A saying from our past

A saying from our past

       If you could not make it, you went without it

The past was around 1950, and the location was a very small town in then and still now rural Tennessee.

The saying applied to about everything, from food to heat in the cold season to educating our young to security to disease to religion to clean water for all uses. All the usual stuff, if you will.

Even in 2013 when I focus on food, I still have a bee hive that has survived CCD (Colony Collapse Disease), and I collect maple sap once a year to boil down to make maple syrup and a maple drink, an old Indian idea for a health drink.  I have even made acorn coffee from local forest acorns I collected, and it was pretty good.

Now even modern Indians (circa 1500) lived up here and had gardens by all the evidence I still find. And I have preserved my own garden grown food by pickling, and canning (by all methods), and eaten the product, so I know that works, too.  Like it is healthy and I have not died. I have plenty of clean water from springs to use in this effort, also. None of this is rocket science, but more like ideas that are thousands of years old.

So I figure if times should get hard, I and my Family and others will survive OK from a food and clean water survival point of view, if we have to.  I think I am doing OK in the other areas, also. This is a great place to "rehearse" figuring out things if I can't go to the store or call 911. Having been in the Marines and Scouts and received their training has also helped me in skills and standards, too.

Now do I want to live this way routinely?  Like making it... or going without it. No thank you.