Because so much has changed in my life

over the past month, I am still in the regrouping process.  The good news is I now have food stamps and medical insurance for my family to go along with my unemployment, but that does not go too far when you live in an RV and are feeding three people for $264 each month. Well at least for this month, next month is a different story.  My husband and I are having a cooking competition.  We are buying a big bag of potatoes and a big bag of rice, ( 50 pounds each) and each taking $100 to feed the family for 15 days.  I will report back on how that goes.  🙂

The chickens are all gone and so are the cats and turtles.  All we have left are the two dogs, which when you live on the streets you really need for protection.  Eventually I am sure we will get a gun somewhere but right now this will not be the case.

We must go every other day to get water for drinking and water for cooking and dishes since we have not found a place to fill our water tank.  We use the gallon jugs and the coin operated machines in front of the grocery store.  For bathing we go to the gym to work out and shower.

This has become and adventure.  We are moving to our empty 20 acres in June, just as soon as school lets out.  Until then we are living in our 25 year old Fleetwood Bounder.  We recently purchased it at an auction using our tax refund.  We will be losing our cars by the end of January and will most likely switch to bicycles, unless I can find something at the auction.

I was so depressed for a while, however I am feeling better and know that my family can make this work.  Will post soon, in the meantime, watch out for zombies..they are closer than you know!

Slide Creek

Got Curve Balls?

Sometimes live throws curve balls your way.  With the loss of our business and our home our plans have completely changed.  We bought a 25 year old RV at an auction currently live in it.  With such low overhead  we are focused on saving as much money as possible and moving to our land in six months.  We figure we can live in the RV as long as possible until we are able to build a house.  Twenty acres gives us enough room for a large garden, beef, pork, chickens and sheep.   We plan to build as grid free as possible.   I look forward to blogging as we research and learn.

Day Twelve of NaBloPoMo

and I can not think of anything to write.  I have a lot on my mind.  Our family business is in the toilet and it seems that everything is just crashing down on us with bills and rent and utilities ready to be shut off.  I am stressed to the hilt.  We are losing our home too.  I can only put all of my trust in God.  Until tomorrow.  Watch out for Zombies

Health Care for Zombies or how to manage medical issues after a Zombie Apocalypse

Currently my family has no health insurance.  When we get sick , it is soup, crackers and ginger ale.  If we get cut, we apply pressure.  We each have a bit of medicine left from when we did have insurance but it is dwindling rapidly.

My husband and I are pretty overweight and I know I must lose about 75 pounds to control my diabetes and blood pressure.  I work daily on physical activity, but I do wonder what will happen in a Zombie Apocalypse.

I know we need a good first aid kit, not just a few bandaids and advil.  Currently I can look medical advice on the internet but without it a reference book would be a good idea. I also need to learn now rather than later how to  heal our health problems naturally in case medicine  or a doctor is not available.

I have come up with another list or what I will need for our health:

First aid kit

Reference book

Knowledge of how to reduce/cure naturally:

hypertension, hypothyroidism, adhd, diabetes, gout and a few more.

I know basic first aid, which helps, but losing the weight is the first thing I need to do and I can do it now.  I even started a new blog to help with it : Losing the Zombie Weight  Check it out and tell me what you think.

Look forward to seeing you tomorrow which will be day twelve of NaBloPoMo.  Until then Watch out for Zombies!

 

Day Nine, Short on Time

Today is the ninth consecutive day I have posted in this blog being that this is National Blog Posting Month or NaBloPoMo. And so far 15 peeps like my new facebook page Ready For Zombies Pretty proud of myself I must say.  My husband still does not know  I am doing this.

Today I am running a bit short on time and I want to talk about a place.  A place to take your family in case of a Zombie Apocalypse.  A place to be self sufficient, self reliant, a place to be prepared for anything.   I have a little plot of land in rural America, close to a hospital near a main highway.  My plan is to run there with my family if disaster hits.  Of course at this time there is no well, house, or electricity but the land is fertile farmland.  Will go into more details later as I build on it.

Take care and see you tomorrow, until then…Watch out for Zombies.

Protection from Zombies

I have a knife, a stun gun and Great Dane oh yeah and some pepper spray.  I know I ‘m gonna need more than that to survive any attack on my family.  My dog does and will bite and she is pretty fierce and because she is all black people usually take a step back when they see her.  Of course if someone shoots her then I am outta luck.  The stun gun and knife I dont really feel comfortable using.  I am thinking of getting a rifle for hunting or shooting wild animals and probably a handgun for  protection from the two legged type of creature.

I feel to be a responsible gun owner one must know how to use a gun and I wont buy one with out taking some type of gun safety class first. Probably taking a self defense class as well.  Dont really care to have firearm in the house but have to do what I have to do to protect my family.

