Doomsday Prepping?

hat happened to the canned food inventory
On the shelves of the stores I shop in?  I have not been in Walmart since March 22 when I had to get my one prescription refill.  I don't know exactly how I will manage it the next time maybe they have curbside pick up I have no clue.  My reason for not going to WM is this...when everything closed up I realized if the smaller grocery stores in my area close up due to no one shopping there all we will have is WM. and that creates a major problem when you have only one choice!  A small town not too far away had the one Walmart close down after they had closed down all the competition so now it's a food desert!!

Since I've decided to continue with my doomsday prep today I made a run for canned goods at my local IGA.  It's not hoarding when it's 2 cans of green beans, and 2 of carrots, and 2 of peas, is it? My little pantry is only a free standing cabinet it has 3 shelves inside of about a foot square each I can stack cans 3 high tho and I do...the thing I really don't want to run out of is coffee so I bought 3 containers of that.  I noticed the shelves were full of toilet paper! LoL..sure can't eat that!

So I bought one pack...it has 12 rolls no smaller quantities were available.  I had one conversation both of us masked like the lone ranger, but I think we got to within 3 ft of each other...she wants US to pray for it all to end..I'm thinking accept we are doomed...So there is room for movement on either end of that ideology. 

I was at 6:30 this morning with my walking shoes on, walking stick in hand, and down the sandy road for my walk. It takes me 45 minutes to go to the "stop sign" and back...when I go "around the block" it's also a sandy dirt road but only a 32 minute loop around.  I have  sandy dirt road in every direction of my home.  There is at least 4 barking dogs I will encounter if I go around the block, I don't think the owners will appreciate my 6:30 am wake up call so if I  walk  before 8am I go to the stop sign.  Not one car this morning...not even the jerk newest neighbor who leaves for work every day at 7 but this morning he didn't leave till 7:30!

He and I do not see eye to eye.  He has lived  here since August of 2019..I have owned this property for 44 yrs!  Story goes like this:  Old neighbor, who had lived there long time, I sold 2 acres of my land to..when I had to accumulate  money to settle the divorce and keep this homestead in the family.  So that didn't sit well with me, it was bitter sweet. I had regrets, buyer promised me he only wanted the land for a wooded buffer for his own property...4 yrs later I went on an extended trip came back and he had logged the 2 acres it lay in ruins!! Then he stuck up a for sale sign and bam it was sold! His home, his 4 acres and my 2 acres.

So the new guy has no clue about this history of the 2 acres Im sure...he buys this tractor and starts pushing around debris and burning smokey piles of pine each day and it stinks and the smoke always seem to blow in my direction, a smokey reminder of a bad decision.  During an especially rainy month a large pool of water collected along my southern boundary with the dirt road and one night I heard this noise of machinery working at the end of my driveway.  I look out and see headlights of some sort of craft. It's pitch dark and rain is coming down!

Grabbed my flashlight and out the back door under my umbrella, got to the end of my driveway and there is the new guy on his shiny orange tractor scooping up huge piles of watery sand and pushing against the road edges, I screamed over the sound of the engine and the pounding rain "what the hell are you doing, get the hell outta there."  He responded but for the life of me, I couldn't hear what he said but he left...he didn't turn off the engine and try to converse with me, he high tailed it as we say here. 

So I told my son, who was living with me at the time but was at work when that happened...and a couple days later I'm not home but my son is he hears a motor running he goes out and sees same guy now digging these big trenches from the road onto my property! Like he is trying to drain this big mud puddle...NOW we all know this mud puddle comes and goes it has never been an issue...BUT story is his daughter got stuck in this puddle.  Sooooo....comes with the territory you don't wanna get stuck  then don't buy a home on a DIRT ROAD! 

two things, ok 4 things...
1. He has no clue where the water, phone, and electric lines are buried and they are right in the area he was digging. 
2. In this State we have a "call before you dig" regulation or you're gonna pay for any damage you do. 
3. This is a county maintained road. 
4. WTF? let me go down with a tractor and do some work at the end of his driveway and see if he thinks thats a good idea!! ?????

So my son says,  WTF "Get the hell outta here, you are not supposed to be doing this," and the guy raises the bucket of his machine and comes at my son with it, My son keeps a baseball bat in his car...and he grabbed it...came out and told guy "I told you to leave" and the guy left after some choice not so nice words, and my son called the sheriff's office.  Deputy came out and heard my son's side of the story and then drove down the road  to speak to the new guy...told new guy his tractor is not to be used outside his OWN property...and then came back and told my son BASEBALL BAT should stay in your car..

OK problem solved? NOPE ...so then this man who drives a very noisy old Mustang that he envisions as some type hot rod and  has illegal mufflers on it, comes past my house every morning on his way to work and as he gets to my driveway he puts the car in neutral and races the motor very loudly it sounds like a sonic blast and creates this backfire...At first I didn't know what it was then I figured it out... he is harassing me!!

So one morning I was out putting a letter in my mailbox when he drove by and I gave him a look of daggers and glared at him till he was out of sight...and since then no more motor racing.  My next move was going to be to meet him  at the end of my driveway with my video camera and then go to see sheriff again. NOW he has a for sale sign at the end of his driveway I can only hope if he sells it won't be someone Worse than he is..and that is a very real possibility
I am a blue dot in a red sea politically speaking.  

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Last night I watched as my resident doe came to snack on the grass in my field and then bedded herself down she is soooo cute I wanted to run out and join her hug her neck and just cuddle with her but of course you know how that would have played out..then after I returned from my "doomsday" shopping trip she was in my back yard snacking grape vine leaves ...I didn't even know deer would eat those leaves.  I sure need some help trying to keep those vines in check.


SO I don't know how this pandemic is going to pan out but I know there is not one cure for one virus since the beginning of time so I don't see a cure happening, and if Trump wins the election we can all kiss it goodbye, as his policy and plan is to hide the truth and honestly I think  he would purposely tell people to take some " off the wall cure" that he knows is deadly!! That's what an insane monster he is.  And now the news is the antibodies don't protect us, we can be infected over and over.

Hot predicted again for today heat index will be 103...so Im finished with my outside chores did my plant watering after my walk and I have some mowing I need to do but maybe tomorrow on that. 
I see I have 3 hummingbirds now one must be the product of this years nesting season...My mom loved to watch hummingbirds. *sigh*

My fridge made ice, Hallelujah, because I was ready to hit the "buy it now" on a new one via the Lowes website.  They have free delivery and for an additional $30 bucks they take the old one away.  My fridge is a hand me down and it's quite old...it's a 21 cf Frigidaire brand. and really I don't need one this big, but free is free.  I would like to go all the way down to 13 cf..but they don't have one in white for that size I have to go up to 18cf.  So I added it to my wish list on Lowes so if mine dies outright I will just have to buy new...I thought of buying used but then if it goes kerplunk then what? There is no reputable repair service here.

SO I pulled the fridge out vacuumed all the dust off the coils and maybe that helped? All I know is now the water finally froze and everything seems okay *knock on good Wood* Just got a text from my cell phone provider..
"we are now a member of the T-Mobile team" 
Hip Hip omg...and the dogs ran out the doggie door they hate text messages.