Recently we had a power outage in my area and boy did my kids freak out! "Dad, how are we going to sleep?! It is hot in here! Is it possible to turn the A/C unit with batteries!?" Really!? I blame myself for their behavior, I guess I did now let them grow up the way I was raised.

As a young boy my siblings and I were not allowed to play in the house, therefore, we all played outside with our neighbors. This, of course, was in the 80's era. We did not have any A/C units in our house nor did our neighbors. We were outside all day in the summer, fishing, swimming in our local lake, and hunting in the empty fields of our small little town. One good friend of mine had always told me that when he gets older he wanted to move out of his house and live in the mountains. He did just that.

This good friend of mine has a little ranch out in Montana and he did just what he said he was going to do. I still stay in touch with him and he often shows me pictures of him and his family living off the land. He does not worry about many of the things that we do, however, he lives a very healthy lifestyle. Since he and his family eat mostly food that comes directly from nature they are not exposed to many of the chemicals that are put in our foods of today. It is very rare that they get sick, they are not obese and certainly not political.

So back to living depending on technological advances, it is a good thing to have a plan in case an emergency were to ever happen. This world has become so dependent on computers and one day all these technological advances are going to crash. We must be prepared to live without all these technological advances. If this world one day came to be as some movies portray it to be, I will move up to Montana and be with my old friend and live off the land.