Food Storage: A Day of Preparedness
02/22/2011 • Saturday was a day of preparedness at our house. We hadn't planned it that way, but I woke up Saturday morning with some apparently extra energy. :) I went for a nice brisk walk while the family was still snoozing away, did some weeding in the yard, and then the kids were up and running. So we ate a hearty breakfast (Hubby made some strawberry pancakes- yum!) and then we went to work! We planted three of our fruit trees (two lemon, one orange) that were in pots and haven't been doing very well (in hopes that we can nurture more
Food Storage: My Adventure With Beans!
02/08/2011 • Alrightythen. So this week I actually did it! I tried my hand at cooking some dry beans. Holy PROGRESS! :) Before I could talk myself out of it, I just went into my kitchen, grabbed a quart sized Mason jar, grabbed some pinto beans, stuck a cup of beans in the jar, and then filled it up with water. I had absolutely NO idea what I was going to do with the beans, and NO idea of how to cook them, but I wanted to commit myself before I forgot about it. :) I left my beans overnight and in more
Emergency Preparedness: Working On My Car Kits
01/13/2011 • Hey all. Today I've been working on finishing up my First Aid Car Kits. The kit containers have been just sitting in my room since... well, the last time I posted on first aid kits, and they've just been taunting me. 'Finish me. I DARE you. You're too chicken. You don't have what it takes. You'll never be on top of all of this preparedness stuff.' It was time to shut them up. :D So I pulled out all the first aid stuff I'd purchased a while back (note: my Master Kit was already done- or at least as "done" as more
