Pretty good day.  Went to the NW Sustainable Preparedness Expo.  Attended some nice seminars, chatted with some friendly people, sampled LTS storage foods, learned about a bunch of topics, and brought home a few trinkets and a bunch of brochures.  I didn’t have a lot of money to spend or I probably would have come home with a car full.

This was a good listen on beekeeping from the folks at Bee Thinking.

Jere of You Can Survive with a graph of recorded natural disasters over the past 100 years. Can the incredible climb in frequency solely be from better ability to learn of and record them in the latter years?  Or are we doing something to cause them to increase in frequency? Scary thought.

While there, I received a reposnse from a craigslist inquiry.  A complete water bath canning system, used only once, more jars (probably 50ish more, bringing me up to about 200), tools, lids, rings, preserving books, jar labels,  even unopened bags of canning salt, at only 25$.  A nice older couple, downsizing as they move into a condo in a 55+ community.  After I left the expo I picked this up.

I keep looking for a good camp stove, pressure canner, dehydrator, and vacuum sealer on Craig’s list.  Not from some expensive resaler but from some kind soul with more fortitude than myself (good will over the effort of Craigslist, baby) putting unneeded items out there for a few bucks. Maybe I’ll get lucky!