Cool and windy.\u00a0 Getting warmer later.\u00a0 Basically nice.<\/p>\n
Wednesday was cool to start but got to 84F in the sun.\u00a0 Still pretty damp, there was water in the buckets from days ago, and condensation on the concrete.<\/p>\n
I started my day with a fresh from the tree grapefruit.\u00a0 Ruby red and sweet.\u00a0\u00a0 Success at last!\u00a0 There are about a dozen more.\u00a0 There are a couple of oranges on the other tree that I’m giving a bit more time.\u00a0 The lemons are ready, but I leave them in place as long as I can.\u00a0 Broccoli is doing ok, and I might harvest some spears in a couple of days.<\/p>\n
I spent a good part of the day going through ebay\/auction stuff, moving it from bin to bin and getting some ready for the next auction.\u00a0 They stood me up on meeting to get my check and do my dropoff so I’ll have to reschedule.\u00a0 Next week I’ll have stuff in 3 of the local auctions, and it still won’t have made much of a dent.<\/p>\n
I didn’t get much else on my list done, so that all slips into today.\u00a0 If I’m away from the keyboard, I’m working my list.<\/p>\n
Interesting thought experiment, what would 2021 look like if there are aliens here?\u00a0 They have been here for a while, they haven’t dropped rocks on us, they are either in a lifeboat or have some business with us.\u00a0 What might it be?\u00a0 What would the confirmed announcement do to current social issues?\u00a0 I bet they’d get the blame for wuflu…\u00a0 What the heck would they want?\u00a0 Botanicals?\u00a0 Slaves?\u00a0 Food?\u00a0 Fuel?\u00a0 Colonization has always been about resource extraction for us, or later new markets, and cheap labor.\u00a0 What would prepping look like for benign aliens instead of zombies?<\/p>\n
My suspicion is that people would lose their shirt and we’d want to stay quietly at home for a while, just like a lot of other scenarios.\u00a0 Couldn’t hurt to be prepped up.<\/p>\n
Which raises another issue.\u00a0 If you didn’t have to worry about budget, beyond some reasonable amount (no buying Yard Moose Mountain) what would a serious prepper look like and be stacking?\u00a0 Vs an ‘ordinary’ prepper, or a beginning prepper?\u00a0 What do you start stacking when you realize that 2 weeks while waiting for FEMA and the outside aid to get there isn’t going to be enough?<\/p>\n
What makes one serious?\u00a0 Is it building a “Rebuild society” library?\u00a0 Or stocking fish meds?\u00a0 A suture kit?\u00a0 Injectable drugs?\u00a0 Having a stocked root cellar?\u00a0 Livestock? A garden measured in fractions of an acre?\u00a0 Bushcraft knowledge?\u00a0 Foraging for food?\u00a0 Hunting\/fishing\/trapping?\u00a0 Butchering your own food?\u00a0 A pantry measured in “person-years”?\u00a0 More than one gun safe?\u00a0 Off grid power?\u00a0 Off grid property?<\/p>\n
I consider myself pretty serious, but there are things in that list I don’t even have plans for.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ok that’s a lie.\u00a0 But there are things in that list I don’t have serious<\/em> plans for \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n Get to work.\u00a0 Stack something today.\u00a0 Even if it’s just knowledge.<\/p>\n nick <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cool and windy.\u00a0 Getting warmer later.\u00a0 Basically nice.<\/p>\n Wednesday was cool to start but got to 84F in the sun.\u00a0 Still pretty damp, there was water in the buckets from days ago, and condensation on the concrete.<\/p>\n I started my day with a fresh from the tree grapefruit.\u00a0 Ruby red and sweet.\u00a0\u00a0 Success at last!\u00a0 There are about a dozen more.\u00a0 There are a couple of oranges on the other tree that I’m giving a bit more time.\u00a0<\/p>\n