Let’s hope this works Days 41 and 42 of preparedness
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This my first solo flight with adding pictures to the blog. I took pictures, before and after organizing, of my upstairs pantry. I should explain that I have several food storage areas. I have the long term storage. This is primarily wheat and oats, sugar and cornmeal in 6 gallon buckets. I keep these in a long, narrow closet that is not particularly accessible but doesn’t need to be as I seldom need to get in there. The next area is my basement. I use that for the big freezer and the home-canned food. It’s also where the root cellar is. I have two large shelving units that hold the majority of the commercially canned food. I don’t like this area at all as it’s far too damp for good storage of metal cans. I hope to rotate through this food eventually and then not replace it. I bought most of this stuff back when I first started a food storage program and thought you could buy food security. I know better now. I will still indulge in the occasional case of something when the price is right but I’m trying to concentrate on what is local. That leaves out most commercially processed food. My final food storage area is my upstairs pantry. We got this house back when we had a boatload of kids at home and needed the bedrooms. It’s embarrassing just how much space the four of us have now. Enough that I could afford to devoye one small room for food storage. It functions as my store. If I run out of pineapple or shampoo or sugar, I don’t head to the market. I head upstairs. I buy in bulk and replenish when stores get low or when I hit a sale. I usually keep the pantry pretty neat and organized but with Ben and Maggie using the space and the holiday cooking I really let it go. You can see from the pictures just how bad it was.
Well. I’ve been at this for an hour and I still don’t know if the pictures are loaded. Let me say that if they didn’t, I have a friend who will come over tomorrow and help me out. I’ll update this sometime tomorrow in any case. Thanks for your patience.
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January 10, 2012 at 8:07 pm
woohoo! you did it! nice pictures too!
You make me brave and I think I’ll attempt to try on my own (like the big girl I am. lol) Honestly, I am feeling great shame at laughing so hard at my Dad and his efforts to understand a microwave oven. (snicker) I shall call you my technical buddy and take what you do as a challenge to try it myself.
I think a one room “grocery” is a good idea. Though much can be said on not putting everything in one spot, it makes it much more convenient for the average person to pick out what they need if it’s in one spot. We call ours “the little country store in the basement”.
January 10, 2012 at 8:07 pm
Okay. This almost worked. There was supposed to be a slide show here. Instead you got doubles and most of the pictures didn’t load. I’ll get some help and ty again. I would way rather gut a chicken or hoe a row that do this stuff. I do admire those of you who just breeze through it. For me. it’s a second language.
January 10, 2012 at 8:25 pm
Hey Rome wasn’t built in a DAY!!! Congrats on geting the photo’s uploaded. What sort of sickness is it that I have that checking out other peoples pantries is like looking at a work of art!! Doesn’t it feel great to have things back in order? I am on to our desk next before hubby starts asking for income tax docs!! Thanks for sharing
January 10, 2012 at 9:31 pm
Kathy – I discovered all my prep pics were taken by an impatient camera operator and were blurry, so I sympathize.
Debby – It’s called “pantry porn” and we are all goulishly addicted to it (hey we could be looking at crochet patterns!) Go to YouTube and check out long term food storage…you will think you’ve died and gone to heaven! lol
January 11, 2012 at 12:34 am
HA, pantry porn, I shall never look at my pantry in the same way again!!
January 11, 2012 at 7:19 am
Kathy, I don’t know if this will help you any with adding photos but I wrote a blog post about adding photos. It’s too long to add the explanation here. If you would like to look at that post, I wrote it on December 2. You can get to it easily by clicking on my name in this comment which should take you to my blog. Use the calendar on the right side of my blog to click on the December button below the calendar then click on December 2. Someone else gave me the information and I simply added the photos then posted about it for those who work better with visual instructions. Ok, I admit it was also for putting the information someplace I could refer back to it if my senior memory failed me.
Love the photos on your blog! I learn better from visuals. When you talk about preparedness or organizing or any other subject it will stick in my mind much better.
January 11, 2012 at 7:28 am
Thank you so much! I’ll print this out later and try again.
January 11, 2012 at 7:35 am
Kathy, I forgot to say that you could add photos one at a time in your blog posts if you want instead of as a slide show. Let me know if I can help with that. I’m no expert but I am a couple of steps ahead of you learning about photos. Nothing is better than learning from experience but sometimes the experience is better with a little help don’t you think?
January 11, 2012 at 12:01 pm
Kathy, I hope it’s not too late but I added a print feature to my blog so it would be easier for you to print that post. Look down at the bottom of my post where the sharing links are. You will find both a “print” and a “print or pdf” button. Clicking on either button should give you a way to print that post or any other of my posts. One button will print everything including the side bars. The other will allow you to choose to print only what you want. I think it’s the one with a pdf function. On any of my posts you can print with or without pictures. You can choose only the text you want too.
January 11, 2012 at 12:10 pm
Love the pictures. Thanks for going the “extra mile” to learn the ins and outs of adding pictures to your blog.
January 11, 2012 at 3:02 pm
Hooray! Photos at last. Well done, Kathy. Keep them coming.
January 11, 2012 at 3:06 pm
Thanks for all the advice and kind words. I’m going to follow Na Na’s instructions and see if I can do it in less time than it would take to hand piece a quilt. I alos need to figure out how to get them where I want them rather than at the top of the page. I have a firend who offered to swap canning lessons for computer lessons. It seems like a plan to me.
January 11, 2012 at 6:58 pm
Great pictures! I’m still figuring out how my camera works! I have been thinking recently about using an upstairs room for storage now that my family is smaller, so am glad to hear about your space. I’m worried about heat in the summertime, tho’ I guess this wouldn’t hurt the canned veg. I do keep a few commercially canned items on hand as I don’t pressure can. The dryer space might be good for pasta storage as well.
January 12, 2012 at 1:14 pm
Kathy, I inadvertently clicked on one of the photos, which invoked the slideshow. So its there, even if it isn’t obvious yet.
Thanks for the pantry porn, and keep up the good work. Learning a “second language” is one way to keep our brains fit, also needed for what’s coming.