When you have stockpiles of food, fuel, and water, a nice and sturdy shelter, and good clothes and equipment, you have the luxury of time… and you can focus on a given task.  However, when you are scrambling to keep yourself fed, hydrated and out of the weather, the opportunity to focus on a single project is pretty much non-existent.  You got to keep juggling all these priorities… and if you drop one of these balls… it just may have deadly consequences… and then you add the time element.  Spring has sprung… summer is here… and Winter is far closer than I would like.  I need to have most of these buttoned up by the time the first snows fall… or it may be a very long and miserable winter indeed.