WOMEN'S WEDNESDAY: Women of Prepping Roundtable with Jordan

All right, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it is another Saturday night of a family affair. Yes, I am on almost an hour early, and you have to think that, ma'am, there might be a NATO coming all right. As you heard in the background, the reason why we are going on early is because of the severe weather. A tornado actually hit Jonesboro, Arkansas. There's been sale formation in Monticello, Arkansas, which is actually in a direct sight line towards us. So I would like to actually have the show without being blown out in the middle of it. So tonight is the show I've been looking forward to for a while now, and it is the Women of Prepping round Table. You've got that right, the Women of Prepping. I have with me just a few of the ladies who could make it. I have Miss Sorry, Miss Gray Volcana Kellogg, as well as Miss jin Did I leave anybody else out? No, yourself, there's myself. Yes, Miss Melinda Lee couldn't make it. Neither could Miss Christa. Uh, but we all understand. So Miss Melnda Lee actually sent me some of the questions answers to the question I'm going to ask. But each of you, ladies, it's so great to have you. Thank you so much. We'll start with miss Kellogg. Is there anything you'd like to tell everybody before we get into it? A little bit about yourself, maybe who you are. Maybe they should know that you are the woman behind the man on his show. Yeah, my son Ryan is the one that does the next generation with my wonderful grandson Colin. And we've other than Ryan being involved and prepping for quite a few years. And now that's really been my exposure to it. And that one thing that I realized is I have naturally done it, but not to the extent that he has, just trying to be a single mom for five years and then remarrying and having twins and basically four kids in the house, you know, counting the husband. So it has honed my skills on planning and trying to be prepared for things that are coming down the road. No, and that's awesome, Miss Volcano. Okay, I just came off, butte not much to really to say about myself and to Lisa to get into the questions. I've been hanging around Prepper broadcasting for a while, so I'm sort of one of the background people that suggest things on chat every now and then. Well we've had you on before for a group chat. Yeah, and beyond once when we did the food chat. And then Miss Jin, I'm just the one with lots of kids. If anyone's been in chat, Mama God bless. And then of course, last but not least, Miss Gray. I'm the silent one of them, the silent partner of am I Gray, who's always the one that's in the chat room. Right, he's the chatty one of the two of y'all. Right, but you're the. Brain, Yes that is correct, right. No, you may visit, are you? This is we want men to come into the chatroom and learn something, but this is going to be a women talking. So the reason why I brought this show together is because we as women have always been a big part, if not the head part. Not not taking anything away from you men. Of our families. We are mothers, we are daughters, we're sisters and grandmothers and aunts, and we some of us have children, some of us don't, you know. But we've gone through a lifestyle and even in ancient times, women have played some of the most pivotal roles to a tribe or a community. So why should that stop in modern times. You know, even in the sixties, women were the main part of the household. They took care of everything. And in today's times, I myself work all day, come home, take care of the kids, not saying that my husband doesn't, but y'all know what I mean. And I tried to tend to the garden and tend to the chickens. And we don't sell. We tend to sell ourselves short for as much as that we actually do. So I bring these ladies here because I want you to see that all of us, even though we are very different and from very different walks of life, we all have our similarities of being preppers, and being preppers doesn't limit us to just one thing. So with our first question, miss me Gres, Miss Gray, sorry hun, we'll ask you is what got you into prepping and what was that moment that actually made it real for you? Prep Prepping has been a part of my life since since I was a child. I grew up with grandparents that went on both sides of the family that were had gone through the Depression era and also during the wartime, so being prepared was just a part of my life. Growing up. I was usually in the garden with one of my grandparents and usually on the back end of the canner with my grandmother's when when the harvest came in from the garden. So prepping has been a big part of my life since I was a child. My grandmother, my maternal grandmother, was also a boarding house cook, so I learned a lot of my cooking and food preparation from she and my mother, and a lot of it was homemade meals. Fast forward a little bit to my married life and me Gray and I went through y two K in that process. We were purchasing a house during that time and we were getting ready to move, and shortly thereafter nine to eleven happened, so that prepping mindset came to the forefront again and we started doing a little bit more light prepping at that point. Fast forward a few more years and our daughter was born, and we noticed as she's been growing up, a lot more things had started to happen, things with like natural disasters, man made disasters. We've now had this global uptick in disease. And at that time, Me Gray decides to read the book one second after and uh, that's when our full prepping started to begin. I noticed that, Uh, he was starting to uptick things that were coming into the house, doing a lot of research behind preparedness and and really what we needed to have within our home and within our surroundings. So that's kind of where we are right now and where I am at the moment. No, I think that's great. U Jin. What what got you started? Or where where did it take foot for you? Take root for you? I was trying to think, and we've always been like, in the fall, you start preparing for winter and blizzards because sometimes we can't leave the farm because there's so much snow. But a couple of years ago it got like really super bad out here and we were stuck, and I was glad that I had done enough shopping and making lists and preparing so that we didn't have to worry about