dystopia « Robin Writes

I’m back! Sorry about the lack of posts lately—we’re been swamped closing up our bookstore. Trust me, it’s MUCH harder to close a business than to open one!

So, prepping. It’s spring, and our garage is a wreck—more so with thousands of books and bookshelves added over the last two weekends—but I do have some exciting news:

I have shelf space! Ha.

Bet you all thought I was like super-organized and everything, but honestly, my supplies were stacked on the pingpong table. Boxed, categorized, yes; but not particularly easy to get to. So now I have a new project, to get those shelves straightened up!

Prepping is a multi-faceted proposition:

First, you have to have the necessary supplies; second, you have to know what to do with them; and third, you have to be able to access them. Skip any one of these, and you’re in hot water.

We all know about bugging-in versus bugging-out, right? Well, here’s the difference regarding storage:

If you stay, you’ll have to protect your supplies. If you don’t know where everything is, you could be missing something crucial and not even realize it until it became a dire necessity. If you leave, you need to be able to grab everything in a hurry—probably—and so you have to be able to find it and get to it. Fast.

Oh, and I’ll take a picture, but not today. I’m too embarrassed about the condition of the REST of the garage!

Okay, perhaps I’m jumping the gun a bit here, but in the next couple days it’s supposed to hit 50 degrees, and then—up to 60! CanNOT wait!

My garage is a mess—time to clean up and reorganize my supplies. And get rid of “stuff.”

My inside cabinets need to be checked against my list; I know for sure that I’ve used a few things over the last month or so. Yes, even since my last list!

And the woodlot? Yikes. Still have stuff to chip, not to mention chop.

The gardens are a wreck, but it’s almost time to fertilize and till. At least, whenever this damn snow finally melts which, according to the forecast (bwhahahahaha!) will be in just a few days. Right now, the only things poking out of the ground/snow are those little yellow flags for the water company while they work on the main here on our street.

I guess it’s SOME color . . .

And, too, we’re having to re-do the inside of the house, because we’re moving a lot of stuff back in from the bookstore. Sigh. It’s always something.

But I’m getting excited! It’ll be great to be doing something productive, instead of staring outside and the flippin’ snow. Like everyone else, I’m SO OVER winter!