Happy New Year !!!

Well girls, here we are at a new year. It's 2:30 a.m. here now, I fell asleep earlier and missed the magic moment but it seems to be 2009 none-the-less.
It was good to see my youngest daughter and grandson over Christmas, especially the doom shopping!
We went to the Save-A-Lot and bought a car load of storable food for her pantry so I would shut up about it. LOL
Sometimes it is good to nag.
She bought pasta and canned food, beans, rice, all kinds of dried side dishes like chicken and spanish rice and pasta sides. She got raisins and oatmeal and sugar and cooking oil! The amount was impressive and I feel a lot better about her being so far away knowing she at least has a start on her food stocks.
I gave her some vegetables I had dehydrated from the garden too.

Now, if I can just get my eldest daughter stocked up, I'll finally be a little happier.
I sure wish they both lived closer to us here so I could keep an eye on them and help them more.

Something interesting happened this afternoon, neighbor came to the door and I looked out and there were all these guys in black leather with hair wandering around in the front of the building. It was a band that wanted to know could they take pics in front of the mill and garden for their cd cover. I asked what kind of music, they said rock, I said cool.
Here's a youtube video of theirs I found. Music could be darker, but that's ok, dude has good hair. LOL

Surviving Salem



Happy New Year girls!!

this was posted by a forum member over at LATOC.

here's a link to the story that tells about it.

Link.

Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Vince Cable said: “This song is an eloquent statement as to just how the City really views the public.”

Dimitri Orlov interview 5 Stages of Collapse

Dimitri Orlov interview.

He's off on his assessment of our social conditions here. He thinks that troops should be used to provide security in urban areas.


Like Orlov says in this interview, you will need a few months supply of food to get through the troubled times and hopefully either get home here or find sources of food in your areas.
You will need to get,

dried beans, get some lentils as they are very good sprouted
rice
pasta
canned sauce
salt
pepper
dried fruits like apples or raisins
comfort foods like chocolate
pop corn
dried soup mixes
dried drink mix
flour
meal
grits
canned meats like little hams or canned chicken to add to soups

this is very basic and will be based of course on what you like to eat.
remember, you'll be living off this food quite possibly for several months to a year.
Look in your cupboards and see what you like to eat and go now, now, and buy some extra.
Do the best you can but you need to hurry.
Stop worrying about stupid Christmas presents and get yourselves secure.
Ok. That's it for right now.

love you girls,
mom

p.s. here's a little info I found on the benefits of sprouting food.
It's a great way to get live food into your system during dire times.

Top Ten Reasons To Sprout!

1. Only Pennies Per Serving
One tablespoon of seeds will fill a quart jar with several ounces of sprouts. A 4-ounce package will yield several pounds.

2. Simple and Easy
Take less than a minute per day to grow and prepare. They will grow nearly anywhere indoors, in any season. Sprouts require very little space and travel well. They are the ideal vegetables for campers, boaters and RV’ers. Complete, easy -to-follow instructions are provided in the sprouting kits, on the seed package labels and in the Handy Pantry’s book, Sprouting for Health in the new millennium.

3. Fresh and Ready Quickly
This “garden in your kitchen” grows very fast, in any kind of weather. No digging, planting, weeding, pests or chemicals involved. And there’s no long wait, as in seasonal outdoor gardens. Just 3 to 7 days to a bountiful, nutrition-packed harvest. When stored in your refrigerator, they will stay fresh for days- even weeks if rinsed properly.

4. Toxin-free Food
Sprouts are as sweet and pure as Nature intended food to be. The Handy Pantry supplies only natural, untreated seeds, with up to 99% rates of germination, grown especially for sprouting. Almost everything we carry is now organic.

5. Complete Foods
Sprouts are real health food. They are full of life- as you will see in how fast and luxuriously they grow. The right combination of sprouts contains everything needed for life and health. All their many nutritional elements are easily assimilated and readily available to your body. When home-grown, you know they are pure, and you can enjoy them at the peak of their perfection.