it. No, I think that's great. You know, it always even starts with even something little, and that can make a big difference. Ms Kellogg, where did you find well? I think you kind of interted in your introduction, but definitely go into what really got it for you and what made it real? Well, I too had a fabulous grandmother who had been through the Depression and two world wars and she instilled in me a lot of the just basic preparedness. And then when I became a single mother, you know, there was no such thing that was going to happen as far as child support, so I was really more focused on having been through a really ugly marriage, trying to make sure that I had a fallback plan in case something happened. And I have generally tried to keep, you know, a month's worth of food in the house and try and make sure I'm planning ahead. I was in our oldest boy in his wife met in the Navy and they were lived in Norfolk for quite a while, and I happened to be back there during a hurricane, and I was I was the one that was saying, do you have this? Do you have this? Are you ready to go? Where's the go? Bab spath, chill, It's okay, But you know, there with two little babies and a hurricane bearing down on us, I wanted to make sure that they really did have everything that they needed to have to get out of dodge as quickly as possible. And if I said, Ryan had about it or nine years ago. He started getting into prepping and making sure that there were things available if they had to evacuate quickly and things like that, And so my prepping is more of a subtle It's more or less something that I have just tried to do as I've gone through life, making sure that I have a plan B and C and not just expect everything to be fine just because I think it will be, because I know that's not the case. I have to make sure that my family's taken care of first and foremost, and that has really been my focus for years. No, I think that's great. Sam. Are you in here now? I am so sorry about that. It's gotten crazy, but. Yeah, I'm here. I didn't see that we were alive or anything, so I just thought it was not happening for a little while here. Oh no, No, I sent out an email. I'm so sorry about that. So I'm asking all the ladies and ask you as well as what let me scrow back up here? What got you into prepping and what was that moment that it made it real for you? I was always kind of preaps because of my dad, the stuff being to be an non veteran and such. We lived outward. We just had to have things be prepared for sad weather and touch but I guess really didn't get curious about it until Matt and I moved into a camp and then a camper and build a house. And we didn't have any indoor plumbing. We didn't have any We were pretty broke. We just did a few hundred dollars at a time. We had to just find things to do, and. We didn't have money to continue working on the house or we were waiting on a building inspector that kind of thing. No, I think that's great. You know, it's funny. How for a lot of us it was more or less understanding from family members, but also the realization. So Melnda Lee couldn't make it to the live show tonight because of work, but she is in the chat room. But she answered the first question is I've always been interested in garden because my mother, my grandmother, and my mother and grandmother loved garden. After college, I bought a house and only had time to plant a few tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers and herbs. I secured a full time position at a local school district in which I had summers off. So with the summers off, I decided to apply for a part time park ranger position. I was hired and was so lucky to work at a park with a live in history farm in it. That is when I fell in love with the old time homeskins, homestead and skills, and later met preppers that begin my prep and journey. That event made it real for me was in two thousand and seven when the house and market collapsed. So each of us have had our start. And see, this is where I want our listeners to understand, is this is where I want you to see that everyone began somewhere. We have people who lived on east coast, west coast, up north, down south. It does not stop us from being able to do our own life. All right, did I miss anybody? I think I went through all my checks. And well I kind of feeling neglected. Now, sorry, I don't know why I put a check next to your name. Go ahead and tell us. I'm so sorry. That's okay. So mine's a little different. My down was in the military about just before we were posted to Pei. My parents got interested in preservation because I guess the economy back then wasn't that great. From there, when we moved to Pei, just so happened that every program that was talking about present preservation was said pretty much at the end, go see the Church of Jesus Christ, the Latter day Saints. So they did, and the people there were missionaries actually going through what was called a food storage mission where they went and they taught all of the local chapels how to do food storage. And so from there we've always been into food storage. And you hear how various families survived on food storage for quite some time because of job loss or something else. So it was always prudent to have or try to do year's worth of food storage. Now, how I got into prepping, and I'm sure this is going to horrify everyone, is I stumbled across a certain show called Students Date Preppers, and so from there it's like, oh, there is more to this than food storage. There is learning skills and everything else. And from there I stumbled into prepper broadcasting. Well, I'm glad that you've found something good out of that terrible show. I'm sorry. Oh look, we have another Gray in the chat, bro Gray, all right, sorry that we're just bringing the whole family, all right, so for our listeners, so we know there probably will not be a commercial break with tonight with as much content and as many people as we have. Also, I'd like to try to beat the storm, so if we have commercials, it may be at the very end. All right. So question two is do you find there are more or any particular challenges with being a female prepper Volcano won't. We'll just start with you first so you don't feel left out. Well, it sort of depends how you come out of As I said, for us, I started on the food storage side. That's always sort of female