Would Anything Stop You?

[Mortblanc]

I was a prepper before there was such a term as "prepping".

Some of my earliest memories are of my mother caning food for the winter.

One of my first DIY projects at age 12 was the construction of shelves around our new garage for storage of canned fruits and veggies.

Summers during the 1950s-1970s were a flow of crops and harvest coming through the kitchen and being canned, pickled or preserved in some way.

Not talking a couple of bottles either. Mom put up 200 quarts of tomatoes and another 200 quarts of tomato puree, 200-300 quarts of green beans, limas and corn, and the jams and jellies I will never forget! Half a beef and a whole hog in the deep freeze every fall. A second freezer was filled with fruits and frozen veggies.

I started keeping stores as soon as I left home due to a timely tornado that isolated my location for over a week. I equipped for any similar disaster and returned to the storage of food at that time and have been "prepping" ever since.

I suspect that the biggest problem they will have with me when they roll my wheelchair into the old folks home will be constantly finding cans of soup in my sock drawer.