Supplies other then food and water have been fairly easy to come by outside, we just pick up anything we need from wildlife or looted stores. scraps have been some of the most useful items that i could find. I'm worried about my mom though, she never does anything besides sit inside and listen to the radio. You occasionally hear about how the cause of the plague was a "secret government program" or something of that kind. Just a bunch of hippie nonsense. You'll also hear reports of how far the plagues spread and unconfirmed rumors of it spreading more. It's scary to go to sleep at night not knowing what might happen during that night.

Power has been turning off and on lately we try to keep off most electric devices at all times. We started to cut down some of the trees in our backyard we already have a few of them curing at the moment. Winter is coming on fast so we've been trading some our stuff for food, mom already traded her car to the national guard for more rations. Since we live so close to the food distribution center in town I've been able to travel back and forth on bike without too much trouble. We have about 120 days worth of food (for two people) stored from our rations run, my mother had listed my brother as one of the residents. We haven't been stoking up too much of anything else. Every week I pick up our rations and our water, I've had to attach an old wagon to the back of my bike in order to carry the water though. My brother lives a bit up north, and has been using a fake I.D. for awhile now. He was originally a computer "genius"  a.k.a nerd, Hes taken hold with a small group of bandits but I haven't talked to him for a few months now; and I'm not very sure if he's even alive. For the most part I have been looking after my mom, shes getting older and much more frail. I released my pet bird after the first few weeks, since we no longer could get his bird seed I didn't know what to do with him. I've been forced to carry my grandfather's WWII survival knife with me to scare off muggers and looters. Luckily it's still fairly sharp. Life's been fairly easy going though so far.