HannaLee
Lovin' The Homestead
I've always been a rather independant person. Until I was 6, my family lived on the top of a mountain on Whidbey Island, WA with no electricity, no running water, a goat, a cow, a couple of pigs and some cats and dogs. I haven't any bad memories of that time. Our truck couldn't get up the hill in the winter, so we used the tobgannans to carry firewood to the trailer. We drew water from a creek and boiled it on the campstove. We had a nifty little outhouse. Once a week we went to Grandpa's house and showered. We had forest all around and deer would come in the mornings and I fed them grain out of my hand.
We moved to a 'normal' town and I grew up not thinking much of self-reliance. I have always had an interest in survival, though. My husband and I (dating at the time) trained for and served in Search and Rescue in Oregon.
My oldest was almost 4 in Y2K. I stocked up a bit, but not much, since I didn't think it would be anything anyway. Later, I thought how awful it would be if TSHTF and I had to see my children hungry. I thought I'd better get prepared a bit, even if I was stuck in a neighborhood and not in the forest where I wished I was.
I think the biggest danger to us, in our little valley, is a large earthquake damaging the freeways north and south. There stores would empty quickly. I like not having to worry about going to the store for a few weeks or longer, if needed.
I'd still love to move to the forest, have some elbow room and clean air to breathe. I don't know if God has it for us or not, but wherever he has us, I hope to be at least somewhat self-sufficient, little by little.
We moved to a 'normal' town and I grew up not thinking much of self-reliance. I have always had an interest in survival, though. My husband and I (dating at the time) trained for and served in Search and Rescue in Oregon.
My oldest was almost 4 in Y2K. I stocked up a bit, but not much, since I didn't think it would be anything anyway. Later, I thought how awful it would be if TSHTF and I had to see my children hungry. I thought I'd better get prepared a bit, even if I was stuck in a neighborhood and not in the forest where I wished I was.
I think the biggest danger to us, in our little valley, is a large earthquake damaging the freeways north and south. There stores would empty quickly. I like not having to worry about going to the store for a few weeks or longer, if needed.
I'd still love to move to the forest, have some elbow room and clean air to breathe. I don't know if God has it for us or not, but wherever he has us, I hope to be at least somewhat self-sufficient, little by little.
And I have fallen in love with it, I can't imagine life not being SS.
