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Like most perppers and survivalist types, we want to make the move from our city place, to a nice patch of land in the country to start our own homestead. In getting ready for this move, we are learning country skills as we go, and are doing the ususal search of country property for "OUR PLACE". We know that nothing is going to happen overnight, and that there will be certain concessions and trade-offs that will have to be made for us to make this move. In the meantime we keep working towards that goal one step at a time. We are now committed to this move. No matter what.
With this move comes a great deal of questoins and thoughts. Some of these I knew were coming, but there will always be some that you never thought of or expected. It's all part of the learning curve from city life to country life. Some people adjust to it rather easily, others not so much, but they do adjust over time, and some run back screaming to their old life just as fast as they possibly can. I group these people into a "lot" that I term.......the yuppies that are going through Starbucks Withdrawl. I'm not one of these, and neither is my wife. Both our families originated in the country, but migrated to the cities for the jobs. If we could leave tomorrow, we would be out the door so fast here, and would never even think of looking back, but we have a lot of work to do to get to that point. We are committed to moving to the country. No matter what.
I keep a journal. It's a preppers journal that I started back in the late summer of 2008. I use it to see where I've been in the path to preparedness, and to keep me focused on where I want to go to along that path since there are many "side paths" along the way. They all lead to some state of preparedness, and it is along these many paths that people go different directions in the preparedness world. No two are the same, and each individual that chooses the same path as another person can still get completely different results, even though they made the same choice that someone else chose. Just recently I started up a blog at the urging of my wife to also do pretty much the same thing as keeping my journal, but by writhing down in the blog what we are doing each week towards our goal of a place in the country to do a proper homestead means that we are not keeping it to ourselves. We are sharing our journey with others, and we are sharing our triumphs and our mistakes and losses. This way we help others by example, even though they may get different results than ours. It helps us by puting down in print our work so that like my journal, we can see where we've been, and see from a sort of "distance", where we want to go as we go forward. By the way, if you are interested in checking out my blog, you can find it at www.onceuponahomestead.com
It is pretty simplistic in it's form right now, because I'm just getting it started and running. I'm using my default page right now, and I'm just starting to learn how to use the tools provided me with my blog's dashboard, but hope to have a different look to the sit as soon as I work through some technical stuff on a theme page I have chosen for the look of my site. In the grand scheme of things related to our desire to move to a place in the country, this is just one more tool in our toolbox. We are committed to moving to the country. No matter what.
There are so many things that one has to learn to make that move. And there are so many things that one has to learn to make the transition as well. As I mentioned at the begining of this thread, we are learning country skills as we go along here in the city, and it will be a seamless transition when we move since we are starting them here. Food storage is one of the skills, and we're going the route of most prepper and survivalists, and learning as many food preservation skills as we go. Recently I noticed that our local Wally World has stocked two devices in their small appliance department that I thought would be a nice addition to our preservation toolbox. The first is a Excaliber dehydrator. It is the smaller one that they offer, but it would be nice to have it to go along with the Ronco dehydrator I have right now. At $99, it is within our budget, and I plan on getting one soon with some of the FRN's that I get from recycling scrap metal. The other device is the NuWave pressure cooker that you see advertised on TV these days. I thought that it would be a nice addition to the hot water bath, and pressure canners we have now since we're still here in the city. Of course the ones we have now will work in a grid down situation no matter what (as long as we have fuel and a heat source), but I still think it would be a nice addition to what we already have, and like the dehydrator, it is under $100, and well within purchasing with some of my recycle $$$. We are learning as much as we can, and it is all part of the ways of preparedness. We are committed to moving to the country. No matter what.
We want this life. We desire this life. We are working towards this life. Like all work, sometimes it's hard. We will do what we can, and leave the rest to God. It's all we can do really. I think of what my wife's grandmother said along this line back years ago when she was still alive. "All you can do, is all you can do, and that's all you can do".
We're doing what we can. We see what is going on around us locally, and we want to move so bad we can taste it. We see what is going on around us on the national level, and we long to get away from here in the city to a place in the country so bad. We see things at the world level, and we pray that God will help us find our place in the country, so that we can have more room to build a proper homestead. The city is fine for some, and those that want that kind of life, but we feel the pull of the country, and the desire for the country way of life every day. So we're going to do what we can to make it happen. We're commited to moving to the country. No matter what.
