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Hello, I haven't commented in a while since I have been very busy with our business, but I have read and reread each post due to taking lots of notes to improve certain things. I did hear about the hurricane coming and I'm half nervous and half not. I'm thankful Charles hip has been doing better and thats a wonderful idea regarding those old fashioned underwear for men.we had prayed things would go well. I can remember my grandparents wearing those types and especially the overalls. 

I was looking at a collage of photos in our living room last night and some of the relatives on their I've met and were my best friends and others I didn't meet because of how far back in time they were living. I couldn't help but wonder what they were like, the cost of things in there area, their homes, etc. I know one relative documented and its been a tradition since the early 1800s in my family, but I didnt know who started it, is to have excellent table manners and dress the table nicely for each meal. I learned finally who that was from after all these years. Now I know why I am the way I am. Its a family tradition. You can see there log cabin if you Google kemper log house in Sharon woods, cinncinnati, Ohio belonging to the kemper family. The mom is who had the table manners and I got a chance to tour the house one time.

 We have been doing things around our home to try and do even better with stocking up, organizing where something might be out of place or just need to be in a better spot. There's skills that we are constantly and I mean constantly having to read or watch a video on how to do something because it wasn't passed on to us especially in things such as building, roofing, repairs. Many people have told us I could never fill in the blank, but you really can once you educate yourself and just jump in and do it. The importance of knowing just the basic things is worth it. 

We learned yesterday that our neighbors who have an extremely fancy house, has fancy features such as a wifi heated towel rack for when they get out of the shower to all sorts of electronic gizmos and gadgets. Its nice, but those things are always breaking it seems like. I wouldnt want to have their electric bill or heating costs. Im grateful for der vehicles we can keep running and a much simpler life. 

We purchase majority of our items from local very small farms including our raw milk, eggs, meat and majority of our produce that we can't grow.  Things like grains, beans, etc I order from azure standard whose prices are excellent and quality. I love using ghee and its so simple to make. I recently did a big batch of bread baking. Some were sourdough. If anyone needs a recipe it was from gubba homestead on YouTube. The other is honey wheat bread from taylormadefarms.blogspot.com

Thank you grandma Donna for another wonderful post. :)

Oh that pie and bread look good.  I live in Maine and I'm almost always prepared as well but in my case, for wind or snow storms, rarely a hurricane.  To me, there is nothing better than a fire in the woodstove, soup on the stove, and a clean house when there is bad weather outside.  

Stay safe.  Although I know you are prepared, I hope you keep power. Enjoy the pie!

Lisa

Another good post! 

I live in the Big Bend of Florida and we are predicted to get the east side (dirty side) of it.  Everyone in my county is cringing, since we were the site of almost identical landfalls for Idalia, Debbie and Helene in a 13 month period.  I am very conscious of the need for making preparation for outages.  To that end, I keep individual sized packets of tuna and chicken, crackers, dried fruit, peanut butter, dried vegetables and water on hand.  As I've said here before, I put a hand pump on my well and I have a kerosene cooker.  Also as I said, I plan to start canning water, but it has been too hot and my kitchen is in disarray, getting ready for the new cabinets, so that will have to be later.  I feed my dogs a mix of dry and wet food, but during outages, they are fine eating dry only.

Over the years I have gone on a number of local farm tours of small farms and buy regularly from three of the farms.  I get eggs from a family friend who raises chickens and I raise some of my own produce, but I have to purchase most of it, even in good years, because I just can't manage that much of a garden on my own.  I also order from Azure Standard.

I read recently about some Samsung "smart" refrigerators that got a software upgrade and the refrigerators in people's homes stopped working!  It was a glitch in the program, but it reinforced my belief that I do not want smart appliances.  I don't want to download apps to run things in my home.  I don't want my data collected, and I don't want to be exposed to outages caused by computer glitches. 

I recently bought a little table lamp that is solar/rechargeable for outages, and so far I'm pleased with it.  It's bright enough to read by.  

I had relatives who grew up with no electricity or running water, but by the time I came along, they had it.  I do remember the clotheslines, and electric wringer washers, small refrigerators with little freezer compartments, washing dishes by hand, and no microwaves, toaster ovens, air fryers or electric pressure cookers.  The coffee perked on the stovetop and the way to get crushed ice was to use a manual crusher that fastened to the wall.  Little stores, some with little meat counters with custom butchering, were on many streets in residential areas for the families with no car or because their one car was being used during the day by the breadwinner.  

I feel better knowing I have what I need to get by, and that I have or am developing the skills to manage with less.  This site helps me with that, and I appreciate it.