Apocalyptic Homesteading (Day 1276)

Hello Everyone!

Another rainy day, Packing down stuff in the cabin, Charging all the two way radios, Missing my cluttered desk & So many backup plans!

Alright, I am beginning my writing routine thirty minutes early this evening... which basically means that I am right on time according to my old timing before I moved it back by thirty minutes. I guess that I have still not gotten all that accustomed to beginning so late... because each day I still feel a bit concerned that I am running behind schedule.

I was up pretty late again last night... but somehow managed to drift off to sleep around the same time that I did the night before. It is really surprising that I was able to fall asleep when I did given that I had spent the entire day cooped up indoors... and had not gotten much physical activity to wear me out.

Per usual I awoke early in the day and dove straight into my Hive engagement routine... but overall I did not spend all that much time on it. I really should try to start reading more folks stuff... but for the most part I have just been scanning for a few of my favorite creators... and if I do not see anything by them I tend to lose interest.

Anyways, it was raining again today so I decided to finally begin packing down as much stuff as I can inside the cabin. Since I had an empty cooler (that had previously held a bunch of electronics stuff that I scrapped) I decided to use it to pack all my medical and first aid stuff for me and the dogs into.

The reason that I chose the cooler to put all that stuff into is because I wanted something that could keep the bugs out, would seal up tightly... and of course be waterproof since I will be living in a tent again. I also took great care to put everything that I could that might leak into its own seal-able bag... so that in case there is any kind of leak it will not make a mess of things.

My next project was way more involving because it required going through everything on my desk and (shudder) cleaning it all up, packing what I could away... and grouping the remainder of it together in an organized manner. As a side note here... I really dislike having a 'clean desk' and prefer it to be cluttered... but not in a way that I cannot find what I am looking for!

Since all my two-way radios (along with their chargers) were on my desk I went ahead and got them all cleaned up... and put a good charge on them in case we wind up needing them during the move. I even went ahead and devoted a (I dunno the technical name for it) 'small hard cased piece of luggage' to store it all in including the shoulder mics and earpieces.

There were a bunch of other things that I packed down today as well... and I even went through several boxes that I had haphazardly packed well over a year ago. As far as that stuff goes... I was happy to find that I could consolidate much of it down to just a few boxes... and throw the rest of it away because it was just smaller empty boxes... or leftover packaging from stuff that I had bought online.

Overall it was a rather productive day and I even heard back from that fella that was going to look at maybe putting in a driveway for me. Early this morning I had sent him a text... and heard back from him later that (as I had suspected) with all the severe weather in that region... he had gotten swamped with work and had not been able to make it out there.

I still have a lot of misgivings about being able to get the driveway in... and being able to get a shed delivered on time (if I can find one) but at this point I dunno what else to do except to focus on having a solid backup plan... or multiple backup plans. Recently, I keep contemplating just getting one of those chintzy all metal sheds dropped off by the building supply company... and putting it together myself in the first few days that I am there.

Well, I think that is all the words that I have in me for this entry. I hope that everyone is doing well and all that feel good jazz. Ta ta for now.