The Savage Awakening (A preppers Perspective) Read Free Page A

Watch out for those solar panels, they go on the SUNRNR solar generator (Coupon code Prepper1) I will mount them on the roof this week sometime, I have been just attaching them every couple months in portable mode until I decided to do a permanent installation. Now then, this is about 2 yrs worth of food for 1 or in our case maybe one year worth for 4 and those 5 gallon buckets are about a year and a half for one person of what I call the basics. So what that means Mom is the Lord willing and the creek don’t rise we are all set for about 2 years or longer and that don’t count my garden or hunting and trapping..” Dennis said proudly with a crookedly grin that betrayed he wasn’t sure he liked being proved right about prepping so much but he was damn proud to show her he had.
     
    “ Dennis, I take back all those arguments and everything I ever said about you getting in debt on this stuff.” His Mom began.
     
    “ No Mom you were right, we are just lucky the “roll of the dice “are in our favor this time. I cut my buying out big time and was working on my bills as a basic ideal of being responsible and self sufficient. That’s a realization and a true prepper notion that was lost on me for a long time and I more than suffered from it. Still do if they figure out how to do bill collecting these days. Having treasure that is susceptible to rot, shelf life etc. as well as incurring massive amounts of debt with school loans has bedeviled me and my thinking for years. Right now, lets forget about all that and let me teach you a bit about this crap and you dream up some recipes how to use it.” Dennis said humbly remembering the bill collectors and financial juggling he had had to do to keep his head above water and still keep everyone’s respect.
     
    “ Dennis, you have always worked for yourself and been on the fringe of normal society. I could never tell you what to do but you always made me proud. You worried the hell out of me when you were younger but you matured and calmed down as you got older and more responsible. I forget who said it but I have watched you become many men.
    "A man who works with his hands is a laborer,
A man who works with his hands and brain is a craftsman,
A man who works with his hands, and his brain, and his heart is an artist."
     
    “ The Prepper craze was something I didn’t understand but you pointed out it was a world wide phenomenon and you became artful in it and for that I am glad. Your old mom is not telling you how to live your life so you don’t have regrets when you are old. I have already done that and you chose paths that put a lot, a hell of a lot of grey hair on the both of us. Thing is Dennis. I trust you and you my boy so I love you. I always said you were smart as hell in spite of yourself and for some reason you foresaw all this, I wish you would consider God might have nudged you a bit and give thanks to him but you and I don’t talk much about that because you are not a church going man. You thought about how you were going to handle disasters, got academic degrees in it, served time in the military dealing with them and I am dependant on you now son to take care of me so use that mind of yours to do your best.” She said hesitantly looking teary eyed at him.
     
    “ Mom we are both going to be just fine, and thanks for understanding and all the help you gave me along the way.” Dennis said giving her a long hug of reassurance and watery eyed commitment.
     
    The parent and child looked but a moment at each other in recognition and then formally straightened their outlooks and emotions to the tasks at hand.
     
    Dennis explained to her that the disarray she might have first thought of his prep shed had method to its non-apparent madness. Fuel, water, packs and tools had there own places. Long term storage food, electricity capabilities, medical stores, as well as repair parts had another. Things look jumbled but Dennis knew where everything was at as well as