All is Safetly Gathered In

Today it is below zero. And the snow is falling. And if it kept falling and falling and falling for awhile, and we couldn't get out of our house, we would be okay. We FINALLY have a storage room! Full of food! Actually, I'm a little late posting these, as this project has been done for a couple months now, but I'm really grateful for it today. Here are some pics of my storage room (although it still doesn't have walls).

It has been a kind of long process. Tony framed it last winter sometime. We don't know when we'll get around to doing the sheetrock, but decided that we don't really need walls to have a storage room. So in May, we bought these great can shelves. We found them for $50 apiece (second hand, homemade, and STURDY) on ksl.com. They are two sided and rotate the cans by sliding them down the ramp. They hold a TON of cans, and we put a TON of cans on them!

Then in the summer, we stumbled upon these old store shelves. Tony was getting a tractor fixed and noticed these sitting out back behind the guy's shop. He asked if he could buy them, and the guy told him that he was about to haul them to the landfill, and that if he would haul them away, he could have them. They're really great shelves and although we have a lot of food on them, there is still the entire top shelf, the end section, and the whole other side completely empty! Great find, Tony.

Finally, in August or September (I can't quite remember when), I hit the case lot sale hard and came home with all kinds of stuff to fill our storage room. I also canned tomatoes, salsa, and peaches. Finally, we had a FHE on emergency preparedness and the kids helped us empty and refill our gallon water bottles. We put some meat in the freezer and I've tried to restock the things we've used. So for now, I feel content with it. "All is safely gathered in ere the winter storms begin."