6. Tasty and Delicious
Bursting with flavor, you may be surprised how truly delectable they are. Enjoy them in salads, on sandwiches, stir-fried, steamed, or even baked in wholesome, home-made breads. You will find several recipe ideas in our book, Sprouting for Health in the 90’s.

7. Highly Nutritious
Several contain more protein than cooked meat-at a tiny fraction of the cost. The presence and balance of amino acids makes this protein more digestible. All sprouts are rich in vitamins, minerals, trace elements, enzymes, and fiber. When exposed to light, several become rich in chlorophyll. For specific nutritional qualities of each, see Sprouting for Health in the 90’s.

8. Low in Calories / Fat
One fully-packed cup of alfalfa sprouts contains only 16 calories. These are simple sugars for quick energy. Sprouts contain no cholesterol and provide several essential fatty acids. Sprouts are the perfect weight-loss and body-purification food for the 90’s.

9. Help Detox your Body
Chlorophyll helps cleanse and oxygenate the blood. Enzymes aid in the digestion and assimilation of nutrients, and contribute to the body’s life force. Fiber aids elimination and their lecithin helps the body get rid of cholesterol. A raw food diet is one of the best ways to detox your body.

10. Build your Immune System
Antioxidants protect you from radiation and toxic chemicals. They help the body to cleanse, detox, rebuild and heal itself. Sprouts are rich in antioxidants and help protect you from the health scourge of the 90’s— toxic build-up. Antioxidant enzymes are especially important, because they are essential for the proper function of the immune system. Sprouts are one of the best sources for these important nutrients.

IEA talks about Peak Oil!

George Manbiot interviews Fatih Birol of he IEA about Peak Oil.
This is a must see video. click here.

This was posted in the forum this morning and I wanted you girls to watch it. It is so important for you to be aware of what's going on concerning world energy supplies. You have no idea how this is going to change the world.

keep stocking food.

love,
mom

Winter, and The Great Depression 2, are closing in

Here's the scene from the front door a few days ago. Winter is closing in.





We've moved downstairs to try and stay warm now that cold weather is upon us.
It's so much easier to keep this one room warm and I've tried to fix it up better so it's not too bad at all. I feel like just drawing up and closing the door against the world right now anyway. The news is so troubling these days and I'm afraid that the reality is actually worse than the news lets on.
I hope you guys have been listening to me and have stocked up on food and bought seeds for next year. You need so much more but if you will do those things it will help you tremendously as things get worse in the first half of the coming year.
Try and put up a bit of cash as well and shoot for a minimum of 6 months supply of basic foods.
So many things are lining up in the background right now that will hit us later. Like the price of oil. It's cheap right now and will probably get cheaper but for God's sake don't count on it staying like this for long. Use this time and the money you are saving on gas to buy food and put up some cash.
The food is going to be the most important thing you can have, that and a safe water source.
I know you girls get tired of me harping on this but it would put my mind at ease if I knew that you had plenty of food to get by on.

Oh, you girls, if you are still using credit cards you really need to read this article. Casaubon's Book.

The credit card is the second key source of consumer liquidity, the first being jobs, the Oppenheimer & Co analyst noted.

“In other words, we expect available consumer liquidity in the form of credit-card lines to decline by 45 percent.”

Credit card companies are pulling over 2 trillion in credit. That means that most people will see the available credit on their cards decline drastically. Where one day you may have $2000 in credit, it could become $1200 or less. I don't know if you would be immediately billed for the balance over the new limit or not but it seems like you would be. Say for instance you have $1500 in charges and your new amount was lowered to $1200, would you have to pay the $300 right away?
This is one of those background things I mentioned before. Add to this the fact that now 10% of the population is on food stamps and one in 10 mortgages are delinquent and you begin to see how deep this disaster goes.