Hot, “but of course”… and humid, ‘cuz we “can’t have one without the other” in Houston.\u00a0 Temps are creeping up as summer continues.\u00a0 No end in sight, just gotta let the calendar run.<\/p>\n
No rain in sight either, despite being on a little spur of “thunderstorms and rain possible” on the national forecast.<\/p>\n
Did some things yesterday.\u00a0 Less than I’d hoped despite the early start to my day.\u00a0\u00a0 Today will have to be long and have a lot of driving as a consequence.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I may head to the BOL with a truck load late in the day.\u00a0 I’ll have to see how it shapes up.\u00a0 Not that I can afford to not do things around the house.\u00a0 I cut the grass yesterday and had to take half width passes or the mower would stall.\u00a0 The grass was LONG.\u00a0 There is a lot of stuff I’ve been putting off or haven’t gotten to and it’s all stacked up.<\/p>\n
We’ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n
Spent some time chatting with a friend.\u00a0 He’s really p!ssed about what’s going on in the country.\u00a0\u00a0 His family has some medical setbacks, and some financial hardships and neither is getting better as the economy craters.\u00a0 He’s not the only one I talked to this past week that lamented that his kids aren’t going to have a world like he did to grow up into.\u00a0\u00a0 If we get the depression that seems to be coming he’s absolutely right.\u00a0\u00a0 Growing up during that will mark our kids forever.\u00a0\u00a0 I had a great aunt who was young during the “Great Depression” of the 30s.\u00a0\u00a0 Even long afterwards, when she was well off, she’d STILL buy canned goods with no labels that had been marked down so she could save money, and get more food.<\/p>\n
If there’s anyone here who has never wondered what they were going to eat, not “which of these things should I eat” but “what can I find to eat”, I’ll tell you it changes you.\u00a0\u00a0 Doesn’t matter if that situation is long or short term, although how you change and the magnitude of the change are different, you CHANGE.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you’ve never had a meal ONLY because someone saw what was going on and gave you food to eat, or if you’ve never eaten an onion sandwich because that’s all that was in the house, or if you’ve never stolen food to eat, well, you are in for some new experiences coming soon to a place near you.\u00a0 UNLESS YOU PREP.<\/p>\n
I know it’s doom and gloom and it seems really hard to believe it could happen here.\u00a0\u00a0 It DID happen here.\u00a0\u00a0 We are NOT in a better place if it happens again.\u00a0\u00a0 We aren’t a cohesive nation with a common society, and a history of toughness and individuality, coupled with a strong civic sense of community and responsibility anymore.\u00a0 There are pockets of that, but even outside the cities, illegal immigration and drugs like meth and cannabis have splintered and destroyed communities. \u00a0 The people growing weed in the national forest in Oklahoma are not stand up citizens. \u00a0 The people cooking meth in no tell motels are not going to support\u00a0 their neighbors in a time of trial.\u00a0 That stash house on the county lane with 22 illegals locked inside isn’t going to lend a helping hand if you need one.<\/p>\n
Hard times are coming and if you don’t believe that and do something about it you will not get through it to the other side.\u00a0\u00a0 Whatever Russia and Ukraine would have exported to feed other countries isn’t there.\u00a0 It won’t be there NEXT year either, no matter what happens with Vlad and the Ukrainian money laundry this year.\u00a0\u00a0 Those crops are not in the ground.\u00a0\u00a0 The tractors are not in the equipment sheds.\u00a0 We are looking at crop issues ourselves, and our reserves have been tapped for the last few years due to floods and poor harvests and the wuflu nonsense.\u00a0 Those people in far off lands will DEMAND food.\u00a0\u00a0 Governments will provide it or fall.\u00a0\u00a0 Ours is likely to starve us so that they can play their games overseas, because that is what they do.\u00a0\u00a0 They send $40B to Ukraine, but cut benefits to seniors and vets (if not already then coming soon.)\u00a0 You can be sure that there will be USAID food “relief” provided for all the starving kids in africa, and we’ll have our own starving kids.<\/p>\n
Don’t put yourself and your loved ones in that position.\u00a0\u00a0 Stack some food now<\/em>.\u00a0 You can always eat it later if I’m wrong, you are just pulling the spending and the stacking forward in time.\u00a0\u00a0 And it’s still cheap compared to what it will cost when it goes pear shaped.\u00a0\u00a0 Remember when we were watching Venezuela?\u00a0 There was never one point where you could say “OK, that’s it, I’m outta here” based on one change or one condition.\u00a0\u00a0 People just woke up two years later and there was no food to eat, no meds at the hospital, and their savings were worthless.\u00a0 It happened incrementally.\u00a0\u00a0 WE ARE GOING THROUGH THE SAME THING.\u00a0\u00a0 Inflation is robbing us of purchasing power.\u00a0 Our money buys less every day.\u00a0\u00a0 If the deflation sets in, the prices (for some things) will crash, but there won’t be anything left to buy or anyone who can buy it.<\/p>\n The decline in the stock market in 2008 worked the same way.\u00a0\u00a0 Look at the charts, small ups and downs but the overall trend was down.<\/p>\n Our stores are short on goods.\u00a0 Our pharmacies are short on meds.\u00a0\u00a0 Civic services are deteriorating, or taking longer to get the same service as the past.\u00a0 Those are all signs it is already underway.\u00a0 Does anyone thing it will all be back to “normal” in 3 months?\u00a0 Or 6?\u00a0 If so, why?\u00a0 And if not, then DO SOMETHING.<\/p>\n Like stacking all the things…<\/p>\n nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hot, “but of course”… and humid, ‘cuz we “can’t have one without the other” in Houston.\u00a0 Temps are creeping up as summer continues.\u00a0 No end in sight, just gotta let the calendar run.<\/p>\n No rain in sight either, despite being on a little spur of “thunderstorms and rain possible” on the national forecast.<\/p>\n Did some things yesterday.\u00a0 Less than I’d hoped despite the early start to my day.\u00a0\u00a0 Today will have to be long and have a lot of driving as a consequence.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n