Continuing Lessons

Well, we've kept at it.  Small victories :)  The smell of freshly baked bread is a long lost friend.  I think heaven smells a little like that.  So I've been learning a few things that I could just learn by taking inventory, but these lessons certainly mean more when I see how their necessity could become reality in a short time! For instance, butter, cheese, and eggs - three things of which I do not have nearly enough stored away right now.  These will become my next priority in food storage.

I haven't broken into the dried beans and such.  I guess I feel like I could do those if I had to, so I don't really see the need to break into them right now.  As far as incorporating them into our diet, they're already there, just wet pack from the stores and I'm okay with that.

There are a bunch of things that I already new logically but are being reinforced by this little experiment.  I can see that I need to take gardening more seriously and learn how to can.  I can also see how valuable it would be over time to learn how to keep chickens and rabbits and maybe even some cows...  Not something I have seriously thought about for my life, but I could get over that really quickly now that the value of those things are becoming more clear.

We have started recycling more, too, which I mentioned in my initial post about this experiment (I'm wearing out that word...).