oriented, and since I've always done that, I'm also the in my family now, I byron money. I do my budget, so I'm always I have no problems getting stuff for food storage. It's getting stuff for toys like that harvest ripe freeze dryer which I've been eyeing for years that still has to happen. But particular challenges, I think it's easy to get slotted into the homemaking side and not as much into say, uh, the wilderness survival, which I admit horrible up on various other sides. So it's uh, I think it's easy to get siloed if you're not careful. Mm hm, oh no, I agree. See, I'm making I'm making sure I'm checking out each night. Uh kellogg, what did you find the same question to you? If you need me repeat it, let me pull it back. Did you find that there are more or any particular challenges in being a female prepper? Well, you know along what the volcano is saying. I've because my husband and I have always taken the boy's backpacking, and we've gone hunting forever. We've all ready instilled in the boy's face survival skills. But I find it very odd when I'm talking to people and they just turn for shades of red when I say I've been fishing or hunting or I know what's going on. And we backpacked into the uentas they're in Utah all the time. We had all four of the boys backpacking by the time they were four, and teaching them basic survival skills and how And I think that's where Ryan gets a lot of that from his brothers in the Marines. So he went through survival school and the oldest boy, like I said, all four of them were backpacking by the time they were four. So we were trying to teach them different things about basic survival, what you do, and hunting skills and camping and things like that, But when I talked to men and or women, very few of them they kind of blanche when I say, oh, well, I've been hunting, and if I you know, get over it. I had, you know, I've been laid off so many times it isn't even funny, just because of the economy. And one winter we had to rely on the meat that we brought in and we were fortunate to get too deer that year. So yeah, it's I don't really care. I'm more concerned about taking care of what needs to happen and being prepared down the road knowing that we're taken care of. But it was something that I've tried to teach the boys, you know, animal signs in all sorts of things. We've always done that kind of stuff. No, I think I think it's just I think it's just people to view and perspective, especially if they're from the city and I've lived in large cities, that they just kind of look at you like you're insane, and that's not the case. So right, And see, unfortunately, well down here in the South, it's not uncommon to see women prepping, but they usually squirm when they find out I butcher animals. So it's it's it's I get exactly what you're saying. Or the city folks, Yeah, the city folk tend to be squeamish at the thought of getting physically or dirty in any way. Oh yeah, it's it's like, oh my god, I can't do that. Oh I know you. No, it's a lot and you see, you show that you are very much a strong independent woman. Who look look at what you've produced, two very independent and two very strong young men or I say young men, two strong grown men. Yeah. Well, and the thing is that it's kind of funny. Our oldest boy after they had their first one, his wife is on maternity leave, and then she had to show up for role call, and she had been promoted while she was on maternity leave, and so he was frantically sewing her crows on her sleeves and she came out because mom, he knows how to sew. They said, all three of them know how to sew. They know how to cook, and they know how to do laundry. And they just got what, Yeah, I'm going to turn them loose on the world without having basic skills. I think that's great. Jin. You are a mother of many children, as you said, what do you find that there are more any particular challenges for being a few ut broper? I know children are a big one, but what what for you have you found the biggest challenge. For the most part, just feeling like I'm alone. Like here, the prepper groups around me are one men and trying to get into one of those is impossible. So I went to Google. And just started googling for like places outside of my local area to try and find anybody who wasn't a man. What's is how I found so. Well, we're great to have you. There are a lot of women here, and you'd be surprised that how many listeners who are not in a chat room are actually women. Right, there's a lot of us out there where just in the closet kind of or feel like we're. Alone, right, And I promise you. It took me a long time to find that though. Well, we're glad to have you. You're glad to have you into the group because it's wonderful when you finally break that barrier and then you're able to find other people just like you. It's done great. I've been in a much better mood since I found that last year. I'm glad we can't help it. Sam. What what challenges have you found or anything in particular being a female prepper. Lastly, what you said about butchering and stuff like, I you know it comes from men and women. Women are always like, oh, I can't get that to my pet. That's and then sometimes. He's been like really tough, like dudes that are tactical or they don't think they are. They they come up. I've tried to show them like how to butcher and they're like, you know, they see me put my hand up in a chicken carcass that after we've DoD the whole process, and they're like, what, really you could just stick your hand up there, and it's like, what you never cooked a chicken like I don't. It's just it's. Funny like literally, or they look at you like you're this. Car burying and that's well like man and women look at you like you're some type of barbarian because you're just like, what, it's food, you know, I yeah, I rate the animal was born on my farm. Uh, and yes you eat it. And it's just like if you can't do that, and you probably shouldn't eat meat, I mean or if you can't handle somebody else doing it, don't eat meat. That's rather like l No, I understand it. It is a real challenge in its own, Miss Gray, what what do you find? Do you find it? There are more any particular challenges yourself being a female prepper. I've I have similar challenges to what missus Kellogg had as far as I live in a very liberal soccer mom community, So yeah, having having a