Still Spring Cleaning

I mentioned that Mark was on a cleaning spree recently. He's still tidying things up. The other day he and I got stuck into our food storage (which includes our 72 hour kit* - part of our emergency preparedness), our pantry and our camping gear. 

Sorting through our food storage also enables us to rotate the foods so that the fresher stuff can be placed in storage and the older stuff gets placed in the pantry to be used.

Part of our food storage

Mark is really good at packing things properly so that everything fits.

We must have Vegemite ~ yum! 

Our camping gear

We've food storage in all sorts of places

Some more camping gear

My craft stuff has now been banished to the bathroom cupboard ..
it was in  one of the cupboards where our food  storage now lives.

* 72 Hour Kit ~ basically it's all the items we will need in case of an emergency such as toiletries, food, matches, meds, first aid kit etc. 

Lucky Us!

Goodness me we were so lucky with this recent bad weather. We were only without power for 6 hours on Wednesday. There are still people in Gippsland without power and some are not expected to have any until Sunday night. The weather is getting colder now that it's autumn and the nights and mornings can be bitterly cold. They showed some poor families that only have electricity to rely on and they are suffering.

I think I need to count my blessings that we not only have power but the fact that we have gas also. It makes me realise that we need to concentrate on getting our 72 hour kit organised a bit better that we have.