While scrolling through social media I saw a post with a text asking "Are you prepared for a energy shortage?" The associated video showed a couple filling their car with propane and gasoline tanks. While there is no way I could drop that much cash on tanks & tanks (also, we don't have a generator nor a car) I do feel prepared when thinking about fuel, just not the same fuel they are referring to.
And then, of course, the universe decided to test my confidence and we ran out of gas later that day. Lol.
So, it is back to cooking over an open fire with a make-shift rocket stove of bricks for a few days till we can get the local energy cooperative to refill our gas tank.
Not that cooking over a fire is anything new for my man and I. We have been without gas many, many times. There was a full month during 2020 when we had no gas nor electricity. And while we were broke & traveling, cooking by fire was part of our day to day, and very much the norm in the small towns of Central America where we were traveling at the time.
This particular energy shortage comes at kinda a bad moment though, as we spend long hours mixing cement each day at our build. Covered in dust and tired, my sore muscles want nothing more than a hot shower and a easy dinner. But no. Out to fan a smokey fire it is!
I have been able to make some really yummy meals though! And luckily my man and I have a huge pile of chopped wood and sticks built up over the past few months. So, really, this test comes at the right time to show us all the ways we could survive an energy shortage. And also all the ways we could improve in the realm of resilience.