bit more conservative mindset and outlook on life is not always something that people gravitate in my community. So trying to get past that mindset and find other women and other men in the community that are are also preppers has been a bit difficult. So it's it's the whole non prepper cluelessness, you know, why are you doing this? And when people find out that, yeah, I do hunt and fish, and I do forage for food, and I teach myself all of these other skills, and they look at you strangely and not a lot of questions are asked. It it makes it difficult to find other people in the community that that are like minded and want to share ideas with one another. No. Absolutely, and I actually directed the same I've directed all these questions. I'm asking you, ladies to Melendaly since she couldn't make it, and she said, yes, there are more challenges to being a female prepper, and especially a single female prepper. I have met men who discount a woman's ability to prep and learn prepping and survival skills. And the early two thousand Central Ohio did not have any prepping or homesteading groups, and there was no businesses that taught the skills I wanted to learn. It was difficult time to be in a prepper or homesteader. You know, I have to agree with all of you, ladies. It's like you said, I maybe know three female preppers here locally. I take that back four, but it's still a majority of the males I do know are very open about it. Most of the females are quite quiet about it because they don't want to draw attention to them both being female, because females didn't be targets and that they prep. So it's in its own it is a challenge just being a woman to being a prepper. All right, let me see, I was looking at the chat real quick. It seems to be rolling. So my third question is what would you say to those lady preppers out there who aren't certain? Or what would you say to those female preppers who are interested in prepping but don't know where to start? Jen, I'm gonna I'm gonna actually throw you on the first one, since I kind of answered that a little bit. And when you in your last. Question, thanks Google, is I wrote down to answer a couple of these. So I just I just went to Google and googled, uh ways to prep or something like that, and I found page after page after page of lists, and I printed I probably printed fifty lists to you. So then I just whatever I could buy at the store for whatever week, I would just check off so I knew I had it. And then I just keep you know, I kept going and kept going, and eventually, like I said before, on Google, you find your group that you are looking for and you can fit into. So we're out there. You just have to keep looking, right, We're. We're not unfindable, all right, this volcano? Would you have any suggestions or advice? Well, when you when you said this question, you said, what would you say to those lady preppers out there who aren't certain? I'm actually going to take this a slightly different way. I'll include the men as well in this in that, to me, trepping makes sense. Take a look at where we are now. These questions came out before everyone started self isolating and. Things like that. And think about, for those of you who are not preppers, how you would feel if you already had stuff at home, if you already had thought of this and had a plan. So to me, prepping in some ways as a way of life, and it just makes sense because you are responsible for you. It is up to you to take care of yourself and how whatever manner it is. Should the government come in in help, you're still going to be better off with your you taking care of yourself. But should the government come in help, they're going to be too late. Anyway, in the time of a crisis, if you can plan ahead and figure out what it is that you want to do and react in that crisis, you will you'll be far better off than being blind and panicked. If you've a lot about it ahead of time, you're less likely to panic in the first place. So if of course starting here's a good place to start. We have shows pretty much every day of the week except for Sunday. Right now, listen to the shows. They'll give you ideas if the hosts have references for all sorts of things. Start there, find an interest, work on your interest, then find another interest and continue on. Prepper broadcasting isn't the only place. There are several other places that have information. But start and listen, figure out what fits into your talents and interests, and continue. And now I will get off my soapbox. Now it's a fine soapbox. Just fine, I promised, all right, me Gray, Miss Gray, I'm so sorry, honey, I'm so used to seeing him in the chat room. Oh what, he's such a celebrity. Ladies, what would you say to those lady propers out there who aren't certain or are interested but don't know where to start. I say, first of all, welcome to the sisterhood, right, yeah, really welcome. Finally, you know, I'm glad you finally have the mindset that that preparedness is important first and foremost. For me, it's starting out small, finding a topic that you are really drawn to or that you'd really like to give more attention to as far as being prepared, and then integrate that into your everyday life. So for me, a lot of it is just I love being in the garden. I've always loved being in the garden. I think I just have this this intrinsicness to the earth, and I love getting my hands dirty. So planting and harvesting food is very important to me. So gardening is my start point. And if somebody can start with just having a small garden and they're getting some crop off of that, there's a first step. Maybe the next step is going to be, Okay, what do I do with that food that I've now gotten? What are some ways that I can start researching and looking into and getting into groups that might be doing canning and preserving foods, And how can I do that by myself or how can I do that with my family? And one of the big things that I try and tell people or advice that I would give people, is every day, ask yourself, what is one thing that you've done today to prepare yourself and your family? Every day I ask myself that really it's starting out small, with just one particular area that you really are interested in and just researching it and asking a lot of questions. No. Absolutely, As your husband said in chat, gardening is the prep and gateway drug, very