My Goal This Year

Doug will be posting about his eye surgery later, probably when he can see well enough to type. Until then I thought I would post about what I've been working on, my goal for the year. First of all I have to say I love fresh eggs. My neighbors have chickens and they give us fresh eggs, and in my opinion they taste so much better!

Now what we've been working on this year is our food storage. Saturday we went to the Army Surplus store and got a few things for our 72-hour kits. Doug also bought me this hat (he says it's my Valentines gift) but James decided that it is his hat.

We have decided by the end of the year to have our 3 month supply and 72-hour kits ready to go. So when we got our tax return I used some of the money to buy some of our food storage. I don't know what we will do when we move to a house that doesn't have such a nice closet to store everything in.

The biggest problem we have found with our 3-month supply is remembering to replace what we have used since this is stuff we use often. So I found this idea on another blog and decided to give it a try. I closed and cut envelopes in half, then wrote the item on them and taped them to the wall. Then when you use something you put a strip of paper in the envelope. When you go to the store you can see what you have used and put it on your shopping list. So I taped these up on the wall behind the door and hopefully we will remember to use it and keep our pantry stocked.