Week 18 and 19 From the frying pan...

So it has been a couple weeks since my last post, mainly because there was nothing to report last week. The rain has finally stopped and now we find ourselves in the midst of a heatwave. Making life in Vermont very unpleasant to say the least.
Fishing has been terrible and not just for me and my friends but everyone we talk to is saying the same things. All the weird weather patterns are the reason I blame for this.
I have decided to restart the experiment in the mid fall, probably around Sept. 1st. This will allow me to be in the middle of big hunting seasons and prepare a bit more. Looking back at everything I have done to this point I have come to a couple conclusions.
First of all that if I had packed up and moved to Alaska on March 1st and started all this, that I would have starved to death. Granted hunting and fishing for food in Alaska is always open and without a full time job it would have been the only thing I was doing. But like many before me being unprepared for small disasters would have led to a major disaster later on. Namely the loss of my fish stores to the freezer not being turned on. Not to mention the lack of hunting or rather of successful hunting and fishing leaving me eating what little I did catch and not having anything to store up for winter.
That leads into the second thing, which is preparedness. Going forward I feel strongly that this is very doable, with more planning. So moving forward into Sept. I will make a larger supply run and specifically buy more canned goods and dry goods to get through the slower times. The fact is that I still saved over 1700 dollars, and had no need for going to the grocery store other than for things for my kids. Which had we been in Alaska they would have just learned to go without.
So beaten but not defeated I will look forward to starting this again in Septemeber. Stayed tuned though as I will continue to post on other topics every week. As always thanks for reading and stay tuned.

Month 4 Review

June is now behind us and the summer is fast passing by. For the month of June we have had only about 5 days of no rain. This has been a serious set back, the garden is not growing well, fishing has been on hold. As I posted last time I'm going to continue this experiment with a reimagined thinking. I have not had a chance to do the resupply run but I'm planning on it this weekend. I'll post all the things I purchase in the next weekly update. I'll also post the cost of everything and show it against my savings to date.
Really there is not much more to talk about this month unfortunately. I have been busy working on a couple boat projects and will post some pictures when I can get outside to take them.
Weekly savings in groceries has stayed consistant. Please feel free to post comments it will help me find things to write about. And as always thank you for reading.