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By mrs. patsi @ A
Working Pantry
Wagon clipart link …
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(Reminder:
in our imaginary scenario what you have is what you're working with and
whatever your weather is, is the weather in the scenario.
One
more thing, for those just popping in, this is an imaginary scenario that's
part of a class we are doing and not real life.)
Hello
everyone! It’s time and here we go …
It is now day 72 in
our imaginary scenario, and everything has changed, yet nothing has
changed! The way we do things has
changed but the fact that those things still have to get done hasn’t. By this time the society we once knew no
longer exists; no jobs, no paychecks, banks closed, no pensions, no phones, no grocery stores and no
Internet. Bartering is a way of
life! Our continued survival depends on
how well we can adapt to ‘pioneer’ style living in its basic form. Do we have that kind of knowledge or info
readily available to help us?
Let’s step back into
our scenario starting with the basics and find out … how are you preparing meals
for your family?
Do you still have food to prepare?
Do
you have fuel (wood, propane, gas, etc) to cook/prepare food?
As
you’re collecting your thoughts on food preparation and getting another meal on
the table, you realize the sky doesn’t look right, something is afoot in nature?
What’s it trying to tell you? Without the TV or Internet to warn you of
upcoming weather hazards you’re learning how to read the sky and nature for signs
of upcoming weather events. What’s the
sky telling you now, there’s a storm of some sort brewing for sure, but what
kind and how severe?
Okay, over to you, how are you feeding your family and what about that foreboding
looking sky?
mrs. patsi @ A
Working Pantry
She looketh well to
the ways of her household … Proverbs 31:27
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We would still have plenty of food to eat and plenty of firewood in the woods to cook over an open fire. I do know how to do this and we have a cast iron Dutch oven and many other pieces of cookware that we can use to cook. I have baked in a Dutch oven before so I would have dusted off those skills and be doing that for breads of some sort since we have plenty of stored flour. We would still have home canned and store cans of food since we have a very good supply to begin with. Meals would likely be boring but we would be fed. If we need water we have a creek along the back of our property and a water purification system we would be using. But, this would not be fun! After only seven days after Helene I can hardly fathom 72!
ReplyDeleteHaving lived here in this house for 31 years we can read the weather pretty well. Today I would be seeing the cloud bank to the northwest over the mountains and since frozen precipitation is predicted for there we would likely smell that icy smell in the air. But, I would be wondering if we would be getting the frozen precip too. We barely got above freezing so we would be wearing many layers and be covered up with blankets if we are sitting.
Anonymous, it sounds like you would be doing better than most at this stage of the scenario. You are so right, at this stage, there is nothing fun about anything. Everything takes longer and much more manpower to get done. Your ability to smell the icy smell in the air made me smile, I can do that too! Great comment!
DeleteI apparently have to enter my name every time I comment now and I don't remember to do it. I just remembered that we have a small wood stove in our shed! We got it for Y2K and it has been there all these years! That would be a real help for staying warm and being able to cook inside! And that would really help with not advertising our food supply to the neighborhood.
DeleteLana, yeah for the wood stove!!! We love our wood stove, and, in this scenario, it would make life easier in several ways!
DeleteI think at this stage we would be in a bad way on all fronts. Although I live in a rural village my house, like a lot of houses in the UK, is small with limited storage space. No huge pantries or storage cellars here. With 3 people in the house we would have exhausted our store of food to hand. We would have also probably used up our supply of wood. On the plus side, we could burn any wood we could get our hands on in our log burner, along with paper, cardboard etc and this would still allow us to heat any food we could come by. We would now be relying on pottage, like our ancestors.
ReplyDeleteI think the coming storm is likely a snow storm. We have lots of blankets and quilts to hand and plenty of warm clothing, so I think we would be layering up, hunkering down and possibly all sleeping in the living room to keep as warm as possible.
Like the previous poster I would be in a bad way and probably having to move in with other family. I would also be wondering who had my grandparents clock thing that had the barometer or what ever that thing is called.
ReplyDeleteI also remember my grgrandmother knew exactly which part of the sky to look for weather and could "smell snow coming".
Lots to think about.