lapsus_deus (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} lapsus_deus) wrote,@ 2005-02-25 06:23:00 |
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fresh foods
I pulled out the electric pump for the well and put a can with a weight in the bottom on the end of a string and filled the buckets that way. I don't want to waste any gasoline I don't have to. I've even started using candles in the shelter instead of the lamps or flashlights.
Marci helped me fill the buckets and then went up to get the eggs, feed the chickens, and make breakfast while I carried the buckets up to water the plants.
I saw birds flying over head today. They are the first wild animals I've seen since we took shelter.
I went to the farm on the outskirts of town and put a cow that Abel, the farmer, killed on top of the car and drove it back to a wide space of asphalt where we put strips of finely cut beef onto a chicken-wire rack we made so they would dry into jerky. There is an unbelievable amount of meat in one single cow.
Just after sundown we cooked up 3 huge, fresh steaks and ate like royalty. I drove back and brought in the jerky and bagged it up. This was the first day since the bombs fell that I did not eat an MRE. It was the first day I felt there was some hope. Tomorrow I give Abel half the jerky and get to keep half myself for helping make the jerky and for disposing of the cow carcass.
I pulled out the electric pump for the well and put a can with a weight in the bottom on the end of a string and filled the buckets that way. I don't want to waste any gasoline I don't have to. I've even started using candles in the shelter instead of the lamps or flashlights.
Marci helped me fill the buckets and then went up to get the eggs, feed the chickens, and make breakfast while I carried the buckets up to water the plants.
I saw birds flying over head today. They are the first wild animals I've seen since we took shelter.
I went to the farm on the outskirts of town and put a cow that Abel, the farmer, killed on top of the car and drove it back to a wide space of asphalt where we put strips of finely cut beef onto a chicken-wire rack we made so they would dry into jerky. There is an unbelievable amount of meat in one single cow.
Just after sundown we cooked up 3 huge, fresh steaks and ate like royalty. I drove back and brought in the jerky and bagged it up. This was the first day since the bombs fell that I did not eat an MRE. It was the first day I felt there was some hope. Tomorrow I give Abel half the jerky and get to keep half myself for helping make the jerky and for disposing of the cow carcass.