very true on many levels. So Sam, what advice would you give or what would you say to those women who aren't certain? Mostly just to you know, start small. A lot of people think they need to spend a fortune all at once. Just every time you have an extra five or ten dollars to store buy something when you're broke. Just practice skills. A lot of those skills will save you money which you can put towards prep. Also, you know, get outside your comfort zone. While I do think it's good for women to get started if they're more comfortable around other women or in groups, that's great, but we also have to learn how to work with men and have kind of a thick skin. There's I see some you know, outings where it's like it's just women learning craving skills, and that's great. I think anything that gets women started, but don't get stuff just in that kind of mode, because in the real world you're gonna have to work with men and women. And I. Something I've always just around. Men, like even right now, like I have my dad and my husband, and I just always around men growing up and not really women much, and they are very hard on each other and. Women aren't really used to that. So if you're like in the boys clubs and. Speak and you're working on a cray with all guys like it seem like they're. Being really hard on you. That's how they talk to each other, and that's how they treat each other. So in some ways, you're kind of treating you like one of them. And I think it's kind of hard for women sometimes to realize that, and but it's a good thing to realize. And you mostly just just start small with the prepping. Don't go at it. It tries to do everything at wants. I try to do too many things it wants all the time, and it doesn't work out well. Absolutely, I mean, and I understand what you're getting at. I grew up with one sister and two female cousins, and then out of the sixth the rest were males. I had an older brother. I actually ended up going to boot camp, which was probably the most women I'd ever been around in my entire life. But I grew up, you know, I worked in construction, So I get what you're saying. It's easier for men to cuss at each other for a second, turn around, walk off, and the next thing you know, they're having a beer and laughing. So yes, I agree, this isn't limited to just women, but I think it's a great start for women who aren't who aren't certain, and it's nice to show that we aren't limited in numbers. There's more of us than people realize, and just hoping that will bring more attention to the female preppers and realize it's not just a man's a man's thing, and it's not a discredit to the men, because I love my husband and but y'all get what I'm saying. So ms Kellogg, what advice would you give, especially since you've had two boys that you've raised and look how. Well you did. Well, we actually have three total those trying Yeah, you're fine. Yeah no, But I think the biggest thing is women are really hard on each other. You know, I agree with what you're saying about manual diss each other and then turn around and have a beer. That's just the way they are. Women tend to be a lot harder on each other, and so getting someone involved in prepping, you almost have to nurture them and in a special way so that they don't feel like this is really weird or you know, doomsday ish type stuff. And I think a lot of women, it's particularly young women. They have no concept of any basic skills. I mean, the whole concept of homesteading is like, oh, you've got to be kidding me and having a garden. And what I think is encouraging is that you're seeing more of these city dwellers creating gardens on their roofs or in their windowsills or things like that, if you could, like everyone is more or less said, start small, don't do something huge. But you know, if you have the space, do you know, raise chickens or ducks or whatever. And my daughter in law, she's been into all sorts of animal husbandry. They've had they've had goats for years, and ducks and geese and chicken and she just recently incubated uh some eggs and gave the chickens, the chickens to the farmer up the road, you know, and he's letting her keep the goats on his land because they the landlord for their house wouldn't allow it. I'm sure. But you know, she's as far as gardening, she's always had a garden. And then she's been doing a lot of this mushroom stuff, well, you know, growing mushrooms, on wood logs and things like that. And I think the what a lot of young women don't understand is what happened with their parents and their grandparents. They didn't mank it through without having some sort of these basic homistating skills. They had to have them. And so it isn't something that is unusual or odd. It's a lost art and it's simply tapping back into that and starting out small, like everybody else has said, you know, just put that little garden on the side of the house so we're in your windowsill or something. Just put your toe in the water and then see where it goes from there. And find something that you enjoy doing, you know, in that whole brand scheme of rep bring. No absolutely find something that you're passionate about and run with it. I think that's great. I mean, yeah, that's amazing. See all these great tips and advice from these women who have set silently in the chat room and type their little fingers away. So Linda Lee also responded. She said, yes, more challenges to being a female prepper. Wait did I skip one? I skipped it? Oops wrong one? Sorry, wrong one? She said, to women who are interested in prepping and don't know where to start or if they should start. I say, do it today. There are plenty of online resources and groups to join and receive guidance. Check your area for local groups that meet on a regular basis. Go to the library for books to get you started. I think it's easier now than when I started because there's so much more information out there with step by step guides. And she's absolutely right, there are so many resources and guides out there. We are here as a group. Whether you be man or woman, child, adults, elderly, whatever you want to title yourself, you join us. We have no problems with it, and it is great to have you. All right, let's move on to the next one. I am see or here we go? So we work so hard to do everything. What skill set do you feel you are the best at? Or which skill set has