A Year's Potatoes

Downs the road a ways is a potato warehouse and sorting facility.  If you pick them up there, they are $0.20 a pound.  We make use of a root cellar to buy in season and in bulk.  I got three growing kids and the dimes add up.

Our house did not have a root cellar when we bought it but it had the perfect spot for one and an afternoon and fifty dollars was all I needed to build one.  I know an old man in town who sells food grade barrels, most of them originally held Tabasco sauce, saw off the top and some scrap plywood for a lid, and you are set.  The spuds last more than a year in storage and we have one less thing to pick up at the grocery store.

400# in the cellar.

The last of last year's potatoes, still firm and tasty.

They come in the house about 20# at a time.

Winter is coming

The summer of 2012 was long and fall came as a welcome relief.  Unknown to us then, the next spring would be delayed, with snow well into May.  Add them and divide by two and you get two average years. 

The lesson: at it's conclusion your life may look "average" but that does not account for the the swings that will be encountered while calculating the mean.  Prepare while you can, winter is coming.  Winter is always coming.