Today, we have an exploration topic: Navigating tough communications and interpersonal relationships. What does that have to do with homesteading or independence? Well it turns out it has a lot to do with both those things.

What Mother Nature is providing

• Squash bugs and vine borers have won yet again - the early heat wave.
• Tomatoes, green beans, okra, corn
• Elderberry, sumac berries, lemon balm
• Mimosa flowers are still going strong
• Still haven’t seen blueberries
• Confession on garlic: You can’t dig when you have pneumonia

What we are preserving this week

• Buch update
• Drying sage, lemonbalm and peppermint
• Canning corn and beans

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• From last week: It’s about time to re-organize all the canned goods and take an assessment
• Operation prepper pantry fury as Brian would say
• Defrosting the chest freezer will happen soon - as soon as I am well

Listener Feedback

• Phone consultation question
• Listening twice

Operation Independence

• Refined focus has helped despite losing weeks to illness.
• Increased the debt payoff allocation (emergency fund is back in place, had a good month with our Airbnb, paper sold the most ads ever this edition)
• Taxes are getting closer

Topic: Navigating Tough Communication

Song: Cilly Song