Every time I think of the harvest moon I want to sing "Shine on Harvest Moon"! I looked out my bedroom window at about 8:30 and saw it in the east, and checked it out a few more times before I went to bed. At one point I woke up to go to the bathroom and when I got back into bed I saw the moon cast its beautiful light right in a silhouette where I sleep! There is a magical feeling about the moon casting its shine directly on you.
I'm feeling a little better and certainly more awake than I was a few days ago. I don't know why but I had two consecutive days where I kept going back to bed and never did get dressed all day long. I've changed my diet somewhat and now I have to go back and figure out what I might need to resume eating. Sometimes it seems like just too much trouble.
The water was shut off in our entire mobile home park yesterday, from about 2pm to 10 or 10:30. I have plenty of water on hand so didn't worry about running out of drinking water, but hate to use my drinking water for handwashing! When it finally came back on it sputtered and splashed all over, and was an ugly rusty brown color. I let the taps run for a while and the water finally became a decent color. It is still sputtering some of the time when a tap is turned on.
Situations like that make me think of all the problems experienced in the past month or two of people who have been hit by hurricanes and were without power. Puerto Rico is an especially sad story as they say it could take months to get power up and running in some places. For most of my life I have tried to be prepared with extra supplies on hand, always thinking of shortages that an emergency could bring. Of course in the case of the hurricane in Puerto Rico, I doubt that any kind of preparation would have helped most people.
Venezuela is another sad story which we aren't hearing anything about lately - the media likes to keep moving on to something new for a day or two, and then they have to find another "breaking news story".
I wish everyone a good weekend.
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Air builds up in the lines and it takes awhile to get it all out so it will sputter for awhile. Hope you have water in your storage. Really important. So many sad stores around the world.
ReplyDeleteFortunately I have a week or more supply of pure water on hand, plus several thermos bottles of chilled water in the fridge, etc. It's all drinking and cooking water to me so as I mentioned I don't like to use it for handwashing. I do have wet wipes for my hands, but will need to replenish my supply soon.
DeleteI tell my kids, I was raised by parents who lived through the great depression, and I learned a lot of lessons from them. They got lax as life improved after WW-II, but I've always liked to be prepared with extra items on hand - food, water, etc.
I'm glad to hear you are feeling better and back to eating what agrees with you.
DeleteEating out is a minefield. I do better sticking with organic these days even though it costs more.
Wasn't the full moon beautiful!!
I eat almost exclusively organic, but recent trips to the grocery have been an eye opener due to the cost of food.
DeleteThe full moon was very beautiful and it was hard to take my eyes off it and go to bed last night.
Not only is the food high, but some of it is becoming scarce. My food co-op is "out short term" on many things. Bummer.
ReplyDeleteFrom the erratic weather that is being forecast for the next few years, I think food will become more scarce and more expensive when you can find it. I stock up when I can, but I wish I had the energy to grow some of my own food. Too old for that now but one of my daughters-in-law is a real champ at it.
DeleteI am glad to hear you are feeling better.
ReplyDeleteEver since pre-preparations for Y2K I began to seriously think about and actually do something about getting ready to bug out. This year I began an experiment on surviving just on my primative rain catchment because some day I hope to be able to move to the desert and hopefully be able to survive.
I personally think that "they" whomever "they" might be do not want Puerto Rico to overcome their tragedy, on the contrary they want Puerto Ricans to move to the mainland and evacuate the island so the government does not have to deal with reconstruction or their debt...again this is only my personal opinion.
Venezuela has disappeared from all networks including Hispanic ones because of all the events in the past six weeks. This is another hot topic that has taken a back seat.
There are so many disasters waiting to happen, it makes sense to be as prepared as possible to survive and thrive.
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