Great Depression of 2008-2009
I'm not sure what this year and next year holds for us, but each day I pick up the newspaper and 1000's are laid off from their jobs. In reading the Book Of Genesis a few months ago I came across a thought, because of the famine that they were having in the land of Canaan, Jacob had to go to Egypt to his son Joseph to get food for his family. We can do without many things in times of hardship but we can't do without food. I live in a rural area here, near Elkin, NC and the land is dotted with old large two story houses built about a hundred years ago. I did my genealogy a few years ago on ancestry.com and I noticed all of the families in my lineage had eight to ten people in their family. I have often wondered, since all had large families and large houses and all of them were farmers, how in the world did they feed all of their children, with no public jobs or money? My grandfather George Robert Hall fished and cooked what he caught. He hunted rabbits and squirrels and made squirrel gravy. With the deer population as large as it is now we should have plenty to eat. I almost hit a deer every day of my life with my car here in Wilkes County, North Carolina. My grandfather set a rabbit gum and caught possum and rabbits and ate all he caught. He would make home brew which to me tasted like a type of beer. He raised a garden and I remember eating fried squash and green beans cooked in a pressure cooker almost every meal. We had cream gravy for breakfast every morning and fat back. On Sunday Nannie Hopper Hall my grandmother always had 2 or 3 meats,and fried chicken fried in Crisco shortening. Now I realize possibly how they did it. With everyone participating from puberty on up they would all pitch in. It may come to living like this one day. I believe looting and house break ins will increase over the next few years because of the great depression and people stealing money and jewelry. It would be good to read a book of survival techniques. I would keep a gallon of bleach to purify water should need arise. We could commune with church members and barter and share food to survive. Hopefully it won't come to this. You have heard the song A Country Boy Can Survive. There is a lot of truth in that just listen to the words. By the way chew each bite 32 times and you will not need to eat quite as much because you will feel full. I don't mean to be a pessimist but it looks bleak the painting the Media is painting for us. It don't seem like much of a depression in Atlantis these days.