Cool and windy. Getting warmer later. Basically nice.
Wednesday was cool to start but got to 84F in the sun. Still pretty damp, there was water in the buckets from days ago, and condensation on the concrete.
I started my day with a fresh from the tree grapefruit. Ruby red and sweet. Success at last! There are about a dozen more. There are a couple of oranges on the other tree that I’m giving a bit more time. The lemons are ready, but I leave them in place as long as I can. Broccoli is doing ok, and I might harvest some spears in a couple of days.
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. They stood me up on meeting to get my check and do my dropoff so I’ll have to reschedule. Next week I’ll have stuff in 3 of the local auctions, and it still won’t have made much of a dent.
I didn’t get much else on my list done, so that all slips into today. If I’m away from the keyboard, I’m working my list.
Interesting thought experiment, what would 2021 look like if there are aliens here? 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. What might it be? What would the confirmed announcement do to current social issues? I bet they’d get the blame for wuflu… What the heck would they want? Botanicals? Slaves? Food? Fuel? Colonization has always been about resource extraction for us, or later new markets, and cheap labor. What would prepping look like for benign aliens instead of zombies?
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. Couldn’t hurt to be prepped up.
Which raises another issue. 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? Vs an ‘ordinary’ prepper, or a beginning prepper? 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?
What makes one serious? Is it building a “Rebuild society” library? Or stocking fish meds? A suture kit? Injectable drugs? Having a stocked root cellar? Livestock? A garden measured in fractions of an acre? Bushcraft knowledge? Foraging for food? Hunting/fishing/trapping? Butchering your own food? A pantry measured in “person-years”? More than one gun safe? Off grid power? Off grid property?
I consider myself pretty serious, but there are things in that list I don’t even have plans for. Ok that’s a lie. But there are things in that list I don’t have serious plans for 😉
Get to work. Stack something today. Even if it’s just knowledge.
nick