With this move comes a great deal of questoins and thoughts. Some of these I knew were coming, but there will always be some that you never thought of or expected. It's all part of the learning curve from city life to country life. Some people adjust to it rather easily, others not so much, but they do adjust over time, and some run back screaming to their old life just as fast as they possibly can. I group these people into a "lot" that I term.......the yuppies that are going through Starbucks Withdrawl. I'm not one of these, and neither is my wife. Both our families originated in the country, but migrated to the cities for the jobs. If we could leave tomorrow, we would be out the door so fast here, and would never even think of looking back, but we have a lot of work to do to get to that point. We are committed to moving to the country. No matter what.
I keep a journal. It's a preppers journal that I started back in the late summer of 2008. I use it to see where I've been in the path to preparedness, and to keep me focused on where I want to go to along that path since there are many "side paths" along the way. They all lead to some state of preparedness, and it is along these many paths that people go different directions in the preparedness world. No two are the same, and each individual that chooses the same path as another person can still get completely different results, even though they made the same choice that someone else chose. Just recently I started up a blog at the urging of my wife to also do pretty much the same thing as keeping my journal, but by writhing down in the blog what we are doing each week towards our goal of a place in the country to do a proper homestead means that we are not keeping it to ourselves. We are sharing our journey with others, and we are sharing our triumphs and our mistakes and losses. This way we help others by example, even though they may get different results than ours. It helps us by puting down in print our work so that like my journal, we can see where we've been, and see from a sort of "distance", where we want to go as we go forward. By the way, if you are interested in checking out my blog, you can find it at www.onceuponahomestead.com
It is pretty simplistic in it's form right now, because I'm just getting it started and running. I'm using my default page right now, and I'm just starting to learn how to use the tools provided me with my blog's dashboard, but hope to have a different look to the sit as soon as I work through some technical stuff on a theme page I have chosen for the look of my site. In the grand scheme of things related to our desire to move to a place in the country, this is just one more tool in our toolbox. We are committed to moving to the country. No matter what.
There are so many things that one has to learn to make that move. And there are so many things that one has to learn to make the transition as well. As I mentioned at the begining of this thread, we are learning country skills as we go along here in the city, and it will be a seamless transition when we move since we are starting them here. Food storage is one of the skills, and we're going the route of most prepper and survivalists, and learning as many food preservation skills as we go. Recently I noticed that our local Wally World has stocked two devices in their small appliance department that I thought would be a nice addition to our preservation toolbox. The first is a Excaliber dehydrator. It is the smaller one that they offer, but it would be nice to have it to go along with the Ronco dehydrator I have right now. At $99, it is within our budget, and I plan on getting one soon with some of the FRN's that I get from recycling scrap metal. The other device is the NuWave pressure cooker that you see advertised on TV these days. I thought that it would be a nice addition to the hot water bath, and pressure canners we have now since we're still here in the city. Of course the ones we have now will work in a grid down situation no matter what (as long as we have fuel and a heat source), but I still think it would be a nice addition to what we already have, and like the dehydrator, it is under $100, and well within purchasing with some of my recycle $$$. We are learning as much as we can, and it is all part of the ways of preparedness. We are committed to moving to the country. No matter what.
We want this life. We desire this life. We are working towards this life. Like all work, sometimes it's hard. We will do what we can, and leave the rest to God. It's all we can do really. I think of what my wife's grandmother said along this line back years ago when she was still alive. "All you can do, is all you can do, and that's all you can do".
We're doing what we can. We see what is going on around us locally, and we want to move so bad we can taste it. We see what is going on around us on the national level, and we long to get away from here in the city to a place in the country so bad. We see things at the world level, and we pray that God will help us find our place in the country, so that we can have more room to build a proper homestead. The city is fine for some, and those that want that kind of life, but we feel the pull of the country, and the desire for the country way of life every day. So we're going to do what we can to make it happen. We're commited to moving to the country. No matter what.
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