Last week when my wife and I came back up to northeastern PA, there was some work to do around the property. Grass had not been cut in 3 to 4 weeks. Hickory nuts from the backyard Hickory trees, had fallen all over the rear deck. All the food in the refrigerator had gone bad.
So, I have to get rid of the bad food.
I'm not sure why ALMOST all of it went bad. I think when one thing goes, it provides the basis for everything else to go.
It seems to have begun with some of the leftovers we had in there. All containerized in Tupperware-type containers, but moldy it all got. The stink was awful.
Even the NEW, UNOPENED, containerized products like cream cheese all stunk. Out it all went.
The vegetables were so bad, some of them liquified! Red peppers, tomatoes, onions - all bad.
That meant a trip to the local supermarket to get new.
My wife had a headache and I got her some over the counter (OTC) pain reliver - ALEVE - and for some reason, I looked at the expiration date: October, 2024. Oh boy.
So I look at all the other OTC stuff: Tylenol, Advil, Bayer Aspirin (both the 500 mg extra strength, and my 81mg Baby-aspirin for my blood circulation), Benadryl, Claritin, Allegra, and Zyrtec for allergies - all expired. NyQuil, Mucinex for congestion, and Robitussin cough medicine - EXPIRED
I put it all on the supermarket list.
That got me to thinking I should check the expiration date on all my Vitamins. D3 and K2, expired. Zinc, Quercetin, Expired. Naturello Whole Food multi-vitamins, Expired. NAC, expired. Straus' Heart Drops, expired. Lauricidin, expired. Holy shit! All this stuff is waaaaay old. I mean, half a year or more beyond its expiration date!
I know that it is mostly safe to take such things even though they're expired, but they do lose POTENCY. If the SHTF, the last thing I want is OTC meds that don't work or Vitamins that are useless.
Then I go in the bread box. E V E R Y T H I N G is green molded. White bread, seedless Rye bread, Thomas' English Muffins, Martin's (Potato) Hamburger and Hot Dog Rolls, Tortillas for Tacos -- all bad. Had to throw it all out.
I got the OTC stuff and all the breads, and vegetables, at the supermarket. Some of the other stuff like Vitamins, I had to order for delivery.
Have you bought any of these things lately? EXPENSIVE ! ! ! ! !
My GMC Sierra has been up here for weeks so I went to start it. Dead batteries. Both of them. STONE dead; the gauges in the dashboard wouldn't even come on. So I had to get the long extension cords, the NOCO-10 "Genius" charger, and hook it up to charge. Took a full 24 hours to get the batteries to 100%.
This truck has two batteries and two alternators. It turned out I left the CB and scanner on. Some time during the three to four weeks I left the truck up here, they killed the batteries.
I go over to the snowplow truck to start it, very weak batteries - but it started. I ran it for about fifteen minutes and decided I would put the charger on its two batteries once the GMC was done.
Now I have to cut the grass. I go downstairs to get the riding lawnmower . . . . . . . dead battery! GEE WHIZ. I put an old charger on it -- one that has "Emergency start" -- and jump-started it with that. Cut the lower half acre down by the creek. Had to stop several times to clean out the ejection port which got clogged with the very long, very wet grass.
It's amazing. Lack of use and things just go bad.
On Saturday, I went to the bank to get some cash money after President Trump talked about a "1929 style Great Depression." I don't want to be caught without cash if, some day soon, they tell everyone "Tariffs were illegal and have to be refunded. Banks are closed until the country gets its finances in order. ATM machines are off. Credit cards are temporarily shut off, go home." I talked about this on my radio show last week, so I made sure that __ my __ family will have some "fall-back" cash.
As the man of the house, it's __ MY __ job to look out for my family. __ I __ have to be prepared. I am, to the best of my ability. Are you?
Around 5:00 yesterday afternoon, I gassed-up all the vehicles.
I figure with Trump having made this meeting date for him and Putin to talk in Alaska this Friday, whatever the "deep state" might do to screw it up and cause a war -- which I think they want to do -- will probably happen THIS WEEK. I expect some big false flag or other provocation.
If not that, then maybe the meeting itself goes bad and Trump goes ahead with Secondary Tariffs against Russia. I think war is the likely outcome. I'm not going to be one of the "masses who are asses" and get caught unprepared. Are you?
