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The Friday Five Aug 25 2023 and Update
Aug. 27th, 2023 05:10 pm1. Are you prepared for the Zombie Apocalypse (essentially any disaster, natural or otherwise)?
No. Hubby is pretty sure the world is going to run out of food soon and is stocking up on canned fish - yuck. I hope it never comes to having to eat those. But we don't have enought to be called "ready." And we drink around 6 liters of bottled water a day as a family. It's hard enough stocking enough for three or four days.
Thankfully, we don't have many blackouts - I think the last one was 3-11. We had a scare recently when we were warned that we might have a blackout so a ton of people went to the stores and bought out bread and toilet paper etc. We ended up not having any blackout but I got a day off from work so that was nice :D
2. What's in your bug-in (stay safe at home) kit?
I admit I do not have such a thing. We do have flashlights and candles where we can find them, portable burners and kerosine bombes that we use in the winter for hot pots. They should be useful if the electricity went out. Unfortunately, that's about it.
3. What's in your bug-out bag?
Never had need of one so far.
4. What's on your 'to get' list?
Hmmm. I don't know what this question means. I guess we always need to be stocked with rice and other foods that are non-perishable.
5. Do you keep gear in your vehicle, if so, what?
No. We have a large family and gear just makes the car heavy and noisy.
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I wanted to come in and let anyone interested know that the landlord for our other smaller classroom agreed not to ask for contract renewal fees and reduce our rent by 150 dollars. I couldn't believe it. As hubby noted, both our landlords are older and really don't want to deal with the hastle of finding new tenants. The landlord above was really nice about it on the phone as well. He wished us well in improving our cercumstances, and told me that he understood how we struggled due to the COVID situation.
Needless to say, I thanked God profusely for hearing my prayers.
One more piece of news - I have a baby mommy trial this Tuesday and had only one participant registering for the past month. I've been praying a lot about the situation, because it would be really sad just to have one participant. I would have seen it as a message just to stop trying to get the baby mommy class going again - this area's population is getting older, as we are, and there are most certainly less kids than there were when our kids were younger. But I got another call this last week. I now have atleast two participants. Maybe one will bring a friend. Two is a good start. I am just telling myself that I just have to have faith and wait for now.
Hubby is ordering some pamphlets made to advertise the smaller classroomand see if we can get more students. We have some good teachers lined up for that classroom, so I hope they get some new classes.
I thought I would enjoy this free Sunday without having to go to choir practice - I did tell you that I put in my notice to take a break for a while right? But I lay around way too much and was pretty bored. I finished watching Messiah and watched the last season of The Last Kingdom again as well as the movie for the first time. Both were very enjoyable. I finished the Good Doctor, Witcher and Heartstopper as well. Oh yeah, I also watched to the end of Manifest a while back. I am now rewatching RAGNAROK from the beginning - it's bee so long since the last season I don't remember much.
I am really starting to crave a good book.
No. Hubby is pretty sure the world is going to run out of food soon and is stocking up on canned fish - yuck. I hope it never comes to having to eat those. But we don't have enought to be called "ready." And we drink around 6 liters of bottled water a day as a family. It's hard enough stocking enough for three or four days.
Thankfully, we don't have many blackouts - I think the last one was 3-11. We had a scare recently when we were warned that we might have a blackout so a ton of people went to the stores and bought out bread and toilet paper etc. We ended up not having any blackout but I got a day off from work so that was nice :D
2. What's in your bug-in (stay safe at home) kit?
I admit I do not have such a thing. We do have flashlights and candles where we can find them, portable burners and kerosine bombes that we use in the winter for hot pots. They should be useful if the electricity went out. Unfortunately, that's about it.
3. What's in your bug-out bag?
Never had need of one so far.
4. What's on your 'to get' list?
Hmmm. I don't know what this question means. I guess we always need to be stocked with rice and other foods that are non-perishable.
5. Do you keep gear in your vehicle, if so, what?
No. We have a large family and gear just makes the car heavy and noisy.
***********
I wanted to come in and let anyone interested know that the landlord for our other smaller classroom agreed not to ask for contract renewal fees and reduce our rent by 150 dollars. I couldn't believe it. As hubby noted, both our landlords are older and really don't want to deal with the hastle of finding new tenants. The landlord above was really nice about it on the phone as well. He wished us well in improving our cercumstances, and told me that he understood how we struggled due to the COVID situation.
Needless to say, I thanked God profusely for hearing my prayers.
One more piece of news - I have a baby mommy trial this Tuesday and had only one participant registering for the past month. I've been praying a lot about the situation, because it would be really sad just to have one participant. I would have seen it as a message just to stop trying to get the baby mommy class going again - this area's population is getting older, as we are, and there are most certainly less kids than there were when our kids were younger. But I got another call this last week. I now have atleast two participants. Maybe one will bring a friend. Two is a good start. I am just telling myself that I just have to have faith and wait for now.
Hubby is ordering some pamphlets made to advertise the smaller classroomand see if we can get more students. We have some good teachers lined up for that classroom, so I hope they get some new classes.
I thought I would enjoy this free Sunday without having to go to choir practice - I did tell you that I put in my notice to take a break for a while right? But I lay around way too much and was pretty bored. I finished watching Messiah and watched the last season of The Last Kingdom again as well as the movie for the first time. Both were very enjoyable. I finished the Good Doctor, Witcher and Heartstopper as well. Oh yeah, I also watched to the end of Manifest a while back. I am now rewatching RAGNAROK from the beginning - it's bee so long since the last season I don't remember much.
I am really starting to crave a good book.