room for the most room improvement for you? The gin? What skill set do you think you're good at? And what school set do you think you need improvement? Me? Gin? Yes, yes, are you gin? Last time I tug? I had to ask my husband what he thought because I couldn't decide, so he said, like the gardening and canning and preserving is what besides the making lists and grocery shopping and stuff, but the most important thing was the canning and preserving the food so that we know what we have for later and we know where it came from. So it's not just you know, we know what's been on it and where it's been and who's handled it and it's safe. No, I understand. I think that's great. I think we all have an area that we feel like we're great at, in areas where we feel like there's always room for improvement. That's how you know you're a good prepper. So you're not stopping at one thing. You keep going, sam, is there something you feel like you're best at or something you feel like you have room and improvement for. Planning things out and always thinking about the worst case scenario and writing about it as many If you've probably seen in my articles, I've always like, oh, what's what's gonna happen next? But I try to do too many things. It wants like that's not good with prepping because you want to stretching yourself toothod and getting frustrated or just exhausted kind of like how I am now and just not getting good at anyone are doing one good, one thing well or even you just you wind up making mistake. I need to be better about anything that would doing one thing or two bigs a time instead of four or five. Now I understand. I think sometimes we all have a little too many pokers in the fire, and that can really be a room for improvement for all of us. Miss Volcano, do you have any skills you feel you're best at and which skills you feel like you need? UH could use some room for improvement on? Oh, everything could use room for improvement. I mean, come on, best at uh, food storage I would say is probably one of the ones that I'm pretty decent at. Then. The main reason for that is, oh, way about when Doo Mistave Preppers came out, Yes, horror show, But because of that, I stumbled across Costco, which was silly a one year supply of food storage from a place called shelf Reliance which is now called Thrive. They have a you can set up a monthly order with them, which is what I did years ago, which is the only reason I've got halfway decent food storage now. So one of the things about prepping is it's always a little bit at a time, either with skills or with supplies. I'm okay ish with gardening, it still needs work doing okayish again with pressure canning because I have pressure canned turkeys. Not so okay with fermenting. Have done bricks for sour dough. At one point I did make a successful apple cider vinegar, and then my last couple of times ended up with some uh mold on top. Okay, So you know, it. Comes and goes. So it's a case of always learning, always going. But all of these are sort of inside homemaking skills. So the outside bushcraft us I've got massive hay fever, but all of those I don't have at all, and I realize that. So that's the one difficulty of doing this is in some ways you can't be a jack of all trades because there's always going to be something you miss. So get good at what you're happy at getting good at, and then find someone else to cover your deficiencies, because there's always going to be someone better than you at something, and just accept it and go on. H Now, that's that's great advice on ms Kellogg. Is there any skills you feel like you're great at? And which skills you feel like you you really do need improvement on. Well. I think just because there's a lot of things that have been going on in the last couple of years. My uh multitasking has gotten out of hand, so that needs to come back. It's like, uh no, not I do the same thing. I've got too many things going on simultaneously. But I think one of the areas that I enjoy is sharing and teaching those skills to my grandkids and and you know before that my kiddos. I mean, I was talking to my husband the other day about how my granddaughter I was going through her first sewing lesson, and my sister and I grew up with a mother who was an obsessive seamstress, and so we were taught the right way to sew, and my poor granddaughter was about ready to pull her hair out by the time when we're going, I was done with the whole thing. But I think teaching and trying to share these skills is probably something that I do fairly well. I just haven't, Like I said, sometimes I have too many things going. And we've been struggling to get our garden to go because we've just been here about a year and we're dealing with somewhat contaminated money, so it's kind of interesting. So I think that's kind of just doing too much all at once is probably my worst. Okay, I'm sorry, I promise I'm listening to you can't look. But my six year old decided, oh no, you're fine. Your ten year old brother, oh, go for it, right right, So he's my very modest child, so he's just appalled. Sorry, Oh. No, I think I agree. I think there are a lot of times that all of us, just like Sam said, and just like you said, there we have a tendency putting too many pokers into the fire, which is where you've got too much going on at once. Uh, Miss Gray, what what do you find that your best kill is in? Uh? Where you have room for improvement? First and foremost. Guess my best skill is keeping me Gray in line. That is that deserves a lord in its own that's. A good time job help sometimes for me, it's I think like for for any of us women, we are we are the ones that are the multitaskers. And you're right, we have so many irons in the fire half the time that it's hard to really hone in on one particular skill that we can do really well because we're trying to do skills all over the place, so I think we become we become good at a lot of different things, but not so proficient on one particular thing. For me, my strength is organization. Just because of my my professional work that I do tends to to migrate into my home life as far as my my organization of myself, my home, my family, and maybe it's it's just my my uh level of anxiety. Sometimes I like to have things organized in my life so that I know going forward, my mind is set with where I am. So definitely definitely organization