Survival Sunday is a personal note and a round-up of the week’s news and resources for folks who are interested in being prepared. This curated collection of information is only available to email and Patreon subscribers.
Have a great week
ahead!
Daisy
A PERSONAL NOTE
This week, I got some great news. After having exhausted all other options to heal the torn tendon in my ankle, I met with a surgeon. He has a very optimistic outlook about the outcome and so I've scheduled the operation on my ankle for mid-April. I'll let you all know the week before - I probably won't be online for a few days afterward.
It's a lengthy recovery, but afterward, I will very hopefully be able to walk again without excruciating pain.
It looks like I'll be able to attend Prepper Camp in September, and I have
a travel goal for the end of the year: visiting my oldest daughter in British Columbia. She lives in the middle of a forest with tons of glorious hiking, including some more gentle trails. I practically salivate over the gorgeous photos she's sent since being there. I so look forward to being out in the woods again one of these days.
The next few weeks will be spent making food that can easily be reheated, spring cleaning, decluttering, and making as much space as possible for getting around on a knee scooter. Part of me wishes it was happening tomorrow so I could just get it over with, but there is a lot to do to prepare.
I've worked hard to have a good attitude about all of this, but I can tell you one thing: I'll never take mobility for granted again.
Your comments on my story, The Widow in the Woods, are so wonderfully encouraging. I'm so glad you like Grace's story. I truly believe that you don't have to be a former military/ninja/MMA fighter to be a bad a** and I love having an older woman be the heroine. I've always believed that being underestimated can be a tremendous advantage. Anyway, thank you so very much for your support while writing this piece of fiction! Your words mean more to me than you can imagine.
We're facing threats to our food supply from many different angles: supply chain breakdowns, drought, food facilities being ravaged by fires, skyrocketing inflation, and outright shortages. No longer can we live in the comfort of unthreatened abundance. We're learning exactly how delicate the system really is.
Prepping and putting back supplies is incredibly important but what we're seeing now goes beyond that. You have to be able to produce and acquire more food. You have to be able to put back your harvests to eat during the winter. You have to be able to prepare items that once were as convenient as popping open a can or little plastic container.
You need a paperback copy of How to Feed Your Family No Matter What, our Organic Prepper anthology with ALL of our content about food.
You'll get more than 500 pages of content that are all about food when you can't just go to the store and buy whatever you want.
