My KABLOOEY! List

My KABLOOEY! list is a mental catalog of skills and necessities that will come in handy if the world ever goes KABLOOEY!

Some people call this self-sufficiency, but that’s boring. Also, at least for me, a lot of these are things that I’d ONLY do if the world did indeed go KABLOOEY! and not before.

Let me just say here that I don’t really believe that the world is going to go KABLOOEY! I don’t want to go to survivalist training school. Animal husbandry leaves me cold. Sometimes I get excited about buying some land, raising my own (vegetable) food, and living off the “grid”, but then I go look at land and the feeling goes away. Hee hee, I mean come ON, I’ve never even been camping. And I don’t ever WANT to go camping.

Though I will admit, I love, Love, LOVE the Mother Earth News. Just as much as I love the suburbs. Sigh. Sometimes it’s hard to be me.

Nah. I’m pretty sure I’ll always have a store right around the corner to get what I need. But just in case…..

MY KABLOOEY LIST
(Some of these things I can do, and some I can’t. I just mixed them all up together, and just for fun you can try to guess which is which. The KABLOOEY! list is a work-in-progress.).

Knit my own socks.
Bake bread without a breadmaker.
Use a solar cooker.
Raise my own food.
Know my way around firearms.
Sew my own clothes. With a needle, not a sewing machine.
Wash clothes without electricity and a washing machine (Yuck!).
Raise sugar cane so I will have plenty of candy if the world goes KABLOOEY!
Knowledge of Basic First Aid Skills.
Birth some babies.
Knowledge of herbal remedies, and what herbal remedies look like before they are herbal remedies (i.e. foraging for useful stuff in the fields. Double Yuck!).
Lay in emergency supplies.
Get some muscles.
Have a solar powered generator.
Drink water.
Come to think of it, have solar powered everything.

Phew. That is a fairly hard-core and challenging list. Should keep me busy for a while.

P.S. Slow-Cooker Update: Last night’s dinner was Cowboy Beans from the Fix It and Forget It Cookbook. Yummy to the Third!