on all different levels. As far as things to improve for me, one of the big things that I have found that I would really like to improve on is my understanding of medicines and trauma medicine, just an area that Migra has had an interest in, and I would like to also gain those skills well. And some of the more traditional masculine skills that women haven't really been a part of, or at least in my life, I haven't been a part of, and that's things like small engines. I know how to run my lawmower, but I don't necessarily know how to repair it if it breaks down, and I'd really like to gain a few of those skills, and a big thing operating a chainsaw. You know, my father and my brothers were always out doing things, and chainsaw work was one of those. But I never asked to be a part of that. I never asked my dad, Hey, you know you taught them, how about teaching me how to use this thing? So I'd really like to learn. How to do that. No, I think that's great. You're right, there's probably so many things out there. I've always joked that I was a jack of all trades and a master of none. Uh, And I think that really rings true because I have learned so much of each one. But I feel like I don't necessarily have the time to slow down, so I try to improve it each time I do that one, but then try to improve on that. It's it is really probably a little too much going on at once. So I can completely relate there. And ms Kellogg just letting you know your son didn't realize you were going to be on so yeah, actually it was a pure shock reaction of texts, so that it's going to be interesting. You are now going to be even more famous in the household, right, poor thing. So Melinda Lee says, I can't believe I'm a master of any skill set. But I'm good at gardener and food preserving, canon dehydrating, fermenting food, freezing food and kombucha, brewin herbal medicine, and making tensures which yes, bread making, juggling a schedule, laugh out loud caretaking, and some plumbing repair and small house repairs, etc. There are so many skills I want to learn and improve, but time is my biggest obstacle. I can relate with her as well. I'm not great at bread making. I will be honest with y'all. That is not something I've been able to ever get down. But I love to cook. I like to work on vehicles, but my mother swore as a child I would never be a grease monkey. So I went into construction as a welder. So you see how that worked out for each of us. All Right, we're coming down to the bottom of the hour. The storm looks like it's gonna hit in about twenty minutes, maybe thirty. I'm gonna actually go ahead. If it's okay with you, ladies, press it to question five. And then I would definitely love to have all of you back, plus Miss Melinda Lee for a full chat and where we can answer questions are concerned y'all would like to talk about, as well as maybe some that the listeners have. What do y'all think? Su Are you gonna be okay? Definitely? Oh yeah? Teckn roll doesn't cover. No, no no. I Like I said, I have my broom waiting, so if it ties to take off, I'm going now I'm jacking. We'll see if the children make it, because if they kick the wall one more time, it will probably come down. See all right? So my question five I had just in case we had time and we do, is what is the dynamic in your household with you being a prepper? And the example gave is maybe your husband isn't a prepper like in my household, or maybe you both prep but not in the same area. Uh, you know what, let's kill off. Let's let's get you your take on this. What what is the dynamic? I know you were single when you started, but what about now being married again? Well, excuse me, I think my prepping, if you will, is not as intense as everybody else's. I when I was first divorced, and I asked my now husband to teach me how. I found it ironic that you brought that up. I wanted to know how to fix my car. I wanted to be able to change the oil and do everything like that, and you know, the hunting and the fishing and all of that. And I think it's not really one of us being more involved in that. I think it's a mutual interest by both of us, and and the kind of things that you need to be aware of and the skills that you need to have to take care of your family and do well in a crisis situation. I think it's more of a dual effort. And I pointed that the taking the kiddos up into the mountains and backpacking. We'd be gone for two or three days at a time, and that kind of thing. It's more of a mutual desire to know more about these things. And obviously it did pan out because two of the three kiddos are very involved in that kind of stuff. I think that's the dynamic. It's more of a duel thing, better than one or the other. Oh that's great, I mean you really said it right there. Hold on, I just lost all my screens. Okay, I didn't leave you, so no, I mean I I can relate with you. I was a single parent and I prepped. My first husband couldn't change attire to save his soul. I was the one who changed everything. So I but you know, for me, I'm just gonna jump in real quick. As for me for my family dynamic, my husband has not a prepper and I was, and he's slowly gotten on board. And it was an issue for me as I'm so used to doing so much that I've had to learn to step back so my husband can be an active part and not try to take over the whole thing. So I relate on so much. Sam, where what do you what's the dynamic in your household? Uh? That works a lot on all the He has a lot of them mixed up with the machines and. He fixes like all the vehicles and the mule and he's really been taking care of the gardens and getting that going lately. I have to spend a lot of time writing and I do a lot of the household stuff. But we work outside a lot together too. It just depends on the timing. Here it is and just we just kind of talk about things and put the work up the best way we can. Really. No, And for those of you who don't know, since Sam I didn't get her in at the very beginning right away. Samby is a writer for Backdoor Survival, and if you have ever met her and her husband, they were like a well oiled machine. Just like Jamsie said, these two worked so well together. I could just watch them for hours. I'm dumb found it because there's no way my husband and I work that smoothie. Usually there's some sort of derogatory or explicitive terms set at some point. So for me and