Hmm? Oh, not bad.

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Actually the day has been splendid.  I haven't been overly tired.  I haven't been overly active, either.  Still, I certainly have, and am, enjoying the day.  I have mostly been gaming.  Taking my time, figuring things out, then feasting on the combat, the little of it I get.  I have split some of my time investigating a few other topics of interest.  Coffee, tools for that, ideas regarding it, sources for green coffee beans is of interest.  A bit more research will go into canning, since the final device needed for that will be arriving shortly.  Uhm, wait, I actually have some more tools for that required, and of course bottles, lids, and gasket lids.  But I am very close.

As it stands, the next items I will be buying include all of the canning goods and two propane tanks (grill size).  Then I will begin planning for the grain mill.  The one I am leaning toward is a bit pricey, but all metal, with a very good yield per work ratio, and of course I will be buying the bike hook-up for it, since I happen to have a 'spare bike' that will fit.  After that I will begin saving for wallpapering the kitchen (unless I end up being able to get all the paper off even the drywall in the kitchen... unlikely as that is).  I can't remember what next, regarding prepping, other than keeping my short term stock in order, but I believe there is another large purchase out there.  But for the home, the next bit of saving and spending will be for installing a new floor in the kitchen, most likely to include sub-flooring.

I am sure watching me wrangle through prep and home improvements makes watching the grass grow seem exciting.  It amazes me how long it seems to take but then how, looking back, things, big and small, end up done, one way or another.  Oh, and I certainly fall into traps, where what I thought was needed was a quarter of what turns out to be required.  With some help, even these have been tended.  I still hope, next year, assuming a new water heater has been installed in my personal bathroom, to dig a 3'-4' trench from that bathroom to the back of my home, in order to connect the cold water to the water softener, so as to have softened water home-wide.  That I can work on in bits and pieces, at my pace, and know exactly what to do and how to do it.  I don't know if I can, but being back on medicine and with a cool home to hide within should I work a bit too much, might make the difference.  This summer was truly a disaster.  That heat though, it absolutely slaughtered my intent.  Not next year!  One thing at a time, even if I didn't see that coming, I have finally fixed it too.

I am anxious to get the grain mill.  But I need to finish purchasing production systems whole or I will end up with parts and pieces, and nothing complete.  I would rather have five complete survival systems than 10 systems with only half of the components.  And more, with a complete set, the devices can be tried (or fully put into production) so that those little things you might need or even want for the system, that might not be on the list, can be purchased before it is too late.  No, I'll stick with ordering full systems and then moving on.  Any additional needs, which are usually minor, can be gotten along the way, out of spending/pocket money.  Ugh, but... it is coming along nicely.

Just think, four years ago or so I was living in a nasty city, in a duplex rental, surrounding by tribal criminals and a police system that worked on quota arrests so didn't bother with petty stuff like trespassing, drug selling, and such.  I had no food stored.  I had a legal system that favored the criminal right through the courts, and a state that handed criminals their rights back right after parole (save gun ownership, though merely as a technicality).  Now I have a home, with enough room for a massive garden, chickens, and larger livestock.  I have a year of long term food stuffs, plus two to three months or more of mid-term food stuffs.  I have hand and power tools, some building and repair supplies, and places to use those.  I have neighbors who can help, trade, and work with.  I have a legal system that is on the side of the right.  I have money in the bank, am learning home care and updating, and... enjoy my life every single day without worrying about having to kill in self defense and then be forced to defend my freedoms from a "liberal" judiciary.  Oh, and I see mountains every single day.  Plus, I am not done.  A small garden, heirloom with seed collection, this year.  A freezer for meats, with some already put up and a hog in the works, a canner for non-freezer meats and other things in time all in the works, and... more to come.  All on my own, on my own nickle, and much of it with my own sweat.  More to come, folks.  Enjoy the show.  (That'll be one dollar, thank you, thank you.  Too slow?  Then... pay me three dollars, that'll put a fire in my belly!)

Later.