How would you protect your family?   Think about it.  See you tomorrow which will be day nine of NaBloPoMo adn dont forget to check out my facebook page.  www.facebook.com/areyoureadyforzombiesnow

and dont forget to Watch out for Zombies

Scissors, Paper, Rock or what supplies will need in case of Zombies

Day seven of NaBloPoMo.  so proud to have lasted one week and still going strong.  I have been thinking of all the supplies I will be needing.  I do have a can opener, but no candles, first aid kit, walkie talkies or anything along those lines.

According to FEMA this is what I need in addition to food and water supply for  disaster basic supplies.  They have other lists that are more extensive but this is what I am starting with:

• Battery-powered or hand crank radio and a NOAA Weather Radio with tone alert and extra batteries for both
• Flashlight and extra batteries
• First aid kit
• Whistle to signal for help
• Dust mask to help filter contaminated air and plastic sheeting and duct tape to shelter-in-place
• Moist towelettes, garbage bags and plastic ties for personal sanitation
• Wrench or pliers to turn off utilities
• Manual can opener for food
• Local maps
• Cell phone with chargers, inverter or solar charger

Well I do have that manual can opener and a pair of pliers and a mini flash light, but no extra batteries.  I also have baby wipes and trash bags, but could probably use more.

I think I can easily acquire duct tape, batteries and a whistle at the local dollar store which leaves me with a with the following to scrounge:

• battery or crank powered radio
• local maps as well as maps to my little land plot
• real flashlight
• first aid kit
• some type of solar cell phone charger or perhaps bicycle generated charger

Perhaps I should throw in a deck of cards and some trivial pursuit cards.  I dont want to spend down time just playing Rock ,Paper Scissors. And dont forget the bicycles!  Gotta have bikes.

Well looking forward to a little bit of shopping  and of course my post for tomorrow.  I hope you will join me.  In the meantime, check out my facebook page at www.facebook.com/areyoureadyforzombiesnow

and Watch out for Zombies

Outracing Zombies or transportation during the Zombie Apocalypse

After watching American Blackout, I realized my ideas  of driving after a Zombie Apocalypse are pretty close to none.  If there is no electricity, then gas pumps will not work. and while that might be okay in my urban jungle, part of my plan is to escape the big city and live rurally.

It just so happens that I have a little piece of farmland that I am making payments on as long as the money hold out that is, which is big enough to put a little house and be self sufficient.  All of the skills I am learning now, I will put to use on this farmstead.   The problem is to get there since it is one thousand miles away.

What I need for the zombie apocalypse

I am thinking cargo bikes for the whole family and camping along the way.  something like this:

I have access to bicycles as well as the means to create carts such as these, and figured we could pack a tent and other camping equipment onto one and the other two trailers carry supplies for homesteading such as seeds, tools etc. and perhaps even use them as cots while we are on the road.  My husband and daughter are pretty handy with bike repair so I wont worry too much if we break down.

Perhaps when we get to where we’re going we can use them to  generate electricity or pump water.

 

I better work on getting into shape.  Starting a new blog about that.

By the way this is day six of NaBloPoMo and I am still going strong.  Thanks for reading.  Havent decided what I  will write about tomorrow.  In the meantime, please check out my facebook page : www.facebook.com/areyoureadyforzombiesnow

And dont forget to Watch Out for Zombies!

 

Health, NaBloPoMo and Zombies, not necessarily in that order

Today is day five of NaBloPoMo, National Blog Posting Month.  The challenge is to post every single day this month and here’s to making it for five days in a row. Yes I am proud of myself and yes, I plan to continue after the first thirty days.  It has been said it takes twenty one days to make a habit.

Zombies, lets just clear the air for a sec, I am not preparing for a bunch of  undead creatures that kill people and the Zombie Apocalypse isnt some End Times  end of the world scenario.  Zombies are basically people who would harm me or my family especially during the Zombie Apocalypse, which is a breakdown of society as we know it.  A breakdown where the economy shuts down, or if the power goes out.  This is what I am preparing my family for.

My family has a few serious health issues.  I am diabetic, my hubby has a blown out knee and thyroid issues, and my teenage daughter has ADHD and Aspergers Syndrome.  My husband and I are both extremely out of shape, overweight and have high blood pressure.

Part of this preparation must focus on becoming physically fit, hopefully to where no medications are needed.  If we exercised daily and lost  fifty pounds each we would be in a better place.  Right now my husband can barely walk more than one block and can not stand for much more than fifteen minutes.  I hope to find a way to non-medically treat my daughter’s ADHD as well as my diabetes and the high blood pressure.

I think I will start an exercise program even if it is just walking around the block the first day and increasing by a few blocks each day.  I need to build up strength.

My family owns several bicycles as well and that would be another way to strength train as well as help in the transportation department.   That will be the focus of my post tomorrow.

in the meantime stop by my facebook page and give me a like!

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