Cool and damp, but maybe no rain? We’re sorta in the rain zone, but who knows. Yesterday was overcast most of the day with occasional sunlight. No rain though.
I did family things all day. Egg hunt, Easter baskets, breakfast, bread making, and dinner prep ate most of the day. What wasn’t used for that got spent catching up on some auction stuff, while youtube vids played on the other monitor. Kids were wrapped up in their own stuff most of the day. We did play a game after dinner.
Today should be more cleaning and sorting. Housecleaning service is supposed to come by and do the heavy lifting. I just have to get some stuff picked up and put away. If it’s clear, I might even get over to my storage unit, and do some sorting there.
If it’s raining, I’ll do more cleaning and paperwork here. Tax time is upon us, and some stuff needs to be put in order before sending to the accountant.
There is also the not inconsequential task of cleaning and sorting the cans on my pantry shelves. Some more fruit cans popped in the pantry area, and now I’ve got a real mess. Far more damaged cans than I first thought, and extra possum mess besides. No wonder the little beast was hanging out- some of the stuff in the very back was leaking. Well, I know I’ll have losses due to poor conditions, and some of the stuff is approaching 10 years in the stacks, so it’s past time to go through it again. It’s a bio-hazard and needs to be addressed soon.
Even with FIFO policy, and can organizers for much of it, there is food we don’t normally eat and food we only eat occasionally in the stacks, so we don’t rotate through the whole stack before it REALLY ages out. I can accept that. I’d rather have the food on hand. No way to know when the last trip to the supermarket could be, so I maintain the level I’d need if today was that last day. Well, I’ll be below it with all the breakage, until I can replace it.
And I might not replace all of it. If I assume we can get to the BOL or travel between them, I can split the resources between them. If I assume that we may be stuck at either place, then I need full stacks at both locations. The reality is that I might never get stuck in either situation, and I might never need the stuff. But having it is what prepping is about for me, so I’ll probably waffle back and forth, starting by splitting the stacks, and building both sets back up to full.
First step is cleaning and saving what I can. And that might happen today, or later this week… depending.
So stack it high, but realize that you will have losses, and you might not need it. Like a gun or a parachute, it’s much better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.
nick