Sunny and cool, warming later. I hope. That describes Sunday pretty well, with highs in the 70s. To bad I was inside all day.
I did get a bunch done. Had the water off for 8 hours. Never could have done that if the kids were here. I summarized what I got done in comments yesterday. Despite the late start, and late finish, I feel good about it.
Today should get me that much further along, and maybe I’ll have time to do some cleanup so the bride doesn’t walk into a mess with her folks next weekend. Working kitchen and bath, oh my. I’ll give it the old school try…
The sense of urgency hasn’t left me. I noticed that I haven’t been posting much in the way of prepping. I think it’s because we’ve been living in the slow motion disaster that was chinkyflu for the last (almost) 3 years. We were prepping for that, and prepping for it to get worse. Then we got into a sort of holding pattern where we were just glad it was getting better. With no clear end, it wasn’t like a storm that passed and now we can cleanly move on. So it drags.
Meanwhile, I’ve been focused on my personal life, getting the BOL up to speed mainly. This year flew by. It’s pretty clear though that we are in an economic downturn (at best) or the beginning stages of an economic collapse, (bad), or the early part of a world changing war (worst). There is plenty of prepping still to be done for any of those scenarios or all of them. It just looks different than prepping for a specific event.
Conserve your money and resources. Accumulate everything you think might be in short supply, including friends. Plan for a long period of badness, with varying intensity. Think about WWII on the homefront, the Great Depression, the Carter malaise… all those things were survivable, and most people did. Some didn’t. Some people did very well. Some lives were changed completely. The WORLD changed, and it will again.
Will some new place become ascendant as the US did after WWII? We survived with our manufacturing intact, greatly expanded in fact. And we absolutely killed it in a time when making stuff was the basis of prosperity. I don’t know what comes next, but I’m pretty sure it will be different, and very few people will see it coming.
Plan to get through what is coming. Vow to not just survive, but to THRIVE in what comes next. To my mind, that’s a lot more inspiring than just enduring. But. If all you can do is endure, then do that. Do it better than most, and make it through. That is key. Be here for the boom that follows.
Stacks will help.
nick