Being Prepared

Yesterday was a good self-check day on personal preparedness. It was a normal Sunday, I put a soup in the crockpot and put together the breadmaker to make an easy dinner for Sunday. Then, just about an hour before our dinner was to be ready we heard a loud BOOM sound! I ran outside to see if Enoch was o.k. He just looked at me and asked "what was that?!" We looked over two houses down and saw on the power pole in their back yard a piece of the generator hanging down! For some odd reason the power generator blew and killed the power at our house! The power company was notified and they began work right away to fix it, but being such a big problem there was no way this was going to be fixed right away. I then thought: "I have bread in the bread machine, that only works with power, how will we cook our bread for dinner?" Enoch reminded me that we have emergency food in our food storage, we can just eat that. I told him we have enough food, we just need a way to cook it without power. Then I remembered, we have a sun oven! I bought it a year ago and have used it a few times to practice cooking in it and now today was the day to put it to the test. I pulled it out and put it in the direction of the sun and let it warm up a little. Then I got the bread out of the bread machine and just placed it in the oven. Because it was so late in the day, the oven only got to about 340 degrees, but after an hour the bread was perfectly cooked and golden brown! It was some of the most amazing bread we have had and there was not a piece left of it by the end of dinner. It wasn't until almost 10pm that the power was restored, over 5 hours later, we were glad that we not only have food prepared for emergencies, but we also have fuel for emergencies as well, fuel from the sun!