January 2020 Back to Basics Newsletter

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Happy New Year! As the song says: “Ring out the old, ring in the new! Ring happy bells across the snow. The year is going; let him go. Ring out the false, ring in the true.” A new year brings so many opportunities for us. It starts in “the bleak midwinter” – and looks to the blossom of the spring we know will come. It seems the perfect analogy of life. No matter what “winter day” we face, the warmth and growth of spring, and eventually summer, will follow. So it can be with our preparedness. If you have only begun your preparedness program – with the right efforts and planning – your storage and emergency system will blossom and grow too! As we make “New Year’s Resolutions,” let our preparedness status be at the top of the list! If we are prepared – we will not need to worry about the winter that we know will come again.  We will “sleep when the wind blows” and the storms arrive, and will be able to say, as Elder Joseph B Worthlin once said – “Come what may and love it.” Let this “new year” be the year we set in place a life of provident living that will bring us peace, confidence, and blessings. We will be prepared, and not fear!

Included in this issue:
Ring in the New - Preparedness Review: A list of items to review that you can include in a family preparedness program.
Time: using time wisely thought/poem.
Spiritual Preparedness: a quote from President Spencer W Kimball.
In the Southern UTah Garden: the 5 P's for your garden - Plan, Prune, Plant, Prevent, and Prepare.
Cooking with Food Storage: recipes to use food storage items for breakfast.
Thought for the day: on setting goals.
Companion Planting: a list of vegetables and the companions, allies and enemies.

Click here for a complete copy of the January 2020 Back to Basics Newsletter.