my husband, not filmed, but just I've never seen two people who've paired and worked as well as they do. And it's really beautiful. Actually, I mean to throw you out in the spotlight, but I really love the way you two work and it makes me quite jealous or envious. We've been together a long time. I've actually I'm thirty six. We're gonna spend all a rate sixteen years here like a couple. Of months, and so we've basically I think we've. Been apart like day and seven days. And that was in college when with his parents on a like trick to the beach, So it's like one night the whole thing. We always we have. We have to work together because we're always around each other. No, I think my husband would probably kill me or go insane if he was stuck around me that much. So, uh, me, miss Gray, what how what's the dynamic in your household? Sorry, I'd like that because it is a dynamic, but it's a it's a great dynamic. Me Gray and I we are one hundred percent partnership, and even with prepping, we're one hundred percent partnership. We do a lot of discussion with each other. We do a lot of decision making together as far as preparing for ourselves and our family. You know, obviously he has skills in specific areas where I have skills in other areas, and they integrate really well together. And with that we're able to share those things with other people and with our family. And it's just I'm very blessed to have the partnership that I do with him. And I've got a few more years on you though. Sam will be married twenty three this year. So. God bless you. My husband's lucky that we made it to seven years of marriage. So keep it going, volcano. What what's the dynamic like in your household? Well, for us, since I've always been into food storage and preparing a bit, my husband sort of knew what he was getting into when he married me because when we first met, me came back to my apartment. I had some pieces of wheat that we're acting as an end table, and he goes, oh, I see you have a y two K contingency plan and I said, no, this is food storage. Let me show you what's going on. So he knew what he was getting into. But I'm mainly the one that's at this point. Gotcha Well, I mean he can't. He can't ever deny that he didn't know beforehand. Yeah, Mintion, what about you? And I know you're new, well what you would have called a closet proper, But what's the dynamic like for you? Uh? Oh, Nate and I will be married twenty two years this year, and we work better separate, we don't work very well together. So he does like, all, well, he's a mechanic, so he takes care of all of that stuff, all the guns and AMMO and keeping the house running and making sure that kind of stuff is all good. And I just do the other side with the food and the gardening and the canning, and if he gets in my way, he better not get in my way. I get a little upset when he does, so he knows to just stay outside and not me do my stuff. He looks in my closet every once in a while like, oh, yeah, up, up, look at good like yes, it is looking good. Thank you. No. I completely can understand that my husband and I can work together on some things. The garden is not one of them. As y'all have heard my terrible past stories, and I'm trying hard just not to let him even go near or look in that direction now, so I'm trying to figure out a way to block it. From his point of view. It usually doesn't end well as a g y'all have heard in the past. So I completely understand there are times where he wants me out there helping him with the mechanics, which I love, but I'm not going to take away his thing. So I'm going to end this off with Melinda Lee's answer to this one, because I actually start the rain has finally started hitting. I think we're doing this right in time. Awesome, says a first my son was like, whatever, mom, you are extreme, and my brother laughed at me. When the two thousand and seven house in marketing collapsed happened, my brother took notice. He later had a six month job loss, and then he was convinced it was necessary he began prepping. My son is twenty three years old and he is basically left it up to me until recently, with the coronavirus grocery shortages, he now understands why I prep. You know what, I have to agree with her. It's sad that it takes something dramatic for people to to take right, to take interest and to actually start stepping forward. But if that's what it takes, then do it by all means. I know we are on the verge of a lot of new listeners. I know I've probably talked to at least six people during the week that are interested in our network who are new to prepping, who had never considered it until this started. So we, as preppers, as PBN, and as even my guest here, we are advocates of this PBN network. We are out there to talk to you, to answer questions. If you're a new listener and you're not sure what to do. Jump in the chat room. If you can't make a live chat, that's fine, and reach out to us via email. Join the EOC. Everybody is here as a and in the word it's true, as our own family. No we may not see each other, No we may not talk but in the chat. But you know what, that can make the biggest difference on your next steps. I know it helped me get the confidence and to try and at Melinda Lee got me into kombucha. I mean, I love it. It is now a part of my regular lifestyle. Believe it or not. They're actually what got me started on Elderberry after being sent some of their tensures. So it's everybody in volcano. Volcano have to give you credit because you really helped me up my storage game, just in some of the tips and advice you gave so everybody here. I'm not just a host. I'm also learning from all of my listeners. So ladies, thank you so much, and thank you to my listeners. So I am gonna wrap this up. I'm gonna go ahead and play our outro. I hope everybody has a great night. I saw some one in now, so I am gonna go ahead and call it a night, close all the windows, and get my children round up and down for bed. So thank you ladies again. I appreciate you taking the time. If you'll stay put for just a moment, I'll play the outro and we'll go from there. All right, have a great night, have a great weekend too, and we will be back. I don't know what's going on next weekend, but we will be back, all right, folks, take care. I could not. Welcome to. Welcome to. 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