Random pix

Remember when I reported that a regional grocery chain, Rosauers, was now carrying emergency food? Well, I was in Winco, another large store, and noticed it's now carrying the same line:

Then a couple days ago, I went to Walmart and saw the same thing. I'm so tickled to see this!

A shot of a robin on a fence post. Unfortunately it turned its head at the last second.

The livestock of three separate neighbors meet at the fences to say hello.

This is the last time Thor will lay down in the garlic boat. Don finished the garden fence (against cows, but not deer) today. Whoo-hoo! Now I can plant in safety.

Incoming thunderstorm. It wasn't terribly impressive...

...but for twenty minutes or so it poured.

A couple of swallows silhouetted on the garden fence.

Don built a light-weight PVC-and-chicken-wire fence for the garden, wide enough to drive the tractor through. In this case, the gate doesn't have to be sturdy; it just needs to serve as a deterrent.

Here the gate is up temporarily. The post on the left will be replaced with a railroad tie, and there will be a board and an additional bit of field fence stretched across the top to keep deer from jumping over.

Younger Daughter waits for stock tank to fill (it's one of her evening chores).

Rosauers carries emergency food!

There's a popular chain of grocery stores in the Spokane, WA area called Rosauers. Recently my friend Enola Gay put up a couple of blog posts on a rather surprising development at the Rosauers stores -- emergency preparedness foods!

Since there is a Rosauers just a quarter-mile from where Younger Daughter has her fiddle lesson in Spokane, today we decided to stop in and see for ourselves.

Sure enough, there was a huge display of #10 cans full of different items: granola, bread-and-roll mix, pancake mix, potato flakes, things like that. Enola has already done product reviews on two items: honey powder and chocolate milk mix.

I'm not particularly interested in the chocolate milk mix (none of us are huge chocolate fans), but the honey powder sounds wonderful. And at $9.99, I can't argue with the price.

Most of the soup and baking mixes aren't of interest -- we have plenty of basic ingredients for these items -- but wow, they carry powdered eggs and scrambled egg mix! I plan to purchase a couple cans in case we're ever without fresh eggs.

Butter powder is also an intriguing storage item, and though it's pricier, I'd like to have a couple of these tucked away as well.

It pleases me no end to see a mainstream store carrying emergency foods. Prepping as a whole -- no matter how much the mainstream media would like to convince us otherwise -- truly is going mainstream. The more people on board this important subject, the better! Kudos to the Rosauers chain for filling this important niche.