My sister laughs at us. My wife and I are firm believers that Bird Flu or something is just around the corner. So, we've been stock piling can goods and water. My one corner of the garage looks like a grocery store. Under our bed are more cases of can goods. And sitting in the doorway between kitchen and living room are 4 cases of MRE's.

Of course throughout our married years we've always had lots of food in our home no matter how "poor" we were. This year we're growing our own little "victory garden" We'll have peas, beans, squash, and tomatoes. Probably other veggie matter that I've spaced.

So my sister is laughing because we're running out of room to stock pile our food supplies. Than there is the baby plants to contend with. It can still get a bit chilly at night so many of the yound seedlings are in the house. We've got 56 3 inch tall tomato plants in the bedroom. We're going to be eating a lot of tomato's in the near future.

Actually as the economy continues to decline our stockpiling comes in very handy. Soon I won't be able to buy gas at the rate the prices keep going up. So the stock pile helps to offset the higher gas prices.


Hopefully our preparedness is just an action of our imaginations and not really necessary. And those folks trapped in the dome after Katrina really didn't need food and water............