We took our first long trip in the new truck. Went to McMinnville and picked up a welder for $50. The truck seems fine. We really need to fix the doors. For some reason, they’ve been auto locking. And you have to use the key to unlock them, so it’s a two person job. The driver’s door needs an interior door handle and it doesn’t close correctly. It’s a lot of fun at the car wash!
Lon got me something really nice. I used to have Carla Emery’s
Encyclopedia of Country Living. It was one of the early ones, with the colored mimeographed pages. The binding fell apart and I think it finally got water damaged and had to be thrown out. I have one of the newer editions and was talking to Lon about the book. Most of the early editions are going for around $100, but he managed to find one for half that. I asked him to go ahead and pick it up for me. It arrived yesterday and it looks like an unused book. I’m going to put it up, so that it’s preserved. I really love having that original version again. I used it so many times, over the years.
I have been picking up a number of “stocking up” books. They aren’t exactly food storage and I’ve checked all of them out from the library first. They are nice reference books. I’ve been trying to build up a bit of food storage for the winter. It’s not as much as I’d like yet. I want to spend less time and money running to the store. The problem is that we need to move back onto a low carb diet and you just can’t do food storage for low carb. It requires too much fresh food. I am trying to stock up for making soups and beans during the cold weather. I guess we’ll be eating even smaller portions.
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