (the Irish Potato Famine, a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1852).
The famine was caused by mono culture of a particular potato that was favored by the British, but was killed off by an early blight
that killed off the plants and the potato in the ground as rendered as useless, undesirable, and unpalatable.
Because it was a blight, it spread throughout the soil and the land, and led to forced migration of millions of Irish.
Now, horticulturists discourage monoculture of crops, and now favor diversity and crop interplanting, crop rotation, and crop succession .
'True Preppers' are specialists at risk assessment, and determine priorities as well as honest evaluation of assets, and where there are shortfalls.
The shortfalls are those areas that require your immediate attention so that you and your family can be successful based upon adverse probability, and then possibility.
It is a spiritual and a temporal mind-set :" If ye are prepared, ..ye shall not fear".
Risk assessment is only a part of the mindset (!), but it is a learned mindset.