Comments on: How Food Secure Are You?

By: NM

NM — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:34:40 +0000

Cat carrier. Extra dog leashes, tags and vet records. Litter box?! Dog and cat food. More than a can of soup. The matches that are somewhere else in the house, but I can’t think where right at the moment. … And then you should be able to pick this conglomeration up and carry it. While carrying the cat carrier and not tripping over the dogs winding said leashes around your legs.
Ack. MEA, is there a prize somewhere of someone to carry the baggage?

By: Red Emma

Red Emma — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:23:54 +0000

“Grab and go” bags should include a cat carrier, if you live with cats.

By: MEA

MEA — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:34:15 +0000

Oh, just apply to Sharon, aka “the goat sex woman.”

By: curiousalexa

curiousalexa — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:46:31 +0000

MEA, that’s awesome! Now how does one collect their prize? I’d happily accept one from the shovel serf category (not wanting to feed/care for draft horses).

By: MEA

MEA — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:23:19 +0000

Stephen B

Becuase it is always so much easier to solve other people’s problems –

have you considered that when TSHTF, making the school your residence — going to them rather than having them come to you. No idea if this is possible, no idea if you want to leave your home and trek 30 mins each way to your land, but as I said, other people’s problems always look so easy.

MEA, the bossy big sister.

By: MEA

MEA — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:55:51 +0000

Here comes the scoring. This is really a find your perfect PO mate quiz. (Just helping the renta-yenta)

0-10 You are PO aware, but need to work on your skills if you want to attract anything other than a nerd with excellent planning and orgainizing skills and a secret believe the TEOTWAWKI will turn him into an instant babe/dude magnet or her into a chick/dude magnet.

11-19 You’ve made a good start. You get the mate with the full set of garden tools and the back and knees to be a perfect shovel surf.

20-29 With your skill set and stash of rice, bean and knitting wool, you’ll be read when Mr. or Ms. drive up with a team of draft horses and a wagonful of seed stock.

30-35 You superior skill, knowhow and stores along with your teaching skills make you welcome on any doomstead where you are immediately chosen as the mate of the alpha male or female.

36 You win the jackpot. For those attracted to males — he’s tall, he’s he’s good looking, he has excellent teeth, which will pass down both the male and female lines! He wears a kilt. He can plough a furrow while shoeing a horse, delivering goats, butchering a hog, shearing a sheep and putting up a full seaon of produce.

For those attracted to women, she’s all of the above, but wears a string bikni which looks stunning with her work boots.

MEA

By: Someone You Know

Someone You Know — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:47:32 +0000

Sharon,

Thanks, again.

You are a true survivalist! Good Luck

By: Ann

Ann — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:56:32 +0000

Good Gawd! I almost pass. Except I can’t evacuate because I have animals. I will stay with them. And all my stored food, etc, is in this house. What is death, anyway, but the inevitable.

Excellent list.

As we move from words to action, Sharon, you [Rob Hopkins, also, perhaps others] bridge the gap. You are both words and action. Re: Eric Hoffer, _The true Believer – [something about mass movements]_: “first come the word people, then the action people.”. That’s a condensation/paraphrase from near the end of the book. Read it yourself, if not for the flawless logic, for the gorgeous language. Assuming, of course, you, a PhD in English, don’t mind reading the poetic prose of a school dropout longshoreman. His book is a classic. Here we are. You are front and center for the moment. Find out why.

By: Mark N

Mark N — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:30:30 +0000

Killjoy. Half the fun of a crisis is running around in circles and screaming what are we gonna DO!?!?

By: Sharon

Sharon — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:06:31 +0000

Sqrrl – Fire?

Sharon