Age issues? Not really. My doctor says, given my family history (both parents lived to be 89 and were rockin' and rollin' until about six months before dying ) and I'm off almost all my meds (just one statin drug, down from five a day a year ago), I should have about 11 or 12 years before being collected by the reaper. Dawn is set up for a knee replacement next month but otherwise, we're both in reasonably good health. She's 67 and I'm 79.
Our kids are away; one in Seattle, the other in Phoenix. Both are somewhat prepper-ish and all I can do is hope that, if there are Hard Times, they would be able to pull through.
Civil war between the Libtards and Magatards? Nah, Idaho is abut 80 percent maga and the libs like Dawn and I know enough to keep a low profile.
(As a side issue, in 2020, we put up a small "Ridin' with Biden" sign in our front yard; the next week, my next door neighbor dropped by and told me that he had discussed my family's sins with the members of his Ward and they promised not to bring their pitchforks and torches when they visited that night. Then he borrowed my compound miter saw.) Translation: Most of the folks here don't care whom we vote for.
Other potential bad guys shouldn't be a problem. Everyone here (at least those I know) are preppers and armed to the teeth, and we meet -- on a casual basis -- to discuss potential problems and how we hope to work together if things get stupid. We have my sister-in-law and her hubs in Boise -- way more than Libtard than we are -- who is terrified of firearms, doesn't prep and used to say that they'd move in with us if the schitt got real. Dawn disabused her of that notion right away; besides, Boise is over a hundred miles away and they don't have enough sense to gas up their car until it's practically empty.
Finally, we have almost a year's supply of food, chickens, goats, a basement, a hand-pump for the well, and a good-sized garden. The only thing I would lack would be a reason to go on living if Dawn died.
Our kids are away; one in Seattle, the other in Phoenix. Both are somewhat prepper-ish and all I can do is hope that, if there are Hard Times, they would be able to pull through.
Civil war between the Libtards and Magatards? Nah, Idaho is abut 80 percent maga and the libs like Dawn and I know enough to keep a low profile.
(As a side issue, in 2020, we put up a small "Ridin' with Biden" sign in our front yard; the next week, my next door neighbor dropped by and told me that he had discussed my family's sins with the members of his Ward and they promised not to bring their pitchforks and torches when they visited that night. Then he borrowed my compound miter saw.) Translation: Most of the folks here don't care whom we vote for.
Other potential bad guys shouldn't be a problem. Everyone here (at least those I know) are preppers and armed to the teeth, and we meet -- on a casual basis -- to discuss potential problems and how we hope to work together if things get stupid. We have my sister-in-law and her hubs in Boise -- way more than Libtard than we are -- who is terrified of firearms, doesn't prep and used to say that they'd move in with us if the schitt got real. Dawn disabused her of that notion right away; besides, Boise is over a hundred miles away and they don't have enough sense to gas up their car until it's practically empty.
Finally, we have almost a year's supply of food, chickens, goats, a basement, a hand-pump for the well, and a good-sized garden. The only thing I would lack would be a reason to go on living if Dawn died.
