TEOTWAWKI??? I call it  preparing for lifes curveballs

Okay so I admit it.  I'm a left leaning, Feminist, Democrat,science believing Liberal Prepper.  Ah,  I feel so out of the closet here. How could such a thing happen? Come TSHTF and TEOTWAWKI when the Zombies go after the Mormons, NRA's and Preppers to steal all the goodies. Hopefully my family and I will still be hanging around. Eating, reading, growing things and living to tell the tales to the next generation.

I grew up on a farm in Idaho.  My father had a day job so he could only work on the farm at night and on Saturdays. This left my sisters and I to help in the fields and tend to our very large garden. In the fall, we helped pick and can all the produce. We even picked the wild asparagus growing on the ditch-banks! That, along with the beef we raised, we had food to eat all year.  It was a great example of how to be self-reliant. I was also taught many other skills such as, sewing, baking bread and woodworking, which I have been grateful for as I have raised my children.

Sometimes it's lonely being a prepper.

Many years ago I knew a woman whom I thought was a little tad on the "crazy" side of preparedness.  I wish I had gleaned more and more information from her over the year. She has always been more than willing to share.  And has helped me a lot.

Then a few years ago I started getting a feeling that I need to really ramp up my efforts to be prepared. I still have a long way to go, but I'm also running out of space in my house.  So I'm getting there.