Saturday, May 24, 2008

Food Shortage

You would think that there is some kind of food shortage or something? I am going to the cannery today, which I do on occasion, but instead of the normal 5-6 people in the group, we have 26 people signed up to go this morning. CRAZY! I'm just excited to go to see how this is going to work!
Would you like to hear my water storage story? We had to get a new furnace last month (which is another story) and they had to move our hot water tank to make things "code". Well, I had two of these 55 gallon water barrels in the furnace room that I never did fill with water so I decided I liked the room less cluttered and put one of the water barrels in the scout auction, knowing I had 500 gallons of water in our jacuzzi. Why would I need more than that? I'd keep the one 55 gallon for fresh drinking water because eeww I don't exactly like the idea of drinking the jacuzzi water, but hey, beggars can't be choosers! Later that week (after we sold the one water barrel), I decide to view my enormous back-up water supply. I lift the lid to discover there is no water in our jacuzzi. I call Bob on his cell phone and ask him if he drained the hot tub. He says no, that it was fine the last time he checked ( I wonder when was the last time he checked it). I think this might be the perfect opportunity to get rid of this enormous headache, so I ask, "What are we going to do with it?" Bob says,"I'm going to fix it!" So as it stands at this moment, I have one empty 55 gallon water barrel, one empty jacuzzi and a few water bottles in the garage. Let's hope Mt. St. Helens doesn't decide to blow today!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I like the song mom.

Sherrie said...

I've been making bread pretty much all year, and just a couple of weeks ago, I went to buy more flour, and the shleves were EMPTY. Panic set in, and I went to distribution to buy one of those cases of wheat, and rice. Good storage = no shortage. Good luck on the water.