Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Water storage

Storing water is a very important part of preparedness that seems to intimidate a lot of people. Admittedly, this also intimidated us and we weren't really sure how to start. Our house doesn't have a lot of storage, we have two closets, both of which are not original to the house, and a very small kitchen.  We decided to tackle our water problem by breaking it down into 3 steps:

1. Decide where to store it.
2. Store enough for a seasonal power outage.
3. Store non-potable water for the garden and other uses.

Once we had a mini plan, water storage seemed a lot more manageable and we were able to get started.

Reviving the blog

A lot has changed in our family since we first had the idea to start this blog and in the midst of all of that writing fell by the wayside. We've decided to dust off the ole blog and try to record our efforts here once more. Since we last posted we: bought a house on a little bit of land, had a baby and got another car. Whew!

We paid cash for a little fixer upper and now that we've made all the big improvements we're working on the smaller ones. We refinished floors, painted inside and will be painting outside come springtime, we've rewired, replumbed, tiled, patched fixed and repaired just about every surface and this month we're putting in an HVAC system. We're bartering the labor so that's saving us about $2k off our price so that's really nice and after we replace some windows we'll be very energy efficient. We're hoping in the years to come to add an additional story to the house and a wrap around deck, so we'll see how that goes.