Wow.....we're a bunch of old farts aren't we? Just turned 69 and DW is 71.....
We've been busy since moving to the mountains four years ago. I think most importantly we found a good Bible based church and have an AWESOME church family. We've also started a little "Homesteading/Prepping group within the church. We have people that have been here on the mountain growing vegetables, fruits, chickens, goats and more for over thirty or forty years.
LOTS OF LOCAL WISDOM there.
DW and I have been busy since arriving here on our tiny one acre homestead, repairing, refurbishing, restoring, reinforcing, remodeling and improving our cabin. Still a lot to do. Last season before SNOWMAGEDDEN we had a slot carved out of the little hillside across the creek behind us large enough for a greenhouse and raised bed garden.
It gets the best sun there. That area will be built and garden going in this spring. We have a dozen fruit trees, Pine Nut trees and brambles that we've grown from seedlings that will be going in as soon as we're done with the snow this spring.
We're expanding a storage closet in the basement. Putting in a root cellar, dry storage room and storeroom in the buildup below the basement. We've added overhead storage in the garage. Who builds a garage WITHOUT rafters?!?! We now have rafters and a solid floor up there. Cabinets and work tops are going into the garage and the shop below it.
One of our biggest challenges is going to be going through thirty plus years of STUFF and thinning out that pile of boxes and crates. Things we've been carrying around and storing for who knows how long. Out dated, redundant and really probably not useful anymore, or just plain not needed.
I have pages of lists of things yet to do. Binders being filled up with information and guidelines. It seems like every day my To-Do list adds something like: build a bridge across the creek, terrace the slope for more fruit trees and brambles, Aquaponics, whole house water filter system, Solar power & water heating, forest fire roof sprinkler system, rain water collection system and cistern, HAM radio shack, small blacksmith shop, fallout shelter, improve outdoor lighting and security system, chicken coup, goat barn, medicinal & culinary herb garden, expand edible indigenous plants through out our property (permaculture)....and so on, and so on, and so on.
I don't know if this coming event is
THE APOCALYPSE, or just another in a long line of human calamities that seems like an apocalypse. Either way we'll just keep on doing what we're doing, preparing for the worse and hoping for the best. IF this is the REAL END TIMES and we're called up to heaven leaving all this work behind, then maybe, hopefully, whom ever finds our place will thank
GOD for their temporary deliverance and turn to HIM for salvation in the final end times.
Apologies for the long rant.