Homemade butter
Okay, so it looks a little obscene.
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Homemade butter
Okay, so it looks a little obscene.
It's just that my concept of an apocalyptic time includes the probability of nuclear destruction, which I assume removes everything described above; either that or the government confiscating everything citizens have accumulated.I have a story. Let me tell you about my 90-some-year-old aunt.
She's not a "prepper." She is a child of the Depression and sharecropping. She didn't have electricity. She had gas lamps. She didn't have indoor plumbing. She had an outhouse and a pump from a well. She didn't have gas lines. She had a potbellied stove. She didn't have internal combustion. She took the horse-drawn cart to town every weekend, and the plow was pulled by a mule.
She now has email. I sometimes wonder if we appreciate how much the world has changed in one lifetime.
Anyway, she has a garden - we'd call it a small farm. I have no doubt whatsoever that she could raise chicken and pigs and slaughter them, could take water out of a well or a creek, could collect her own food, make her own soap, whatever. The last time we visited her and questioned her earnestly about her background, she brought out a hand-turned butter churn. Yeah, she's ready without knowing it. If the Apocalypse happened tomorrow, this 90-some-year-old-lady would outlast us all.
It's just that my concept of an apocalyptic time includes the probability of nuclear destruction, which I assume removes everything described above; either that or the government confiscating everything citizens have accumulated.
I think the government will have confiscated everything first.Well, aren't you a little ray of sunshine? HAHAHAHA!
I prefer to think that in a nuclear attack the gov't is either dead or non functional. We're on our own, sonny
I'll bet she would.I have a story. Let me tell you about my 90-some-year-old aunt.
She's not a "prepper." She is a child of the Depression and sharecropping. She didn't have electricity. She had gas lamps. She didn't have indoor plumbing. She had an outhouse and a pump from a well. She didn't have gas lines. She had a potbellied stove. She didn't have internal combustion. She took the horse-drawn cart to town every weekend, and the plow was pulled by a mule.
She now has email. I sometimes wonder if we appreciate how much the world has changed in one lifetime.
Anyway, she has a garden - we'd call it a small farm. I have no doubt whatsoever that she could raise chicken and pigs and slaughter them, could take water out of a well or a creek, could collect her own food, make her own soap, whatever. The last time we visited her and questioned her earnestly about her background, she brought out a hand-turned butter churn. Yeah, she's ready without knowing it. If the Apocalypse happened tomorrow, this 90-some-year-old-lady would outlast us all.
This is the stuff my hubby (the chef) uses in his chicken stew, soup, cream sauces etc. - yikes! (may as well just apply it directly to my butt!) IIHomemade butter
My grandmother on my Dad's side was just like Grandpa's 90 something aunt. - They did everything from scratch - hunted, fished, made their own clothes etc. - when you lived in Quebec in the Depression era you had to make do.I'll bet she would.
We, as a society, are raised to pay for everything we need. We could all take a chapter out of her book and learn to do more for ourselves. We (most of us) have yards and the means to provide a lot more for ourselves than we've been taught to. She's an inspiration.
Like in "Blast from the Past"?Lol my man says his next project is going to be to build an underground shelter for us.
Like in "Blast from the Past"?
If you ever get a chance to see it, you should watch this movie. Back in the 60s, once the idea of a nuclear bomb being dropped was circulated, there were lots of people trying to build bomb shelters or fall out shelters just in case this should happen.Lol idk i have not seen that but i think he got the idea from a book we have.
If you ever get a chance to see it, you should watch this movie. Back in the 60s, once the idea of a nuclear bomb being dropped was circulated, there were lots of people trying to build bomb shelters or fall out shelters just in case this should happen.
Here is the trailer - it is actually more of a romantic comedy (and it is from 1999) but I think you would probably enjoy it anyway!
What about Velveeta?I'm stocked up on beer..........and a few crackers.........course.