Pioneer Living Survival

                 It’s easy toget caught up in the constant strive for self reliance.  Stockpiling food & supplies becomes soengrained in a prepper’s mind that everything we do relates somehow to growingthe already substantial store of rice, beans & bandaids.  Every day, we go over our lists and keep awatchful eye for special offers, coupons, and garage sales.  No sooner do we hit our target of a certainitem that we notice yet another weakness in our plans.

                True,as preppers, we need to be ever vigilant and always aware of what could happenin the future, but is it possible to go too far?  Recently, I chose a corner outside my houseand dug up a flower garden.  Some of myprepper friends asked “what kind of survival flowers will you grow?”  To be honest, I hadn’t thought of anysurvival, medicinal, or other prepper related plants at all.  You see, my wife like flowers; and so, I gaveher a flower garden.  A place to grow beautiful,fragrant flowers.  I am sure that nextspring, we will have an array of colourful flowers filling the bed and attractingall sorts of birds & butterflies.

                Mypoint is that not everything we do in life HAS to be prepper related.  Sometimes you just want to do something forthe sake of doing it.  Now that we have aflower bed ready to be planted, I am sure we will be stopping more often tosmell the roses, tulips, marigolds, lupins...well, you get the idea.