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Winters coming, have you gathered in your nuts?
- By Saundra Akers
- Published 09/5/2008
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Saundra Akers
My name is Saundra Crum Akers. I have been writing mystery suspense novels set in small towns of Southern Ohio since 2005. Currently I'm doing re-writes on a book set in Greenfield Ohio. Others are set in Peebles, Waverly, Bainbridge, Circleville and Washington CH.
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We should all take a lesson from the squirells who work so hard gathering in their nuts and acorns and preparing for the time when there will be no food to gather. Even ants with their microscopic brains seem to know that they need to lay in a food supply. Have you ever seen a tiny ant struggling to lug a huge seed or piece of bread to it's tunnel? They often carry things as big as themselves to store for hard times. Humans with our superior brains often put off until tomorrow or next month or next year. By the time we figure out how far out of season we are, it might be too late, unless of course you want to depend on welfare to rescue you.
John Smith of the Jamestown colony had a simple soulution for those who didn't want to do any of the work to lay in a food supply for winter.
He said, "If you don't work, you don't eat."
That's also what the little red hen in the fairy tale said if I remember it correctly. When did we start thinking that someone else would always rescue us from our folly? What right do we have to lie around on our lazy bones and let someone else put by the food that will feed us through the winter?
In my childhood we gathered black walnuts and put the green shelled nuts in the driveway. Vehicles ran over
them knocking the green outer shell off and leaving the brown nut inside ready to dry out and be shelled for use in cakes or other goodies. One year my father had my brother and I using an old croquet mallet to knock the green outer shell off the walnuts. We also dried apples and other fruits for the winter, used thread to pierce and hang things like green beans, and other vegetables.My mother canned fruits and vegetables in a cold packer as well.
In this day and age I'd understand it if people bought the food all ready canned. Some people fear that they'll fail to can the food right and it will result in botulism or some kind of food poisoning. I understand that thinking because I'm one of them. However, that doesn't free me from storing food in preparation for an emergency or famine.Some churchs advocate putting aside enough food and water,to last from two to three months up to six months, and rotating the cans in an established pattern so as to use the oldest food first. I beleive that is a great idea. No one ever knows when they will become sick or get laid off work and need to fall back on some kind of survival plan.
So I advise you to gather in your nuts, your cans of food, your frozen vegetables and fruits, as well as staples such as flour and sugar. While you are doing that, gather in your loved ones too, nuts and all. Winter time's a'coming.
John Smith of the Jamestown colony had a simple soulution for those who didn't want to do any of the work to lay in a food supply for winter.
He said, "If you don't work, you don't eat."
That's also what the little red hen in the fairy tale said if I remember it correctly. When did we start thinking that someone else would always rescue us from our folly? What right do we have to lie around on our lazy bones and let someone else put by the food that will feed us through the winter?
In my childhood we gathered black walnuts and put the green shelled nuts in the driveway. Vehicles ran over
In this day and age I'd understand it if people bought the food all ready canned. Some people fear that they'll fail to can the food right and it will result in botulism or some kind of food poisoning. I understand that thinking because I'm one of them. However, that doesn't free me from storing food in preparation for an emergency or famine.Some churchs advocate putting aside enough food and water,to last from two to three months up to six months, and rotating the cans in an established pattern so as to use the oldest food first. I beleive that is a great idea. No one ever knows when they will become sick or get laid off work and need to fall back on some kind of survival plan.
So I advise you to gather in your nuts, your cans of food, your frozen vegetables and fruits, as well as staples such as flour and sugar. While you are doing that, gather in your loved ones too, nuts and all. Winter time's a'coming.