I've Been On One.

I have been on a mission. Duff asked me about it and I told him I really don't have a good explanation except that I feel an urgency I can't put words to. I don't know what it is. Maybe all the BIG catastophic earthquakes lately. So here's what I've been up to for the last several weeks. Organizing our emergency preparedness and food storage supplies. Now don't think we are perfect in this. We aren't. There is still so much that could be done, but at least now it is all in one place, we know exactly what we have and what we don't. But it's better than how it was before. (click on the pictures to enlarge)

All of our manuals, and information in one place.

I've been working on this binder for a few weeks now.

I even learned something new on the computer! I followed the directions very slowly and very carefully and look what I did! Typed tabs! You have no idea what a big accomplishment that is for me. When they came out of the printer I was so excited I was jumping up and down and my family thought I was nuts!

All together.

This is just two of the cupboards we've been working on. It continues to be a work in progress. I found a great inventory sheet and I'm working on that now. New rotation system: take from the left-right. Replace left-right.

Water

I went to Enrichment Night tonight. It was our meeting for the quarter. They had a great mexican dinner and then we had Patti Preparedness fly on in in her cape and tights costume to get us all fired up about emergency preparedness. I have to say, it was really well thought out and cute.

Then we had 3 speakers from the ward talk to us: the first about water storage, the Bishop next on financial preparedness, and then a sister on Spiritual preparedness by studying the Joseph Smith RS lessons. It was so well done. I came home very inspired.

We have been good about our water storage, but it needs to be rotated. I did order some Aqua Liters that have a 5 year storage life for cars and portable drinking. I guess I better calendar a weekend soon to empty, clean, and refill our 55 gallon drums! The RS presidency's point was to at least START. You can only eat the preparedness elephant one bite at a time! We have a lot of storage that needs to be gone through. But we do have our 72 hour kits! Those were Christmas presents to each one of us a couple of years ago.

(journal: drizzly day. Doctors for Shaun. Laundry that didn't get done yesterday because of the holiday. Phone calls, piano lessons for Christine. Got the cause of death on the death certificates for Jeaneen: hypertensive cardiovascular disease. Got mom and dad off for the trip home to AZ. Worked on knitted cap.)