Care Packages!

This will forever be remembered as the Day of the Water Bottles.

Three different people sent me water bottles, in answer to my complaint of a few weeks ago that I couldn’t find any locally and Little Bear started drinking me out of house and home as soon as it got hot.

Unfortunately…well.

This stuff all came from Generous Reader Edward, who included some other stuff as well – an Israeli surplus blanket, a couple of FRS radios – which I’ve always kind of wanted, BTW, because once in a while you’re in the boonies with somebody else and maybe these will work better than cell phones in the canyons, I don’t know yet, at least they don’t need line-of-sight to cell towers – and some one-gallon food-grade buckets. At first I was perplexed as to what I would do with one-gallon buckets, but Landlady got all excited. “You know how when you open a FIVE-gallon bucket and a year later you have three pounds of stale stuff? Well…” Makes sense. 🙂 AND what may be the very last can of Trader Joe House Brand coffee, my very favorite variety, which I’ve drunk almost exclusively throughout this century and which Trader Joe recently chose in its infinite wisdom to discontinue. I don’t know whether to drink it or have it bronzed – but I’m going to drink it.

Thanks, guys. Unless somebody actually objects, and since with LB gone I don’t really need eleven water bottles, I’m going to share the wealth a bit. On the last day of May I went to the big town about 50 miles away with D&L – I needed a couple of water bottles and they wanted a couple of water bottles and in the whole town we could only find one, and they let me have it. So I’m going to see if they want one or two of my variety of water bottle styles. The others I’ll fill and put in storage at the back of Ian’s cave, and now I’ll be able to store at least two weeks’ good drinking water supply at a time. You guys are the best.

Bonus care package, which I got myself…

I decided a month or two ago that I would gradually decorate the addition with posters from Forgotten Weapons swag. I say gradually because the posters aren’t cheap and the frames from Amazon are less cheap still, so it’ll kind of be a process. Today the first of those wanted posters arrived – unfortunately the frame was delayed and missed my maildrop dump so I’ll have to wait 2-3 weeks to put it up. But to live off-grid on the economic edge is to learn patience.

Thanks, guys!