Housing is getting really difficult. Even with my willingness to live in cheap and, let us say, creative circumstances, I think I would struggle if I had to start fresh in today’s housing market, either as a buyer or a renter. Energy prices aren’t pretty either—we are pretty well set up in this area, but we can definitely feel the pinch.
We are doing well here! We did catch COVID, and the catch-up work has been rather brutal, especially since my dearest, darling husband accepted two full-grown hogs to slaughter and butcher two days after we really got back to work after being sick and five days before heading out of state for his brother’s bachelor party backpacking trip in Alaska, with me thirty weeks pregnant (“I thought about it and decided it was better not to ask you before I said yes,” he tells me). To his credit, it was 100% worth it and we now have about 400 lbs. of really high-quality free-range pork in the freezer! Our chest freezers are an area of energy-dependency that makes me rather nervous, however. In the winter, meat goes straight to the smokehouse, but I haven’t found a way around the freezer for summer animal processing. And the increasingly warm winters are making smoking and curing more of a challenge even then, too.
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Date: 2022-08-12 12:53 am (UTC)We are doing well here! We did catch COVID, and the catch-up work has been rather brutal, especially since my dearest, darling husband accepted two full-grown hogs to slaughter and butcher two days after we really got back to work after being sick and five days before heading out of state for his brother’s bachelor party backpacking trip in Alaska, with me thirty weeks pregnant (“I thought about it and decided it was better not to ask you before I said yes,” he tells me). To his credit, it was 100% worth it and we now have about 400 lbs. of really high-quality free-range pork in the freezer! Our chest freezers are an area of energy-dependency that makes me rather nervous, however. In the winter, meat goes straight to the smokehouse, but I haven’t found a way around the freezer for summer animal processing. And the increasingly warm winters are making smoking and curing more of a challenge even then, too.