Our first task was to spread cans out across the table and fill them up. Rychen P and I did this while Elisabeth took her nap, before Dad got home from work.
Rychen P. got to scoop grains from the large 25# bags into the cans, and then put these oxygen absorbers in each one.
...then with Dad, we used the canning machine (borrowed from the LDS facility) to seal the cans and label each one with a permanent marker.
Then Rychen P. got the "super special" job of labeling the boxes!
After boxing up all the cans and labeling the boxes, I had a sudden brilliant idea. Hopefully we won't be opening this box of wheat for another 5-10 years, so I thought Let's put a Time Capsule in it! Nothing fancy, just a hand-written note about where we were that day. We had Rychen P. write on it, since he'll get a kick out of seeing his preschool handwriting (it says "Now I'm 5").
2 comments:
Wow! I've never seen something like this. What's meant by future emergencies? Is it usual over there to store that many stuff just in case?
Ramona, it's something mormons do. Our leaders just encourage it as a smart idea and there have been many situations were food storage has saved a family and allowed them to be self-sufficient. The situation might be an environmental problem where they can't leave their house, or temporary inflated food prices, or natural weather emergency, or just plain unemployment. My dad has been unemployed and they have been eating food storage mainly for the past year. It's really a smart thing to do!
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