I’ve had the idea to start a blog for a while already but never really took the time to work on this project telling myself I had better things to do, which was a lie I told myself so I could keep procrastinating.
For a while now I’ve taken quite an interest in prepping. Not prepping in the “digging a nuclear shelter and stocking up 30 years worth of canned beans” kind of way, but I started to realize how dependent I was on the entire economic system. I’m dependent on the food-supply infrastructure and on the electricity grid, and as the recent COVID-19 crisis showed us, our infrastructures are fragile and a single grain of sand can destroy the machine
The vast majority of people live under this system and have maybe two to three days worth of food in their pantries/fridge, when I lived alone I used to be like this, having to go to the supermarket once every two to three days after work to buy food. Most people’s survival depends on the grocery stores shelves to be full, it depends on the electricity grid to be powered on, it depends on the fuel pumps at the gas station to work and pump out fuel.
It’s not a critic on the people, I used to live like this and still live mostly attached to the system as well, we’ve (mostly) all been raised to be part of it, I simply decided to slowly build more independence and resilience and detach myself from it.
Building resilience
What happens when the grid goes down ? Even if it’s only for a day or two. What happens if the shelves at the local groceries store are empty, even if it’s only for a week ? What if the water supplies in my town is infected or polluted ? Most people are not ready in case of global emergencies and probably never will because some emergencies are beyond preparedness, but most people are also not ready in case of short and/or local emergencies either. If the entire water supply of my town becomes undrinkable, everyone will rush to the grocery stores to stock up on bottled water and/or buy the low amount of water filters available at outdoor stores. Those who have nothing will be dependent on the government’s actions to get drinkable water in the area again. To me, building resilience is being prepared for this, have water stored, have water filters and replacement filters on hand or know basic methods to purify water. I’m not an expert in this (yet :D) but this blog is here to document my journey. This is as much a way to document things for myself, but also a nice way to share and give back what I learned.
Why this name ?
In January of 2020, I adopted a two and a half month old Bernese mountain dog and building my independence is an ongoing project, so I found a name that matched both those things.